Plundering The Archives: Animosity Pierre rappin’ at the January edition of Die, Actor, Die at The Khyber. Totally Not Safe For Work.

When Doug Stanhope said that he’d be touring the same areas he did last year around the same time, he wasn’t lying. According to his Myspace page, he’ll be in Philadelphia at The Troc on October 18th. Sez the man, profanely:

I know its early but Philly always sells out so I’m giving you plenty of advance notice. Get that shit now, motherfucker. And pass word along to any Philly fuckers you know.

RELATED:
Our not-so-well-written recap of his show last October at the North Star Bar.

Worth repeating- a Doug Stanhope blog post about setting up comedy shows.

We added a bunch of shows to the listing on the right. Know of any we missed? Send us an email at comicvsaudience AT gmail DOT com.

Comic Vs. Audience would like to thank this week’s sponsors that have made all of this possible:

- Coca-Cola – “Now in plastic bottles!”
- The John and Ethel McKeen Fund (we don’t ask where their money comes from, we just take it)
- Dell – “Because you wouldn’t even be reading this shit without us.”
- The University of Iowa Class of 1942 [no website provided]
- The U.S. Department of Transportation

“Money piles high as my nieces” – Clipse

A New York Times profile on Jackie Mason’s last show on Broadway. Related: Andy Kindler doing Jackie Mason

Andrew “Dice” Clay is back and he’ll be at the Keswick Theatre next Thursday: “before Chappelle and before South Park, there was “DICE” – with a scathing street style all his own, his battles to present obscenity and vulgarity as entertainment made him a comedy legend – truly one of the most original and controversial comics since Lenny Bruce!” Can someone puuhhleeze get us tickets? We don’t want to actually pay. Let’s hope he does his “what time is it?” joke about Philly!

Michael Ian Black interviewed on Ain’t It Cool News.

Mike Schmidt, comedian and third chair for the first season of Jimmy Pardo’s “Never Not Funny”, is back with a podcast of his own: “40-Year-Old-Boy”.

Finally a reason to watch the Hallmark Channel: Bob Newhart will star in ‘Herb’s Murders’: “Newhart, 78, will play a Los Angeles detective who investigates a publisher’s killing. It’s a race against time: Herb has to solve the crime before dying of old age.” Also, the Hallmark Channel is going to be airing ‘The Golden Girls’ episodes, so we’re all set!

The Flight of the Conchords album will be released April 22nd. Mostly songs from the show, but still definitely worth picking up.

Jim Gaffigan is going out on a sexy tour, but won’t be in Philadelphia. Boo.

Members of local improv group Tongue and Groove (amongst many other things) were interviewed live on the radio show Radio Times. Depending on the day that you read this, you may have to navigate to Thursday the 27th’s show.

Brody Stevens and other doing comedy in a backyard. Brody’s got big laminated versions of his photographs! “It’s about energy!”

An interview with the best aspect of the Season 6 of Curb Your Enthusiasm: JB Smoove

is taping a new HBO special this weekend in California. He surely can’t still be riding off of Church Lady and Garth, right? Right?!

Awesome collection of Charlie Rose interviews with comedians.

An interesting British documentary “Laughing With Hitler”. Sez Dead-Frog.com: “Comedians deny their jokes have any power, but the fear oppressive regimes have of them shows that dictators certainly don’t believe that.”

During last year’s Comedians of Comedy show at The TLA, Eugene Mirman did a bit making fun of a ska/reggae band that had messaged him on Myspace. He played one of their songs and as a way to insult them, said that it is what he thinks about when he wants to hold out in the middle of the dirty dance in the sack. “Sorry, baseball,” he concluded.

A reference to a Woody Allen joke? Maybe, maybe not. And did the audience laugh because they got the reference? Maybe, maybe not.

Nevertheless, here is Woody Allen performing that bit. It’s part of the track “Second Marriage” and was recorded in San Francisco in 1968 for debut album, Woody Allen, which was re-packaged on a two LP set The Nightclub Years 1964-1968 in 1972 by United Artists Records and then as part of a single CD, Standup Comic, by Rhino Records in 1999. This is only a portion of the specific track and you should really buy the CD if you want all 25 tracks.

Woody Allen’s stand-up demeanor was very much like in his films: the ultimate neurotic and completely self-conscious. Always talking about himself, he seems vulnerable but always in control. In the 1960s, he was a unique stand-up character, according to Gerald Nachman in his book Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s:

The waiflike Allen’s mere presence on a nightclub stage in the early 1960s was in itself funny, even startling. He exuded what one writer termed a “wistful futility”; critics referred to his “lemur-like” visage. Apart from Wally Cox, there had never been anybody in nightclubs who remotely resembled Allen, a pipsqueak with the chutzpah to invade the territory that had for decades been the province of brassy guys in tuxes. Even Mort Sahl, who altered the stand-up dress code and elevated the intelligence quotient, was brash and frenzied. Woody Allen was none of that. He looked like a bookworm in a green corduroy suit who, blinking at the light, seemed to have just crawled out from the library stacks, unprepared to meet the world.

Yet something unlemur-like happened when Allen stumbled onstage and began to talk. People paid attention, if only out of curiosity. Audiences took pity on him. Anyone who saw Allen in those first weeks at the tiny room upstairs in a Greenwich Village club called the Duplex must have thought, There seems to be some mistake, and wondered what time the real comedian came on. He wasn’t a wuss, like Cox and Jackie Vernon, who traded on meekness. If you felt sorry for him, it was only because he was so uneasy onstage. But the strenth of his jokes sustained him over those first shaky months, when Ralph J. Gleason wrote warily, “Woody Allen might be worth hearing more than once.”

RELATED: Woody Allen performing another classic, “The Moose” on English television in 1965.

What happens when four comics try to do comedy at an art show? Last month Doogie Horner, Andy Nolan, Chip Chantry and Steve Gerben performed at “Yummy”, an art show about food during First Friday at the Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia.

Filmed not even a month ago at the UCB-LA and aired last Friday on Comedy Central, ASSSSCAT has a new DVD out today:

ASSSSCAT comes to DVD March 25th from the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). ASSSSCAT features the original UCB four: Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser and Amy Poehler and special guests: Will Arnet (Arrested Development), Chad Carter (UCB), Sean Conroy (The Swarm), Andrew Daily (UCB), Ed Helms (The Office), Jen Kirkman (UCB), Tom Lennon, Horatio Sans (Saturday Night Live), Paul F. Tompkins, Kate Walsh (UCB).

We caught some of it on Comedy Central last week (and DVRed the rest!) and what we saw was funny and well filmed. And PFT and Jen Kirkman doing the monologues!

Here’s a video that isn’t on the DVD from the recent SF Sketchfest with Neil Patrick Harris and others:

DIE ACTOR DIE – It’s a comedy show!

Hosted by Don Montrey

Featuring:
Chip Chantry
Doogie Horner
Pat Kelly (the other one)
Meg and Rob
and Rowan & Hastings

The Khyber (56 S. 2nd Street), 8PM, 5

RELATED:
Doogie Horner takes Literary Adventures.
Two videos of Meg and Rob.
Chip Chantry on falling in love with movies all over again.

Eddie Izzard is working on a new stand-up show.

And Janeane Garofalo will be filming a new DVD soon.

Details on the new Bob and David HBO show are emerging. It’s called ‘David’s Situation’ and:

Odenkirk and Cross co-wrote the project, which will star Cross as himself. He leaves Hollywood to move into a suburban, gated community where he has two roommates, a right-wing conservative and a liberal hippie.

Local bears and liberals beware, The Stephen Colbert Report is coming to Philadelphia and you’ll have to sit there and watch it on TV.

Todd Barry edits his own interview with The Onion’s AV Club:

AVC: You consider anything fair game for comedy, but what wouldn’t you put in your act?

TB: There are certain things that are probably too mean. I don’t particularly like fat jokes. Those kind of bother me. But I guess what I was trying to say is, if I said I would never laugh at this, you could probably dig around and find a situation where I did laugh. I try not to be a hypocrite with that one. I find when there’s a controversy about someone saying something offensive, I usually take the angle of, “Well, I don’t know if that was offensive; it just wasn’t funny.” I generally don’t gasp, “Oh my God!” I think people have been getting raked over the coals lately.

[An incredibly controversial answer. The kind of answer that will get picked up by various wire services and take both of us to the next level. LA-I.]

The Comic’s Comic reviews HBO’s Sixth Annual Young Comedians Show from 1981 with hosts The Smothers Brothers.

The cast of the This Side of the Truth is ridiculous. Written, directed and starring Gervais, it includes John Hodgman, Tina Fey, Christopher Guest, Jeffrey Tambor, Louis CK, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, and Jennifer Garner. According to Gervais:

“My character works in the film industry, where actors are really readers who tell completely factual stories,” Gervais said. “My character’s a loser who’s about to lose his job, and who’s lumbering through the 1300s. All he’s got to work with is the Black Death. But once he lies and pretends he’s found lost stories, he becomes the greatest storyteller in the world.”

Plenty of recaps of The State show at the UCB-LA. Go ahead and tour already?

We can’t resist linking to all things Gallagher. Here’s footage of him heckling an opener and scolding the audience at the recent show in New York City.

Mike Birbiglia’s secret public journals are being made into a TV pilot and hopefully a whole show. According to Birbigs:

Maybe it was the 93 comments you wrote after my last entry or Ted Kennedy’s endorsement, but they’ve decided to let me and my friend Andy Secunda make a show about a guy who does comedy, writes a journal, and kills polar bears for sport (not true). CBS has also assured me that if the show is a success, they will also green-light television shows based on all of your blogs and all of your friends’ blogs, even this one.

Richard Zoglin’s Comedy at the Edge may be made into a documentary. The sub headline is “Documentary may feature Martin, Pryor.” Well, that would be a good idea.

A.D. Miles and Zach Galifianakis star in Speed Freaks for Comedy Central, directed by Michael Blieden.

Kids in the Hall tour preview video.