NSFW but pretty LOL

Unless your employer is a Scottish pub that caters to heroin junkies I would not play this at work but you should play it at some point.

So two sets this past week chock full of newish stuff.

I did about five minutes of brand totally new (except for one bit resurrected from the dead file cuz I missed it) at the Royal Oak. For that set I had that weird thing where they laugh at the bit you didn’t think was funny and stayed stone silent for the bit that you know was funny.

Times where you just want to stop and explain it to the crowd so they understand just how wrong they are.

What’s great is I wrote a whole new angle for one bit right on stage that got (for that room) a huge laugh. The fear of course is that I’ll never be able to recapture it for later shows.

But all in all it was a good set and I leant a fair amount from it.

Yuk’s was pretty weak however. Some of the new stuff hit and the “A material” ranged from meh to acceptable. Watching the tape (thanks Russ!) I can see I was really unfocused, I’m still searching for that right mix of rehearsed spontaneity.

Speaking of bad sets, this guy has some funny shit being performed for a crowd of idiots, morons and jerks, just brutal:

Agog and aghast

Why would anyone human with a soul do something like this?

Funny and true

Shoot me

This is so cringe inducing that it almost makes me wish the Germans won.

I hate that I live in a world where someone is a “McCainiac” and it’s not legal to hunt them down like full grown human seals.

Too harsh?

Watch this and try not want to rip out your eyeballs and stuff them in your ears:

This is not a matter of opinion

NSFW

A long time ago in an Internet without YouTube

The Goodies

This was a British comedy show that I grew up on. I remember one episode making me laugh so hard that I couldn’t breath and as that had never happened before I freaked and ran to my parents thinking that I needed to go to the hospital.

And thus began my life-long love of comedy and hypochondria.

I can’t find the specific clip but this is a pretty representative sample:

Radio Free Vestubule

Now known simply as The Vestibules

Just don’t ask Michael for tips

If you ask Jason Alexander what he’s been up to lately, you’re not going to get a short answer.

I bumped into the “Seinfeld” alum at an event recently and was surprised to learn that in addition to doing film roles, directing and doing guest spots on various television series, he’s also the director of a local theater company and a fledgling stand-up comedian!

Is this the devolution of sit-com comedians? They get to the peak, fail at new shows and tumble down the ladder until they’re back at the beginning?

I’d go see him just on the off chance that he’d yell “What the hell are you looking staring at?” or some other Duckman reference: