by Emma Kat Richardson, Punchline Magazine

Comedy icon Sandra Bernhard headlines Rooftop Comedy’s Out Loud Comedy and Arts Festival — running Oct. 7 – 10 — in San Francisco. In in an interview with Punchline Magazine, the versatile force of nature tells all!

Sandra Bernhard – actress, comedian, musician, pusher of societal buttons – has been a major league hitter in the entertainment game since the late ‘70s. Her career has spanned the administrations of presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and… well, you get the idea. Some would even say that her multi-range talents have included a trip into the much-traveled panties of the Material Girl, but it all depends on who you ask, and how drunk they are. (Bernhard herself has since refuted this long-nourished tale.)

Regardless, controversy and the endlessly churning celebrity rumor mill have always taken a backseat to the intricate craft of Bernhard’s comedy, and her staying power speaks as an undeniable testament to the driving force that is Ms. Sandra B.

And with appearances in more than 60 movies and TV shows, coupled with the kind of stand-up stamina that would send a million wannabe open mic stars weeping into their cheap beers, who’s going to successfully argue that her eventual tombstone should make any reference at all to Madonna?

Performing at Rooftop Comedy’s Out Loud Comedy Festival Oct. 7–10 in San Francisco, our favorite Roseanne guest star caught up with Punchline Magazine to rap about the gay community, Richard Pryor, and why she loves to sing the blues.

Punchline Mag: You’ve been performing since the late ‘70s. When you first started out, did you ever expect your career to maintain this level of longevity? Did you set out for that?

Sandra Bernhard: Oh, well, I thought I’d be a much bigger star than I am. [Laughs]. But I think I’ve been able to maintain my integrity and do my work and really enjoy it. I was just kidding about being a bigger star. Everything kind of comes in a wave. You do a project, and you get a lot of attention, or you can keep doing what you’re doing and sometimes people won’t notice it. Being a perennial, that’s the most rewarding part – being able to do my career the way I’ve done it.

Punchline Mag: Do you feel like it gives you a lot of creative leeway, because you’re not, as you said, living under a certain set of expectations?

Sandra Bernhard: Yeah. I don’t care for that. It’s just too much. You can end up saying the wrong thing, and people will ask you to backtrack and explain it. It’s like, that happens once in a while; I’ll say things that are controversial, and people will want to know if I meant it, but in general, when I perform, I get to do what I want to do and say it the way I want to say it. That makes me happy.

Punchline Mag: That’s interesting that they’d ask you if you really meant it. Would you say something you didn’t mean, as a comedian?

Read the rest of the interview at Punchline Magazine.

Buy tickets to see Sandra.

Posted: September 29th, 2010 under Interview, OUTLOUD, Punchline Magazine.
Comments: 40

by Reid Faylor

As I write this I am sitting in the La Guardia airport, waiting for a flight to return to Indiana, a place of soy and subdued racism from whence I was born. Considering I only came to New York with an air mattress and a suitcase, it is now time to go home and gather my worldly possessions, which I love and define me. I’m four weeks into the move –not a bad time to look back and evaluate.

Before the move, I had a lot of anxieties about coming out here. I didn’t know: anyone (kinda); where to perform; where to live; or how to get money. Now: I know people! I’ve gone so far as to recognize people on subways and street-walkin’, and there’s someone to talk to at every show. I know a couple venues to perform (mostly for free even) every night of the week, as well as some of the more popular booked shows to go and watch. I have an apartment, in a neighborhood with only the fewest of stabbings, and though my temp job is done, I actually earned money and have job prospects. Everything I worried about before coming out here resolved itself so simply it’s actually somewhat surprising –they were all pretty inconsequential, more intimidating than they should’ve been.

Not to say there aren’t problems being here. For example: a long-distance relationship! Contrary to what I previously thought, it turns out it’s not a cornucopia of pleasures and feel-goods. Rather, it’s more a wicker basket type structure, full of late-night phone calls, anxiety, and difficult emotions. It’s worth it, but by no means necessarily fun. Also: work! Aside from waking up early and being drained from a day of toil, the commute from New Jersey to New York has been so long at times (read: five hours) that it’s made me miss shows. Thankfully it only lasted for two weeks, and now I know what to consider in my new job search, ideally something with a better commute, more time to think.

A little girl in the airport is chasing a bird along the ground. You’re not going to catch it. You are a dumb little girl. Now your mom’s yelling at you and I hope you feel bad.

It’ll be interesting to get home and see what my perspective is –what will seem different, how it’ll feel being back in familiar terrain. Won’t really get a chance to do much comedy performing this week, though the time to write will be very welcome. I wonder how it’ll feel returning to New York in a week; it’s been good being there, but I wonder if in my mind I was still treating it as a long vacation. Yippee!

And now: guest sentences from my comedian roommates!

Andrew Short (performed with Mike Veccione, neatly trimmed nails): Reid, I’m not here. You’re alone in La Guardia. I’m not even here.

Seeing as Andrew went over his time, his guest sentence will not be returning next week. Dave Waite’s sentence will be up for another go though.

Posted: September 28th, 2010 under BIG CITY, LITTLE REID.
Comments: 27

I met Jessi Campbell in Minneapolis several years ago, though I do not remember this. I was working at The Joke Joint, and she was a Minneapolis resident. At some point between shows I meandered out to the lobby to find a gaggle of comedians sitting around, chatting amiably. I said some hellos, and then wandered my way back into the showroom. In all, I may have met six people within a total of two minutes. I would remember nothing of this meeting, being that six people within two minutes is too much for my feeble brain to absorb.

Jessi, however, remembers every single person she meets. “It’s creepy,” she explained. “I will remember details of a conversation from years ago, things no one else will ever remember.”

Jessi would make an excellent stalker.

When she reminded me of our meeting, I naturally brought up the Twin Cities, and was informed of a very important change in her life…

NT: When did you move to Los Angeles?

JC: We moved here at the beginning of June. (2010)

NT: A newbie to the city. How do you like it so far?

JC: So far, I actually really like it. I haven’t been here too much yet; when we moved here, I immediately went out on the road for five weeks, so I’ve kind of been in and out, but the last two weeks I’ve been home and really enjoying it.

NT: Wait until winter. You’ll go home to Minnesota and say, “Hey, I don’t have to deal with this shit anymore.”

JC: I actually just threw out the jug of de-icer I had in my car. Won’t be needing that anymore!

NT: You said, “We moved”; who’s the other person in that statement?

JC: I’m married.

NT: Ah, so lack of research on the interviewers part. Who followed who? Was it his career, your career, both?

JC: It was sort of my decision. I was feeling a little stagnant in Minnesota, and figured at some point it’s “now or never.” If you’re going to make a lateral move in comedy, it’s either New York or LA, and this is where we came.

NT: In choosing LA, do you hope to get into acting? What nudged that city into the winning circle when it came to moving?

JC: Patton Oswald has a quote, “People ask me if I did stand up, but I act to be able to do stand up.” It’s all about putting butts into seats. I took a commercial acting workshop, because… I mean, if Flo from the Progressive ads did stand up, she’d be making so much money. So while all I really want to do is stand-up, I want to do other things to help that. If I were to get a small part on a sit-com, I could absolutely work more. So I’m taking some Improv classes, because I want to stay in the world of comedy, under that umbrella.

NT: That makes me so happy, because I lived in LA for a while and the most frustrating thing was meeting people who would say, “Oh, I’m an actor, model, comic.” And I would think, ‘Why don’t you just pick one and do it well?’

JC: I did this showcase with a girl, who was really, really nice, and she’s a commercial actress, and she said, “Wow, you’re really funny.” And I said, “Thanks, I’m a stand up comic,” and she said, “Yeah, this is a really good way to just get your face out there.” She didn’t get it when I explained, “No, I mean this is what I do, this is what I really love doing.”

NT: I had a similar experience once at a showcase, where they introduced a guy who was in a really popular series of commercials at the time, and in my mind I went, “Oh, he’s gonna be good; he obviously got the commercial…” and he was awful, just awful. He wasn’t a comic, he was an actor just, like the girl you mentioned said, “getting his face out there,” and that was when I realized that LA is all about “a look.” It doesn’t matter if you have talent or not, if they need “that look,” you’ll fit their slot and they’ll use you.

JC: [laughs] Yeah, it kills me, and I take offense to that in a way, because this is my livelihood. I’m not doing it to “get my face out there,” this is what I love. But, I’m taking a commercial workshop…

NT: Which means there’s probably someone out there judging you the exact same way.

JC: [laughs] Right. [Adopts a snooty voice] “I do commercials for a living; you comics just do them for quick money…”

NT: When did you start doing comedy?

JC: I’ve been doing comedy for ten years, and moved to Minneapolis about four and a half years ago because of his job at the time. I’ve been doing it full time for about four or five years.

NT: Where did you get your start?

JC: I started in Arizona, in Tucson.

NT: Compare the Tucson and Minneapolis comedy scenes; how did each influence you?

JC: Well, I think they’re really, really different. Now Minneapolis has like five clubs; Tucson has always just has one. When you start out in comedy, there’s always that first little circuit you run, and back then there was a club in Arizona, a club in New Mexico, and a club in Colorado, and you’d do those. When I moved to Minnesota, in the Midwest there’s just so much to do; there are one nighters, so many clubs… when I moved I started working a lot more, which helped me develop. In Tucson, you could only go up one night a week, where in Minneapolis there are just so many more opportunities, and you can find an open mic every night of the week if you want.

NT: So Minneapolis really helped develop you.

JC: Yeah, I was just able to get on stage a lot more.

NT: The CD we’re about to promote, is this your first one?

JC: It’s my first real CD. I made one myself a long time ago, one I would pay people today to get back.

NT: There’s no shame in that, I think we all do it. I have one like that, and even Doug Stanhope has written about watching video of his first few years of comedy and then feeling bad for ripping on people just starting out today that he has ripped on.

JC: When you’re just starting out, you hear that you need one to sell when you go out on the road, and you realize later that was the worst idea ever.

NT: Because you’re putting something out that represents you poorly, leaving people with a bad taste in their mouth. What’s the title of the new CD?

JC: Winner Winner.

NT: The material you used on it: was it an accumulation of your entire ten years?

JC: There’s nothing in there that’s older than four or five years. I get bored really easily, and I don’t like doing the same material over and over, so I’d say there are probably three or four jokes that are four or five years old and the rest is within the past few years. I’m trying to think… there are a couple bits on there that are brand new, which I should have given more time to develop, but I get too excited and just want to do them.

NT: How long is the disc?

JC: I think exactly forty-five minutes, or just a little over.

NT: Break it down for me: what style of comedy do you perform, how many tracks are there… what can the listener expect?

JC: My comedy is a lot of stories, which made it hard to break down the CD. There are twenty-one tracks, and I had a tough time splitting up bits. I have a chunk of hunting material, where I talk about hunting and animals for about five or six minutes, but now I have to break that down and think, “OK, maybe these two jokes work together…” Same thing with my marriage material, which is eight minutes long, but will break down to four or five different tracks. I wasn’t sure exactly how to break them down, or how long the tracks were supposed to be, so I just did the best I could. Tracks three through six all fall within my block of “hunting material,” and it was really hard to break down the story into individual tracks. I think most of the bits I ended up with are around one or two minutes long, but there are a couple tracks that are four minutes, which are each one story I just couldn’t break down any further.

Winner Winner is available through itunes and Amazon.com.

Nathan Timmel was the fella who yapped at her over the phone and typed this little segment up.

Posted: September 27th, 2010 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
Comments: 18

To celebrate five years online, our dear friends at Punchline Magazine are producing two live shows — one in New York and one in Los Angeles — with an incredible cast of not to be missed comedians.

Christian Finnegan will host the New York City installment at Comix comedy club on Oct. 5 with Michael Ian Black, Todd Barry, Hannibal Buress and surprise guests scheduled to appear. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased here. Get there early and get some free goodies from Comedy Central. Stay late, and get some free Punchline Magazine birthday cake!

For comedy fans in Los Angeles, Greg Proops will host an all-star show featuring the likes of Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Whitney Cummings and Chris Hardwick.
It’s all going down at Largo on Oct. 11. at 8 pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased here.

Buy your tickets online, e-mail proof of purchase to punchlinemagazine@gmail.com and they’ll give you a free 3-month national WiFi subscription, compliments of Boingo.com!

Happy Anniversary, Punchline!

Posted: September 23rd, 2010 under A Tight 5ive, Punchline Magazine, Shows.
Comments: 71

We’re very excited to announce a new addition to the Out Loud Comedy Festival:

“That’s Gay” presents: The State of the (Super Gay) Union with Bryan Safi!

Using some of the most outrageous and hilarious clips from this past year in media, Current TV’s Bryan Safi of “That’s Gay” presents The State of the Gay Union in the first live version of the show. From viral giants like that Old Spice dude to logic warriors like Bill O’Reilly and Focus on the Family, Bryan will enlighten, inform and tickle you in all the right places.

Hosted by fellow LGBT comic Natasha Muse, The State of the (Super Gay) Union goes down on October 7th at the LGBT Center in San Francisco.

$10 advance/$15 at the door. Buy tickets here.

Posted: September 22nd, 2010 under Cool stuff from Rooftop Comedy, OUTLOUD.
Comments: 3

by Reid Faylor

I am now partway through my third week in New York! Summary: yeah!

I started working last week at a temporary job, which neatly reduces my day to work by day, comedy by night, not unlike a fledgling and largely selfish superhero. The hours have hurt my comedy time –waking up at six, getting back at five, leaving promptly for shows, not as much time to write. It is nice to have money though after so profusely hemorrhaging it the last few weeks. Also: good to have some motivation to work more on comedy. The sooner I improve my comedy, the sooner I can stop working, so now I know I need to really kick my comedy squarely in the taint.

I’m sorry for that last sentence.

Even just a couple weeks in, the shows have already gotten easier. I recognize at least a couple comics at every one (sometimes they recognize me!), no show has bombed and some have been –can it be? –good! Being out of my element has really shown me what I need to improve, and most of that is confidence on stage. I was amazed how nervous I was going up in front of comics, but in hindsight, in Cincinnati I knew every comic I was performing for, so this is kinda a new boundary to cross. Still rough dealing with crowds of mostly comics, but next week I’m on my first booked show, so hopefully a real audience will feel all nice-like.

Highlights of the week: seeing comedy performed by what I can best describe as “homeless Bill Cosby.” His facial expressions, delivery, and type of joke were definitely like Cosby. Unlike Cosby –the track marks on his arms. He never quite made his way to tell a joke, but upon casually putting on a Cosby sweater at the end of the show and falling asleep during the other comics, he definitely earned his spot as “highlight of the week.” Close runners up: Patrice O’Neal making fun of me, eating pierogies with Marc Maron.

I should have emphasized the last two.

Finally, I must admit: I am not entirely alone out here. By my side are two fellow Cincinnati comics who moved out to New York as well. Seeing as I was lucky enough to get this blog with Rooftop, I thought I’d give them each a guest sentence.

First, from Andrew Short (Aspen Comedy Festival, blond hair): Do we have to move our cars tomorrow for street cleaning, or is that tonight?

And finally, Dave Waite (Live at Gotham, glasses): I drove all the way to Target to buy a futon, but they didn’t have it. Back to the air mattress.

Dave Waite will not be returning next week as he went over his allotted time.

NEXT WEEK: Visiting home to move stuff, weekly goals, I’m not sure what else yet as it is next week, and I don’t know.

Posted: September 21st, 2010 under LITTLE REID.
Comments: 58

In his 1994 autobiography, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evans explained his desire to become a producer was in seeing the power they held; producers worked behind the scenes to make everything on the silver screen come alive. Mike Sacks had similar wonderings while growing up in Washington D.C. While many people dream of being on David Letterman or hosting Saturday Night Live, Mike wondered who wrote all the jokes and sketches he was enjoying. Following his inquisitive nature through college led Mike down a path of freelance writing humor pieces and eventually landed him an editorial position at Vanity Fair. From there, he became a member of The Pleasure Syndicate, a humor writing group consisting of Scott Jacobson of The Daily Show, Todd Levin from The Tonight Show, Jason Roeder of The Onion, and Ted Travelstea, a writer for Esquire.

Rooftop had Nathan Timmel give Mike a call to discuss his interest in comedy writing.

NT: What made you pick New Orleans/Tulane University?

MS: Mostly just the weather, quite frankly. I didn’t get into too many schools, and Tulane was just one that happened to accept me. I wanted to head down south rather than up north. I used to vacation down south when I was a kid, so that’s what I was used to.

NT: What did you study while there, journalism?

MS: English Literature.

NT: Which is actually my background, too, only you took your degree and write with it, where I stand on stage and talk about my penis.

MS: Well, it’s not too different, really. I never did take any journalism courses, actually.

NT: Really? That’s interesting. How did you take a background in English and translate it into what could be considered a journalistic trade, working in the editorial department of Vanity Fair?

MS: I just needed jobs to support myself while I was freelance writing, and the way it worked out kinda was lucky. I was working in retail for four or five years—I worked in a record store—and then I got my first editing job for an association in D.C. From there I went to Knight Ridder, which is a wire service, from there I went to The Washington Post, and after that ended up at Vanity Fair. Nothing was really planned, it just happened that way. And I never considered myself a journalist, what I wanted to do was just to write humor. But to support yourself doing that is really tough, so this is just what I ended up doing rather than working at a record store.

NT: On that note, do you then feel you should sue Nick Hornby for using your character in the book (and then movie) High Fidelity?

MS: I actually get a lot of questions about High Fidelity; people think that my retail days were similar to that movie, where I’d hang out with a couple buddies and go down top ten lists of my favorite things. In reality, I worked in New Orleans and later in Maryland, and in Maryland the record store was behind a government housing project and we’d get robbed about once a month. It was really very bleak; it was nowhere near as interesting as the movie.

NT: I think what’s interesting is no one usually thinks of a record store when thinking of robberies; banks and gas stations get all the attention. But when you’re looking for money for drugs, anything will do. Plus, record stores are probably really easy to hold up, I would suspect.

MS: Yeah, it’s very easy. We were making a lot of money at the time off the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, with Whitney Houston, so we always had a lot of cash, and I think people knew that. A path led to our store in this mini-mall, so the record store was one of the first places they would hit as they made their way around the mall.

NT: You’re part of The Pleasure Syndicate, a humor-writing group. People hear a lot about sketch comedy, or improv troupes, but humor-writing groups are less common. Give me a little background on the Pleasure Syndicate.

MS: Well, the group writing process for humor is done a lot when writing for TV and for movies, and I always wondered why that couldn’t be done for print. What I discovered is one of the reasons it’s not done is because there’s very little money in print. But, if you can pull it off, if you can get a good deal, and get a group of writers that work well together, then the product is going to be better for it.

We had worked together, not all five of us, but at one time or another two or three of us, for projects for Esquire or The New Yorker. Ultimately we worked on a back-page humor piece for Radar, which was a monthly list, just 101 jokes, like “Worst Places to Die,” or “Things Not to Say at a Job Interview.” We worked really well together on that, and decided to work on a bigger project, which was a book project. We were only going to do it if we could sell it for enough money to be worth it, and we were lucky as it hadn’t been done before, and was interesting enough to various publishers. There was a bit of a bidding war, which Random House ultimately won, which gave us four months to write it.

Because we had all worked together before, everything went very smoothly, and I do think the book turned out better because of the group process. If it had been just me writing, or me and one other person… we had the benefit of going with the best jokes among the five of us, rather than just settling for something than just one of us might have come up with. We’re actually in the process right now of pitching a second book, which is an employee manual for a Wal Mart type company. It’s something you’d receive on your first day, and exposes what the company is about, its history and the rules for working there. So hopefully that will sell, and we can start working on that.

NT: And what was the title of the first book?

MS: Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk is the one that’s out right now.

NT: You also have a book of your own out, a book of interviews.

MS: Right, that’s called And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers. I interviewed about forty humor writers, and twenty-one made the cut. Although, the electronic version has twenty-five, I think. Those are lengthy interviews with humor writers about the process, how they made it, and what they would recommend to those just starting out or those wanting to improve their careers.

NT: Did you want to talk to these people specifically to write a book, or was there an amount of simple personal interest in just wanting to talk to them?

MS: A little of both, I mean, it was an excuse to talk to these guys, who I grew up admiring. I was always much more interested in behind the scenes, wondering who the writers were for Saturday Night Live or David Letterman, and how did they get there. I couldn’t find any books from the viewpoint of writers; books were always from producers, or actors, or directors, not from the writer’s standpoint. I thought it would be interesting to see how one becomes a writer for late night TV, or becomes a humor writer. So it was partly realizing that viewpoint wasn’t out there, and partly just wanting to talk for five to ten hours a day to David Sedaris, Merril Markoe of Late Night With David Letterman, and Harold Ramis, and Larry Gelbart. It was a fun thing to do, and if I were young, and in high school now, it’s the kind of book I’d be interested in reading, to see how one makes it in this crazy business.

NT: And you also have a book coming out next year, a compilation of your writings…

MS: Yeah! This a collection of short humor pieces from New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Time, Radar and other places. They’re all independent humor pieces, which is surprisingly difficult to get published these days. Editors and publishers are always looking for a link between stories, an over arching theme. So I was lucky to have sold this to Tin House, out in Oregon.

NT: And what’s the title?

MS: Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason, and that comes out in March of 2011.

And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers, and Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk are both available in bookstores nationwide as well as on line.

Posted: September 20th, 2010 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
Comments: 36

My name is Reid Faylor. I am a young, bearded, litte-boy-ish comedian from Cincinnati, Ohio. Only a couple weeks ago, I left Cincinnati for New York City. To do comedy. Yeah!

What I left behind: a nurturing comedy scene, almost all of my friends, a rather awesome girlfriend, a good job, cheaper rent, family, and a local burger which I feel to be very good. What have I gained –I guess that’s what this blog is about. New York can make or break a comedian, though I’m beginning to expect the process of making is oddly similar to a long series of breakings –not of bones, but of soft supple emotions.

A week and a half in, after easily (yeah!) finding a nice apartment (yeah!) and a job (yeah?), I’ve been able to perform a few times and watch a few other shows. Though some stigmas have broken down (everyone is better here, it’s hard to meet people, you always have to pay to perform), right now I’m beginning to realize the comforts I’ve left behind. I had gotten used to a safety net, to people who were familiar with and understood my sense of humor as a given, to a club that would book me, and to open mics that, likely because we had so few of them, had actual audience members. It’s strange being a nobody, to having to re-convince people I’m funny –it can make one seriously question their abilities, for example: me. For so little time in, I’ve already had one serious late night purge of “No! This is all bad! I need to start over!” followed by a sobering morning of “Well, this dick joke still seems good.” Following just my second show, which I admittedly bombed, I was advised by the emcee, “Hey, Failure, if this is the kinda shit you’re going to be doing out here, let me tell you right now, you can go right back to Cincinnati” –only to have the same guy buy me a beer, talk to me about comedy all night and train back with me to Queens. We’re now Facebook friends.

New York is friendly is in a strange way.

As hard as this first two weeks have been, it’s good to feel myself be truly challenged. This is hard, but it’s giving me something to work for and better insight into how I can improve. New York may be rough and the scene unfamiliar, but with even the briefest of introductions, I’m realizing just how much some of the comedians here really love comedy.

Next week: More comedy, less folk.

Visit Reid’s profile.

Posted: September 16th, 2010 under BIG CITY, Cool stuff from Rooftop Comedy.
Comments: 10

I was just starting out as a comic in San Francisco when this week’s Guest Editor, Guy Branum, was packing his man bags and heading for Los Angeles. Since then, Guy has taken the LA comedy scene by storm, most notably, as the “Staff Homosexual” on E!’s late night talk show “Chelsea Lately”.

Guy has also written and appeared on Wildest TV Moments on E!, X-Play and Attack of the Show on G4, and the Comedians of Chelsea Comedy Tour.

Guy will be appearing at the Out Loud Comedy & Arts Festival in San Francisco, Ca on October 9th, 2010. Click here for schedule and ticket information.

Here are his celeb picks:

1) Alex Koll – Athlete’s Face

I had a devastating crush on Alex Koll in 2003. Clearly, it was not based on his body.

2) Moshe Kasher – What it’s like to be gay

I hate it when most straight guys have a hilarious joke about the gheys. Moshe’s stuff is thoughtful and honest. Also, I hate how he dresses.

3) W. Kamau Bell – Touching the Queen of England

One day I will figure out how to be funny like Kamau Bell, then I will be a happy boy.

4) Laurie Kilmartin – Put your baby back where it came from

I saw Laurie Kilmartin on a Lifetime comedy show years ago and thought she had the prettiest hair in the world.

5) Ali Wong and Chris Garcia – ClitorUs

Frida Kahlo is my favorite comic working today.

6) Nico Santos – I got with a straight guy

Even if Nico Santos were not my adopted daughter, I would still love him. Gay comics who talk honestly about actually being gay are nigh-on impossible to find.

Posted: September 13th, 2010 under OUTLOUD.
Comments: 63

Comedians Ian Harvie and Fortune Feimster hook up to work out some new material for their upcoming shows at Rooftop Comedy’s Out Loud Comedy Festival, October 8 – 10, 2010. Get full line up and ticket information here.

Posted: September 9th, 2010 under OUTLOUD, Video.
Comments: 27