After supporting him at the Sit Down Comedy Club the other night, the lovely Anh Do (of Fat Pizza, The Footy Show and other fame) gave me one of the best compliments of my life. Seriously, I got all hot in the face and everything.
He then followed it with this.
Ahn: "I don't usually give comics advice, but can I give you some?"
Me: "Absolutely!"
Ahn: "I know I swore a bit tonight, but let me tell you that if you can get all the swearing out of your act, just clean the whole thing up, you'll be on television in no time."
Very serendipidous that the very following night I was headlining a 'Clean Comedy' night, and thus had to scrub and launder 40 minutes of stuff in preparation. I mean, as far as comedians go I'm pretty clean, but it's certainly not spotless. But I've now decided to make more of a conscious effort to head that way.
Interesting times.
Oh Napisan man, where are you when I need you?
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I only know of one person who does comedy and does not really swear at all..and she is a laugh a minute.
Hi CM,
When I first started to do the occasional stand up gig, I put the limit on myself of no swearing. It does challenge you when writing material, but is worth the effort.
Now the most I swear is to say the word 'piss' in my clean routine, and 'sex' when I put the dirty stuff in.
Best of luck getting on the telly, I will be looking forward to seeing you in action.
HooRoo
Rebecca
Caz - Who's that?
Bec - I agree, it is worth the effort. Thanks for the encouragement!
Anon - *washing your mouth out with soap* You are right.
Horlicks!
On the matter of general offensiveness, what's your take on Sarah Silverman's got at Paris Hilton at the music awards? I don't know why she'd put her name to it. Not only did it seem generally offensive, it wasn't funny! Or was that her point? She likes her humour to be edgy...
If I had to clean up my casual conversations - I wouldn't last 5 minutes! Good LUCK!
Anon - My take on Sarah Silverman? Ummm...I guess it's really her schtick to have shocking things coming out of this very waify and attractive (and innocentish) looking chick, so I wasn't really suprised at the content. I was more surprised that she went ahead with it even though Paris was in the audience. I think she crossed a line of cruel (as you know, I'm sooooo not a Paris fan, but I also think that comedy can be more than just 'ripping people a new a'hole' as I've heard it described by one particular Aussie comic) and watching Paris' reaction just made it uncomfortable. But then again, maybe the crowd response of cheering and massive applause was part of that discomfort.
I could go on for hours about this...
sharpie - Haha, damn good thing I haven't been asked to tackle the casual domain, I'd be done for too.
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