How do they not get electrocute?!
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December 2011
Comedian Louis CK did something called a reddit chat on something called reddit, which is one of those words you see all over the Internet but never click on. Well, I did because Louis CK, the current Dalai Prophet of comedy, who just released his latest hour special via his website (louisck.com), did a session answering questions from fans on reddit. You can read the exchanges here.
Then, for some reason, that nutty Asian outfit, NMA.TV, which makes those poorly but wonderfully animated news videos did a summary of the reddit chat. It’s worth a couple watch throughs.
So that exists now.
Shrug.
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This would make a good location for the next Planet of the Apes movie. If all goes how I assume I’ll get the role as the lead ape and the film will be called ‘Planet of the Apes: Hankering for Naners.’
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Last night I had the honor of being the special out-of-town guest introducer of the 1-Year Anniversary Birthday show of SpeakEasy Comedy at Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap (Mondays, 8pm, $5). That means I was the guy who brought up the host, and without my pitch-perfect introduction the night might not have been the rousing success it was. Also, they had these cupcakes. Man, so round and delicious! Nom Nom Nom LOLz haha dawg.
Here are a couple pictures I took using an app on my phone called Pano. What it does should be obvious. Click on the picture, zoom in to full size and scroll side to side. It’s like you’re there!
That’s the night’s headliner, Adam Burke, on stage in the first one. And you might recognize the three people on the left who acted in my short film, as well as that fella on the right. In the second picture you get a decent angle on an uncanny painting of Adam, which the producers found collecting dust the first time they investigated the basement as a potential performance space. It’s not actually him. Yet it is.
It’s no small feat to keep a comedy show alive past the first three months, let alone the first year. The comedy highway is littered with the crumbling forgotten corpses of failed showcases, each a husk of wasted effort and unrealized dreams tearfully abandoned by its creator, the project and its attendant posters, handouts, unfilled raffles, tealight candles, booking schedules and facebook invites dumped roadside to rot in the shallow cold puddle which slowly dissolves the humiliating failure after explaining to an annoyed bar manager why no one showed up and that next week we’ll put even MORE fliers on the wall above the urinals. All too often, there is no next week, there are no more urinals. Flush.
But that isn’t the case here.
Due to the tireful work of producers Kenny DeForest, Jeff Steinbrunner, Jeannie Doogan, Saurin Choksi, John McBride, Derek Smith and John Ming, SpeakEasy Comedy is one of the best showcases in the city. They bust ass and the world is a laughier place. Performing on the show is a feather in the cap* of any local performer.
As one of these tortured chuckle-hunters it’s comforting to know audiences still turn out to support live comedy. We need their laughs more than they do and rooms like SpeakEasy provide a venue for it to be sought and found. An audience’s patronage is both earned and rewarded with quality and consistency, week after week, flush after flush.
Congratulations, SpeakEasy.
*I wear my feathers in my hair, as is the trend.
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