Archive for the 'Comedy' Category



17
Mar

Buzzkill courtesy of The Dept. of Transporation

I was enjoying a beverage and feeling good after a fun set at the always entertaining Triclops show. And then Mary E. Peters decided to show up and play booze Nazi.  "1 icy road?"  You need to get some region-specific posters, USDOT. 

All this  is gonna do is make someone want a Black & Tan. 

 

 

31
Jan

Jordan, Jesse Go!

 

I sat in with America’s Radio Sweetheart and the Boy Detective for an episode of Jordan, Jesse Go!  I learned the following things:

1.  Nerds party harder than you think.

2.  Anti-oxidants aren’t anyting. 

3.  Cocoa loves me.

Take a wisten. (c) Buckwheat

 

28
Jan

Spreading it around

The good folks over at Whip It Out Comedy have seen fit to allow my words to sully another place in the blogosphere.  My first two posts are here and here.

Bonus video footage that won’t make sense until you click on the first link:

 

 

 

04
Dec

I was on the fence about “Walk Hard”

Notice I said was. 

18
Oct

When Larry met Andy

Extra Enthusiasm

27
Aug

Stand-Up Spotlight @ UCB

Stand-Up Spotlight

UCBTLA is proud to present an evening of stand up from some of LA’s best up and coming comedians: Wyatt Cenac and Ian Edwards.

Wyatt Cenac is a comedian who used to write for King of the Hill, but he’s done a bunch more stuff you’ve probably never seen or will never see. He did anonymous punch up work for Blades of Glory which maybe you saw that. But he also punched up a shitty Alvin & the Chipmunks video game for the PSP which you’ll probably never play. Remember the Midnightly News? It was a Daily Show knock-off, where Wyatt got to hang out at white supremacist Tom Metzger’s house. Remember it now? You shouldn’t. It never aired. Wyatt was a bouncer at a bar, but you probably never noticed when he tried to throw you out. He has a deal with SuperDeluxe.com, but it’s “on ice for the moment.” So who knows when that will see the light of day. He’s also in a pilot for HBO with Kanye West… maybe you’ll get to see that. But don’t hold your breath.

Ian Edwards was born in England and has lived in Jamaica, New York, and California. When he was 21, he stopped working the drive thru at Burger King to try his hand at comedy. Since then he’s appeared on Def Comedy Jam (twice), Show Time at the Apollo, Comedy Central and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He’s written for Saturday Night Live, the Lyricist Lounge show on MTV, The Boondocks for the Cartoon Network and was a cast member on Punk’d.


UCB Stand Up Spotlight: Ian Edwards & Wyatt Cenac
Friday Aug 31 @ 9:30 PM
Upright Citizens Brigade
5919 Franklin Ave (90028)

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23
Aug

Calavera Comedy this Friday

Calavera

20
Aug

The Negro Community Frowns Upon Your Shenanigans

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I don’t know what these folks are pissed about, but woe unto the person who is the subject of their ire. There is so much comedy in this picture.

  • The skeptical eyebrow of the man at the podium.
  • The “back of the bus” glare from the man to his immediate left. (Full disclosure, comedian Ed Salazar came up with that gem when I first saw this image this weekend.)
  • Next to him is the Black Michael Chertoff.
  • Followed by a man who appears to have some sort of min-Jheri curl. If that is the case, the seriousness of this press conference is, of course, rendered moot.
  • Immediately to the speaker’s right is Exhibit A for the argument against casual Fridays. This is an occurrence that I refer to as mock neck madness; a nod to the alarming number of college basketball coaches who eschew the traditional shirt and tie for this abomination.
  • Token woman up front so each of these men can come home to a decent meal every night without hearing shit from their wives.
  • Some guy who didn’t get the “Navy blue suit” memo.
  • Behind him is the person with their eyes closed that is required by law anytime you take a photograph of more than 4 people.
  • The White guy in the back…keeping an eye on their shenanigans.

I fucking love the internet.


10
Aug

Gilbert Arenas: Asshole

A week or so ago, Gilbert Arenas posted an observation about shark attacks on his blog. The crux of the post was that there are no such things as shark attacks because they all happen in the water, which is the shark’s domain. Initially, everyone remarked about how it was kind of an old premise that he was trying to pass off as a new observation. Turns out, it’s worse than that. Arenas was finally forced to admit that he stole the joke from comedian Ian Edwards. Arenas is a smart guy, so I was expecting a candid, honest mea culpa. Instead, here’s what Agent Zero had to say.

Listen, nobody even heard of Ian Edwards before me. He’s no Chris Rock. I helped him become famous. Now everybody is going to YouTube and looking him up.

The joke was worth about $7 when I heard it, now that I’ve used it’s probably worth a little bit more. I’ll sell it back to him for $7.78. Seventy-eight cents, Ian, you can put that in a royalties check made out to me.

Puffy and Ashanti made careers out of stealing other people’s beats. This is America, the land of the reused.

If you think about it, nothing is original. Every joke has been retold at some point. What I did was recycle a new joke instead of waiting for it to get old. It was too funny not to. I mean, at least I picked a good joke, right? It’s not like it was some lame, “Yo momma” joke.

It’s one thing to steal someone else’s joke. (And that’s what you did, Gilbert. You stole it.) It’s an entirely different level of assholery to then defend said thievery with this lame explanation.

Here’s Ian Edwards performing that very bit on Conan.

19
Jul

The SoftLightes want to take you to prom

Honestly…my one and only prom experience was so awful, I don’t even like thinking about it. There’s no way I’d get gussied up for this, but if I wasn’t performing twice this Saturday, I would definitely be in the house.

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Usually the wife and I are all over any chance to see The SoftLightes. But for me to go I would have to sandwich it in between doing a semi-corporate gig in Playa Del Rey and then doing a set at The Tomorrow Show.

It’s a shame. This one looks like it might get out of hand.




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