Today, Louis C.K. is doing an AMA on Reddit. If you don’t understand the second half of that sentence, here’s my best attempt to lay it out: Reddit is a link-sharing and discussion website, broken down into a seemingly endless number of topic pages (or “subreddits”). One of those subreddits is called “IAMA“, where people [...]
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Rarely has a lineup actually snaked – around corners, no less – for a Just For Laughs daytime event. But if anyone can make industry types form a single line in an orderly fashion (well, semi-orderly), it’s Louis C.K. Richard Crouse, Film Critic for CTV’s Canada AM, interviewed Louis infront of a standing room only [...]
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So, what’s it really like? Long before many of us were in a position to actually speak to a real live comedian, there was little we could do to imagine exactly what it’s like to be a part of that seemingly exclusive* club. (*this label vanishes after your first open mic) Depending on interviews, we’d [...]
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This was my night to be on the run — hitting up 3 shows, or, perhaps more accurately 1 show and 2 chunks. I was shocked to learn before departing for the 8pm Double Threat show at Yuk Yuk’s that it was not sold out. What? This was a double bill of Todd Barry and [...]
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Metropolis is the venue set aside for only the most rockin’ of Just For Laughs shows (my first experience there was in ’04 for Rob Smigel’s 3-hour Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Live so I became quickly initiated how insane things can get there). The lineup was, as expected, wrapped around the building upon my [...]
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Friday night at Toronto’s Massey Hall, Sarah Silverman summed up every audience member’s thoughts in six words: “Can you believe this lineup? Seriously.” Just For Laughs Toronto indeed blew its alt-comedy load in twin 90-minute shows with Silverman as host, and featuring John Mulaney, Arj Barker, Todd Glass, David Cross, and Louis CK. It’s the [...]
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Two shows sold out. A third added, sold out. A fourth easily would have, and a fifth and sixth *may* have given scalpers some inventory (the week leading up to the shows, the “wanted” listings on Craigslist vastly outnumbered the “for sale” posts). It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when Louis C.K. became big in this [...]
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