The sad thing, with all this taping and stuff, no one’s going to do stand-up. And every big stand-up I talk to says: “How do I work out new material? Where can you go, if I have a half an idea and then it’s on the Internet next week?” Just look at some of my material. You can’t imagine how rough it was and how unfunny and how sexist or racist it might have seemed. “N*ggas vs. Black People” probably took me six months to get that thing right. You know how racist that thing was a week in?
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Chris Rock to the Times about the Internet’s effect on club comedy. (ht Splitsider) |
Here is a clip from my boyfriend, John Mulaney’s standup special airing on Comedy Central on January 28th at 10pm. He will make you laugh, so watch it!
He has a new special, already? How.
(Source: fydonaldglover)
Appearing as a last-minute guest during comedian Tig Notaro’s show at the Largo at the Coronet, Ansari began taking questions from the crowd when a woman queried, “Why don’t you have a red dot on your forehead?”
While the audience gasped, a shocked Ansari replied by asking why she didn’t have the word “c— on her forehead.” Then he remarked about how there are still “racist” people in the world.
What was this person doing at a Tig Notaro comedy show that also featured Nick Kroll and Sarah Silverman?
Sneak peek of my new album cover. It comes out August 9th. My special, “Very Famous,” airs on Comedy Central 8/6/11 at 11:00 EST. Comedy Central has promised to give everybody who watches a bottle of hand lotion to jerk off with as you watch.
The “insult” comic is working with Alan Zweibel on the script and staging, of which they’ve had one workshop reading. Lampanelli had this to say on Showtime’s The Green Room With Paul Provenza…
Our top-secret reading. Isn’t that exciting?” she said. “It’s something that I haven’t done yet. I’m scared to death because I have to talk about the real stuff. Like, no stand-up; there’s not one line of stand-up … it’s pretty much going to focus on my two main obsessions in life, which are men and food. And now that I’m married I only have one obsession, food, so I’m going to stick to that.
Jerry Seinfeld Launches New Personal Archives Website
Each day he’ll be posting 3 hand selected clips from his televised history in an attempt to create a digital archive of his 30 year stand up history. Here’s his personal statement from the site…
When I was ten years old, I started watching
stand up comedians on TV.
I fell in love with them and I’m just as fascinated
with stand up comedy today.
When I started doing TV, I saved every appearance
on every show I did.
I thought it might be fun to go through all of it
and pick out three bits each day that still
amuse me for some reason or another.
I’ve also included stuff I’m doing now, and I’ll be
adding new stuff as I go.
Somewhere out there are ten year olds
just waiting to get hooked on this strange pursuit.
This is for them.
I’m just hoping somehow it will keep this silliness going.
JS
Now go forth and watch clips.
Daniel Radcliffe tries stand-up comedy on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Digital Spy
What? Being a triple threat wasn’t enough? Now you want to do stand up too?!
