Analogies Are Not (like) a Fucking Joke
Mbhumor
I did a show tonight and it made me think these brain words, and since private thoughts will be outlawed in a couple years anyway, I figured I’d get a head start by sharing these ones with you.
Some audiences go to see live comedy because they want to engage with a performer to create a unique, mutually satisfying comedy interaction. Other audiences want to just sit passively and have comedy “done” to them. And I’ve started to realize that I’m not that comfortable with giggle rape (by Comedy Jocks). Now obviously there’s also a lot to be said for seduction and foreplay (work the bits), and of course KY Jolly, i.e., lube (booze).
I suspect some folks may think this is just a whiny (or, since I’m Jewish, kvetchy) performance-art, overly precious perspective, when your job as a comic is to make people laugh WHETHER THEY WANT TO OR NOT, but all things being equal I prefer my audiences the way I like my partners in all other sexual acts (I’m taking for granted that getting on stage and revealing yourself in front of a group for fun is a sexual act): Willing from the get go - and able. Enthusiastic, even.
Come to think of it I’m not positive that having a good track record with relationships is a good thing for a Comedian (maybe even the opposite is true?), creates too many pointless expectations.
Aparna, Ali, Angel, Katie, Nora I preemptively apologize for such a male-centric view of comedy. I don’t know if this is at all representative of your view of it but I’d be interested to find out. In other news, I just watched Shakira dry hump a sound monitor on SNL, you know, to further her career. So there’s that.
When a pirate and a skeleton warrior meet, who rapes who?
Trick question: They simultaneously rape each other. It’s actually kind of cute.
More on this @
Symbology NY: Skull and Crossbones - Wednesday Oct 28th, 9:30 - The Creek and the Cave.
Ali Wong (SF Weekly’s Best Comedian of 2009)
Phil Murphy (NY Favorite)
Tim Miller (Bentzen Ball Festival)
Micah Sherman (AltCom fest)
Sean Gabbert (DC Improv)