Rolling Stand-Up Comedy 2012

And conspiracies, and willing to mock the audience for "hey, where's the funny gone", and hyperbolic rants abotu popular culture...

yeah there's definitely a fair amount of common ground, there, although maron generally has a different overall tone

I dunno what he used to be like but Maron's stand-up now is a long way from Hicks' style of ranting.

Well I only go by what I heard - Johhny put Not Sold Out up with Killin' Them Softly, and it was on Spotify, so I had a listen and that's what I heard.

I guess if you're already a Hicks fan/admirer, you might make the connection a little easier than someone who isn't (me!).

Also, I didn't realize it was on Spotify, so thx.

I love Hicks and Maron, I just never saw the connection. but I haven't listened to Maron's old material so Andrew could well be right

I've never heard his standup but Neil Hamburger's Twitter is genius

yeah the stuff he does with AXE is awesome

the stuff *I* do with AXE is awesome

*reveals armpits*

:(

(irl lols)

New Todd Barry record

http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/24E134ED3-C9AF-5275-72808F1866E30037.jpg

<3

have not heard tis in partic but I love TB in general. You like Triscuits, I like Wheat Thins BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

i saw paul f tompkins' show at jfl last night and it was pretty freakin funny, him and a few other comedians in a really intimate venue. it was great

so that rory scovel bit on conan was just a character he does, huh? i wondered about the southern accent because he doesn't have one on all the other live clips i watched.

He dips in and out of the accent with ease.

i think that was one of the guys from last night? rory scovel? blond beard? he was fuckin funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUfCAuIOx0

ya that dude

p funny commercial for what seems to be the most boring feature ever, unless overfilling your tires is a thing? (never owned a car)

i saw paul f tompkins at the bill hader gala last night and he was the best thing about it - all he did was this long bit about joke-store (fake snakes) canned peanut brittle! so funny. i think 30 people in the audience got it.
i wish i had time to see his full show!

he does that bit on one of his albums, its funny

its funny tho he had to leave his show yday to go to the gala i guess

it wasnt really a full comedy show of his, more like some amazing riffing then the other dudes came on

Peanut brittle bit is good, elegant balloons bit is great.

ah yes, he did the balloons bit last year when i saw him

Migrant Fruit-Picker Fantasy Camp is a personal favorite of mine. "Keep reachin' for the cherries!"

might see this tomorrow:

http://www.zoofest.com/en/program/alternative-comedy-show

also i might go BACK to the PFT showcase as tomorrow he's got hannibal buress, jen kirkman, etc

i'm going to amy schumer tonight

^ jels

it wasnt really a full comedy show of his, more like some amazing riffing then the other dudes came on

slocki if you don't listen to his podcast already, it is about 50 minutes of riffing, ten minutes of pre-recorded material, and a phone call with Kirkman

ya i know i dig it

all he did was this long bit about joke-store (fake snakes) canned peanut brittle! so funny. i think 30 people in the audience got it.
i wish i had time to see his full show!

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:19 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Robyn - This is RS's all time favorite comedy bit in the whole world ever. Ever since the album he did that on came out he will play it every couple months or so and just die laughing. I like it but he finds it next level belly laugh inducing genius.

I am partial to the vampire migrant fruit pickers and the house bear bits. Overall I like him a lot and particularly his stand-up but I can't really handle his podcast stuff. Some of it is great but he often loses me. Idk. His stand-up is more my thing.

i prefer his rambly riffy stuff where he just spends the whole time chuckling at whatever nonsense comes out of his mouth, it so works for me

i go see theatre and other longer-form performances waaay more often than i go see comedy, so when i find myself watching several comedians do 7 minutes of jokes each, i feel a little disappointed, like i want a whole show for each of them or something more cohesive, so pf tompkins just doing one bit for his 7 minutes (or whatever it was) was kind of perfect

he has a great face for self-chuckling
xp

We saw him a couple years ago and he did a lot about the celebrities he's met over the years. He told one story about meeting Tom Cruise at a read through that was hilarious.

His Comedy Central special last year (? the year before?) was great - the stuff he did about his mother's passing was really good.

His latest one, where he talks about jobs he's had, is really good too. (I guess it's more of a "one man show" than a stand-up routine, but it brought lols.)

can't really handle his podcast stuff.

you just mean Tompkast/being the chatty guest on every podcast in existence or does this exclude Beyond Belief and Cake Boss / Dame Sir ALW / Ice-T / Garry Marshall / John C Reilly having an acting-off with Jon Hamm etc etc too? ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DahbmuF3Xw

;_;

http://flamelikeme.tumblr.com/post/28706896651/tragedy-time-comedy-but-i-dont-have-the

“Tragedy + time = comedy. But I don’t have the benefit of time. So I’m just going to tell you the tragedy and know that everything is going to be okay.”

So began Tig Notaro’s set last night at her show “Tig and friends” at the Largo.

Actually, that wasn’t the beginning of her set. It began when Ed Helms welcomed her to the stage and she crossed over, took the microphone, and said “Thank you, thank you, I have cancer, thank you, I have cancer, really, thank you.”

Applause gave way to reticent laughter as she explained how she had planned a set about bees flying alongside her car on the 405, but that she couldn’t possibly do her “silly jokes” when all this was going on. And that’s when she told us that 3 days ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, in both breasts.

But she didn’t just have cancer. She went on to explain that in some manic twist of fate, while her career is at an all-time high — she is moving to New York to work on Amy Schumer’s new television show, she was on This American Life — concurrently, all these terrible circumstances have befallen her over the past 3 months: pneumonia made way for a debilitating bacterial infection in her digestive tract for which she was hospitalized and lost 30 pounds off of her already small frame, days after being released from the hospital, her young mother died suddenly and tragically (fell, hit her head, died), then she and her girlfriend broke up, and then, now, cancer. In both breasts. (“You have a lump.” “No, doctor, that’s my breast.” — one of her most renowned bits is about someone remarking upon her small breasts)

For the first half of her set, even though she was telling the story in perfect grace and humor, I couldn’t laugh. For the second half, for the first time in my life, as far as I can recall, I genuinely laughed and cried at the exact same time, bewildered at the tragedy and the remarkably calm, clever prism through which she assessed her terrible set of circumstances.

While telling us anecdotes from these personal tragedies, all along the way, she assured the audience “it’s okay, I’m going to be okay.” At one part, when she reached a dark place wherein most of the audience could not find the will to laugh, she said “maybe I’ll just go back to telling jokes about bees. Should I do that?” there were several “NOs” and one insistent loud male voice who cried out

“NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE.”

She looked genuinely taken aback, and relieved. She’d managed to make the tragic not only palatable but overwhelmingly engaging. She’d done it.

Louis CK tweeted earlier that it was one of the three best sets he'd ever seen.

sorry, don't know why i wrote "three" there. just "the"..

Louis C.K. ‏@louisck
in 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

<3 Tig

whoa, amy schumer got a show?

Yeah, working on Schumer's show is mostly likely a waste of Tig's talent, but you gotta eat I guess. Hope she's okay.

iirc Amy Schumer had both a CBS sitcom pilot and a Comedy Central sketch show pilot, but it looks now like the latter is the one that is going on the air. should i tell my Amy Schumer story now that people actually know who she is? we went to the same college and about 10 years ago she played my love interest in a student film.

Did Jeselnik write her lines for her then, too?