So this is what it sounds like when doves cry…
Topics on the day include dressing for success, some insight into Brian’s compulsion to do stand up, the third installment of the comedy workshop with Tony, trailer mazes, looking into your own soulless eyes, dick checks, trucking tarps and finding Nemo in unlikely places. You wanna help me with this?
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Just what podcasting needs….MORE Tony.
Tony: The used car angle…
“I don’t know, she’s got a bigger trunk than I need, and the tail pipe looks rusty. Are the air bags original? Can I get a deodorizer thrown in? A can of New Whore Smell…”
You could easily beat it to death, too, but I think there’s some good stuff to mine in that.
Anyway, today February 9 is the fifth year anniversary of my first open mike. I’ll celebrate like every comic does, by checking my phone every three minutes while staring at my own website.
Piling on the used car stuff: “Hey, there’s a ding on that one.”
And…that’s why you wait to hear the entire podcast before posting.
What happens if you fail a dick check? Besides total humiliation are you kicked out of a back door or do they walk you back to your friends? Maybe your friend didn’t bail out at the last second but failed the dick check?
I thought Tony painted an especially vivid picture of the dick check, especially when the girl shone a lamp at his tackle.
For some reason I visualized Tony’s poor dick as Dustin Hoffman being interrogated/tortured in the dentists chair in Marathon Man. I was actually expecting Laurence Olivier to appear and ask in a bad Nazi accent “IS IT SAFE ?! ”
Being spooked by seeing the prostitute’s Finding Nemo dvd was hilarious as well. Would it be too punny to have expected to see a Free Willy dvd instead?
p.s.
regarding the dick check – what with Tony admitting to having a small willy, maybe he could say how bad enough it is having a stranger medically inspect your privates for signs of disease, but imagine the blow to self-esteem when they produce their own microscope
Hello faithful, and oh so understanding, listeners. There is no show this week in observance of whatever holiday you’re ok with a show being skipped over. Looking forward to hanging out again next Tuesday. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s cool! Although I was really looking forward to it this week.
Lean Tuesday.
Anyway, Brian, you’ve probably come across this, but I posted a copy of Bill Hicks’ Principles of Comedy that he allegedly typed up and hung in a greenroom somewhere. Maybe worth discussing?
http://www.dantessitore.com/2010/02/bill-hicks-principles-of-comedy.html
I’m not a big Hicks fan, but I love those Principles of Comedy. I’d never seen them, but they’re all fantastic.
They have the Hicks thing posted up in the green room at the Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta (http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w80/upname33/HicksPrinciples.jpg). I don’t know where they got it from originally though.
Apropos of nothing, I got to work with Jay Black over the weekend in Rhode Island. Funny dude and great guy as well.
Guess they found someone to play Pryor…
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/02/22/10563/pryor_arrangement
I’ll give the dude the benefit of the doubt, but having a Wayans brother play Richard Pryor feels like having Rob Schneider play Bill Hicks.
He’s being kind when calling his films “The stupidest movies ever.”
They literally picked the least talented Wayans. I’m sure they have a plumber in the family that could do better. This guy was the driving force behind Homeboys in Outer Space! I would say I will keep an open mind, but clearly that ship has sailed.
They literally picked the least talented Wayans. I’m sure they have a plumber in the family that could do better. This guy was the driving force behind Homeboys in Outer Space! I would say I will keep an open mind, but clearly that ship has sailed.
I got confused about which is the current blog post. sorry to be repetative.
Back when the conversation was about doing cover-comedy I mentioned this video, but most of the links were dead… here’s one that works (for now)…
http://headlinermagazine.blogspot.com/2008/04/chris-rock-vs-steven-wright.html
Contests – I think the way to make it fair is to give everybody in the audience two votes… that way they vote for their friend and the best comic.
Just my $.02
—- D
For our contest last June, we had everyone in the audience vote for three comics. If they voted for any more or fewer, their votes were thrown away. That kept it objective but still gave the comics incentive to bring people out.
I never listen to BTB, but I’m sure Tony is equally as funny on this podcast as he is on TAI. With that said, I don’t find Tony terribly funny on TAI.
Tony, I have a suggestion for something you could add to the bit. When you’re talking about how the whore left for the period of time after the dick check, maybe add something like “Clearly after seeing my clawhand and small penis she must’ve had to go dial up her dealer to score some meth to be able to come back and do the act. She was probably hoping that I was at least equipped like a Black Rhino so she could get something out of it, but when she saw that I just had a vienna sausage down there she must have ran out for some blow.”
Just a suggestion….