hey double down,

says studio city as your location so if you're ever performing in LA area hit me up and i'll come give you some laughs.

ehhhhh Russel Peters hasn't been awesome in a really long time

I saw a lot of people on FB coming out of the woodwork to share tales of times she was ****ty to them. It was some solid schadenfreude to say the least.


Nice! I've done a showcase there, it is a good room and everyone was very friendly. If you see Hannah Hogan please congratulate her on her recent nuptials.

(I'm glad to see some shameless plug/brags in the thread because I'm guilty of a few)

if we're shameless plug/bragging, im self-producing a storytelling festival this summer in NYC - more focus on storytelling than comedy, but do have a few great comedians booked. just announced the lineup:

https://www.speakupriseup.com/festival-lineup/

This is very very correct!!!

saw chris rock last night. he was absolutely fantastic, haven't laughed that hard at a show in many, many years.

Good to know he's still got it.

Watched Colin Quinn's The New York Story on Netflix. I love Colin and thought this was hilarious. More of a one-man show than a stand up special, most of it was riffs on the different ethnic groups that make up NYC. I'm from NYC, not sure if it plays as well to people from elsewhere, but worth checking out imo.

Saw Joe Rogan last weekend and his new stuff killed, just about everyone in the audience were die hard fans and a good crowd.

One of the young comics from I'm dying up here opened for him and although green he warmed up the crowd well

I have been doing stand up for about two years in Beijing and get to run the biggest shows that come to the city. I hosted a show with Joe Machi last month and he absolutely destroyed. Definitely see him if you get a chance. He also sat and talked comedy with us for like 2 hours afterwards. I will also get to host when Mark Normand comes to town in September and I am so excited. If you are a Normand fan, his podcast with Joe list, Tuesdays with Stories, is hilarious.

I'm opening on a few shows for Birbiglia this weekend, he is running his new hour and it is outstanding. I highly recommend checking it out once his theater tour starts in a couple weeks.

Audible.com has some Dr. Katz downloads which are currently free. They appear to be new material and are about 12 minutes each. I listened to the Sarah Silverman and Ray Romano ones, both solid. Ted Danson was surprisingly funny also.

Traveling to Montreal for JFL in less than two weeks. Our schedule is almost full.

Monday
7 - Bryan Callen
9 - Katherine Ryan
Tuesday
8:30 - Ryan Hamilton
10:30 - James Adomian
Wednesday
8:45 - Mark Forward
10:30 - Ron Funches
Thursday
7 - Mike Birbiglia
9:30 - Nasty Show (with Ari Shaffir, Jimmy Carr, Robert Kelly, Big Jay Oakerson and Godfrey)
Friday
7 - Judd Apatow
9:30 - Trevor Noah
12 - Goddamn Comedy Jam
Saturday
7:30 - John Mulaney
9:30 - Craig Ferguson

Still have 2 tickets to burn on our passes, I'll probably use them for a couple of midnight shows but I'm an old and midnight seems to be getting later every year. Ari Shaffir and Eugene Mirman both have storyteller style midnight shows... might go with those two.

Saw Tom Segura last night in Virginia Beach and he killed it. His next special is going to be awesome.

ari sheffir double special on netflix was super enjoyable, i expected to hate him.

Ari took awhile to grow on me, but he's become one of my favorites.

There will certainly only ever be one Chris D'Elia. Dude is awesome. Enjoyed Man On Fire a lot.

might as well plug my own thing a little: im producing a week long storytelling festival in NYC and have some great comics booked

https://www.artful.ly/speak-up-rise-up

Aparna Nancherla, Josh Johnson, Ophira Eisenberg & a bunch more. if youre in town, check it out

Anybody watch the Nikki Glaser episode of The Standups on Netflix?

montreal TR plz

I'll definitely put something together with my impressions of the shows and the festival - swamped with work today and tomorrow but I'll get something out over the weekend. Not a lot of pics, no cameras during the shows obviously but I do have a nice collection of empty stages with a lonely microphone stand.

Ladies and Gentlemen, John Mulaney...



Most shows were good with Mulaney coming in at #1 for me. Birbiglia was good but the most disappointing relative to my expectations. Only show that was flat out bad/boring was Apatow (which was filmed for a Netflix special so you will be able to decide for yourself).

iI really enjoy apatow as a filmmaker but he's god awful as a stand up.

I've seen him a few times at the largo n he was just bad.

**** Apatow, he's such a ****ing hypocrite.

I don't know much about this, care to expand?

Saw Apatow a few weeks ago and found a lot of his stuff to be more moderately entertaining/interesting than funny. Like stuff that maybe made me smile but not laugh.