YouTube

Dan and I at DruckerBrothers just started transfering our videos into YouTube format.

Thought I'd include a bit of a sample.



Looking back at that video's a bit weird. It was only about eight months ago, but I feel so awkward watching it. My comedy's definitely changed, although the jokes there are still in my set. But I feel a bit different. Just stylistically, performance-wise, all that jazz.

Confidence. Huzzah.

Writing Session

My stand-up writing sessions are often during quick breaks or phone conversations with my brother Dan. I've got a series of topics written out, including overexplaining movies and an actual event that happened during the conversation in which my brother threw up a baseball, it hit a ceiling fan, and crashed onto his crotch. Comedy.

Also wrote a relatively short bit which, looking at it now, doesn't seem that funny. Anyway, I thought for the sake of content, I'd post it here.

Er-hem.

"I was a fat kid. I'm still pretty big, but I lost a lot of weight. The weird thing about losing weight is you suddenly find out what people really thought about how you used to look. Because when you're fat, your friends, your family, they're all nice about it. 'No, you're not fat. You look good, your weight suits you. You're handsome. Yeah'

"You lose weight, and suddenly everyone starts revealing what they really thought. It's like 'Oh my God, you look so good. Jesus, you used to look awful. I mean you looked like the result of the Michelin Man fucking the bad guy from Ghostbusters.' Got friends who are like 'We used to think you were a chick! We knew you had self-esteem problems; we were kind of hoping you'd get drunk sometime and blow us. Thank god it didn't turn out that way.'"

Yeah. I think it needs work, too.

Superiority Theory

I've been kicking around something of a comedy theory in the back of my head for a little while now, something I've been naming the "Superiority Theory." The fact that such a theory likely already exists in some dim landscape beyond my comprehension does not yet phase me.

Basically, the theory is that audiences, people, friends are willing to laugh with people they psychologically deem superior or equal to themselves, while they'll only laugh at people who're inferior to themselves. Seems pretty obvious. But a lot of the recent time I've spent around comedy clubs and at work at SNL indicates that two people could tell the same joke and based on the psychological relationship between that person and the listening party, the reaction will differ.

Just a theory. And obviously, there are a few caveats, but I think it's a good jumping off point for developing a working theory of comedy. I'm also a dumbass.