comedians at music concerts

I thought you meant "comedians" in the crowd. "PLAY FREEBIRD"

I once got Dainogah to play some Slayer.

I saw David Cross at a music venue with an opening band. So, I guess it's kind of the other way around. The crowd was way unruly, and Interupter Jones in front of me kept trying to wreck the show. There's just something about a comedian at that kind of venue that doesn't quite work, too much drunken heckling and restlessness.

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Oh man, getting the indie kids to dance is one thing; getting them to laugh is utterly futile so DUD.

And getting Dave Cross to open/host at the Matador showcase in NYC a couple of years ago, like he's the official "indie approved" comedian... yuck.

So I guess had I been to the Matador showcase I'd have been the reluctant laugher in my first paragraph, but these 2 elements just don't mix.

aaron nailed it.

I don't know, I could totally go for a Jerry Seinfeld/Britney Spears double-bill.

Anyone see the hipster comic in NYC? I saw him at a Beachwood Sparks show, and it was all racist one-liners and jokes about Chloe Sevigny's loose chonch. People were throwing things at him. It was disgusting in so many ways:

1) The jokes weren't that good
2) The jokes were all pop-culture based, but on things only the hipster elite would get (say, jokes about Enids or Luke Jenner or something)
3) I got the jokes
4) So much racist and sexist shit

(one joke that everyone laughed at: "Why did God give women yeast infections? So they would know what it feels like to live with an annoying c*nt.")

there is nothing worse than unsolicited standup comedy.

geeta and I saw the Rapture/LCD Soundsystem show on Saturday and when James Murphy said there would be "comedy" before the Rapture we assumed it was another oblique chip-on-shoulder joke about the fact that LCD Soundsystem was the opener but lo and behold these two guys come out. One of them was dressed like Pac-Man. Their material was pretty specific. Maybe one of them was Thee Hipster?

"What did Julian Casablancas's mom say when he came on her tits?"
"What?"
"Is This It?"

"Did you know what Santa Claus said after doing a line of coke off Julian Casablancas's ass?"
"Noooo, what did he say?"
"Are you famous?"

"Hey are you drunk?"
"No but I could use some more BOOS!"

I have to admit - it was deffo more entertaining than all the fuX0rs behind me going "RAP-SHUR!" "YOU'RE NOT FUNNY!" But I suppose I cd understand their point too.

Thankfully no racist sh!Zn@t

I forget the name of my hipster comedian... It ends up (horribly enough) that we share friends. I told someone about him (I forget who now) and they were like, "Oh yeah, he's [blabittyblah from wheredittywhere]." I forget now.

And fuck you for going to the Rapture/LCD show. A friend was buying us tix, and then "forgot."

Comedy sets @ a rock show, regardless of yuk value = bad, forced between-song guitar-tuning banter / schtick. Wrong vibe, man. Shittay. Works well as a between-song respite, though, IF FUNNY.

And, what the hell, I'll 2nd Yancey's FU to Tracer & Geeta (but in a sharing, caring manner).

(I totally want to fuck Tracer in a sharing, caring manner)

That's not how I like it, Yancey

Teach me, little one.

ILE slash just writes itself.

Yanc3y yanks open each button on Tracer's leather jacket with his teeth as Tracer, unabridged with desire, tussles his hair, drawing him closer by pulling on the cord of his iPod.

"Smell the ph34r of the man-crush," Tracer coos.

"Make me buttsick with yr rod," Yanc3y answers.

"Yes, and it will be done uncaringly and unsharingly," cums the squealed retort...

Buttsick? Man, I just got an innie reading that.

Raposa walks out of the bathroom clad in only a terry-cloth robe.

"Oh, Davie just came to use the shower," Tracer explains to his startled mate...

"But you don't HAVE a shower!" Yancey wails. "We'll see about that" Tracer replies, unzipping his pantZ0r...!!

STOP THIS NOW

But I'm thirsty!!!

Oh, my - I do believe I'm getting a bit flushed!

(And thank GOD for the robe.)

QUIET, SLAVES!

The more I listen to him the more I realize, David Cross IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY.

Also, So much racist and sexist shit both can be quite funny if in the right context.

Hipness and comedy do not go together.

Thanks for clearing that up, Trent.

That guy at the Rapture show was lame, lame, lame. This site has a picture of him, along with some of his sparkling "comedy" bits.

I think this thread proves that slash fic as a replacement for comedy is a dubious strategy at best.

Well, you need comedy first.

Racist/sexist humor only works for me if it's satirical (inviting you to laugh at the viewpoint being expressed rather than agree with it) or so ostentatiously foul and over-the-top that it couldn't possibly be taken seriously. When this is achieved, the humor can be devastatingly funny.

Dan there's also the "maaaan this guy is good and seeming like he's a racist creep. boy oh boy i feel uncomfortable -- but he's kidding, right? maybe? uhhhh?" andy kaufmannesque audience torture humor which is funny if yr. in on the gag sometimes i guess.

Comedians who get you to laugh at audience reaction are GENIUS.

That was the point of the hipster comedian, for sure. But there was something nauseating about a comedian focusing on a niche that encompasses all of 10,000 people, if that.

Even better Dan: She was there.

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Considering Perry's username, more slash, pronto!

I saw Momus support Stereo Total. I laughed and laughed.

Bill Hicks once made an entire Tool moshpit stop and look around because he said he lost his contact lense.
that sounds fairly mad.