13 posts tagged “comedy”
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08/08/09 Hosting LIVE AT GOTHAM NY
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08/10/09 Benson Interruption NY 08/14/09 Del Close Marathon NY 08/15/09 Del Close Marathon NY 08/20/09 Go Bananas* Cincinatti OH 08/21/09 Go Bananas* Cincinatti OH 08/22/09 Go Bananas* Cincinatti OH 08/23/09 Go Bananas* Cincinatti OH 08/27/09 Dr. Grins* Grand Rapids MI 08/28/09 Dr. Grins* Grand Rapids MI 08/29/09 Dr. Grins* Grand Rapids MI 09/05/09 THE BENSON INTERRUPTION Seattle WA 09/06/09 Benson Interruption Seattle WA 09/07/09 Benson Interruption Seattle WA 09/10/09 Wareham Opera House* Manhattan KS 09/16/09 Madrid Theater** Canoga Park CA 09/24/09 Texas Tech* Lubbock TX 09/25/09 McKinney Performing Arts Cente* McKinney TX 09/26/09 La Zona Rosa* Austin TX 09/27/09 Wise Guys* Ogden/Salt Lake City UT 10/01/09 Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel * Providence RI 10/02/09 Portland ME* 10/03/09 Higher Ground Lounge* Burlington VT 10/04/09 Ann Arbor MI* 10/05/09 ??????????? MT* 10/06/09 Larimer Lounge* Denver CO 10/07/09 The El Rey Theatre* Albuquerque NM 10/08/09 Las Vegas NV* 10/09/09 The Mission Theater* Portland OR 10/10/09 Seattle WA* 10/11/09 ????????? AK* 10/12/09 The Punchline* San Francisco CA 10/13/09 Honolulu HI* 10/22/09 Acme Comedy Club* Minneapolis MN 10/28/09 Ohio State University* Columbus OH 11/12/09 Funny Bone Bloomington IN 11/13/09 Funny Bone Bloomington IN 11/14/09 Funny Bone Bloomington IN 11/19/09 Hyenas* Dallas TX 11/20/09 Hyenas* Dallas TX 11/21/09 Hyenas* Dallas TX * with Graham Elwood ** with Dan Garbiel
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If you enjoy slacker, toilet, and pot humor, then you're Benson's demographic. His gimmick of using pot (previously starring in Marijuana-Logues and Super High Me) is actually pretty funny when he jokes about them, but they only appear briefly at the beginning with his introduction. One of the funnier joke was when he claimed that he signed on to do "Best Week Ever" because he misread it as "Best Weed Ever".
As for Super High Me, movie where he does the exact same thing as Super Sized Me, only with weed, he said he doesn't mind that people download his movies. The joke is that some guy uploaded the whole thing in 10 minutes sections on youtube.
Speaking of movies, I just learned that his other passion is watching movies. He kind of even pimp his I Love Movies Podcast during this live taping. He also devoted a whole segment to his Twitter. While this might sound refreshinging modern, it can also be incredibly dated in a few years when people move on.
My favorite joke is his misunderstanding of a heckler at his show and the Hoover Dam guide who keeps injecting jokes in his guide. Be sure to also stay to the very end with "Bonus Track!", where Benson throws in some material that didn't fit in his set.
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You can get Unbalanced Load on Comedy Central or Amazon. If you're not high, I have noticed that you can find Comedy Central Records' releases at Target and Best Buy stores!
08/04/2009 02:12:02 ♥ vu (
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05/01/09
Memorial Auditorium Fargo ND
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05/02/09 Washington Pavillion Sioux SD 05/03/09 Rushmore Theatre Rapid SD 05/08/09 Schnitzer Hall Portland OR 05/15/09 Little Creek Casino Shelton WA 05/16/09 Sullivan Arena Anchorage AK 05/30/09 Beau Rivage Theatre Biloxi MS 06/05/09 Embassy Theatre Ft. Wayne IN 06/06/09 Adler Theatre Davenport IA 06/12/09 Fox Cities PAC Appleton WI 06/13/09 Crystal Grand Dells WI 07/02/09 Buffalo Thunder Santa Fe NM 07/04/09 Peppermill Hotel Reno NV 07/30/09 S Shore Circus Cohasset MA 07/31/09 Cape Cod Melody Tent Hyannis MA 08/01/09 Newport Yachting Newport RI 08/02/09 Hampton Beach Casino NH 08/07/09 Mahaffey Theatre Petersburg FL 08/08/09 Saenger Theatre Pensacola FL 09/18/09 Mirage Las Vegas NV 09/19/09 Mirage Las Vegas NV 10/03/09 Radio City Music Hall NY 10/04/09 Count Basie Theatre Red Bank NJ 12/05/09 Mirage Las Vegas NV 12/11/09 Mirage Las Vegas NV 12/12/09 Mirage Las Vegas NV
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Let's focus on what's good about White's jokes: he makes a whole lot of sense. Take for instance, his insight on "Don't Shake a Baby" - a joke that states the obvious. Apparently, Apple should pay attention to Ron White - as they didn't know it was a problem until a ton of people reported its "Baby Shaker" software was offensive.
You also get the impression that White is very patriotic, based on many of his military jokes and the fact that he served in the Vietnam War. Again, his observations are quite hilarious, from changing the complicated US color alerts to simply "get a helmet" and "put on the helmet" or selling the Navy's miltary bases to Israel as "ocean front properties".
Many of White's jokes are based on his life's experiences. For instance, his (one of his many, I'm sure) arrest for drug processions for "half an eight of weed".... which he considers is "out of weed". His sex jokes are a bit raunchy, and really not family-friendly. Also, to tell you the turth, his jokes about fat people are really offensive - but if you can't laugh about it, you may want to avoid Ron White altogether.
One of the thing that White does really good, especially on this Behavioral Problems recording is that his wit is top-notch. He made a few verbal errors, like saying "peaches" instead of "pizzas" or "UFO" instead of "USO" or when he forgets the punchline to his unfinished "pedicure" joke. Instead of sounding stupid, he actually makes jokes about his mistake, you just have to hear to know what I'm talking about. The mistake jokes actually sounds like it was all part of the plan, and that's what makes White so good.
White is currently on tour. Many of these shows are double appearances because of the Grammy nominations and Comedy Central are boosting his popularity. If you've just seen Ron White's Behavioral Problems on Comedy Central a few weeks ago, the good news is that you can now pick up the DVD or CD at most retailers or at his live shows. Some perks if you decide to buy it is that the DVD or CD are uncensored, so you can actually hear what Ron is saying.
04/30/2009 21:19:50 ♥ vu ()
♥ tatersalad.com ♥ myspace.com/ron_white
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Just to give you an insight, I normally listen to my comedy albums in the car or on the home stereo as I don't really require to hear every note and pitch of a music album. So I had The Top Part on my car stereo and ended up listening to it for weeks - simply because I was too lazy to take out the CD.
So apparently, Mulaney actually best known for being a cast member on VH1's Best Week Ever. I think being both comedian and actor on VH1 was an easy deal for Mulaney, who proved that he's good at adlibing and improv, as seen on some of his VH1's Best Week Ever clips online.
Currently, Mulaney is one of the writers for Saturday Night Live, and occasionally appears on Late Night television. He seems to love TV, which probably explains his extra long joke on "Law and Order" (but we'll get to that later).
The title of the album is named after his King Solomon's joke, about how Solomon was going to cut a child in half. Of course logic kicks in:
Where I think Mulaney's material fails a little is when he starts talking about goth people and drag queens (note the clumsy transition from baby drunks to San Francisco's 'gayness'). I don't think he's insulting them, but I wouldn't be surprise if someone is offended.Who is this first woman? That's like "Yeah let's cut the baby in half! That sounds like a good idea."
Like what kind of awful bitch have just stole--she stole a baby!--and the first time she's asked about it she's like "Look, I'll take what I can get! Can I take a leg, I'll take the leg, she can have the top part."
Mulaney is really, really funny is when he jokes about himself. From his "feminine limps" to his awkward "Ray" date to to his stupidness (from math to chasing a woman at 2am). I laugh because I identify with him.
I couldn't relate to jokes about "Law and Order" (and Jerry Orbach, who?), but I did laugh at it anyway. The especially funny "love is spelled with two eyes" movie tagline is hilarious. This is new material, check out an early evolution of the "Law & Order" jokes with barely a mention of Jerry Orbach:
You can pick up The Top Part from Comedy Central Records. If you want to hear more Mulaney jokes, head over to myspace, as he's so popular, his main website has a "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" as of this writing.
04/14/2009 10:16:06 ♥ vu ()
♥ johnmulaney.com ♥ myspace.com/johnmulaney
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As much as I hate the DRM on iTunes, this EP is only available through iTunes. If you have an iPod and likes funny Christmas songs this might be worth your while.
Guests includes Toby Keith, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Feist, Willie Nelson, and Jon Stewart. The John Legend song about Nutmegs has very sexual innuendos that's safe for the kids and fun for the adults. I was happy to see that W♥M favorites Elvis Costello made an appearance too!
Recently, Colbert declared war on Kanye West because his 808s & Heartbreaks is #1 while Colbert is at a respectable #16. So, I guess, "Operation Humble Kanye" will be on next Wednesday, December 5th at 5pm (eastern).
Since I actually block double-click, I couldn't actually view the video on comedycentral.com, so instead here is a clip via hulu.com:
* Before you dismiss this Christmas cash-in and Colbert's arrogance, this project is actually for a good cause, for the charity group Feeding America.
Oh I know it's not right, being a music blog and all, but this is one of the funniest things I've seen all year. Thanks to daljian in the Eurovision post comments we now know who the funny drunk man was. Björn Gustafsson is unsurprisingly even funnier though, as this amazing standup performance on some at some Swedish awards show. Don't worry, it's all subbed up, just promise me you'll watch right to the end, yah? "Steeg diev!" Rofl11.
- Chris-so gonna get smacked by vu-topher
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Apparently Comedy Central has a record department, although it's not really music that they're dealing with, but audio (and sometime video) of comedy routines.
Their latest release is Dov Davidoff's The Point Is… , which is coming out this Tuesday, April 22nd.
I always judge how popular an artist is by my siblings, like if they know the artist then it would be safe to say that they're quite popular. Let me tell you: everyone I've talked to not only knew, but LOVE, Dov Davidoff. They might not know his (unusual) name off the top of their head, but they definitely knew his jokes.
My favorite Davidoff joke is the two-ply condom and the Starbucks coffee joke.
I walked into a Starbucks and the guy, he got my order wrong. Which is fine, but he had this attitude, I said "That's the wrong drink." And the guy goes, "Sorry dude, I'm tired".
And I'm like "have a coffee, that's why I'm here."
He comes off as a wacky doofus with that everyman mentality. Sometime, I wish I had the video/visual to some of the jokes, as I felt like I was missing something in the audio-only portion (especially when he's making very strange sounds with his tongue or whenever he does an extra long stutter), but overall, the jokes comes through just fine.
Davidoff's jokes sounds like they actually really happened to him and his various strange situations. It sounds like he spent a lot of time in New York with scummy and homeless people haha, but I tend to believe his stories.
For instance, one of his first joke he makes is about how someone stole his bicycle seat. This isn't that uncommon, because I know that my buddy Dave had his stolen once. Since the theft, he's taken it upon himself to take the seat with him whenever park his bike.
I listened to The Point Is… at least six times now and it never gets old, even though I am already well familiar with his punchlines. What I am really looking forward to is having friends hear the album with me, so I'm volunteering to do a lot of driving.
Remember, the album comes out next Tuesday, you can pick this up at most major record stores, as well as through directly from Comedy Central. He's currently not on a comedy tour (although I suspect that will change in the next few months), but you can join his mailing list to get the news directly sent to you.
04/19/2008 04:43:06
vu
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Comedy Top 7 on W♥M in 2007! This is a special two-for-one Comedy and Christmas post, meaning funny-man Weird Al Yankovic is not only hilarious, but he's written a few original Christmas songs: "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
"Christmas at Ground Zero" is basically Christmas carol, whose title parodies Fishbone's "Party At Ground Zero". The second is a pretty dark song about how Santa went postal and killed everyone. Apparently there is an "Extra Gory" version on the single for Amish Paradise.
So, I was actually on his official website and he seems kind of bitter/funny. He received permission to recorded a parody "You're Beautiful" from James Blunt, but his record label, Atlantic Records, refused permission. So what does Weird Al do? He gives away the song:
But if you're so inclined, you can just download it for FREE! Go ahead, we won't tell anybody! Right-click (option-click for Mac) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here or here, not to mention here, or even here!
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12/23/2007 00:05:50
vu
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www.weheartmusic.com
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Today is Thanksgiving, which means million of turkeys aren't going to be very happy.
I didn't have a lot of songs about Turkeys, but I did find this song "The Thanksgiving Song" by Adam Sandler.
I'm actually not a big fan of Sandler (sorry, I think it's his voice or something), so I have avoided all his movies. Clearly I'm in the wrong because his movies (Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and recently Chuck and Larry (2007)) have all done really well.
I was kind annoyed to find out that he's rumored to play in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.
Anyway, "The Thanksgiving Song" appeared on his first album They're All Gonna Laugh at You!, released in 1993 - however it first appeared on Saturday Night Live.
I had a pretty hard time locating any NBC videos on bootube, and I'm not exactly sure where NBC videos officially went to. I did manage to find a clip of "The Thanksgiving Song" on his website (you can download it: thanksgiving_480x360.mov). Here's a streaming video from myspace.
Since Sandler was a regular cast on SNL at this point in time, he also got fellow cast members to appear on the album (such as Rob Schneider and David Spade).
The album have sold over two million copies and was nominated for Best Comedy Album at the Grammy's.
Anyway - Happy Thanksgiving!
11/22/2007 00:06:26
vu
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I saw Jim Gaffigan last night (Oct 13th) at the Orpheum Theater. He's really popular here in Minneapolis and have sold out at least two shows, so he added a few more dates due to popular demand (four shows in total).
I've seen Gaffigan before, a few years ago, and it's pretty much the same show this time (including the same opening comedian).
The opening comedian was Rich Brooks. He only did about fifteen minutes of standup before going off stage. It was the shortest routine I've ever seen!
Gaffigan came on shortly afterwards and went into some new jokes. I would have to say about 50% were new material. I'm not sure if I liked "the new voice", but the familiar jokes and voices are still good.
Of all the new jokes, the one I liked best was the (what seems like) hour long bacon jokes.
He ended the show with his famous "Hot Pockets" joke. He ran off stage and after 30 seconds came back onstage for an encore. I suspect they were on a time schedule because there was another show shortly after they kicked us out the theater.
So currently, Gaffigan is on tour, and he's also half of Pale Force. Pale Force can be seen semi-regularly on Conan O'Brien's show.
PS, I realized that Gaffigan is not a singer, so I'm including Robert Partridge's "Jimmy G" song, which was a birthday gift to Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan's birthday, incidentally, was on July 7th.
10/15/2007 08:01:09
vu
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Melinda (who's on W♥M) is the person that introduced me to the
wonderful world of Wally Pleasant. We were working at KFSR and she used
to have to review records to put on rotation. She noticed that Wally had some drawings of
Morrissey, or something, in the liner notes of Houses of the Holy Moly (1994), at least that's the story that I
can best remember!
Of course we had to listen to it! My instant favorite off that record was probably "Alternateen".
You can probably guess from listening to "Let's Play Life" that Wally's style is a comedic (but smart) folky style. He became more involved with playing his music, while studying political science at Michigan State University. With the exception of Music for Nerds & Perverts (2004), all of his releases are from his own record label, Miranda Records.
He seems to have a large following in Oregon or something, read this from his website:
We always are happy to hear from people on the message board so keep those "Wally should come play in Oregon" requests coming. If anyone is interested in booking Wally for performances please call 517-803-8467.
If you like what you hear, you can get some CDs (out of print CDs are still sold as CD-R) on the official website. You can also download some samples: www.wallypleasant.com/music.cfm
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