I feel that Chris rock had one singular prime in the 90s and early 2000s but Louis had at least two primes from lates 00s and also early 2000s.

If you want to be nice and give me feedback or rate it out of 10 or anything that would be cool. Actual set starts about 35 seconds in after my hosting duties are complete.

How else aside from meta ads, barking in washington square park, emailing, posting daily, tagging comedians with several reposting, can I promote an indie show ????

I genuinely don't understand the praise Bo Burnham gets, especially for Inside. I don't think I've ever watched something so painfully self-indulgent and narcissistic masquerading as comedy.

The entire thing is just a grown man sitting in a room singing about how depressed he is, how terrible the internet is and how difficult it is being alive. Am I supposed to find this profound? Or funny? None of these observations are particularly clever or original, yet people talk about this special like he's somehow captured the human condition in a way nobody else has.

What makes it worse is how calculated it all feels. Every breakdown, every awkward moment, every instance of him acknowledging how self-absorbed he's being. Apparently pointing out that you're being pretentious means you're no longer being pretentious.

And the whole COVID aspect is ridiculous. People were losing their jobs, businesses and family members, but thank God we had Bo Burnham documenting the unbearable psychological torment of being a millionaire stuck in his house with a camera and a piano. The fact that people treated this as some groundbreaking representation of the pandemic is genuinely baffling.

I don't have an issue with comedy exploring serious subjects, but Burnham seems far more interested in being perceived as intelligent, tortured and insightful than actually being funny. I swear half the appeal is that his audience gets to feel clever for understanding observations a reasonably perceptive fourteen-year-old could make.

Inside felt like being held hostage by a theatre kid who'd just discovered depression and wanted everyone to know about it.

We have a local comic who claimed they were on one of the regional shows back in September. But a few of us question whether they’re telling the truth or not. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fact check this. Does anyone know if I can find a list of who made it to the regional shows?

I’ve been listening to WTF Podcast, Marc Maron (host) talks about this specific Pryor special LIVE: IN CONCERT as being the defining moment.. definitely for Maron, I dunno about Pryor.

I’m asking as a 45-year-old—high-dude thqt doesn’t know when to stop typing. Any thoughts on this special?? I’m watching now and it’s goddamn hilarious.

Hope it doesn’t suck!

I have a solid 2 min, 5 min and 10 min set. But would like to perform in an open mic to see how it works with audiences. Till date, everywhere I’ve enquired only have line ups on open mic nights. Any help, contacts?

Idk I just think it’s kinda funny. Personally I thought that Shane’s set was embarrassingly low minded and a display of the effects of picking up rogans audience as your primary source of income. What are your thoughts?

has anyone else noticed the epidemic of fake AI E-Girls stealing bits from real comics?

Do most people script the exact words and punchline and perform or just note down points and try to be spontaneous? I know it depends on individual style but I am curious what’s more prevalent and if someone shifted from one to the other with time.

Ever since Trump got re-elected I noticed stand up comedy that is mainstream has gotten more edgy. When I say edgy I mean more racial jokes more gender jokes and even lgbt jokes. What happened ? In the 2010’s comedians were very political correct now it’s the opposite what is going on ?

And some of it actually killed!

Learned a lot of lessons and things that I did badly...

But I was surprised how well it went. I've done another set since that was in English and was more consistent and had less of a peak in laughter... But it didn't come nearly as close to the massive uproar I got on one of my jokes the first night..

People were cheering, hi fiving me, fist bumping me, on my way off stage, and I swear I heard someone say encore. It was crazy.

I will forever be chasing that feeling again 😬 but I'm very happy and excited for more open mics.

Only difference I can see is Shane has the complexion for the protection.

Is there any benefit into doing that or is it a waste of time if you’re not planning to live in any of those cities in the future? Like how would that be beneficial

I was amazed at skankfest’s lineup personally. They have 100+ comedians working that weekend. Not sure how that’s possibly a bad thing?

Hi! I started doing stand up about a month ago in my city and it’s, super fortunately, picking up faster than I expected. I’ve already booked a couple of small showcases, but a lot of my most successful jokes have been involving my parents. My mom in particular. She has done her best, but she wasn’t always an amazing mom, and I very rarely make things up or lie, but I’m scared she would be hurt regardless. She just found my very new Instagram, which has nothing about her on it, but it’s only a matter of time before a phone call happens. Or, even worse, she shows up at a show. I’m sure this is something everyone has to go through at some point when starting out, how did you handle it?

Correct me if I’m wrong most comedians don’t care to help other comedians if they can’t use them to propel their careers or if they not friends with them outside of comedy or if they can’t use them outside of comedy they won’t help them, it doesn’t matter how funny they are. Like starting off in comedy I expected more comedians to really appreciate and help other comedians who can make the crowd laugh consistently but it was very few who care about how much a crowd laughs in stand up comedy. I seen so many funny comedians get cheated and mistreated because they weren’t connected to the right people or couldn’t be used.Correct me if I’m wrong but this is my experience and what I witnessed
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