The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s just before 4 p.m. and a cameraman from FOX 5 News has shown up during Joe DeRosa’s set. DeRosa tries to engage the cameraman in conversation, but he’s reluctant to do so. "Why, they’re not going to use the audio from this?" DeRosa says. "Why not?" the cameraman replies. …
Quotable from the 2 p.m. hour: "This doesn’t feel like a comedy show. It feels like something cataclysmic happened in the world…and this is the only place where we’re free from the zombies." — Christian Finnegan
So Funny or Die’s featured "chosen ones" video for today has Andrea Savage and Rachael Harris playing "Lady Cops." The tagline? They’re cops with boobs. Sounds a lot like a safe-for-work version of the Skinemax movies Busty Cops and Busty Cops 2. Looks a lot like it, too, actually. Don’t …
This is no ordinary show, and certainly not an ordinary audience, and yet I’ve seen several comedians approach the stage without keeping that in mind. Comics who deliver their regular 20-minute low-energy set when the crowd isn’t having it, and needing the opposite. Comics who rely on crowd work with …
It’s just after noon on Wednesday, and already, Dan Ahdoot has said three things onstage that capture the mood in the room. 1) "I’ve never performed with orange juice and half a danish in front of me." 2) To a guy dozing off in the crowd, who earlier claimed he’d …
They say when one door closes, another door opens. Usually they say this to console someone. Wyatt Cenac needs not your consolations but instead your congratulations. He probably has gotten over getting passed over by SNL now that he started his new job last night as the newest correspondent on …
Just as I finished typing that last update, Pete Dominick switches gears completely and decides to talk about how some people watch comedy shows and think maybe they should do it. So Dominick offers tips and guidance. First, he says that most comedians wish ill on each other’s careers, and …
As hour 14 heads into hour 15, and I think my eyelids cannot stay open, Pete Dominick arrives and says he’s going to do a "social experiment" and work through today’s New York Post and see what jokes he can write from it. Obama’s on the cover. But turn the …
For the record on this record-setting comedy attempt, Jon Fisch became the first comedian to take the stage for a second time. He’d been on from 2:42 a.m. to 3:04 a.m., breathing life into the crowd. When he returns at 8:56 a.m., several of the audience members remember him, even …
12 Hours! New audience members! An applause break! Duly noted, Ted Alexandro. Duly noted. A quartet of new audience members recently arrived, and say they’re visiting from San Diego and saw this was happening as a "thing to do" on the "Internet." Alexandro applauds us all for being here as …