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Last Comic Doesn’t Stand in Line
I’m not whining.
In fact, I’m applauding the deception. Nobody wants to watch hacky comics do bad sets, and no unproven comic deserves to win a career on a game show. That being said, let me add this:
Shame on you, Last Comic Standing. Shaaaaaaaaaaaame on you!
As became clear in the last season of Last Comic Standing, the producers of the show are not interested in foisting unknown, unproven amateurs upon their audience. What they want are talented veterans who will deliver strong material week in and week out. I have no qualms with that.
In season one, they …
My Parents Think I Should Go To Law School
As a comedian, I face a lot of doubt. People hear I’m a comedian and immediately beg me to do my act for them. My family is pretty much convinced I’ve given up on every talent I’ve ever previously displayed in life, from academics to music. So whenever my family asks me about my comedy career, and I’m honest about how much of a struggle it is, they always suggest I go to law school. And this is probably due to my lack of age and experience, but when did law school become the academic answer …
Last Comic Writing
This weekend is the open auditions for Last Comic Standing. Rather than bore you with a tirade about how the show makes stand-up comedy impotent and diluted and how much it taints the art of stand-up comedy, I thought I’d give you the set I plan to audition with. Hey, fuck you. I don’t see you selling out my shows. You motherfuckers don’t even come out when the admission is free. By the way, email me to get on the guest list for Saturday night at the ten o’clock Jon Lovitz show. I’m gonna …
The Bringer
You know what I find to be obscenely lame? “Hot Tub Time Machine?” Good guess. While I’m sure that flick is atrocious (sure that, if I were to do myself the disservice of seeing it, I would shortly thereafter be referring to my eyes as “assholes”) -I’m talking about the widely loathed bringer show. It’s a heavily implemented concept at the open mic level of stand-up comedy. A pay-to-play, put-up or shut-up, put your money where our mouth is sort of deal.
Normally, it unfolds thusly: “hey, there. We’ve never met, nor have I seen your act, but we have …
Get to Work, Christopher Guest!
Do you guys have heroes?
I do. I have lots of them. My heroes are the people who make me laugh with consistently smart, satisfying comedy. They deliver punch lines that I don’t see coming. On screen, they portray characters that I recognize from real life. They flat out inspire me.
Do you have any heroes like that?
If so, would your opinion of them change if you saw them appearing in the hackiest, shlockiest, and most mundane television shows on the air?
Would your opinion of Bruce Springsteen change if he started regularly appearing on The Wiggles show? …
Biracial Humor is a Beaten Path
I know this sounds next to impossible, but I’m trying to rid my act of cliché trite material. That’s not to say lowbrow, as I honestly don’t think that’s the problem. It’s more the tired use of a joke than its FCC classification. No matter the topic, from traffic to sex, if the joke can be personalized somehow, that’s what makes it honest and true, and that’s what makes it funny. No matter what the bit is about, if it displays something truly about who you are, then the crowd will get behind you. Obviously …
Maximum Overdrive
It has begun. We were warned and now it is too late. The machines have taken over. Toyotas have transformed from reliable affordable automobiles to ungodly Hell spawn sent to Earth to uncontrollably accelerate you and your family to a fiery grave, cooking your flesh while pissing on your soul. Who would have thought the plot to a bad 80’s Emelio Estevez movie would be prophecy? I guess the Lord truly works in mysterious ways. May he have mercy on our souls…
I’m sorry did I get a little carried away there? Did that …
Convenience is No Excuse!
Are you like me?
Do you think technology has come too far?
Do you think the so called “scientists” have gotten too big for their britches?
If so, skip ahead to the next paragraph. If not, please look in your pockets. More likely than not, you’ll find some evidence that I’m right (no, I’m not talking about your boner, I’m talking about your cell phone).
Sorry, AT&T and Verizon, but you’ve overreached. Nobody needs a TV on their phone.
Now, don’t mistake me for a fuddy duddy. I hate purists as much as the next guy. Back when …
School Spirit
Last week, another school shooting rocked our country. A University of Alabama professor went on a shooting rampage, killing three and wounding three more. Allegedly, professor Amy Bishop was upset that she was not going to receive tenure and decided to get pro-active, giving new meaning to term, Crimson Tide. Are you like me? Are you starting to see a pattern here? Let’s recap:
Omaha, Nebraska Dec ’07: 19 year old Robert Hawkins carries a SKS assault rifle into a crowded shopping mall, killing nine people and injuring five more. Red Lake Indian Reservation, …
The Final Frontier
Humor is an effective tool for dealing with the insanity of day to day life. Ask most any comic and their answer will, in a round-about smart-ass way, point to my point. Life is too weird not to laugh at. Prior to stepping on the stage, I would randomly hear the complement “you should be a comedian.” Kind words alone were not enough to persuade me to become a comic. I needed an extra push. A push that would happen during a trip to Alaska in the Summer of 2007. It was such a strange, eye-opening, horrifyingly beautiful experience that …
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