Comic Strip Marathon: Post #28 Midnight mass exodus
by Within the past 15 minutes, seemingly half of the capacity crowd has made their moves for the exits, following Jeffrey Ross toward the door at …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #27 The highlight so far?
Mike Birbiglia goes onstage and immediately fills the audience in on my presence liveblogging the event. The lights go up. A couple of hundred heads …
Comic Strip Marathon: Post #26 Recording our set for next time
Gary Gulman opened with a quick quip about wanting "to set the record for beards of bees" before setting down his recording device on the …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #25 25th hour
I now have watched 24 hours of continuous stand-up comedy without napping, dozing or otherwise passing out from exhaustion. Our host, William Stephenson, has just …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #24 More Mecurio
There’s a nine-year-old boy in the audience, and that throws our host off until he realizes the boy is the son of Paul Mecurio, who …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #23 New crowds
I entered the club 24 hours ago, we’ve seen 22 hours of stand-up comedy, and a new audience is beginning to trickle in before they …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #22 FYIs
An up-and-down afternoon heads into everyone else’s Happy Hour with the departure of the young women from Baltimore via Israel (they’d been here since 2 …
Comic Strip Marathon: Post #21 FOX 5 News
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 …
Comic Strip Marathon: Post #20 Zombie-free!
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 …
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Comic Strip Marathon: Post #19 Know your audience
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. …