http://www.uproariousblog.com Where Funny Happens Every Day! Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:21:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you’ve gone pro in standup, there are certain topics that are off limits because they’re hack premises. That means they’ve been done to death, and by funnier people than you, and you can’t touch it with a ten foot pole unless you’re Sam Kinison, who’s dead, or Bill Hicks, ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/hackity-hack-and-dont-reverb-back/ The first time I heard his name was at a benefit I was doing at The Laugh Factory here in Hollywood. We had to be squeaky clean because there were children present. Comics don’t like kids in an audience. Why don’t you just ask us to play for the Pope? ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/dane-cook/ I got this off Punchline Magazine: National Lampoon joins forces with Uproar Entertainment for new audio division 28 Oct, 2008  | by Chase Roper After getting over the initial surprise that National Lampoon is a publicly traded company (NLN), I was excited to read the announcement of the  worldwide distribution agreement ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/press-release-10-28-08/ I love Wanda Sykes. When you’re a comedian, people always ask you who your favorite comic is. When it comes to men, it’s easy but when it comes to women it’s a lot harder. First of all, there are less of us to choose from. But hands down, Wanda always ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/wanda-sykes/ This year’s winner of the 33rd San Francisco Comedy Competition was Steve White. I’ve known Steve for over 15 years but we’re not friends, just peers. The first and only time I worked with him was in some hell hole in New Jersey or Long Island, it all runs together in ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/how-to-make-a-headliner/ After I found the first Bob Hope book, I had no intention of looking for another one. I had once spent twenty minutes outside a used book store trying to remember whether I already owned Eye on Cavett. I knew I owned one of the Dick Cavett books and rather ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/bob-hope-yes-again/ I collect comedy books. Ones either written by comedians or ones about comedians. I have about 85 of them. A lot of them are out of print and hard to track down and sometimes I’m in a used book store in Alabama and can’t remember what I own. Some of ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/155/ (continued from Part 1) Rappers and Rock himself, among others, have made the N Word larger than it ever was before. They’ve legitimized it. I once heard two teenage white boys on skateboards on Hollywood Blvd calling each other nigger. To quote the founder of Q-Comedy, Aaron Yeagle, excerpted from his interview ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/chris-did-not-rock-this-part-2/ I love Chris Rock. And if you read my recent list of 25 things about comics, you’ll remember that we hardly like anyone. It’s a hazard of our business to dissect comedy with a more critical eye than the guy who has a couple of beers and watches it from ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/chris-does-not-rock-this-part-1/ 1. We never laugh at anything. 2. Because we can see the punch line coming from around the corner. 3. Unless it's from a fellow comic who we admire. 4. And there aren't a lot of comics we admire. 5. Practically none at all. 6. Maybe 4. 7. 3 of whom are dead. 8. Friends have a compulsion to email us 'funny' stuff. 9. If you're one ... http://www.uproariousblog.com/funny-business/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-standup-comics/