If you’re curious about the stand-up comedy scene in Ghana, meet Kwaku Sintim-Misa.
Second City Employee Confesses Rape To UCB Comedy Audience in NY, A Reaction
Very rarely do I post something this serious minded but it’s extremely important that it be read by as many people as possible. Also that it came from the presumably forward thinking alternative comedy community is especially of note.
Below are excerpts from the original post by Poupak Sepehri, audience member at the closing Asssscat of the recent UCB Del Close Marathon in NY.
I wanted to talk about ASSSSCAT, the show that closed the Del Close Marathon, a huge improv festival. During the show, comedians on stage invited audience members to tell a true story from their lives, and then improvised a set around it.
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He started his story by saying that he is a cook/host at Second City in Chicago (justification#1 – he is supposedly part of the community). One evening, a very drunk (justification #2) and older (justification #3) woman was hitting on one of the waiters at Second City. This woman, who was from out of town (justification#4), gave her number to the waiter and asked him to call her (justification#5). The waiter, not interested, shared the story with the rest of the staff and practically forced this cook/host to take the number, even giving him money for the cab (justification#6) to show up at her hotel.
The woman opens the door to her hotel room thinking it was the waiter, but SURPRISE it’s the cook/host. She immediately asks him to leave, but he finds some BS excuse to go get her cell phone so that he can call a friend to come pick him up since he doesn’t have money for the taxi back (another murky part of the story). She goes to get her cell phone, and makes a HUGE mistake: she leaves the hotel room door open.
Halle Kiefer at Splitsider was also in attendance and shares her thoughts, which come from a more comedy insider perspective. Stephanie Streisand has also provided a first hand account and there is video of the monologue.
Thanks all, now back to your regularly scheduled Hollywood nonsense.
I hope this guy is identified. But in the meantime, this is so indicative of a larger problem. The big thing that stands out to me in this story is that he’s told it before as a funny anecdote. He doesn’t see anything wrong with what he did. And no one thought to tell him.
Women’s Rights: Charities.
Also: be nice. Be kind.
Two stand-up comedians perform at the same time on Conan.
Here’s something for you — We Do Stand-Up: The Movie. It chronicles some delicious boundary-twisting, let’s-surprise-ourselves comedy my friends and I did for a little while.
What isn’t included: Harrison Grimley Does Stand-Up Immediately After Committing A Murder, Pool Date, a proper way to read a certain bit, the terrible movie scripts we’d read and mock on stage, the rest of the second show at Tufts, ‘Oh Charlie.’
via PRI —
”Fati Zarei is one of about a million people who go online every week to watch Parazit. It’s an Iranian news satire show that some are calling a Persian version of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Like the Daily Show, Parazit delivers the more bizarre moments of political news with big doses of straight-talk, outrage, and satire. But the focus is Iran.
So instead of shots of Sarah Palin, there’s a montage of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei repeatedly warning of the foreign enemy. Instead of clips from Fox News, there’s an Iranian journalist professing his desire to be the first to upload news that the Messiah has come.”
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“‘This is the show brought to you by children of the revolution, which is us, who have now become foreigners and enemies and infidels to spread imperialism all over Iran,’ he says. ‘It’s an angry humor, dark angry humor. It’s a voice of my generation.’”
Steve Martin — First Hymnal for Atheists.
SF Sketchfest 2010 — Conan O’Brien Q+A. (w/Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt.)
Part 1.
The Beeb has uploaded eight Edinburgh stand-up performances here.
Edinburgh 2010: Dylan Moran — men, women, and relationships.
Edinburgh 2010: Dylan Moran — Australia, the ‘English’ Voice.
Edinburgh 2010: Dylan Moran on Germany.
As promised, here’s something of Nat’s that’s a little more recent. Note the tea cup large enough for one’s head.
Edinburgh 2010: @nat_luurtsema.
Late edit — Nat is telling me this thing was done years ago. I’ll look for something more recent after I get back from running some errands. (Sorry, Nat!)
