A Battle For The Ages
May 15, 2008 · Print This Article
The good news is Brian recorded one of the best interviews in the history of the show. The bad news is, he promptly fucked it up. Luckily the faithful BTB listeners were there to bail him out.
Topics on the day include overactive imaginations, whether comedy matures with age, how 1 comic can leave a ripple effect for all of those that follow, internet dickheads revisited, and heroin addict puppets. You want us to go to a park?
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Speaking of puppets (but not ven acts) one of the funniest creations I’ve seen is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Is he really that funny as he is on the youtubes or are they just the best of a medicore bunch? If you know what I mean!
Also B-mo, don;t worry about the interview. It’s kinda like losing your keys and think ‘I just fucking had them. Where the fuck are they?’
I enjoy the interviews on BTB, what about a section with just the interviews you’ve done on BTB so we can go straight to them? Not that I don’t enjoy your dulcet tones going solo!
Triumph to me is one of those gimmicks that wore thin after a while. The premise is great, an old time insult comic, who just happens to be a do with a bow tie and cigar. I remember the first time I saw him was on Conan interviewing the people in line at the Star Wars premier, and I almost pissed myself laughing. Now I have to change the channel before he says, “For me to poop on”!
Yeah, It hought that might be the case the star wars and other stuff on youtube is hilarious but limited….theres not too much stuff floating around which i would say is the issue for ALL acts with a gimmick can wear thin. Otto and George is hilarious but I haven’t seen him with a large variety of bits.
And isn’t it funny how stick a puppet on someone’s hand and you get away with murder! ??
BTW I’m watching LCS (an old one I think) with Lavell Crawford. Is he speaking english? Is this just part of the joke? The crowd seem to like it but I don’t know what the fuck he’s saying! Let me guess…..a lot of fat jokes?
And is Amy Schumer really that cute? Or is it just my irish roots broody for catholic girls?
Otto and George perform around where I am–New Jersey & Philadelphia metro area. And Brian, your stories only make me want to open for him even more.
Carlos Mencia is supposed to be funny? That clip might have been the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. At least the Aristophanes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes) bit might possibly have the excuse that something was lost in translation. (Or that it was funnier 2400 years ago.)
Didn’t Letterman have a guy with a puppet on last night? (My stupid DVR didn’t catch it.)
I JUST MET GEORGE CARLIN!!!
Wow. I’m just in fucking awe and had to tell someone. Rob Paravonian is his opening act and let me hang backstage. I said three words to George and still managed to sound like an ass.
I am still in some weird form of awe though. What do you say to a guy like that when you meet him for 2 minutes? My brain went scrambled and I became a star-struck fan. I wish I had the balls to ask for a picture but I just stared with my jaw on the ground.
Great show Brian. I’m listening to it now.
Sina, been there done that…..afterwards you’re always like ‘Fuck, I should have said this!’
That’s awesome dude, I’m sure you’ll get oppourtunities to meet the biggies in the future!
That’s awesome Sina. I stalked Carlin a few times as he works in Vegas once a month, but never got a chance to meet him. I heard that he’s really cool to young comics, did you talk stand up with him at all?
I had a chance to work and hang out with Gaffigan and Attel a few times and was pretty awestruck. I remember trying to play it cool, but I’m pretty sure Dave caught me staring at him in an ultra creepy way.
thing is Brian, attell was probably looking creepy anyway. I was listening to an interview with Kevin Brennan on Comical Radio who talks about his falling out with Attell. He rates him high as a comic but calls him a ‘complete moron’ in real life; total alcoholic and really annoying in calling his friends 15 times a day leaving long rambling msgs on the phone………
I never saw that coming(!)
I ambushed Bill Bailey in Edinburgh once and got a great photo…..he was cool despite my forwardness!
The most famous person I’ve ever met was politician and ex-opposition Leader William Hague outside my local supermarket. Knew exactly what to say to him!
i can relate SIna, i once met Lewis Black after the show and he talked to me for like three minutes therefore holding up the line, he went out of his way to talk to me after i mentioned that i was an amatuer stand up. However i was so awestruck that i dont even think i formed coherent sentances.
I didn’t get to really say much to him. There were three of us in the room and he was just talking to Rob about how he finally got to play his Pachelbel Rant in an actual concert hall (I’m guessing it was a conversation they’d had in the past) and then asked him if he got a chance to listen to this jazz thing that he burned for him. Then he noticed me and my friend just sitting there staring at him like he was God so he reached over and shook our hands.
My hands were drenched in sweat and I’d been sick with some kind of bronchitis for a couple weeks so I pulled my hand away before shaking his and told him I didn’t want to make him sick. He gave me a weird look and said “okay and thanks.” And then he said he was going to go get ready for the show and walked away. He was really nice though. Very soft spoken.
Sina.
Well, I guess it was inevitable. NBC is bringing back another season of Last Comic Standing, or so my Tivo has informed me by putting it in my queue for next week. Apparently, it premieres Thursday night at 9:30 EDT. The description shows three hosts for this season: Steve Schirripa, Fred Willard and Richard Belzer.
I don’t know why, but I feel incredibly confident this season will suck even more than the last three.
The whole LCS thing is awful for me….for all the reasons discussed on the show.
For me I’d like to know why comics still audition for it. Would the comics on this board still audition? For exposure? For the money? For just extra stage time?
I guess what I’m really asking is…..is all the crap that you have to go through in auditioning worth it?
Great show - especially seeing how quickly it had to be put together after the Greg Dean boo-boo.
Regarding at what age it’s best to start doing comedy, I didn’t perform my first gig until I was 30. I don’t think i could’ve gone near a microphone if i had been my insecure neurotic 20 year old self, let alone know what the hell to talk about. Some of the awful early gigs I did would’ve put my younger off performing stand-up for life, plus as someone else said, when you get to 30 you have a better world view and more subjects to talk about.
Part of me wishes I’d started when I was 25, but then I was too busying staying up all night partying and have having a fantasic time, so no regrets in starting stand-up a little late for me, really.
If I am on this season of LCS, it will be dressed as a bunny. I may be too creepy for NBC, but I’ll tell you one thing I learned from the process: Bill Bellamy is a damned handsome man. No shit.
Handsomeness aside, it would be much more exciting to meet George Carlin. Congrats Sina!
Any of you guys like Nina Conti and her puppet?
She has a pretty cool act, and is cute, which always helps. I think that’s why I liked Arj Barker, cause I’d really like to pone that cute little bastard. Even though she uses the same 5 mins for all her tv work… which seems to be a cool way to keep your shit fresh if you aren’t generating all that material?
is she the one with the foul mouthed monkey? I f so i think she won an awrd recently with kristen schall from the FOTC show.
also, quick thing. the other night i was up late and flipping around Showtime looking for some kind of porn when i ran across what looked like a stand up special by a guy named John Waters. i wasnt familiar with him so i googeled him and it turns out hes a filmaker. this is a sort of trend ive seen lately with him, kevin smith, Ect. obviously this isnt stand up, but what exactly is it.
Our local impressionist made it on the show this year. Check him out and make your own judgments.
http://www.myspace.com/marcuscomedy
He wins every fucking comedy contest he enters so I’m expecting him to go far in this thing. He’s only been doing comedy for like 2 or 3 years.
One of those years he’s been doing mostly his own material.
Sina.
Patrick Aka Smiley,
I think John Waters and Kevin Smith are drawn to stand-up as an uber-low-overhead way to write and direct original material. John Waters especially is an amazing filmmaker– if you like his stand-up at all you should check out his movies. They’re uneven but insane. Much more interesting than Kevin Smith, who has this awful compulsion to warm hearts. Men can be such pussies like that.
Sina,
Marcus has a really great look. He will do well on LCS.
Hey Brian.
Just wanted to know if you’ve had any joy recovering the Greg Dean interview yet? ( so want to hear the 2 of you debating together..)
By the way - do you recall that Texan guy called Steve Roye who pioneered something dodgy called The Killer Comedy Stand Up System which i mentioned on the Comedy Book podcast ep of BTB ?
I’ve just found out he’s now trying to sell some new NLP bullshit product on his website called the Free Mind Mapping Software Program. (!)
Check this out:
” This particular type of software has a wide range of applications for a number of creative processes for a variety of endeavor = not JUST stand-up comedy or entertainment related activities….”(?)
It’s like even HE has given up the stand-up comedy part of his whole snakeoil operation.
How weird is that?
go here for the link..
http://comedyuniversity.com/freemind/
..And i’d really like to hear interview this huckster about comedy sometime…..
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