well plenty of people are pretending they'll up and move to Canada if he gets elected...they don't mention whether or not they already have job offers up there
I went to see my buddy do improv at UCB on Sunset a few weeks ago. Improv comedy is fucking terrible. It's not funny at all, and I think people respect it as a creative exercise more than any kind of actual result. I don't get it, I didn't laugh once, and I noticed "a type" that's into improv or think it's funny. Also I don't know one improv person that does stand up, all I see is 5 people on a team that are too chicken shit to stand on a stage by themselves.
Stand up comics look at improv people like a professional flautist looks at someone that plays the recorder.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was a man was sitting next to a Hispanic couple,” Kim said. “We asked a question to another lady, completely different lady, we said, ‘Hey, ma’am, what is something small that pisses you off, like getting stuck in traffic.'”
The man, unsolicited, screamed out, ‘Sitting too close to a Mexican,’ while sitting next to a Hispanic couple.
Knowing the hacks who go to Second City these days, I assume this was met with a nervous laugh and a deflated rest of the set.
Being a mainstage Second City performer is not a full-time job. Some of them make a living by teaching classes and working in the office, but for most it's a few hundred dollars a month at most. So, the performers who are quitting aren't leaving high-paying gigs, they're going to go make $20 a show at one of the dozens of other Chicago improv theaters. It's more like a standup refusing to perform at the Laugh Factory anymore because the crowds are terrible.
Exactly. And Second City has had massive recent expansion. They added a stand up club, the Harold Ramis Film School and a ton of class/office space. They also had a massive fire last year. That can't be helping the cashflow.
And, tbh, some of the recent shows just havent been terribly funny. Like a lot of comedy today, when you're afraid to offend anyone you amuse no one.
The format itself isn't exactly the best for creativity. Even when you get the the main company, you still have to perform lots of "best-of" skits that Fred Willard and Robert Klein wrote in the 1960s. It's basically a revue for tourists.
They mix it up. There's multiple touring and sub groups that perform a mix of old sketches and new. The MainStage and ETC mostly do their thing. But, like most comedy today, they only go after Republicans and safe targets because they deathly fear bad reviews/press/PR/etc...
Even some of the old sketches won't get performed today. SC used to be like South Park. They made fun of everyone. Now? Chicago is slightly to the right of Beijing. Skits from the 80s and 90s that mocked Dems and Social Justice types ain't gonna see the light.
SC had a famous blackout(like a 30-45 second one joke scene put between sketches) in the early 90s where Hillary and Bill are sitting at the breakfast table and she asks "What should we do about the Abortion Bill?" and he responds "Pay it.". It got a lot of early E-Mail viral action. I doubt that would make any stage these days.
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17 InHell1979 2016-10-17
I'm not a Trump fan, but why use your own dwindling theatre as an excuse to hate Trump? Thats just faggy.
9 John_Gulbunny 2016-10-17
For publicity while your business is failing
6 JeremyACrosby 2016-10-17
why would you abandon your job to oppose Trump anyway?
6 CookieHaid 2016-10-17
You wouldn't. No one would.
3 danimalplanimal 2016-10-17
well plenty of people are pretending they'll up and move to Canada if he gets elected...they don't mention whether or not they already have job offers up there
3 CookieHaid 2016-10-17
And exactly ZERO of these hypocritical pussies have threatened to move to Mexico.
1 ChippahhhTss 2016-10-17
Brilliant
5 IVORY_LEAGUE_opie 2016-10-17
PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISM = MENTAL ILLNESS
4 Anarchorenegade 2016-10-17
These guys fucking stink. A friend and I went to see them once and left after 15 minutes
1 OneCoolGhoul 2016-10-17
I saw second city on a cruise a few years ago. 10 minutes in me and a friend bailed and drank the vodka we smuggled on in a Listerine bottle
3 Doc_McCoy79 2016-10-17
I went to see my buddy do improv at UCB on Sunset a few weeks ago. Improv comedy is fucking terrible. It's not funny at all, and I think people respect it as a creative exercise more than any kind of actual result. I don't get it, I didn't laugh once, and I noticed "a type" that's into improv or think it's funny. Also I don't know one improv person that does stand up, all I see is 5 people on a team that are too chicken shit to stand on a stage by themselves.
Stand up comics look at improv people like a professional flautist looks at someone that plays the recorder.
2 TriangleDimes 2016-10-17
Knowing the hacks who go to Second City these days, I assume this was met with a nervous laugh and a deflated rest of the set.
1 Billyassman 2016-10-17
That's fuckn hilarious.
2 DiscoInferiorityComp 2016-10-17
Being a mainstage Second City performer is not a full-time job. Some of them make a living by teaching classes and working in the office, but for most it's a few hundred dollars a month at most. So, the performers who are quitting aren't leaving high-paying gigs, they're going to go make $20 a show at one of the dozens of other Chicago improv theaters. It's more like a standup refusing to perform at the Laugh Factory anymore because the crowds are terrible.
1 Sks44 2016-10-17
Exactly. And Second City has had massive recent expansion. They added a stand up club, the Harold Ramis Film School and a ton of class/office space. They also had a massive fire last year. That can't be helping the cashflow.
And, tbh, some of the recent shows just havent been terribly funny. Like a lot of comedy today, when you're afraid to offend anyone you amuse no one.
1 DiscoInferiorityComp 2016-10-17
The format itself isn't exactly the best for creativity. Even when you get the the main company, you still have to perform lots of "best-of" skits that Fred Willard and Robert Klein wrote in the 1960s. It's basically a revue for tourists.
1 Sks44 2016-10-17
They mix it up. There's multiple touring and sub groups that perform a mix of old sketches and new. The MainStage and ETC mostly do their thing. But, like most comedy today, they only go after Republicans and safe targets because they deathly fear bad reviews/press/PR/etc...
Even some of the old sketches won't get performed today. SC used to be like South Park. They made fun of everyone. Now? Chicago is slightly to the right of Beijing. Skits from the 80s and 90s that mocked Dems and Social Justice types ain't gonna see the light.
SC had a famous blackout(like a 30-45 second one joke scene put between sketches) in the early 90s where Hillary and Bill are sitting at the breakfast table and she asks "What should we do about the Abortion Bill?" and he responds "Pay it.". It got a lot of early E-Mail viral action. I doubt that would make any stage these days.
2 DickPunchOpie 2016-10-17
I'd bet that some of the comics these people point to as heroes (Pryor, Murphy, etc) heard much worse coming up.
1 ohaikek 2016-10-17
If you don't like Trump or his positions, at least vote for him for the great triggering that will take off across our great nation.