The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Breakfast update: They passed around sandwiches that appeared to contain egg, cheese and some sort of meat, although in this light, in this current state, it’s not in me to determine exactly what sort of meat. Audience attention focuses away from Lee Camp, who is attempting to deliver political jokes …
After an unfair amount of bluster, the daylight is sneaking into the club and it’s time for the "free breakfast" for patrons still hanging around the Comic Strip. Barry Weintraub took the stage at 7 a.m. and asked audience members if they were enjoying the grub…a muffin and a glass …
The voice of Rachel Feinstein’s mother still would be haunting me, if not for Paul Mecurio, who in his first 10 minutes onstage has proceeded to yell at most of the remaining audience members and even at me. He thought I was the Guinness World Records rep. When he found …
If I close my eyes, I hear the voice of Harland Williams. If I open them, I see Kevin Downey Jr. Don’t close your eyes. Don’t close your eyes. Not that Downey has the same material as Williams, but definitely the voice. But closing eyes means defeat, and defeat is …
Dave Attell took the stage at 3:50 a.m. and it seemed perfectly natural. The former host of Comedy Central’s Insomniac has the audience of about 60 fans and staff howling. "I’m so glad I got to be here the first night, before you get to reek and stink, and we’d …
I’ve now been here so long that my computer automatically updated my Flash player and Windows systems, then rebooted. What better time to look at some other firsts in this marathon… First comedian wearing a suit: 1:51 a.m. Wednesday, Pat Dixon First Red Bull I consumed during the marathon: 2:09 …
I spy Nick Swardson through one of the windows that peers backstage. He best start messing with some Zohan. If you know what I mean.
Five hours down, and yet, that’s really only one-tenth of the way home. The wall behind me hums and vibrates against my back, gently soothing (plus) yet also making me feel dangerously sleepy (minus minus!). The audience is thinning and shuffling. Some customers just moved from the back to the …
Jeffrey Ross explained a porn joke to one of the young Aussie lasses in the front row and made her snort Long Island Ice Tea out of her nose. Fist bump! "If I do it a second time, do I get my own record?" Ross asked. We’ll have to look …
Judy Gold gets dismayed by all of the foreigners in the crowd, but only because it’s making her work harder for her crowd work. She plows through nevertheless. Gold tells a joke about seeing an Asian baby…with Asian parents…as comedian Esther Ku (as seen on this year’s Last Comic Standing) …