Another Secret Circus video–holy crap, that’s two in just one week now–is on YouTube. This one is exciting because it finally proves, to some extent, that we are a live show. It’s five minutes of a 20-minute set we did at CU-Boulder on April 6, 2007. Elisha and I do a bunch of this duo stand-up at the beginning of most shows. We tend to do a bunch of joking around between acts as well. Check this out and then get ready for another such video coming up in a while. I believe that the next video we put out will be “Global Awesome,” obviously in honor of Earth Day next weekend.
This week’s Sunday Morning Reading comes on a Monday because that’s how life is sometimes. Additionally, I’m moving tomorrow, so it’s just one article. That just goes to show you that I respect you so much that I would never try to pass off just some crap I found on the Internet as riveting. If it’s good, I post it, and if I’m lazy, I don’t. So there it is. And here this is:
NYT goes two pages on heckling and a movie called “Heckler.” It’s a pretty good read and I think pretty accurate. I’m looking forward to the film, which the article says debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26. Included in the story are David Cross, Penn Gillette, Jamie Kennedy and Kathy Griffin. That’d be a weird table at dinner, wouldn’t it?
This isn’t the most outrageous part of the story, but it’s a quote that’s shocking if only because it really illustrates how important this guy thinks he is to everyone else’s experience when out seeing comedy:
“I would never go somewhere intentionally to be a jackass,” Mr. Patrick, 22, said. But Mr. Kennedy’s flatulence jokes were unworthy of what he considers “good” comedy, he said, and live settings are the perfect forum to censure unsatisfactory performers. “It’s kind of a cool opportunity to tell them how terrible they are,” Mr. Patrick said.
I’m not primarily a fart joke man, myself, but I think I’d have the sense to just split or not see Jamie Kennedy a second time rather than taking it upon myself to tell him “how terrible” he was. Some people like him, dude. He’s making a living. That’s part of the deal. (Via Gothamist.)
