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Hey guys, thanks for any kind words. this is my clip. I’m Bret Raybould. If anyone is interested, please check out my podcast Oh Dear where I talk about this and other comedy/culture-adjacent bullshit:

https://anchor.fm/ohdear

The uploader has not made this video available in your country. - Why do people still do this shit? Either no one cares, or it's available somewhere else and now that other place gets to monetise the time in front of my eyeballs.

Source (with more from both of them if you scroll a bit): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/moderatedaltcomedystandup/5ecz8kcnkCo

Here's what the manager of the club had to say about the incident:

>Masada says Tosh asked the audience, "What you guys want to talk about?" After someone in the front said "rape," a woman in the audience started screaming, "No, rape is painful, don’t talk about it." Then, Masada says, "Daniel came in, and he said, 'Well it sounds like she’s been raped by five guys' — something like that. I really didn’t hear properly."

>He continues, "It was a comment — it wasn’t a joke at the expense of this girl."

>Masada says that the woman then sat through the rest of Tosh's set — which received a standing ovation — before complaining to the manager about Tosh's joke. The manager apologized, Masada says, and offered her tickets to come back to the Laugh Factory for another performance, which she accepted.

>"If you’re offended why would you take a couple tickets to come back to the club again?" he says. "If you were offended, how about the rest of the audience" — 280 people total — "who’s giving a standing ovation?"

>Masada has known Daniel Tosh for 10 years and describes him as an "edgy comic" but also "one of the nicest people in the world."

>"I know his character," Masada continues. "He was trying to make everybody laugh. He was so sweet to find out one person was insulted to apologize about it." (Tosh tweeted his apologies about the incident to his more than six million followers this afternoon.)

Sounds like her friend was just looking to get some blog hits. And it worked. Fuck her and everyone like her.

Standup classes are just a ripoff, and they're inevitably taught by someone who has no business even performing standup. Taking a public speaking course or an improv class would be more focused and productive and you can do it for much, much cheaper. Most standup classes are just a rip to get you to perform on a bringer show, so you're not just paying for the $300 or $400 class, they're also getting you to sucker your friends into coming to watch you do 5 shitty minutes for $10 with a 2 drink minimum. Go watch a few open mics for free you'll learn way more. Please trust me when I tell you it's a scam.

Watch comedy specials on netflix, good and bad, listen to podcasts about comedy: Kill Tony, the Joe Rogen Experience... dozens more. Also read "Born Standing up" by Steve Martin, "The War of Art" by Stephen Pressfield, and "On Writing Well," by William Zinsser (which is actually a book on journalistic writing but the main focus is on being concise which is super important to comedy writing).

Sit down and write. You'll write a whole lot of nothing before getting anything, but the process starts. Don't just sit and wait for inspiration. Discipline is much more important. In fact, if you get a chance read "The War of Art". It's a book about the professionalism of writing. I like this quote: "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."

To be even clearer, the guy post this facebook link. Down at the bottom of the page is a video.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/ABCs-the-View-and-CBSs-the-Talk-BOTH-stole-my-joke-on-the-same-day/192404437485720?sk=wall

You've definitely got talent, but I notice you drop the F-bomb A LOT. I feel like you feel like you need to use it to make things funny. Perhaps if you replaced curse words with more descriptive adjectives instead of just using arbitrary swearing as filler. Overall, I thought it was funny, but I would suggest cooling it down a little bit so people will start to hear the actual jokes, because they were sort of hard to hear through the haze of garbage talk.

I recently saw the HBO special "talking funny" http://www2.re1ease.net.in/movies/talking-funny-2011/ "Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais sit on a living room set and spend an hour discussing their approaches to stand-up comedy." Could help you look at stand up in a different light. It was entertaining regardless so I would watch it anyway.

Try to talk with fellow comics and get their feedback. Share some drinks and just bounce different ideas off each other.

Visit a news website like CNN or Fox and Just write. I have found this http://750words.com/ to be a helpful tool with producing volume. Read some books about comedic writing.

Yo, if you like this set, check out Yedoye's album Ok available on Amazon and Itunes.

-pop locks-

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> "Hola Better Internet Sells Your Bandwidth, Turning Its VPN into a Botnet"

If you have Hola, uninstall it right away and get a proper VPN like Private Internet Access.

The owner of the Laugh Factory disagrees with you. Beyond that, I don't know what to say. Go ahead and get the last comment in so you can "win."

Amazon sells cans of the chili at absurd prices. Just add beans and onions to make it a "5-way." I just made the most authentic Indian Curry but have never even tried making Cincinnati Chili from scratch.

I'm not sure if this guy makes an authentic Cincinnati chili but he looks like someone I'd trust to make it right.

>Nerdwriter

Hard pass.

For an actual comedian's perspective check out Stewart Lee. He's extremely self-aware and clever. Even wrote a book on analyzing comedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXVaytvJtQ

https://www.amazon.com/How-Escaped-My-Certain-Fate/dp/0571254810

Stand up plays tricks on your mind. I have a bit that I end every 10 min set w/ that always works. Since I polished it, it's never not worked. But before every show I think about it and my mind goes "That's really stupid. Won't work tonight." Then it works. Most of comedy is getting out of your own way. If you want to read something that might help check out Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art" it's all about resistance. It's incredibly applicable to stand-up. Also try to remember stand-up is supposed to be fun. That gets lost too often. Not every performance has a Netflix special contract riding on it. In fact none do. So enjoy it as much as you can.

It's part of the live at Carnegie hall album you can get for five bucks at his site and its worth it.. Here's a link to this mp3 though: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfrvhr06vkfb3i6/16%20When%20I%20Thought%20I%20Was%20Gonna%20Die.mp3

I'm sourcing a number of other sources, all of whom has said that the woman's account of what happened was wildly inaccurate, including club owner Jamie Masada. I should have linked to these sources, but was in a bit of a rush. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/comedy-club-owner-says-daniel-tosh-incident-has-be) There are also a couple things like this: https://twitter.com/dustinam/status/223156422337241088, There's a few things that are important to point out here: 1: the women did interupt Tosh. 2: Tosh dealt with the situation in some way that involved a mention of rape, but that wasn't what was recalled in the blog 3: The audience remained on Tosh's side throughout the entire ordeal 4: The woman stayed seated through the end of the show. (Headliners like Tosh are generally the last acts to go up) 5: Tosh's set ended with a standing ovation. If you read Tosh's apology, he didn't apologize for saying what the blogger accuses him of saying, he apologizes that she was offended regardless of the misquotes... Which is a pretty noble thing to do for somebody who has publicly accused you of something such as this. As somebody who has witnessed a number of inappropriate outbursts on behalf of both audience and comedian, this whole situation REEKS of an audience member who didn't understand what was actually being said. But it doesn't even matter. The point is that the blogger's credibility is questionable for a lot of reasons, and until her story is confirmed, the story needs to be about finding out the legitimacy of her claims, not assuming she's spitting gospel.

I'm sourcing a number of other sources, all of whom has said that the woman's account of what happened was wildly inaccurate, including club owner Jamie Masada. I should have linked to these sources, but was in a bit of a rush. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/comedy-club-owner-says-daniel-tosh-incident-has-be)

There are also a couple things like this: https://twitter.com/dustinam/status/223156422337241088,

There's a few things that are important to point out here: 1: the women did interupt Tosh. 2: Tosh dealt with the situation in some way that involved a mention of rape, but that wasn't what was recalled in the blog 3: The audience remained on Tosh's side throughout the entire ordeal 4: The woman stayed seated through the end of the show. (Headliners like Tosh are generally the last acts to go up) 5: Tosh's set ended with a standing ovation.

If you read Tosh's apology, he didn't apologize for saying what the blogger accuses him of saying, he apologizes that she was offended regardless of the misquotes... Which is a pretty noble thing to do for somebody who has publicly accused you of something such as this.

As somebody who has witnessed a number of inappropriate outbursts on behalf of both audience and comedian, this whole situation REEKS of an audience member who didn't understand what was actually being said.

But it doesn't even matter. The point is that the blogger's credibility is questionable for a lot of reasons, and until her story is confirmed, the story needs to be about finding out the legitimacy of her claims, not assuming she's spitting gospel.

Dude...I really thought I was going to eat crow...but no TMZ did not release a video---unless you mean this shit.

unless you got a link cuz I couldnt find one... I spent 5 mins looking but found nothing. so I'm done... I am sick of wading through shitty TMZ advertisements

EDIT: just re-read my comment and i didn't mean to sound dickish... just irritated by TMZ and taking it out on you.

https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Wars-Ad-free/dp/B08D6SM55W/ref=nodl_

I listed to this a year ago, it’s a really good documentary podcast about his legal struggle and addiction to drugs. Highly recommend, it’s also on Spotify.

He experimented with LSD, ketamine and weed, as have a lot of people.

"Feynman was always careful about drug use, for fear of what it might do to his brain — giving up alcohol, for example, when he began to exhibit symptoms of addiction. In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, he writes, "You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. It's the same reason that, later on, I was reluctant to try experiments with LSD in spite of my curiosity about hallucinations."

Nevertheless, Feynman's curiosity got the best of him when he became acquainted with none other than John C. Lilly and his sensory deprivation tanks. Feynman experimented briefly with LSD, ketamine, and marijuana, which he used to bring on isolation-induced hallucinations more quickly than he could when sober."

source

A few I love:

• The non-celebrity drama parts of Sarah Silverman's Bedwetter
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• The Onion's Our Dumb Century
• America (The Book) by the Daily Show staff

Also just picked up You're Not Doing It Right by Michael Ian Black.

How long ago was this?

We're past the point where people like this (who think everything is about your relationship to their Orange Jesus) need to be locked up. They're basically domestic terrorists.

I am honestly the worst at self promotion so I try not to do that. I just want to help people.

My biggest source is writing, followed by teaching & podcasting (they are pretty close) and then performing.

I used to produce shows prior to COVID. I did write a book called “How To Produce Comedy Shows For Fun & Profit”. I not on it used my personal experiences but talked to other producers and picked their brains.

That’s so cool. I did a ton of Zoom stuff during the pandemic! So glad that’s over!

Yeah I've never understood the confusion of that term. Someone who is being disruptive during a performance isn't necessarily heckling the comedian. The actual definition of the verb "to heckle" is "to harass a performer with gibes and the like".

But didn't you say current events? Fela and Gil Scott Heron (and many of the others mentioned in this thread) were absolutely talking about current events.

I agree that Fela was only King of his own castle and his party Movement of the people had little actual political sway but are you really saying that there was no political commentary in his music?

I'm pretty sure you're trolling, and if you are, 10 out of 10. You're doing a magnificent job. If not... what more can I say? I strongly disagree with your stance of politics having no place in art.

Either way, I'm done here. Have fun internetting.

I'm basing my response on the other reports that I've seen based on more credible sources and having had some experience with this sort of thing...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/comedy-club-owner-says-daniel-tosh-incident-has-be)

https://twitter.com/dustinam/status/223156422337241088

My main goal was not to play detective so much as to show why it's a bad idea to take the word of a heckler as gospel. Perhaps that point could have been better written, but that's what I'm saying.

If you subscribe on iTunes, I think it goes down to episode 50 or so. Also I believe Stitcher goes that far as well. You can listen to episodes 7-23 under the podcast's old name "The Will Noonan Podcast" on Stitcher here. My old podcast host went out of business somewhere around episode 24 and I had to change the name. Unfortunately, a few episode were lost in the transition. Thanks for your interest man!

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Well actually if you followed the links to the article, Pootie tang hadn't actually come out yet.

see https://web.archive.org/web/20010331021305/http://www.louisck.com/

>Here is some update info about what I've been doing lately:

>- On March 16th I taped a Half Hour stand up comedy special for Comedy Central

>- This past summer I wrote and directed a movie called "Pootie Tang" for Paramount studios. It is coming out this July.

Louis CK is the best when it comes to political comedy. his drunk tweets are the greatest thing ever, you cunt-face jazzy wondergirls.

ABC = Always Be Compiling.

I use my iPhone's voice memo, before that I carried a simple Olympus digital voice recorder (it's about $50 for one that'll hold about 10 hours).

At home, I use Yojimbo and Shovebox. Yojimbo when I'm actually writing, Shovebox when I quickly need to paste in a one-liner, or throw a link to something that inspired me.

When I'm preparing new material, I take all these various snippets and start picking out what works with my mood, the crowd (based on area, people I know who frequent the place, how long it's been since I've performed there, etc), and the like. And I put them together in a separate Yojimbo note.

Then, I perform for my webcam and time myself. I'll record 3-4 different attempts at the same bit and then see what I can change, what needs finagling, certain wording that sounds good, etc. Also, I figure out how lengthy each bit is, on average.

Before I leave the apartment, I put together a set based on the aforementioned criteria, taking into account how much overall time I'll have onstage that night and how well the material will go together. I write down each bit's working title on its own line (i.e. "Irony & A Dick Punch") and I try to perform the whole act to myself while I'm driving to the gig.

Modest Proposal Anthology! This book has like 400 pages of interviews with a ton of famous comics from 15 years ago (David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Jim Gaffigan, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt, Chelsea Peretti, Dave Chappelle, etc). THEN, this year they went back and reinterviewed the same comedians to have them update their answers. Real interesting to see how their perspectives have changed about standup ... Also, the interviews have a lot of good suggestions in them for aspiring comics.

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Don't know if this counts as "cheap," but it's "good."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010W6WESM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Same! SAME

I'm 15 and recently my "plan" for life has started falling apart

Idk if I want to go to college but I know I want to try stand up

I wrote down one-offs in my phone and study peoples specials like crazy

also, there is this book that I just started reading

https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Writing-Secrets-Best-Selling-Getting/dp/1599639610

For stand up, Zen and the Art of Stand Up Comedy was a pretty simple approach to joke writing and what you’re sort of aiming to do. Easy read, structured but not rigid

Despite your warning I listened to the revisionist history episode about this called Hallelujah. Loved it!! Saving up to buy the original book it was based on. This makes so much sense for comics. To me someone like Burnham or Sloss = Cezanne & Louie or Burr = Picasso.

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Masters-Young-Geniuses-Creativity/dp/0691133808

I agree good doesn’t equal successful but regardless of the talent the 4 years rule seems to hold steady. I should have specified - I’m talking about the big guns. The people who make it huge. The ones on my original list. Those types usually break in 4 or under.

There's a book I used to obsess over as a kid ... Comic Relief. It's basically a transcript of several different acts. I used to memorize the material and 'perform' for my family. I'm sure they loved it.

https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Relief-Todd-Gold/dp/038097391X

If you like this checkout his book that fully explains how he builds his sets and his career.

TL;DR - he found his niche and he owned it rather than trying to play to everyone.

I don't like comedians' books because they don't put like a paragraph break or emoticon where I'm supposed to laugh.

Tangentially related, I LOVE The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, it's about writing and what makes it hard to actually do. I know most comics don't really write in the same way authors do, but if you do it's relevant.

I read God, No. From Penn Jillette.. and it had one part that still stands out to me this day which was so funny, I put the tablet down and laughed until I cried.

https://www.amazon.com/God-No-Already-Atheist-Magical/dp/1451610378/ref=la_B000AP7XAA_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512667940&sr=1-2

I read this and it's a real academic look at stand-up comedy. Does include a lot of history about the roots of stand up:

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Joke-Workings-Stand-up-Performance/dp/0413774767

I found this informative

I've heard over and over the best comedy comes from the truth in yourself - embrace the suck - make it go one way then when you write a punch show a totally different way that is also true. I believe its in the confusion and the realization that this is also true where the laugh factor comes.

dr's trying to write prescription with thermometer

patient notices and says doc thats a thermometer

doc stops looks and shouts - THERMOMETER JESUS CHRIST SOME ASSHOLES GOT MY PEN.

You have the most recent experience and that is wildly encouraging. And I am excited about some Cosby jokes as our town was just the subject of a book by a best selling author about rape culture.

Sean Rouse has at least one deadly disease per joke. This album of his is really, really good.

This might be the same special that you can get as a bonus feature for on the DVD of his "One Night Stand" half-hour special. I can't remember for sure though.

http://www.amazon.com/Louis-C-K-One-Night-Stand/dp/B000EULSSE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422946779&sr=8-1&keywords=louis+ck+one+night+stand

You can write sitcom specs and then move to LA and get a manager and he tries to get you a job. I recommend this book if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Television-Sitcoms-revised-Smith/dp/0399535373