Negotiating with The Marx Brothers

Jim Carrey takes over the room

Phew.

This is the theme to Garry Shandling's Show

Lyrics:

This is the theme to Garry's Show,
The theme to Garry's show.
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song.
I'm almost halfway finished,
How do you like it so far,
How do you like the theme to Garry's Show.

This is the theme to Garry's Show,
The opening theme to Garry's show.
This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits.
We're almost to the part of where I start to whistle.
Then we'll watch "It's Garry Shandling's Show".

(whistles)

This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show.

Piper's Pit with Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka in 1984

"You want bananas? We got bananas."



RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Norm: "Now you don't know what the hell to do"

Jerry Seinfeld: Comedians aren't supposed to like awards

Re: Jerry Seinfeld's great Clio speech...



...he's given a similar acceptance speech before. See: "All Awards Are Stupid."

Who are you and how did you get in here?

I actually LOL'd. (via CK)

How Larry David creates a Curb Your Enthusiasm scene

How does Larry David come up with Curb scenes? Watch him create a funny on-the-spot Curbish scenario based on "I donated money in your name" charity donations. It's at 40m10s in to 43min of this KPCS interview.

Key and Peele's "Insult Comic"

Simon Amstell's amazing psychedelic story

People talking about drug trips are like people talking about their dreams: You had to be there – and you weren't. That's what makes this chunk by Simon Amstell on doing Ayahuasca so amazing. It's deep and it's weird and it's funny throughout.



From syllabus to ‘It's Funny Because It's True’ - Exploring The Buddhist Truth Of Suffering Through Comedy.

Spinal Tap's "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare"

This 1979 short, spoofing The Midnight Special, was the seed that turned into This Is Spinal Tap. Love the beer bottle!

Mel Brooks, standup philosopher

Steve Martin interviews Richard Pryor in 1978

[thx SS]

Frank Zappa defends freedom of speech

They're just words.



(via SvN)

Nate Fernald's "Crush City Setlist"

Nate knows how to kill it. I like the last item on the initial list too.

Comedian bios always suck but this one doesn't

I enjoyed Joe Zimmerman's bio at the Comedy Central site.

Joe Zimmerman is a comedian who has worked with the likes of every other comedian, including the ones who passed away before he was born. You may have seen Joe on every television show, with the painful exception of Alf, and you may recognize his voice as the stand-in voice-over for Morgan Freeman on National Geographic's March of the Penguins and Sigourney Weaver on the BBC’s Planet Earth.

"Electrifying!" - The Rolling Stone (in reference to a 1994 U2 concert)

"Hilarious!" -Joe Zimmerman, talking about the movie Kung Fu Panda

"Hands down the best live show I've ever seen." -Joe again, on Kung Fu Panda

"Well I don't care if it wasn't live, it FELT live!" -Joe (still talking about Kung Fu Panda)

Well done, Joe.

Oscar Wilde on fashion, etc.

Oscar Wilde quotes. Like this: "And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Or: "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." I like people who did standup before standup was a thing.

Related: Thinking like a comic: Fran Lebowitz, Steve Albini, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, etc.

Video: Anthony Jeselnik makes fun of Haiti at a Haiti benefit

"Yeah, I'm not a great person to have on a benefit." (As mentioned in this interview he did with Bill Simmons.)

Brett Gelman's One Thousand Cats

Commitment!

Robin Williams livens up a Jack Nicholson acceptance speech

At the 8th Annual Critics' Choice Awards a few years back, Daniel Day Lewis and Jack Nicholson both won for Best Actor. And then Jack invited Robin Williams up to help out.



(via BB)