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I feel like being the town crier, because GARFUNKEL AND OATES RELEASED AN ALBUM!!!!
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They've announced the shows that they're doing at the Just for Laughs Festival in Chicago, and while "Comedy Festival sponsored by TBS" doesn't sound like a winner, they've got some loving amazing stuff. Patton Oswalt is doing a show, Aziz is doing two in one night, Kevin Smith is doing one of his Q&As, Mike Birbiglia is doing a run of his latest one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Amy Shumer, Jeff Ross, John Oliver, I'm gonna go broke just trying to get to all of these.
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Apr 12, 2012 19:36
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Brock Samson posted:New standup specials from Patton Oswalt and Paul F Tompkins premiere tonight on Comedy Central! The first 10 minutes of PFT have hit incredibly close to home. This is fantastic.
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Apr 22, 2012 04:11
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Whitney Cummings is good on occasion, Amy Schumer is awesome, there's the obvious Sarah Silverman, and if you stretch your definition of "stand-up", there's Garfunkel and Oates.
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Jul 6, 2012 01:10
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Little Blue Couch posted:Well you'll notice how you just said in two lines of text what it took him one million words to say, which is a start, but actually in this particular instance both sides do not have valid points. One of the sides is like, "it's okay to make jokes about rape because comedians need to have leeway in order to do their job, and this privilege may extend to making aggressive and violent statements toward a heckler, who can say really" and the other side is like, "no, what the gently caress, no." Tosh's actions demonstrate that he is a bad comedian who doesn't know how to toe that very fine line, but also doesn't know to therefore stay the gently caress away from it. This is just one instance, though. He does use a lot of that kind of joke in his act, but for the most part there's never been real mass outrage about it (aside from that one time it slipped into his TV show, but that's the difference between TV and live stand-up). There are plenty of comics that have had one bad night, and he obviously feels sorry, because he apologized about it.
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Jul 11, 2012 15:13
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I did an open mic in January, I had a bunch of material all set, but decided I didn't need to bring it up on stage with me, because I'm an actor and can memorize poo poo, so I tell two jokes (which actually kind of got laughs), promptly forget all of my other ones, and apologized and darted off the stage. I brought friends with me to mine, and they reassured me, but I knew it was a hilarious bomb. I don't think I'll be doing that again. I'm much more of an improv guy.
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Jul 15, 2012 17:29
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rear end Catchcum posted:"One of the victims of the movie theater tragedy in Colorado is Caleb Medley. He is a comedian. Caleb has lost his right eye and is in a medically induced coma right now. He's 23 , he has no medical insurance and his wife is 39 weeks pregnant. If you would like to donate please go here http://calebmedley.com/help" This is an incredibly tragedy, and this guy should really be helped out. On the other hand, if his wife were to die, he'd pretty much have the best origin story for a real life Joker ever.
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Jul 23, 2012 23:09
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I don't think any comedian's stand-up sounds more like you're listening to a therapy session than Marc Maron. And I love him for it.
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Aug 4, 2012 04:46
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escape artist posted:New Jeselnik special, premiering on CC-- 1/13/2013, being released on DVD 1/15/2013!!!! To merge these two threads of conversation back together, I saw him workshop some of the material that (I assume) is on this special when I was in New York back in April at Whiplash at the UCB. So go see that. And ASSSSCAT, because improv is fun to watch and that's the best improv.
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ibntumart posted:Today was the last day of SF Sketchfest and I was wondering if any other Goons went to any of the events. It would be cool to share impressions and maybe give each other ideas what to see next year (or to avoid, I guess!). I'll chime in! I was in SF the week before the Super Bowl, and I got to go see: Harmontown (they gave out free t-shirts after the show, and I made a really embarrassing video of Dan Harmon talking about how the girl I was staying with should go out with me, which I immediately texted to her because I was drunk and stupid) Meltdown (where I first learned that Jonah Ray is actually really funny, and Kumail is seriously one of the funniest people I've ever seen perform) JV Club (really heartwarming interview with Tig that kinda went through all of the poo poo that had happened to her over the past few years, she's very funny and Janet is just adorable) Smartest Man in the World (Greg Proops is awesome) Gravid Water (Improv show combining scenes from real plays with improvisors, both Scott Adsit and Ian Roberts were hilarious, and the Pam equivalent from the British Office was one of the actors) Risk! (More Kumail and Proops, and some really awesome local comics telling stories) It was super fun, though I wish I had taken a chance to talk to Janet Varney and tell her how great she was (I saw her later in the day after JV Club). I don't know when I'll be back, because the friend I was staying with is moving to LA pretty soon, but one of my improv goals is to eventually perform there.
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Still, really cool guy to chat with if even for a few minutes.