Seriously, Seattle comedy...I am very frustrated with you right now.
pg-get your shit together!--grrrrrburgh
Seriously, Seattle comedy...I am very frustrated with you right now.
pg-get your shit together!--grrrrrburgh
Last edited by pg13; April 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM. Reason: This is the thread formerly known as "Fuck it"
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
wahappen?
HEADLINE!:
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
would this have anything to do with it?
http://www.seattlecomedy.net/
Last edited by billywayne; January 5, 2010 at 5:52 PM.
Please, vent your frustrations without consideration of backlash.
Iowa would be more than happy to take you in, the only problem is the scene sucks
I LOVE that this was the thread that brought Billy Wayne out of lurker status...
And, Billy, why would that website be the cause of my Grrrrrrrrrr?
That site is currently pointing out some of the things that are COOL about Seattle comedy...
pg--I'm just going to wait until Simon and Danger form a comedy duo act and take it on the road, Billy Wayne...--grrrrrburgh (at least until that happens)
Last edited by pg13; January 6, 2010 at 3:53 PM. Reason: Winklessness was requested.
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
My mother was the angriest person I’ve ever known in my entire life. One time I knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, "Well, damn it, we can’t have nice things."--Paula Poundstone
pg--Sorry to confound anyone's curiosity here. I really don't have a specific complaint worth mentioning. I'm frustrated because there has been such potential for Seattle to be a great comedy town, filled with awesome comedy performers getting to play for appreciative comedy audiences...and we're not. I'm frustrated because I don't know, any more, how I might help to make it better...other than to stop doing whatever it is I've been doing...'cause that shit ain't workin'.--grrrrrburgh
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
dude, I'm sorry I moved, ok?
Now I'm not a common show goer in the comedy scene in Seattle, seeing how I live about 90 minutes away, but I go when I can.
It seems that the audiences are not very, lets say, energetic? Its a seattle stereotype, but its pretty damn true. Too many people in a hipster stance who can't laugh and geeks too afraid to show emotion. At least in my experience.
Do I have this completely wrong?
Quit your bitching. Here, enjoy some Portland comedy:
Edit: I admit that I am totally pulling for the guy in the second video. He is so close, yet so far. In my dreams, I befriend that hippie three weeks from now and whisper in his ear a terabyte of comedic wisdom that helps him memorize his jokes and edit out the FILLER.
FILLER, by Minor Threat (for levels and entertainment's sake):
Last edited by suavepebble; February 17, 2010 at 1:20 AM.
RE: Portland Comedy Scene
That ain't a scene, it's a goddamned Fall Out Boy reference.
pg--Yay Whitney Streed! Yay Portland comedians! (I've worked very hard the past couple of years to get more visibility for Portland comedians in the Seattle International Comedy Competition--grrrrrrburgh
PS to Ubershen--Seattle is filled with comedy fans and many of those comedy fans are comedy nerds (in the "term of endearment/Hard & Phirm" connotation of that term)...and some of those Seattle area comedy nerds are actually participants on this board...but look how dead this Seattle-specific comedy thread is...
(This wasn't the frustration that made me start this thread, but it is certainly part of my lingering frustration with being part of the lost potential inherent in the Seattle comedy scene.)
What little activity there is here on this subforum are usually from non-active board participants who drop in just to advertise their upcoming show and then disappear... There's never any discussion about these shows and, worse, there's certainly no "post-show" discussion, which is what helps drive a vital comedy scene...word of mouth.
Where's the excitement about what awesome stuff is coming up...the stuff that people here really can't wait for--the kind of enthusiasm found on other threads for things happening in other towns on this board? And then, where's the "oh my God, THAT was awesome" discussion of things that people have seen?
I've long worried that the Seattle alt-comedy boom was, at best, a fad...defined by rather soft and spread-thin audience interest...or worse, a cult of specific personalities...where audiences came simply because they were friends of specific individuals and that it rarely managed to inspire people outside of the core group of friends (and when many of those specific individuals moved on to New York, Los Angeles, Boston or San Francisco...the scene's impact was left devastated...)
I no longer know if my opinions or observations have any accuracy...as I've lost confidence in my own perspective. I'm as lost and confused as anyone here.
I do know that people love comedy in Seattle...and that people love the kind of comedy that I love in Seattle...and there are people in Seattle who want to give people the kind of comedy that I love...and yet???
...I don't know.
I do know that I'm as frustrated as a FAN of comedy, living in Seattle...as I am as a PERFORMER of comedy, living in Seattle (and that's really fucking frustrated, in case you need that variable defined.)
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
Is this thread about your attitude when it comes to sending me pictures of my glorious time in the Seattle International Comedy Competition?
I edited in the smiley face to lighten this post.
Nah...that, I just totally forgot about in all of the private turmoil that is the shattered remains of my comedy career.
I'll get those to you this week, Ron.
pg--Sorry for the delay and the need for adding a smiley face to the thread.--grrrrrburgh
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
I kind of feel like I'm in the Lost thread.
What was the best concert you've been to?
-- Probably Sade. It was just so sexy and relaxing.
Living in any city besides NYC or LA can be very frustrating for a comedian. Your city is so big, and yet the ceiling seems so low. Alternative is a cute name in the big 2 cities because there's so many rooms and so many big names to share the stage with. But in other cities "alternative" just means less money and less stage time.
You have my sympathies, PG. Cities don't change like people do.
Last edited by dan telfer; February 17, 2010 at 9:11 PM.
*Edited to remove cocky arrogance*
Last edited by Goodspaceguy; April 6, 2010 at 8:55 AM.
Hey, you feel frustrated, try and do stand up in Mexico City where the edgiest comedian people know is Robin fuggin' Williams. The only thing I could tell you is what I tell myself, get better, much better and then you can everyone along. Until then, work, work, work.
That was SO not true just a couple of years ago. Seattle was filled to over-capacity with comedians of so many different styles...comedians who were worthy of the type of adulation that is given to comedians of other much more recognized scenes.Originally Posted by Goodspaceguy
I feel less confident about my awareness of the local scene than I ever have before in my comedy career...but I still believe, despite the exodus of many of the most promising talents this city has developed in the past few years, there's still a great deal of talent in this city.
If it isn't being properly cultivated, presented, packaged and marketed...that's a shame.
If I'm wrong...and the overall level of quality of talent remaining in this town has fallen so far so fast as to be not worth seeking out...then I'm more depressed than ever.
pg--Seriously, what the hell happened to me? I used to have my finger on the pulse of things...I used to be PART of wonderful things happening. I'm still here, but I'm feeling like Chrissie Hynde...and my city was gone.--grrrrburgh
PS--It's my own damn fault. I've turtled myself at home since my son was born...and I got bruised the last time I stuck my head out. Pretty soon, I'll get sick of waiting for the stars to align on their own...get my ass back on the front lines and try to help make something happen.
It's just harder to do anything on your own...in a vacuum...in a market that should be thriving on its own instead of starving and wasting away...
Eventually, too, I'll stop whining about it.
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
oh hey, that's me up there, being drunk and excited after bridgetown last year.... i never did that element joke again but i do still indulge in the cupcake one from time to time.
ron funches let me know i was on this post and so it's funny that it is kind of relevant to what is happening in portland right now... i dunno much about seattle, but comedy is exploding like whoa in portland right now. at least imho. the difference between when i started a year ago and now is crazy. there are like 5-10 monthly showcases going in in bars and coffee shops and shit all over town, plus the two comedy theaters. and harvey's exists too.
so i run a blog to try to keep track of this kind of stuff.... the scene that is. i love it to death and think it will only get bigger, what with increasing interest in open mics and in bridgetown. check it out if you're in portland and you want to see/do comedy. i also run the mt. tabor mic so i want to hear from you. i love you. (i love you ron specifically, because you are one of the best.)
anywho here is the blog:
http://pdxcomedyblog.wordpress.com
and sorry for the debauchery of my set up there. my hair is better now too.
i ♥ simplistic representations of complex emotions.
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