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Friday Stand-up.

punchlinewalking — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:26 +0000

Happy Friday! You guys didn't think that just because I'm on blogcation I would leave you without some stand-up to start your weekend off right, did you? BF is going on a hiking trip with his dad and brother next week (so jealous), and we all know what happened last time I was left alone, so I'll probably be blogging a lot. But until then, here's a little comedy to tide you over!

So, without further ado, the pill to make being at work on a Friday a little bit easier, Friday Stand-up:

First is comedian Andy Peters doing a bit about driving that made me laugh:

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Second is everyone's favorite, Maria Bamford:

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Have a great weekend!

Pedro Tochas no Teatro Villaret em Lisboa

profestas — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:39:54 +0000

PEDRO TOCHAS
Apresenta
“O Palhaço Escultor”

LISBOA
Teatro Villaret
17 a 19 de Julho de 2008 às 22h00
20 de Julho de 2008 às 18h00

Não perca a oportunidade de ver o ÚNICO espectáculo português de comédia premiado no estrangeiro:
Winner of the Adelaide International Buskers Festival 2006 (Austrália)

Winner of "Best Hair" award
The 19th Halifax International Busker Festival (Canadá)

Winner of "Streets of fools" award "The Biggest Fool 2003" (Norway)

Pela primeira vez num Teatro em Lisboa, pode ver o que dezenas de milhar de pessoas já aplaudiram em 17 países.

"this interdisciplinary work is the one-man equivalent of “Wallace and Grommit""; "a visual treat for all the family that will never cease to entertain and amaze".
Comentários no World Buskers Festival.

Traduzindo para português:
O espectáculo é bom!!!!!!!

Dê uma vista de olhos no vídeo promocional:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38521477

Ou no site do Pedro Tochas:
http://www.pedrotochas.com

Bilheteira do Teatro Villaret
Tel. 21 353 85 86

Também pode comprar na bilheteira do TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II BILHETEIRA Tel. 21 325 08 35 Fax 21 325 09 38 reservas@teatro-dmaria.pt

e ainda na Ticketline e na FNAC (número limitado de bilhetes)

Compre rápido, porque estas datas são a única oportunidade de ver este espectáculo em Lisboa em 2008.

Here comes Eddie Izzard

amarvin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:09:40 +0000

A bunch of our friends will join us in Portland on Tuesday to see Eddie Izzard on his latest stand-up comedy tour. If you haven't heard of this amazing British, cross-dressing comedian, you haven't been reading my blog. He is the funniest comedian I have ever seen, and his bits are usually incredibly smart and often based on history. We saw him in Portland on his last tour, Sexie, in 2003. I laughed so hard that my face hurt the next day. He's that funny. And if you haven't seen his U.S. TV show, The Riches, on F/X, check that out, too.

In recognition of how cool Tuesday will be, here is one of my favorite Eddie Izzard bits. It's about religion:

Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004)

Cortez — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:43:41 +0000

Chris Rock: Never Scared is the hot comic's fourth HBO special and proves as disciplined and trenchant as his previous cable concerts. Announcing he's a recent father, Rock proclaims his biggest job is keeping his daughter "off the pole," i.e., steering her away from the life of a stripper. Warming to the theme, Rock asks why so many strippers earn money to pay for expensive tuitions yet he's never received "a smart lap dance." Things turn topical as Rock argues that his government won't solve the murders of rappers. ("More people saw Tupac get shot than watched the last episode of Seinfeld.") After taking broadsides at Michael Jackson ("Ed Bradley tried his best to make Michael look like a mammal!") and David Blaine ("Are we so desperate we fall for a trickless magician?"), Rock builds to a near-lecture (funny, though) on why white America won't let people of color acquire real wealth.

Regie: Joel Gallen

Cast: Chris Rock

Runtime: 91 mins.

YouTube
Amazon
IMDb
Chris Rock.com

• DVD Specs:

Source: Retail
Video: PAL 16:9
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subs: Dutch
Artwork: Covers + Labels

Stricam Vama Veche!

bloguluteo — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:50:41 +0000

Singurul mod in care poti sa nu strici Vama Veche e sa nu calci pe acolo. Si avand in vedere ca avem show sambata in Club Gulag, de pe la orele 9 jumate seara, e clar ca o sa stricam Vama Veche in asa hal incat, dupa ce terminam cu ea, o sa se numeasca Vama Super Moderna Si Securizata Informational Plus Ca Are Si Termopane La Monitoare!

Si ca sa nu zici ca am postat doar sa fac reclama, iaca si o poanta foarte misto de la Toma si Sergiu:

Despre ce face stand up-ul deosebit de teatru...

bloguluteo — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:13:21 +0000

...ne graieste in acest interviu Bill Burr:

"Basically, what you're working toward as a comedian is to be as comfortable onstage as you are offstage. Even though you're in front of this crowd of strangers, you act like you've been hanging out with your friends."

Si aici e omul in exercitiul functiunii:

Friday Stand-up!!

punchlinewalking — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:04:11 +0000

Hey, its Friday! Congratulations on making it through another week! You know, I'm not usually the gushy, show your emotions-y type. But. I wanted to tell you guys that I love you, I really really do. Cause sometimes I post things and I think "WP, that post is immature, and kinda stupid, your readers are going to defect." And then...instead of leaving me, you all join in! So I thought, what better reward for my group of dirty-minded, childish, fun-as-hell readers than some dirty-minded, childish, fun-as-hell stand-up comedy?

So here it is, guaranteed to make you shoot soda out your nose, Friday Stand-up:

First up is the always irreverent Andi Smith talking about boob jobs:

And second is Natasha Leggero talking about Rite Aid:

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Have a great weekend!

emmanuel augustus face show

skizzoskillz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:18:49 +0000

Ai mai jos cateva "giumbushlucuri" frumoase de la Emmanuel Augustus, probabil cel mai spectaculos boxer all time. One man show.

Jon Reep, Southern Boy

jamimarie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:29:05 +0000

Last Comic Standing - Jon Reep - Final 3 Performance

Gotta love him.

New Stand-Up Clips up on Rooftop Comedy

Joe Zimmerman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:35:12 +0000

Vitamins and exercise
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/VitaminsAndExer...

Joe Zimmerman at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, NC - Half Full Productions

An awkward conversation
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/AnAwkwardConver...

Joe Zimmerman at The Loft in Columbus, GA - Comedy Zone



New Stand Up Clips on Rooftop Comedy
Joe Zimmerman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:26:40 +0000





cizma zilei episodul 2
skizzoskillz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:52:13 +0000
Shake your pork chops ? wtf ? si peste toate astea ne mai canta (nu rau trebe sa recunosc) femeia barbat. Vizual prea strident pana si pentru un ochi de pirat.




Last three shows
lmuston — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:04:16 +0000
Hi everyone
With the media centre closing early on Saturday and me needing to drive back early Sunday, I didn't get the chance to put up the last three reviews.
Now that the Fest is over, it doesn't seem worth running reviews of the three individually, so here's a quick run down of what happened.
The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra's Gala Concert on Saturday afternoon was the most fun I've ever had at an orchestral concert.

 Rather than just sticking to classical music, conductor Richard Cock included everything from Olympic themes to James Bond music, Phil Collins, blues standards, jazz and English folk tunes.
The aspect which made it so much fun was the audience participation. In Coates's By a Sleepy Lagoon, he conducted the audience, asking them to make "shooshing" noises to sound like the water breaking on the beach and even had one guy do seagull effects - which proved quite amusing.
But the best was to come in the finale - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
The concert had been promoted as having a real cannon for the overture, but this proved logistically impossible.
So the audience was provided with paper bags, which we had to blow up and then bang at the point when conducted to do so.
It worked amazingly well, with only one or two people getting their timing wrong, and the sound of hundreds of people banging paper bags sounded amazingly like a cannon going off.
Then, much as a couple of years ago at an outdoor concert when he got the ECPO audience to do the Macarena, Cock had the Guy Butler Theatre audience up and doing a variation of the YMCA, changed to the NAFG to stand for National Arts Festival Grahamstown - written, he tells us, by "The Village Green People".
The concert ran much longer than I expected and I had less than five minutes to get to the basement of the monument (luckily I was already in the building) for the student theatre production Tech-no/Logic.
Presented by the UCT drama department, it was one of the funniest shows I saw the entire Fest.
For the most part it was stand-up comedy and skits by the show's co-writer Anne Hirsch, who mused on the infiltration of technology and the mass media into our lives.
Everything from cellphones to CCTV, Facebook, MySpace and Nintendo Wii provided the basis for jokes, while a large portion of the show focused on television, particularly reality shows.
The production featured three large screens and in between Hirsch's performances, pre-recorded segments featuring the rest of the cast were shown.
These ranged from rap music videos to reality show parodies - including one called "You've been Terrified".
I laughed from start to finish. A great show and Hirsch is definitely someone to watch for the future.
I ended off the Fest at the Scout Hall, watching Live and Kicking's final night - the Comedy Awards.
Stuart Taylor proved why he was awarded the best overall comedian award with a brilliant and original set, which included very funny insights into his marriage and birth of his child. (I saw he was blue and wondered if my wife had been having an affair with a Smurf!)
Rob van Vuuren won the "hot hatchling" award for best stand-up debut by a comedian more used to working within a scripted show, and his set also proved extremely funny.
The three shows were a great way to end a brilliant Festival, which had numerous sold-out performances and great quality throughout the Main and Fringe.
- Leon Muston



Steven Wright Jokes...
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:35:57 +0000
It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

I once put instant coffee in a microwave and went back in time.

Last year for Christmas, I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier.... I thought I'd put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I woke up this morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called information. She said they were behind the couch.

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said, "Cut it out."

I xeroxed a mirror.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "What do you need?"

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child....eventually.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
More on the genius Steven Wright here.



Kudos to Family Guy!
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:50 +0000
Family Guy is one the best animated shows out there! It's okay if you haven't heard of the show, I mean there must be nothing wrong with you, but it should definately alarm you. So, Family Guy is form the brainchild of the super funny and very young Seth MacFarlane, (born in 1973 and Family Guy started airing on 1999 = 26 years old, but his television career started before even that), and is about a very normal and typical family of the western world. I mean, this series has captured the everyday trials and tribulations of the western family and deals with difficult issues like farting and stem cell research, and shoe fetishists, and other brilliant stuff. I think that Herbert the old gay ephebophile must be the most outrageous character ever created on TV. I maybe wrong but the truth is that he makes me laugh every time I see him, and his limp old dog. It's very difficult to decide upon your favorite character on Family Guy, the show is that good, there is Stewie, Brian, Mayor Adam West, Tom Tucker the news anchor, Tricia Takanawa, the asian reporter... Have your pick!
Check it out (Search, find, watch, buy)

http://www.familyguyx.net/

http://www.familyguynow.com/

http://www.familyguy.com/

http://www.planet-familyguy.com/

http://www.familyguyfiles.com/

http://www.familyguyquotes.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182576/

http://www.justfamilyguy.com/



David Cross... Genius Comedy!
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:26:42 +0000
David Cross is a unique and extremely funny stand up comedian. He is also a comedic actor best known for his role as Tobias Fünke in the brilliant series Arrested Development which was sadly so good and edgy that it was cancelled. 
David Cross began his professional television career as a writer on The Ben Stiller Show. It was during this period that he first met Bob Odenkirk, with whom he would later co-create the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show in 1995. He has appeared several times on the MTV2 series Wonder Showzen. Cross teamed up with Odenkirk to produce a feature film, based on one of their Mr. Show characters, called Run Ronnie Run. In 1999, he was given his own one-hour comedy special on HBO, entitled The Pride Is Back. He has released two recordings, Shut Up You Fucking Baby! and It's Not Funny. In 2004, Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. In 2003, he released his first tour film, Let America Laugh, and was named #85 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)
Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995-1998)

Arrested Development (2003-2006) - Dr. Tobias Fünke

Shut Up You Fucking Baby! (2002) 2CD

Let America Laugh (2003) DVD

It's Not Funny (2004) CD

Invite them Up (Compilation) (2005) CD/DVD

Comedy Death-Ray (album) (Compilation) (2007) CD
Find out stuff about  David Cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cross

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189144/

http://www.bobanddavid.com/





John Oliver... an essentially British Comedian
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:25:36 +0000
John Oliver is only 31 years old, but he has already made his mark in the comedy world, and promises us even wilder comedy and most importantly accute satire.   John is a regular writer & correspondent on the Emmy award winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is my favorite Daily Show "Correspondent", it's not just his accent, and is one of the most intelligent satirists (Caution: endagered species) out there! He was also the writer and star of Radio 4's 'The Department' alongside Chris Addison and Andy Zaltzman. It centered around a three man 'think tank' who each week solved one of the world's major problems and it was hilarious. He is also currently writing and presenting "The Bugle" podcast.
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

http://www.thedailyshow.com/castBio.jhtml?castId=74954

The Bugle
Find out stuff about  John Oliver

http://www.mrjohnoliver.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1056659/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oliver_(comedian)
Links on youtube ( a taster )

There is almost every segment of him here... Enjoy!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/castBio.jhtml?castId=74954



Dane Cook ...the next comedy Super Star?
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:23:09 +0000
When Dane Cook released his second album, Retaliation, in 2005, he made history. It debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart, the hottest-selling comedy album since Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. That year was called one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, listed at #34. In November of 2006, he performed at Madison Square  Garden, becoming the second comedian to ever perform there. He had two sold out shows for his event at MSG. He was again named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, this time reaching the high number of #4 on the list. Dane Cook's comedy is fresh, and cool and energetic and it will blow you away, and has the all the stuff that will make him the next comedy super star!...
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

Retaliation (2005)

Harmful If Swallowed (2003)

Rough Around the Edges (2007)

Vicious Circle (2006)
Find out stuff about  Dane Cook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane_Cook

http://www.danecook.com

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176981/

http://www.myspace.com/danecook



John Cleese the ...Tallest of the Pythons
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:21:56 +0000
John Cleese, needs no introduction, he is an institution of comedy by himself. Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Frost Report, A Fish Called Wanda, need I go on? An asteroid and a species of lemur are named after him in his honour. He is the smartest of comedians, the greatest of comedic actors, a great innovator and he is one of my idols. Oh, dear! I just had a terrifying thought! Could you imagine our world without a John Cleese? Oh, dear!
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979 only 12 episodes)

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969 - 1974)

How to Irritate People (1968)

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

...so many I cannot possibly mention them all! The man is so prolific!
Find out stuff about  John Cleese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000092/

http://www.thejohncleese.com/

http://pythonline.com/meet/cleese



I bet you can't find anyone like Sarah Silverman!
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:20:41 +0000
Sarah Silverman is unique and should be celebrated for her edgy, politically incorrect humor, and her fearless style of addressing social taboos, and controversial topics. She is so bold that she actually stood up and in the 2007 MTV movie awards, in a dumbstruck audience, said "In a couple of days, Paris Hilton is going to jail... As a matter of fact, I heard that to make her feel more comfortable in prison, the guards are going to paint the bars to look like penises. I think it is wrong, too. I just worry she is going to break her teeth on those things." ... and Paris Hilton was in the audience! You've got to admire such a comedic mind... She has been compared to the Great Lenny Bruce. "The Sarah Silverman Program" is so funny and so politically incorrect that is MUST SEE...

Check her out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

The Sarah Silverman Program (2006 - )

Jesus Is Magic (2005)

Crank Yankers (2002 - )

The Larry Sanders Show (1992 - 1998)

Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995 - 1998)
Find out stuff about  Sarah Silverman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798971/

http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/



It's Garry Shandling's Shows...
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:19:31 +0000
A lot is not known about Garry Shandling. The most imprtant thing being that he is a genius and a true pioneer of comedy. There are the comedies before "The Larry Sanders Show" and the comedies after "The Larry Sanders Show". His top-rated, award-winning show about the trials, tribulations, and double- dealing that goes on behind the scenes of a latenight talk show, a parody of the talk shows, broke every rule in the book. It had no laughter track. It didn't need to. The storylines and the comedy was so compelling that it needed no "This is where you laugh" signal. It is the first "uncomfortable" comedy, dealing with embarassing and difficult situations, long pauses, and more realism than you can take. It also featured real-life celebrity guests as they appeared on the talk show, but also as they appeared behind the scenes. This gave the celebrity guests the opportunity to play a different version of themselves, especially play with their persona. Garry Shandling paved the way for Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (UK and US), and Extras, that is to say the cool comedies. So now you know a little about Garry Shandling...
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

The Larry Shanders Show (1992-1998)

It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990)

What Planet Are you From? (2000)
Find out stuff about  Garry Shandling

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788009/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Shandling



Jerry Lewis... a personal hero
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:18:03 +0000
Jerry Lewis could do it all. He is one of the greatest comedians ever, a mime of the stature of Chaplin and Laurel, a great actor, and most important of all one the greatest filmmakers of all time. His impact on the art of filmmaking is enormous. Yes, he also directed most of his films and supervised almost all of them. Maybe that annoyed many people in Hollywood, I don't know. What I know is that he is trully a genius, he made his films way ahead of his time, so much so, that we have yet to recognize him as the great artist he was. In France, Jerry Lewis is called "Le Roi de Crazy" while in America, he is still an embarrassing and unexplained paradox, and often ridiculed. Some say it is because of his complex personality and public persona. Maybe he was too frank and honest. But whatever you think of him as a person shouldn't get in the way of judging him as an artist. It's like saying I don't think Woody Allen is a great filmmaker because I do not agree with his personal life choices. But there are many examples of such misjudgments in history. But if you think of him as retro, or too early a comedian to still make you laugh, or you have a ceratin image in your mind when you hear the name Jerry Lewis, check out his best films in the list below and get ready for something magic and personal...
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

Arizona Dream (1994)

Funny Bones (1995)

The King of Comedy (1983)

Hardly Working (1979)

The Patsy (1964)

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Cinderfella (1960)

The BellBoy (1960)
Find out stuff about  Jerry Lewis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001471/

http://www.jerrylewiscomedy.com/



I bet you don't know... Jim Carrey
tasospap — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:16:48 +0000
The legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield liked young and then unknown Jim Carrey so much, that not only he hired him to perform at The Comedy Store, but also signed him to open his tour performances. Jim Carrey began as a stand up comedian, then continued to share his talent with us in the Wayans Bros 90s sketch show "In Living Color". After the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective he really took off as a film superstar and the rest is history. Not that I do'n think that Jim Carrey is a great dramatic actor, I miss the Jim Carrey performing in crazy sketch shows and delivering brilliant comedic monologues...
Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)

In Living Color (1990-1994)

The Cable Guy (1996)

The Truman Show (1998)

Man on the Moon (1999)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Find out stuff about Jim Carrey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/

http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/