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AnonymRegistriert seit: 01.01.1970
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Es gibt etwas neues von Todd Barry, „The Crowd Work Tour“, erhältlich für 5$ auf Louis CKs Homepage. 70 Minuten, ziemlich klasse:
Hello. This is Louis CK again. I’m writing to let you know about a new funny thing that is available on my site, louisck.com. It’s called „Todd Barry the Crowd Work Tour“. I’m not in it. Todd is. This is the first thing produced by my site and sold there for another comedian. It’s 5 dollars as always. and it’s REALLY GODDAMN GOOD. Here’s some things about it:
Todd Barry is a great comedian. He has always been one of my favorites. There is no one out there like him. There never has been. He’s hysterically funny. I’ve known Todd for about 20 years.
About a year ago, Todd had this idea, to do a tour where all he would do on stage is „crowd work“ which means casually engaging members of the audience in conversation and culling that for possible laughs and enlightenment. This is something many comedians have done throughout history, to pepper their mostly planned shows with a few moments of improvisational freshness and some sense of being in the moment and in the place instead of just reciting a show. Some comedians are good at it, some aren’t (I’m not). Some are great at it. Todd is great at it. Sometimes Todd comes with me on tour and when we do shows together, I always have the houselights completely down but he has them about halfway up so that he can see who is out there and engage them.Crowd work has a special feeling to it because you know the comedian has gone off their script, off their own brain insides, and reached out without knowing how it might turn out. It’s a high wire act. Of course there are comedians who have rote and hackneyed ways to make this work, like a cheap magician. „where you from? Oh okay I’ll talk slower then.“ But a great crowd work comedian just opens his or her mind up and takes in information and let’s their curious and funny nature process the conversation in an inspiring, illuminating and hilarious way. It’s something I’ve always loved watching Todd do through the years.
So, Todd’s idea was to do a show that is all crowd work. No „jokes“. No set material. Just go up there and start talking to whoever is willing and see what happens. It has a natural tension to it because Any second, the show could just go dry. But it never does with Todd.
Todd did a Crowd Work tour and it was a success. So he had the idea to do another one and film it, to create a standup special. I thought it was a great idea so I offered to produce it for him and to provide it on my site. We got Lance Bangs to direct it. Lance is a really great guy. If any of you have seen the Jackass movies, you’ve probably seen poor Lance throwing up while holding a camera.So what we did was put Todd on the road. He started in San Diego and worked his way up the coast to Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and Anchorage Alaska. Lance filmed all the shows and some of the travel in between and Todd worked with Gina Sansom, the editor (who did a great job), and put it together.
The result of all this is a really funny and compelling show. I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t think there is anything like it. It’s not just a standup special with a guy on a big stage doing his well honed hour. In this show, you’re watching a master at work with no material and it’s just great. Really great. Every city he worked in changes the color of each performance because the crowd is the show and each crowd comes from a different metropolitan culture. You learn things from this show like what are people doing for a living these days. What are the hours of a professional tweeter? How much does a pipe layer in Alaska drink? Todd takes all of these people’s lives and plays with them with his unique rhythm and great mind.
Anyway, you really really really should go to louisck.com and buy this show. It’s five dollars. It’s funny as shit. And shit is really really funny.
Thank you for your time. Oh, also, I’m hosting Saturday Night Live again on March 29th. Please watch.
Louis CK
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.Um mal wieder etwas zu posten: Patton Oswalt „Weight Watchers“
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
AnonymRegistriert seit: 01.01.1970
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Klassischer Anfang!
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.„You could almost call it weather.“
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
AnonymRegistriert seit: 01.01.1970
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Das (Stand-Up-)Jahr fängt gut an!
Zuerst Kyle Kinanes drittes Special, “I Liked His Old Stuff Better“:
…und heute ist Louis CKs neues Special “Live at The Comedy Store“ erschienen.
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Gleich bestellt, danke!
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.Bin auch schon am laden.
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AnonymRegistriert seit: 01.01.1970
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„‚Cause I know what girl rats need.“
Mal wieder großartig.
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AnonymRegistriert seit: 01.01.1970
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Hier übrigens der Text von Louis aus der E-Mail zum Special:
Hello. So below are my messy thoughts about my new special „Louis CK live at the Comedy Store“ available here https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store for 5 dollars, all over the world…
So this is my sixth hour-long standup special. The truth is, I really love making these. I skipped doing one last year and I missed it. This one is different from the recent others. For one thing, it was shot in a nightclub instead of a theater. I love doing the theater shows. When I was a kid, my favorite thing in the world was Richard Pryor’s concert films. The idea of being a comedian and doing a „concert“ was a real goal for me. Performing in a theater expands your material and opens you up as a performer. The pressure of playing to thousands of people, I found, always makes you better. And every concert hall I’ve played has made me feel like I’m getting a whiff of that city or town’s history. The whole thing can be very exhilarating.
But Nightclubs, comedy clubs, is where comedy is born and where comedy, standup comedy, truly lives. Going back to Abraham Lincoln, who was probably America’s first comedian, Americans have enjoyed gathering at night in small packed (and once smokey) rooms, drinking themselves a bit numb and listening to each other say wicked, crazy, silly, wrongful, delightful, upside-down, careless, offensive, disgusting, whimsical things. Sometimes in long-winded, red faced hyperbole, sometimes in carefully crafted circular, intentionally false and misleading argument. Sometimes in well-chiseled perfectly timed trickery of verbiage. Pun-poetry. One line, one off, half thoughts. Half truths. Non-truths. Broad and hilariously wrongful generalizations, exaggerated prejudices and criticism of nothing and everything while a couple over here shares a pitcher of sangria, this table of guys order round after round of beers. These women over here are having vodka and cranberry. This guy drinks club soda and sits alone. He actually came for the comedy. It’s a club. It’s a bar. It’s late at night. No one here is being responsible. These are the things we do when we are DONE working and being citizens. We go to a comedy club and pay a bit of money to laugh harder than we ever do anywhere else.
That is the standup comedy that I’ve been doing for almost thirty years. I have been working theater (and now arena) stages for the last nine of those thirty years but the amount of hours I’ve spent on a club stage outnumber the theater stage hours by more than I can figure.
I’ve been on comedy club stages probably more than I’ve stood on any other kind of spot in my entire life. I started in the Boston comedy scene, on ground that had been laid by great comedians like Steve Sweeney, Steven Wright, Barry Crimmins, Ron Lynch, Kevin Meany, Don Gavin, back in 1985 when I was 18 years old. I skipped college (still regret it), worked shitty jobs (will never regret that) and spent every single night at any comedy club in Boston I could finagle my way into. I would watch every single comedian and I would BEG to get on stage.
In 1989 I moved to New York. I discovered a bursting comedy club scene, where you could literally do 8 shows on a saturday night. (I remember Ray Romano held the record at 9 shows).
It was a glorious time for standup comedy clubs. Great comics everywhere. Colin Quinn. Mike Sweeney. Joy Behar. John Stewart. Charlie Barnett. Ray Romano. Dave Chapelle. Chris Rock. Brett Butler. Brian Regan.
All working out every night in clubs all over the city. There was the Improv on 44th street. On 1st Avenue, Catch a Rising Star and around the corner on 2nd ave, the Comic Strip (still there). Carolines was on the Seaport then. And in the Village we had the Comedy Cellar (still there), the Boston Comedy Club and the Village Gate.
I spent my early twenties bouncing from one stage to the other, from 8pm till about 4am, when Dave Attell, Kevin Brennan, Nick DiPaolo and I would head to a diner and eat breakfast.
The money was terrible. About ten dollars per show on the weeknights, fifty a show on the weekends. So every other week you had to leave town and work in another city. You’d go live in Atlanta, Columbus, Phoenix, Tampa, for a week. Most clubs would put you up in a condo behind the club and you’d work the whole week. Tuesday thru Sunday, two shows Friday, three shows Saturday. You could make about 700 a week as an opening act. A good headliner might make 2500 or 3,000 but that was rare. I worked in comedy clubs all over the country and I think I actually remember every single club. My favorite clubs were the smelly little beer soaked places with dim lighting and low ceilings. Go Bananas in Cincinnati. The Brokerage in Long Island (still there) Penguins in Cedar Rapids. The Comedy Underground in Seattle.
Then there were chain comedy clubs that were always too antiseptic and suburban. Some of them were literally inside of a mall next to a sunglass hut. The Improvs, the Funny Bones.
There were some comedy clubs around the country that were legendary. That lasted out the death of comedy in the 90s. The independent and truly great rooms where you can still smell the cigarette smoke exhaled by Bill Hicks. The Acme in Minneapolis. The Punchline in Atlanta. The Punchline (not related) in San Francisco. Cobbs in San Fran. The Laff Stop in Houston. Zanies in Chicago. Charlie Goodnights in Raleigh. The Comedy Works in Denver. These were the Meccas. When you could get a week at Acme, you know you could continue having the will to do this shit for another few months. A week at the Punchline in San Fran could get you through the next week at Harvey’s in Portland.
There were club owners that were part of Comedy History. Who knew how to shape comedy. Mark Babbit, Lewis Lee, Manny Dworman, Lucien Hold, Silver Friedman, Bud Friedman, Ron Osborne, others.I spent all of my mid to late 20s and thirties working out in places like these.
Later when I moved to Los Angeles, I discovered a scene out there that was creative and fun and also steeped in show business history. You could see Norm Macdonald. Charles Fleicher. Robert Schimmel.
In LA they have coffee houses and very cool rooms like Largo, where you can bring your notebook on stage and try just about anything.
People like Andy Kindler, Kathy Griffin, Patton Oswalt, Blaine Capatch, Craig Anton, Laura Kightlinger did outrageous stuff in those rooms.
I would sometimes go on stage at places like Mbar or Largo and come out with twenty minutes of new material, cheered on by the young, open and adaptive crowds of the „alternative“ scene. But I never believed those jokes until I took them to the Improv, where the more average and basic character of the audience would cut the new material down to about three jokes.
And then there was the Comedy Store. I would take the last three remaining jokes to the store on Sunset. Maybe ONE of those would get a chuckle. And that joke, I knew, was the true treasure of the night.
I have always found the Comedy Store to be the most intimidating club of my life. It is what I thought comedy clubs to be when I listened to Lenny Bruce records as a kid. The black vinyl couches and chairs, the red formica stage. Andrew Dice Clay on stage playing to fifteen people in open defiance of their hatred and funny as hell. The Comedy Store is really show biz. As in Milton Berle with his bow tie undone around his neck show business. Mop your brow and say „tough crowd“ show business. A guy being beaten up in the parking lot show business. The Comedy Store is where Pryor cut his teeth. Letterman fought to get spots there. George Carlin. Eddie Murphy. Marc Maron told me stories about living in the apartment behind the Store and how Sam Kinison pissed on his bed one night. This is the Comedy Store. The wonderful dark side of comedy.
The Comedy Store is the only club in the country that NEVER passed me when I auditioned. I auditioned at many clubs where I didn’t pass but I always went back and finally did pass. The Comedy Store NEVER passed me. I just wasn’t right for them. I didn’t start working there until I became well known enough to circumvent the audition process. Until I became one of those guys who can just walk into a nightclub and go on stage.
So why did I shoot my new special in this place? I don’t know. Maybe because, after thirty years of doing comedy, the most exciting feeling for me is going on stage, not entirely sure it’s going to go well. To this day, when I work at the Store, I feel there’s a one in three chance I might bomb. Like bomb hard. To a guy my age who has been doing it this long, that is exciting. So over the last tour I did this year, I started doing shows at the Comedy Store „Main room“ to feel it out. The staff of the club is excellent and they really know how to run a traditional room. I loved working with them. Pauly Shore and his family were very gracious when we approached them about shooting my special there.
I really feel truly privileged to have shot this special on that stage.
Okay I didn’t mean to write such a long thing about comedy clubs. The point is I prepared the material for this special on club stages. I went to the Cellar here in New York, and their new club, The Village Underground, about ten times a week with the occasional trip uptown to Gotham Comedy Club and „The Stand“ on third avenue. I went out to LA to put that spin on it, working Largo, the Improv and finally the Comedy Store, hammering this stuff together in front of late night comedy club audiences. So it only seemed right to shoot it that way.
That’s all. I hope you enjoy the special. Please see the movie „Boyhood“. It’s a great piece of filmmmaking and even literature. And take your kids to see „Into The Woods“ It teaches the greatest lesson you could teach a kid: If you are paying attention, life is very confusing.
Thanks.
Louis CK
ps. I guess I didn’t have to cancel the show at MSG tonight. I don’t blame the mayor. That storm was a monster. We got lucky. When you consider the action taken by the government of entire north east, they got it right. To expect accuracy from each individual mayor is just too much.
For us in New York and us in my house and us at MSG it was overblown. But if you expand that „us“ to everyone in the path is the storm, they were spot on. My family in Boston is part of us for me. So that’s how I look at it.--
Yep, das hat er geschrieben, den Tonfall kennt man. Brett Butler und Ray Romano waren mir nur von schlechten Comedy-Serien bekannt, aber Youtube sagt, sie wären witzig.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.lathoBrett Butler und Ray Romano waren mir nur von schlechten Comedy-Serien bekannt […]
Wenn mich Bob Saget eines gelehrt hat, dann dass man das nicht als Maßstab herziehen kann.
Aber Danke auch für den Text. Das Special werde ich morgen genießen.
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Ich konnte nicht warten: großartig, indeed! Gefällt mir besser als die letzten zwei Specials. Allein der Anfang:
„You guys are just dicks in there!“
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.Um mal etwas nostalgisch zu werden: vor (gut) 10 Jahren tobte der Irak-Krieg.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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