Now, we normally don’t like to say we told you so. We’re good like that. But people, wetold you so. Remember when you were like, “Stand Up! Records! Why would you put out an album from a guy who’s not even a headliner yet?” And we were all, “LISTEN TO IT!” because we’re demanding like…
Geoff Tate’s got a beard. That doesn’t define him. He’s got an accent. That doesn’t define him. And he’s got potential. Now we’re talking. On his new Stand Up! Records release, “I Got Potential,” Tate drawls his way with subtlety and wit through diatribes and diversions, stackin’ gift cards and handing out murder-shovel tips. Tate’s…
Drug dealing is an all-sales-final industry, and Geoff Tate’s a waste-not, want-not kind of guy. If he’s got to smoke some rock-salt tobacco for the sake of science—and without getting “too into it”—he’ll figure it out. A bit of a human GPS for “that neighborhood where you can buy cocaine without even knowing the guy,”…
Glenn Wool is haunted by the sex that got away… or did it? He’s a master of transitions: “Don’t worry, I’m right!” “Allow me to fire up the mind-blowing machine!” “You played a hell of a game, ma’am.” And he’s a bit of a “bird-lover,” if you catch our drift. Wool’s also an 18 year…
2010 CD DVD release from the Canadian comedian. Glenn Wool avoids swearing. But he s no soft-bellied sap. It s simply that he doesn t find swearing shocking or offensive enough for his first CD, Let Your Hands Go. In fact, with talent like Wool s, it only takes one tightly-woven stand-up record to insult…
Glenn Wool knows why the caged comedian sings. Oh yes, he knows. This Canadian pro refuses to be defined by looks, despite his trouble at border crossings. Just because he could front a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band and comes across like the love child of Bobcat Goldthwait and Mitch Hedberg doesn’t mean he had anything…
As seen on Whose Line is it Anyway?, Proops skips gleefully from tirades on the mind-altering proclivities of Rush Limbaugh to commonalities between the Emperor Claudius and George W. Bush, his love of reality TV, the relative likelihood of God’s attending a baseball game and the pledge of allegiance. Track Listing Intro Gay Marriage Pledge…
Best known for his improvisational work on both the US and UK versions of Whose Line is it Anyway?, Greg Proops brings his unique brand of erudite observational humor to the people with his new CD Joke Book. Greg starts off light by taking the listener on a romp through America, then delves straight into…
Hannibal Buress is one of the silliest, smartest, and most distinctive voices in comedy. And those who know that Stand Up! Records cut our teeth on comics like Patton Oswalt, Doug Stanhope, and Maria Bamford, know we don t say that lightly. No, Buress is the real deal. A Chicago native, Saturday Night Live writer,…
Taking on the banks, one Mike-the-Manager at a time, Ian Bagg’s delighted to have recorded his latest CD in Stand Up! Records’ home, Minneapolis, MN. Here, in the land of prevalent, but dodgy bank employees, Somali cab drivers fighting the black ice, and big babies—not to mention the resulting didgeridoo sounds on windy nights… trust…
Jackie Kashian has never been known as a political comic, but being an apolitical comic no longer appears to be a choice. Recorded just six weeks after the 2016 election, live at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis, MN, “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” is a demonstration that great comedy is unstoppable. Empathetic and hilarious…
You ve gotta draw the line somewhere. In this age of Facebook and Linkedin, there s got to be some point where you put your foot down and cut out some friends. And for Jackie Kashian, that line s just in front of the war re-enactors. That s right, up to but not including the…
First things first, as always. Fatness. Let’s not discuss it. Jackie Kashian has better things to do with her time. Like, for instance, go to war zones, even though she’s a pacifist who comes from a long line of freestyle fleeing champions. If you’re against hitting, she figures, everything above that’s off the table. But…
One of the more profound parts of any put-upon teenager’s life is the moment when he transitions into adulthood, looks around, and realizes that his parents weren’t jerks. When they yelled at you to stop trying to murder your brother, turn down your music, be surreptitious if you’re gonna smoke pot in their house, and…
Like any good salesman, Jamie Kilstein is confident in his product and happy to show off for his audience. “Please Buy My Jokes,” his first stand-up CD, finds the slam poetry champion taking the stage with a solid leap right into drug humor, followed by a downward spiral of more and more offensive jokes, each,…
Jamie Kilstein hoped he’d grow up to be Bill Hicks. Instead, a Canadian border guard taught him that comedy’s a scam, it took one kid cock-punching another to get him off a high-dive, and he’s issued what is, debatably, a death threat against a troupe of hack musicians. His grandfather didn’t like him (but still…