Posts with the tag stand up.
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Album Review: Adam Wade - The Human Comedy
Posted by: Tony Hinds • November 19, 2015 @ 3:03am
For a hardened stand-up comedy fanboy like myself, the label of 'storytelling/comedy album' can be like a dead canary in a coal mine. Don't get me wrong – I love storytelling. The act of storytelling is a sadly underrated skill, and one very much worthy of an hour-long audio recording.
Interview: Comedian Von Decarlo and filmmaker Mark Farrell on Patrice O'Neal documentary Better Than You
Posted by: Tony Hinds • April 30, 2015 @ 2:46pm
Patrice O'Neal, one of the greatest comedians of all time, passed away in 2011, only a week before his 42nd birthday. A true comic's comic, O'Neal's legend-status was cemented in his early 30s, but mainstream popularity was never his goal.
Album Review: Jon Steinberg - Between Me and the Wall
Posted by: Tony Hinds • January 18, 2015 @ 4:29pm
Jon Steinberg's hysterical new album, Between Me and the Wall is endearingly quaint and intimate. It feels less like a stand up special than a nightclub set, but just as entertaining.
Album Review: Brian Posehn - The Fartist
Posted by: Tony Hinds • June 25, 2013 @ 5:51pm
Age has not softened Brian Posehn, the heavy metal/ geek comedian (whose new album The Fartist is released this week from New Wave Dynamics). Nor has fatherhood. The special, which had its premiere earlier this spring on Netflix, is undeniably vintage Posehn, as he goes back to the well to once again examine the minutia of his favorite subjects.
Amplified Idiots: The Inexplicable Rise of the Winnipeg Comedy Scene
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • June 24, 2013 @ 10:53pm
Winnipeg has one of the most diverse and pound-for-pound funniest comedy scenes in Canada. The problem is, it's in Winnipeg.
Over the past decade, and even more-so in the past five years, the comics in my desolate stomping ground have been growing into impressive and formidable comedy beasts. Winnipeg is no stranger to fostering rich and healthy arts communities.
Amplified Idiots: "Hecklers" - Tortured Artists Torturing Artists
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • January 22, 2013 @ 12:45pm
Heckling is an art form.
It's not a very appreciated art form, but it is still a creative vocation deserving of our attention and respect. Unfortunately, it's also one of those amorphous, pretentious art forms. You know, like jazz fusion or interpretive dance.
Amplified Idiots: The Angry Place
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • November 29, 2012 @ 2:19am
I have written a lot of material about things I've hated. The reaction has been hit or miss.
Amplified Idiots: The Interrogative Comic
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • January 6, 2011 @ 3:35pm
Have you ever read the book 'The Interrogative Mood' by Padgett Powell? Would you be interested to read it if I told you that the book's main claim to fame is that every single sentence in it is a question? Would you believe me if I told you that it is really quite
Amplified Idiots: How To Stop Enjoying Open Mic Comedy Before It's Too Late
Posted by: J.D. Renaud • December 16, 2010 @ 2:19pm
I mark every show I play on my calendar. The year is not yet over, but I counted this year's total the other day out of curiosity. Fear not though, loyal reader. I will not pester you with the details of my public displays of mediocrity. Saying the number here would only be masturbatory on my part. Not only that, but the worst kind of masturbatory.
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