Stand Up Comedy

[u-bet!]

Does this require a new subforum or would it fit into one of the existing ones (or is there already a topic covering this that I am missing)? I listen to the Radio Classics channel on Sirius XM and find the old episodes of The Jack Benny Program to be reliably hilarious. Although that was a scripted radio program with multiple characters and writers, I've always thought Benny's stand up routines were quite funny, as well. For more contemporary stand up comics, the first name that comes to mind is Dave Attell, although I haven't seen any of his recent work. I was a big fan of his old "Insomniac" TV show, which I thought was creative and a good vehicle for his brand of humor. Who are some of your favorite stand up comedians from the past or present?

[MC Horoscope]

Sounds like its own subforum, IMO. Maybe Stand Up or Skit Comedy. We already have Film and TV for comedy movies and series, but not Stand Up. Maybe Skit Comedy would go under TV?

[dcs]

On 4/6/2018 at 1:12 PM, u-bet! said:

I listen to the Radio Classics channel on Sirius XM and find the old episodes of The Jack Benny Program to be reliably hilarious. Although that was a scripted radio program with multiple characters and writers, I've always thought Benny's stand up routines were quite funny, as well.

How Jack Benny and Harry Conn Stumbled onto the Formula for Situation Comedy, by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Humanities Magazine, Summer 2017 (Volume 38, Number 3), on neh.gov.

[Al Dente]

Spotify is loaded with stand-up comedy. Check out anything by Marc Maron.

[u-bet!]

3 hours ago, dcs said:

How Jack Benny and Harry Conn Stumbled onto the Formula for Situation Comedy, by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Humanities Magazine, Summer 2017 (Volume 38, Number 3), on neh.gov.

That's a great article. Thanks for sharing.