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Several weeks after the record-setting 50-hour stand-up comedy show at the Comic Strip Live in New York City, readers and comedians still have questions for me about it. So why not address that now. Especially since I just saw William Stephenson over the weekend hosting for Greg Proops at Comix, …
You didn’t think I sat through more than 50 hours of stand-up comedy last week and forgot to get some video of it, did you? So here’s a scattered selection of footage from the world record comedy show last week at Comic Strip Live. But first, let’s reflect on what …
Internet fameball Mary Rambin interviewed me around hour 48 of the Comic Strip Live 50-hour world record marathon comedy show. Rambin was very nice in person (much like her friend in fameballing, Julia Allison), which probably helps explain how they’ve gotten as far as they have already. Anyhow. This is …
What more appropriate way to start celebrating a world record than with a closing set from the World Champion himself, Judah Friedlander. Much much more to come!
Almost there…almost there…stay on target…stay on target. We have put 49 hours of continuous stand-up comedy in the books here at Comic Strip Live, leaving one final hour to reach the finish and a potential Guinness World Record. Christian Finnegan has already performed, and the rest of this finale bill …
Eddie Brill just handed the reins of the show back to host William Stephenson for the final "regularly scheduled" two-hour show to get us to 50 hours, and Stephenson’s voice is breaking up a bit as he gets this final audience ready and rarin’ to laugh. "We’ve already done something …
We’ve reached the Final Four hours and some odd sights and fun sounds to report. Kerri Louise brought her youngest son to the club with her in a stroller, and when the boy cried out as Louise was onstage, she chose to treat him as if he were merely the …
If I hadn’t mentioned this before, this whole record-setting comedy show also is a fund-raiser for the troops, and comedian Robert Kelly just got back from performing on a USO tour in Iraq. Kelly said he supports the troops, certainly, but he couldn’t help them out as a soldier himself. …
The final hours of the 50-hour "world record" continuous stand-up comedy show continue to tick and tock along fairly smoothly. Several comedians have returned for repeat performances, while new audience members have begun arriving in the past half-hour. We’ve made it 43 hours so far, which leaves seven to go. …
Today, just as with yesterday, the late morning and early afternoon makes for an unusual atmosphere for live stand-up comedy. Most people are at work. Yesterday saw plenty of tourists. Today’s crowd is tougher to peg. And many of the comedians remark on this both Wednesday and Thursday. Lots of …