By A Different Kind of Bad, Danny Bevins probably means A Whole New Kind of Good, but then, you wouldn t expect a born-in-a-red-state, raised-in-a-blue-state, reluctant veteran pacifist with a sadist streak to sort that out, now would you? At least not by show time. Often using his own life as a sort of running…
Danny Lobell looks at life from a truly unique perspective, shared by approximately five other living humans: he’s a Scottish Jew. So rare is his breed that the people of Loch Ness are easily more willing to believe a dinosaur lives in a lake down the street than they are to accept that a long…
Dr. Danny Lobell is a miracle worker, mouth trumpeter, newlywed, and civil rights inactivist—and he’s a bit of a snitch. Also, he’s not a doctor. He is, however, the creator and host of a monthly Hollywood Improv show (Bookshelf) and two podcasts (Modern Day Philosophers and The Mostly Bull Market); an international touring comedian who…
Don’t let her “Nick@Nite” title, “America’s Funniest Mom,” fool you—Darlene Westgor has a razor sharp wit, and she’s not afraid to use it. In her first stand-up CD, “Boxed Wine,” Westgor explores life as the black sheep of the cul de sac: a reluctant parent with what might be called “refilled-nest syndrome.” Sure, she’s susceptible…
Live from the Vogue Theater in Vancouver, Ontario, Darryl Lenox’s 2012 “Blind Ambition” brings an honorary Canadian to his honorary home—and the site of his very actual road into and out of blindness. Weirdly, the story starts and ends with race. See, what had happened was… it was 1994. The Canucks had just beaten the…
You know how Stand Up! Records likes to say we prefer our comedy straight-up and a little bitter? Well, we also like it with an insider’s knowledge and an outsider’s perspective, which is precisely why Dave Fulton is our new star player. On his first CD, “…based on a true story,” Fulton makes a brief…
He’s been taken for a strip club DJ, introduced professionally as a “huge hot dog man,” and assumed computer-competent by a major U.S. corporation. None of these things is strictly true, but Dave Losso rolls with the punches. With hints of Moshe Kasher and Doug Mellard, Losso’s comedy is deeply rooted in South Chicago—the white…
Dave Mordal’s (pronounced dav mor-dal) is the masterful turn of a comic who’s earned his stripes but is clearly happiest as a foot soldier. Which is probably good, because he had very few other career options: sniper, fact-finder, robber, and law enforcement of any kind? All off the list. So instead, bringing the neighborly cadence…
Dave Waite’s back, and he’s feeling fast and loose. That’s right, he’s “Hotdoggin’” it, telling jokes like a man who got paid before the show—because it turns out, you can do and say a lot more when the paycheck has already been cashed. The comedy vet returns with a record we considered calling “Graveyard Full…
“Alpacas and Oates.” “Dicks in the Dirt.” “White Devil.” “Pants Party.” “Wormhole and Delta Airlines.” “Sawdust and Janitor Soul.” No matter what you Google to get there, so long as you find Dave Waite, we’re pretty sure you’re in the right place. It’s almost hard to know where to start with extolling the virtues of…
When a comedian talks to his crowd about his kids, the standard line is that spawning cramped his style, children are a drag, life ended at conception. But not for Dave Williamson! Like his similarly quick-witted, family-loving, fantastic-weirdo label mates Al Madrigal and Chad Daniels, Williamson has found the hilarity—and the poetry—in going from hormone-besotted…
He’s a dad. He’s a monster. He’s technically a pilot. Hell, he might still be a member of the Scorpions south of 184th Street. He’s doing his goddamned best. Dave Williamson is back with his second release from Stand Up! Records, “Trying My Hardest,” having saved all the best tales of life as a road comic,…
The deeper the truths, the deeper the laughs: it’s a truism that applies to most of the roster here at Stand Up! Records, especially so with David Heti’s new release, “It was ok.” Not the set—the set is exceptional—but the experience of Heti’s life, of telling jokes he writes at 4am in a cloud of…
When we released David Huntsberger’s first disc, “Humanitis,” back in 2011, we told you “it’s safe to say [it] is a metaphysical tour of the cosmos, the earth, the human body, and, of course, the gnomes who control us with their subterranean magnets.” This time around, Huntsberger’s taken up the mic in the service of…
Don’t talk down to strippers; we all do everything for money. Every single job is for money. Even stand-up comedy. Pull out your wallets friends, and toss a tenner at David Huntsberger. Sure, you can’t see him takin’ it off as you listen to his new CD “Humanitis,” but we promise you’ll be able to…
Seattle’s own Derek Sheen, the eponymous “Tiny Idiot,” has resisted the temptation to just make this a record of REO Speedwagon covers. Barely. Instead, he’s taken to Chicago, his happy place, to wean himself off anti-depressants and spread the joy. From the most detailed flight of fancy, birds-eye view of the life of a hipster meat…