Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2012

So my high school friend who performs as "Tammy Pescatelli" had an interaction with an audience member in Jacksonville, FL the other night; Tammy chided her for sitting in the front row and fucking around on her phone for the whole show, and after some back and forth which included the woman saying, "I'm not actually blonde" and Tammy replying, "No kidding! Who did you think you were fooling," the woman threw a full glass of wine at her head. Luckily she was able to duck, but despite a room full of people willing to make statements, police who were called to the show refused to arrest her. WTF?

I'm filing this away in the always-growing file titled "Jacksonville Is A Shithole".

occupational hazard. apparently some mob guys broke Joe Piscopo's nose once.

He never performed that Frank Sinatra impression in public again.

the pear cider finale of that special is phenomenal, but I don't know if anyone would really get it if they haven't seen the commercial.

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― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, July 13, 2012 11:48 AM (9 hours ago)

I have no idea what ad this is at all but that's one of my favorite Stewart Lee bits. "don't put any feelings into the pear"
I went on a pretty big pear cider bit because of it too because I wanted more opportunities to say "give it to me straight like a pear cider that's made from 100 percent pears." Also because I am highly suggestible and even a comedy bit about an ad campaign works like an ad for me, I really wanted some pear cider.

Pear cider is my drink of choice at this point. I get bummed when a bar doesn't offer it and I have to settle for beer or regular cider.

i have never been to a comedy club. apparently i am even more otm than i previously considered possible

If I ever return to standup after my 20+ year break, a la Paul Newman in The Color of Money, u r all invited.

^wd totally come up to NYC for this

Me too!

Pear cider is my drink of choice at this point. I get bummed when a bar doesn't offer it and I have to settle for beer or regular cider.

This is clearly morally right, but I found it a hard principle to hew to when in the states.

me three xp

better get yer zings ready morbz cuz it would be hard to resist a heckle

George Lopez is on HBO talking shit

I saw the promo for that and considered selling my tv but thought better of it.

Has Tosh responded to this at all yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duizPwrKhmc

that George Lopez special was... something

it was basically an hour of him cursing in Spanish

half the jokes on Tosh.0 are already "lol i'm gay and my show is lazy garbage" self-zings (xpost)

last week: "ICP's fans are mostly uneducated white trash...just like the fans of this show"

What makes me the angriest about this whole thing is how much I have had to think and talk about that fucking idiot in the past week, when I was happily not thinking about him at all prior to that.

They need to set up some kind of reparation fund.

well I am trying in vain to talk about George Lopez but no one is biting

you're not offering much of a tradeoff

Also, surprised they couldn't get a gay porn star who actually looks like Daniel Tosh.

look, I can only work with what I've recently seen; in fact, I explicitly watched that special so that I could come onto this thread and have a "why did I watch that" conversation with like-minded masochists

well I am trying in vain to talk about George Lopez but no one is biting

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, July 16, 2012 1:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

tbh i can't really tell from your posts whether you loved or hated it

ok at least with the last post i know now never mind (xpost)

xxpost hahah

I could barely sit through the intro to his latenight show, I don't know how you sat through a whole special

ha that was intentional vagueness

I shamefully admit I did laugh at his "that's why they call it H1N1" joke

in those few months TBS pushed Lopez's talk show back to after Conan before finally canceling it, i'd occasionally catch a few minutes of his show when i was too lazy to change the channel after Conan, and it was really strange how strained and flopsweat-drenched he always seemed for a seasoned comic. i vaguely remember thinking of him as a decent standup way back before he got a sitcom but his monologues were like sub-Leno.

So I'm going to the Outside Lands festival in SF this year, and they just announced some of the acts in their 'Barbary Coast' tent

David Cross
Neil Patrick Harris
Chris Hardwick
Delocated Witness Protection Program Variety Show with Jon Glaser
Hot Tub with Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunholer
Brett Gelman
David Koechner
Jonah Ray
Jackie Kashian
Ron Funches
and some other names I didn't recognise but

:D

I may not see as many bands as I planned on lol

now that we have gotten tosh out of our system howzabout some newer youtube standup clips that are actually funny. huh? anyone?

I love me some Moshe Kasher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hTalYPHebE

Ron Funches just makes me laugh as soon as he starts talking but this little bit cracks me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHB3czxswI

and my last new favorite

I'd never heard of him but his Conan set was hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ67owNg-8g

Rory is a badass!

I've been looking up clips online ever since, dude is a killer. That slow delivery....and that lunchables moment in the Conan bit where he turns the fact that he's not getting a laugh into a laugh, I think he's kinda genius.

Got a text to come see Eddie Izzard in a 50-person venue above a pub yesterday.

It was real, he was live on stage :)

As part of an improv troupe :(

That Moshe Kasher is great!

The Conan clip "not available in my country," though. Boo!

I'm not sure what the ilm opinion is on Mitch Hedberg, but my wife and I have really enjoyed watching his old TV appearances from early in his career.

i watched a lot of rory last night. thanks! i like the youtube clips where he is performing in the lobby of a hotel.

liked this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AYLjZso8T4&feature=related

Rory Scovell is a dude who knows how to handle hecklers. On his most recent CD he turns an interaction with a heckler who objects to a joke about Detroit into an entire bit that's probably the funniest material on there.

here's the hotel thing. lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aXDD8UGS8

I saw a Mitch Hedburg clip from 1995 (!) - he was actually really handsome then! Not as funny as his later stuff but some of the same stuff appeared and he definitely had his awkward style worked out already

I probably watch the same clip, he looked way different! Of course, I'm sure the drugs took thier toll. I hesitate to really call him "brilliant", but his sense of humor aligns so closely with mine that he just slays me every time.

I do think he's brilliant in his way, maybe as close to the second coming of Steven Wright as we'll ever get. I had a friend who was nuts over him and drove 3 hours to see him live and came back super dejected (this was like a month or so before he died) because he was barely coherant, not in the way he usually is, but unable to even form a real joke. Stuff like that kinda makes me glad that Ween broke up, y'know?

i love Steven Wright. never liked Hedberg remotely as much, kinda resented the comparisons.

Came into work one day and the escalator in my building was not working, and had an "out of order" sign in front of it, and I just reflexively heard Hedberg's voice in my head. "It just turned into stairs!"

hey guys, i have a pass to the just for laughs festival here in mtl next week what should i go see?

http://hahaha.com/en/montreal/overview

that's a pretty good bill! if i were you i'd just wander around at random and catch as much as i could of everything.

ya that's kinda the plan!