René Hicks releases her first comedy album, here dealing with a variety of topics from America post-September-11, to issues with her family, to race relations, all with a sparkling wit that cannot be matched. Track Listing Wild About Minnesota Politics as Unusual America Pissed Off All in the Family Unruly Kids Drug Induced Television Induced…
Rick Shapiro’s a wildcard. He’ll say “zucchini muffin” whenever he wants… but you can’t make him! His delivery smacks of George Carlin mixing salmon with caffeine, taurine, and six or seven pharmaceuticals, and now he’s trying to date because he’s out of hooker money. As he puts it, the least he can do is date…
Rick Shapiro might just be the only man you ever hear say, “If it weren’t for all of those years as a prostitute…” as the intro to a good story, but don’t worry, you’re still not about to see him at career day. Well-known to audiences as the eccentric brother-in-law Jerry on HBO’s “Lucky Louie,”…
Robert Baril has recently discovered that he dates like a cop: Shoots first, asks questions later. Stereotypes and profiles for efficiency. If he screws up, he takes a couple weeks off to “self-investigate.” And once he’s cleared, he gets back out on those streets. See? Sex and politics make great topics for polite conversation, and…
“TMI,” the follow-up to his 2017 Stand Up! Records release “Sex and Politics,” finds Robert Baril in an unexpected position: patriarch. With equal parts incredulity, gusto, resignation, and joy, he’s traded “dating like a cop” for throwing gender reveal parties (that is, cleaning house while bemoaning doing chores to reveal a fetus’s genital configuration) and…
CD on sale for a limited time! Some things get instant reactions: even your best friend springing unexpectedly out of a closet will give you temporary Downs Syndrome. Other stuff takes a second, like that tiny moment when a kid falls, assesses the situation, and makes the decision between laughing and crying (unless he’s the…
Rory Scovel starts his debut CD, “Dilation,” with a humble bout of thanks. Extensive thanks. Uncomfortably extensive thanks, giving way to paranoia and rage. And then, as he does throughout his set, Scovel changes direction in an instant. He fluidly shifts from one vantage point to another as he gradually gets every person out there…
For Ross Bennett, it’s the little things: Showing up at a thrift store the day after a guy your size dies. Finding $20 in your pocket. An unintentional laugh-line in a police report. Cranial integrity. A soft, pillowy death-bed helpfully placed in Ikea’s assisted suicide sample room. His is a kind of observational comedy full…
Proud Clevelander Ryan Dalton’s first CD, “I’m Married, Let Me Tell You About It,” gallops confidently from fun with drunken eavesdropping to why you never see a black man with a wiener dog (but if you did, that dog would be named “Bubbles”), without avoiding the hot-button issues. For instance: Race: Racism is wrong, but…
In many ways, award-winning comic Ryan Singer is made up of just a few constitutive elements: wonder, a biological clock, and dick jokes (which, incidentally, will be your life raft should you find yourself adrift sometime after he welcomes you to Comedy Wonder Town and just before he begins considering the amazing process that is…
Ryan Singer: junior mutton buster, public urinator, Frankenstein truther. Part Jim David, part Mitch Hedberg, and all failed cowboy, Singer is here to help you explore the comedic multiverse, in which anyone can get caught in a Labradoodle lick-loop and the stardust might be something a bit stickier. Time travel, he’s found, really takes the…
Sam Miller’s come full circle—“Round Trip,” if you will. It only took roughly 13 years to get from just outside the Capitol Theater in Olympia, WA, to inside, standing center stage, telling his sobriety story not 200 yards from the spot where he found himself under a tarp (and the very specific gaze of a…
Describing himself as a “little feller” with a close resemblance to “Dennis the Menace all grown up,” a crippled, arthritic hand he occasionally refers to as Slackjaw, a balding pattern attributed to his father’s penchant for grabbing him by the hair to deck him in the face as a kid, and a coke habit that…
Steve Gillespie is nothing if not hopeful. He has dreams, aspirations. He wants to physically fight a happy couple (perhaps in their receiving line). He wants to play an inning in the Little League World series, stop cramming for dental appointments, and make marijuana dangerous again. He wants to force the people of Wisconsin to…
Hey man, trust us. In right about an hour, you’re going to be racking your brain: How have I not heard of Robert Fones? Robert Fones is a star. In his tight, fast-paced, and expertly crafted set, his nimble leaps of logic and seamless segues bring a fresh perspective to the mundane and awesomely ridiculous alike. Likely…
Randy and Jason Sklar seek new fans for their stand-up CD, “Hendersons and Daughters,” recorded live in Denver, CO. Applicants must be old enough to question necrophilia and poor rhyming in fairy tales and enjoy the bawdier versions of jokes originally written for toddlers (example: What do you call a quilt that’s slept with 20,000…