I’ve updated the Seattle Comedy Resources page to include some more local comedians, including Ron Placone, Diana Hassenger, and Robo the robot comedian — that’s right, the robots are even taking our stand-up comedy jobs.
Ron also has a blog called Thoughts, Rants, and Coffee that he updates fairly frequently. Check out this great post about [...]
My friend and fellow comedian Devin Badoo says that stand-up comedy shows are basically “damaged male beauty pageants.” It’s a clever joke, and he’s absolutely right—if by beauty he means inner beauty. And if by inner beauty he means hateful misanthropes.
My point is, comedians are a lot like rock stars, minus all the groupie sex [...]
This question comes up all the time. Other comics like to gauge how old you are in comedy years—which are like dog years, with even more crotch-sniffing—while bookers and club owners use it as a very rough approximation of your experience level.
Dipping a toe in: your first few open micsare unlikely to be as pleasant [...]
This is how many calories youburn running a marathon.
See this bad boy? It just “won” a Men’s Health poll of the worst foods in America:
Baskin Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake
2,600 calories
135 g fat (59 g saturated fat)
263 g sugars
1,700 mg sodium
2600 calories. That’s as much as ten candy bars. No wonder the rest of the [...]
I felt like I had a pretty good set at Laughs Comedy Spot last night. One of the best thing about Laughs is that they don’t restrict the type of content that comics can perform, and I had a new bit that I wanted to try out that’s pretty damn blue1. So I dropped it [...]
