Good point, especially since I thought you were going to end that with "70's" not "early 90's". Interesting how the best two eras of SNL had more absurd stuff vs. the almost 100% pop culture crap...
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Good point, especially since I thought you were going to end that with "70's" not "early 90's". Interesting how the best two eras of SNL had more absurd stuff vs. the almost 100% pop culture crap...
The Fox News sketch sucked. Since it was the first one, I was concerned the whole show was going to suck. Turned out to be one of the few SNL's I can remember where the worst sketch was the first. I...
now this is the sort of honest feedback i needed. thank you. i'm just trying to make up some bullshit conversation about standup & couldn't think of anything better to say. glad someone called me on...
Well, nervous movement, which is what I suspect your walking "back and forth" was, is bad (as is swaying from side to side behind the mic). I suppose Woody Allen could tic nervously behind the mic...
First of all, there's obviously great standups who stand at the mic and never move much. But standup also gives one the opportunity to use the space of the stage, to gesticulate wildly or subtly, to...
That seems to be the conventional wisdom these days: talk about your life. I think this wisdom can be taken too far if you think it necessarily means your objectively autobiographical life. Your life...
I started doing open mics with the meager hope of getting a few laughs before my time was up. Sometimes I succeeded at this, sometimes not. For about six months I had a lot of fun. Maybe it was like...
"but I was just wondering if there are other show formats to explore"
Nope.
The main open mic had been several years in a great location in the back room of a bar that used to in fact be a comedy club (The Laff Stop), but that bar closed in May, forcing the mic to relocate...
"You never want to put an open mic in the main room of a place, because that drives out the actual patrons. (Or worse, it antagonizes the actual patrons.)"
And yet one of the biggest open mics in...
My guess is he wants to have an open mic he doesn't have to drive an hour to and from each week. Houston is a big city.
I don't see what the problem is with trying it and seeing what happens. There's plenty of open mics in bars with horrible environments and ambivalent owners. Why not try one on your own side of town?
Unless I'm wrong I think I saw Louis lurking on this very thread earlier today, and I'm pretty confident in saying that he agreed with me sort of also.
What I'm finding – or at least the way I'm thinking about it currently – is that learning stand up is an iterative process. You need to find your voice and you need to develop good material with that...
This thread keeps making me think someone's written something new about stage time.
I don't like Tosh as a comedian. The sound of his voice and the look on his face annoy me enough to turn me away, but I don't like that over-the-top style of comedy either. It might make me laugh for...
Now that I know what the facts about the frequency of rapes are I'm in favor of capital punishment for all rapes. Let's stop this shit from happening. I think executing every rapist would be a good...
So the dude in Austin has to try to make his point by imagining another implausible hypothetical world:
"Let's imagine a world in which women cut men's dicks off. Like, frequently. To the extent...
If Lindy West said those things in a room to aspiring comedians, I'd probably think the advice wasn't too bad. Instead she said it on a blog geared at women, most all of whom are not comedians. In it...
I guess we all get to go back on stage and double-down now.
"Many victims of rape are frustrated and exasperated as to how this culture affects them on a daily basis."
That's the sentiment which excites me more than it should on this topic. There appears...
"You IDIOT now rapists and terrorists will make jokes about rape and terror all the time to cover their tracks!"
I thought that's what we were... I mean...
I know! Let's all go attend a rape and heckle the rapist! Who needs comedy when we can simply combine rape directly with heckling?
Oh, I get it. Some people think that comedians who make jokes about rapes are on the side of the rapists! Oh, shit. I guess I should have seen that connection before. It's so obvious now that I think...