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Larry Eats A Pancake - Larry David - Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
It’s anti-social media not to let people embed your video. If you care to click through, you will get to a 13 minute video of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David going to lunch. Moments that make it worth your time are fleeting, but hey, Larry David.
Why does Jerry do the thing where he’s DYING laughing at a semi-funny joke? So irritating.
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Louis CK on the Daily Show offending people.
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Tig Notaro’s standup set on Conan. Her stool bit is an incredible lesson in comic timing and how to manipulate the audience like a maestro.
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This Today interview with Louis CK says more about mainstream media than reveal anything new about Louis. The interviewer is fawning yet condescending, simplifying Louis’s complex take on sex/lust/masturbation as simple “filth” and pleading as a “mother” for him to do a “clean” show.
This fakeness is why the terrorists hate America.
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The problem with the Happy Nakba Day joke was not that a white non-Muslim Canadian told it. The problem was that it was told at all. In Qatar, as in other Arab countries, the “catastrophe” is a crime against humanity that cannot be joked about. Halal Bilal, however, has found a way to weave an Israel joke into his routine. At the Katara show, Bilal riffed on trying to get into the Palestinian territories:
“Any Palestinians here? I wanted to go to Palestine, but to get there I had to go through Israel. I get to the border, and the Israeli soldier says to me, ‘What are you doing here?’ I was like, ‘Dude, I could ask you the same question!’ ” Then he paused. (In his notebook, Bilal had instructions to himself to look for someone in the crowd who was not laughing and make a joke about that.) Then he went on: “I lie — I actually said I’m Jewish! You’re shocked? So was he! He didn’t believe me. I said: ‘Dude, I am Jewish. I have evidence, but it’s circum-stantial.’ Get it?”
Yes, There Are Comedians in Qatar - NYTimes.com
There isn’t just one comedy. What works here doesn’t work everywhere. Starting a stand-up comedy scene from almost nothing in Qatar.
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Part 2 of Louis C.K. on Leno.
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Louis C.K. on Leno. His best joke is that he is wearing a grey sweatshirt and a different grey pants.
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I knew you wouldn’t read the John Waters so here is a video excerpt of the same interview.
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What I mean by that is I think a lot of what enabled Woody to be a director and to learn the craft of directing as quickly as he did — and regardless of how anybody measures this in time, he did learn quickly — I think part of what permitted him to do that was that he had done stand-up for such a long time. Because what stand-up does to you — I like the way I say this, as though I had done a lot of stand-up myself, but it makes sense — is that someone who has to respond on the spot to how the audience is reacting should be able to do likewise on the set. Onstage, he can milk a moment if the moment is working and, if it’s not working, he realizes he has to let go of that and go someplace else.
Louis C.K.’s New Louie Editor Susan E. Morse Compares Him to Her Old Boss, Woody Allen — Vulture
Actually, it’s more like Vulture trying to shoehorn comparisons as much as possible…but a good read anyway if you are a Woody Allen and Louis CK fan.
Posted on May 31, 2012 with 1 note
Source: vulture.com
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He lets the sorry truth land: “White woman’s life is valuable.” He then asks the audience to help him remember the point he was originally getting at: “What’s his name—Joran van der Sloot? We find out he was a serial kill—man, he kills women, that’s what he do,” he says. “What’s the girl in Aruba?”
“Natalee Holloway!” people shout out.
“But the one—he just killed the girl in Peru, what’s her name?”
Silence.
“Exactly!” he says. The audience cracks up and breaks into applause, simultaneously chagrined and excited to have sprung that trap he’s set for them.
Why Comedians Were Afraid of Patrice O’Neal — New York Magazine
Patrice O’Neal had so much comedy left in him when he died a few months ago. Sometimes, when I have problems with dumb guys, I ask the Obi Wan ghost of Patrice to guide me.
He made comedy dangerous with his no-holds-barred honesty. Very few dare to do that much less be successful and well-liked because of it. Patrice O’Neal is one of the very, very few famous people I never met whose death makes me feel like I had a personal loss.
Posted on May 21, 2012 with 1 note
Source: New York Magazine
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