#stand up comedy

[thoughtportal]

Gentrified food snacks

[frostedicebells]

“And I don’t think anybody should feel bad if they get diagnosed with a mental illness, ’cause it’s just information about you that helps you to know how to take better care of yourself.

“Being bipolar, there’s nothing wrong with it. Being bipolar is like not knowing how to swim. It might be embarrassing to tell people, and it might be hard to take you certain places. But they have arm floaties. And if you just take your arm floaties, you can go wherever the hell you want.

“And I know some of you are like, ‘But Taylor, what if people judge me for taking arm floaties?’ Well, those people don’t care if you live or die, so maybe who cares? Maybe fuck those people a little. I don’t know.”

Taylor Tomlinson, Look At You (2022)

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[tonyzaret]

Ready to go totally bonkers?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was looking for my friend in a dormitory exclusively for transmasc people. He is, in fact, amab, so I don’t know why I thought he’d be there. I eventually found him in the back-row seats of a theater where he was watching a stand-up comedian do a routine about My Little Pony.

[johannestevans]

when straight people are trying to figure out who's the man in a relationship that on purpose has 2 women in it and no men

[eightiesgalaxy]

RIP Richard Lewis 1947-2024

[thundergrace]

This guy man.... goddamn.

Never heard of him until he died. But I keep playing the clips going around Twitter. I always say I don't like stand-up and it's true but I now realize it's because I have always been so goddamn uneasy and paranoid about what the fuck is going to come out of these people's mouths. Like as a queer woman, a Black woman, as someone who grew to be protective of most communities that are the butt of the jokes for comics -stand-up is hell for me.

But that is changing with younger comics who know how to be actually funny and not just bullies. And this guy, Jak Knight, turns out was one of those guys. There's no way in hell this wasn't going somewhere homophobic in the past, with those old heads. And to see a straight Black man make a genuinely funny gay joke that is ultimately encouraging queer men to just well... be queer is 👌🏾

[loadingartist]

dying up here

[mrsoulstice]

From the mountains of caucasus 😆

[colbertt]

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.” ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Steve Martin (August 14th, 1945)

[thoughtportal]

Happy Lunar New Year!

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[betterbooktitles]

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[feeldco]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in line to meet a standup comedian, and the person in front of me introduced themselves so well I told the comedian, “I can’t top that. No one else is ever meeting me, ever again.”

He responded, “Good.”