standup comic and uh I feel I feel
the standup , and then there's the magnet and the sniper and the sweetheart-- there's four different styles.
In standup comedy, there's no such thing to lean on.
And I was doing standup .
comedies like standup , Next is xue or imitate.
Uh I do standup comedy and I started in New York.
This is called Standup , and that looks pretty impressive.
Maybe some more standup , I honestly couldn't tell you, I really couldn't.
just a standup show where I come out and hold a mike and talk for an hour and 40 minutes.
Chicago is a very small-- for standup , it's a very small town.
Are there all hands or daily standup meetings?
And then I got into standup when I was 16, and I was already doing the voices and everything.
in the early years of my standup , which is wonderful to take those and repurpose them here.
that as a co-founder of standup to cancer and the national colorectal cancer research Alliance um that over
broken um I've been doing standup for 13 years I have traveled the country on the
I hadn't really done standup , but I'd done more improv, sketch stuff.
no reason to carry on doing standup in small clubs.
And so coming back out and doing standup I think it's sort of reminded myself, I think it's sort of, I think hopefully it will feed back into the writing in a positive way.
But the good thing about standup is that the difference from that is that you are, you're on your own so you have, you're working on your own, you know, on your own and there's
possibly could be Richard prior famous standup from
magazine and a sort of sometime standup comic um but after that experience I became very interested in in um the
I get-- I've done a lot of standup comedies, so it's nice to have that audience feedback versus during the pandemic, we switched to the online medium, which
So just like in Western style comedy and standup , when you go on stage as a comedian, you play yourself but you also play everybody else in the world.
But he figured out how to become a standup comedian throughout the movie.
movies, and standup , podcast, whatever it may be, which is your favorite that you like to go to that kind of allows
I couldn't get the sense of how much standup or comedy experience.
you know just channeled the stuff from his life into standup comedy and that hadn't been done before but when he started out he was basically doing like
now sometimes it's both sketch comedy and improv and standup so you can look at the roster ahead of time sometimes
So, standupeconomist.com is my website. There's my e-mail. You can get on my mailing list and stuff like that.
I worked, and then I did standup at night.
I got to tell you, I'm a standup comic.
And my friend, Joel Kim Booster-- amazing standup comedian and also screenwriter and actor--
He had a standup that was done on Showtime.
Then, never had really done standup before.
really important so um we realized that every night when Z was doing standup he was talking to thousands of people
So how do you come up with your content when you're doing standup ?
the' 70s prior um you know brought his own personal voice into the of of standup comedy which was kind of a a
- Well, like a lot of the younger clips of me as a standup comedian, you hear my voice is like so high.
And I think I'm like you is like a lot of people love all of the standup comedians that actually captures a lot of human dynamics very well
But we were both on our different paths, his more standup and acting and me more in terms of being on "SNL," where we both were
Who was your audience for standup during the pandemic?
That's fine, but Mitch Hedberg is a hilarious standup comedian, and we had a show a couple of years ago in Beijing where we were asked
You know, shoot, my standup 's-- everything from 2016 on is great, but you look at them earlier years?
The number of times I've given people spots on standup shows that I'm hosting or even sometimes spots on
And the good news is all of them feel like standup jokes for the most part in some way or another.
really have a a favorite, although I think it's standup there.
This isn't nearly as banal as Huw imagined it might be when she read about it on the triangular-folded cardboard standup that materialized in her hand when she reached for
Stephen Merchant: Well I, yes, I used to do standup when I first left university and the audience was generally indifferent completely indifferent, occasionally rising
Interviewer: And is having that sort of diversity of maybe working on TV and then radio and then doing standup , it just keeps the ideas flowing cause I've heard, talking
And then, my act, my standup act is really, it's Woody Allen with a bit of Jack Benny and Bob Hope but it's disguised with an English accent so hopefully