July 2012
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my life goal is to buy out an entire concert and then the artist will come on stage so dramatically and it will just be me sitting there like
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This is a fight between comedians and bloggers, which just… hyperbole and...
– Louis CK re: the Daniel Tosh rape joke scandal (via huffpostcomedy)
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Tough choice for a comedian
I can’t go on another date with this girl because I like the jokes I started telling about her on stage more than I like her as a person.
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How to Make a Rape Joke →
bigbuttsowhat:
Read this article from jezebel.com about the Daniel Tosh thing and what makes a rape joke so horrible.
Here is the best line in this article to me, ”If you’re a comic performing to a reasonably full room, there’s a pretty good chance that at least one person in the audience has been sexually assaulted. If you didn’t know that, fine, now you do. Congrats. So when you make a joke...
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Let's talk about the Daniel Tosh thing.
Hi followers. I’m sure you’ve all read about the Daniel Tosh incident in which he made a joke about rape towards an audience member. Here is the post that started it. Soon afterwards, he apologized on Twitter here. According to the owner of the Laugh Factory, they offered the girl free tickets and she took them. Also, Tosh’s set ended with a standing ovation from the remaining...
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The Onion A.V. Club interview - Mitch Hedberg
O: Were you using your one-liner style from the beginning?
MH: Not really. I mean, I was, but then they wouldn’t laugh at it, so I would add more lines, and before you know it, there were many, many lines in the joke. The one-liner style, that came because I’m not a good storyteller. I would add on to a concept that I thought was funny but was getting no laughs, and I’d get more...
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Mitch Hedberg Notebooks To Be Released
thecomedybureau:
Lynn Shawcroft who survives Mitch Hedberg and curates MitchHedberg.net says, “I have over 30 Hedberg notebooks. I guess it’s about time to share.” However that happens, the world cannot wait.
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Stand-up Comedy 101 for babies & toddlers
also for adults.
I recently tried giving advice to a first-time comedian and this is what I thought to say:
First of all, just do it. Write and perform as often as you can and more. (That’s the advice that I hear most often from professionals)
But I’d like to add something that I think helped me out a lot, too. Expose yourself to the world of comedy by listening to comedy podcasts...