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Very excited to be caressing the open road in a haunted Honda CRV with the very funny and lovely Christie Buchele this July. We'll be hitting a bunch of great cities and shows so tell your friends to come see two of America's sweethearts show our country how to be horny again.
My Top 4 Favorite Graffiti In The Lookout Lounge Green Room
4. Fuck Tim 3. Mr. Pizza! 2. Moonraker (w/ balls for o's) 1. Hulk Hogan, N***a
Thank you so much for coming to the second INTERNET STAND UP SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm your host Patrick Hastie! Tonight, just like last month, I have 8 of my FAVORITE stand up comedians from all over the country! But first, here is a quick clip of me doing my dumb stand up at the Beast Village Comedy Festival!
Alright, I look like a fat cartoon character! Great! Now let's get on with the show!
Coming up first, we have a hilarious comic from Omaha, Nebraska! She’s performed at the Crom Comedy Festival and on The Doom Room in Omaha! Folks, go crazy for ANNIE HILDEBRAND!
ANNIE HILDEBRAND everybody! That was fucking awesome! Her set was filmed during the aforementioned Crom Comedy Festival. She's so funny! Please, follow Annie on twitter at @anndebrand!
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Ok, our next comic and I started together in Des Moines, but now he makes his home in Chicago! He's performed at the Great American Comedy Festival and at the Beast Village Comedy Festival! You can also hear him rap (seriously) as a contributor to Chicago's Handsome Naked. Ladies and Gentlemen, JOHN EIDE!
JOHN EIDE! Let him hear it! Awesome! That dude is one of my best friends and he's so funny! John's set was filmed at Stand Up Stand Up in Chicago! Please, follow John on twitter at @TheJohnEide!
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Alright, the next comic I bring you is from Minneapolis. She was a semi-finalist in the Funniest Person in the Twin Cities Competition at the Acme Comedy Club in 2011 and I met her at The Green Gravel Comedy Festival last year! She's fucking hilarious, everybody, JULIE BANE!
JULIE BANE! So goddamn funny! Julie's set was filmed at The Joke Joint in St. Paul. Boy that was good! Please, follow Julie on twitter at @TheBaniac!
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This has been a great so far! Our next comic is great! You can see him all over New York City, he's performed in the Brooklyn Comedy Festival, the New York Comedy Festival and he is a co-host of the weekly comedy show Caked Up Comedy at The Cake Shop in Manhattan! Folks, get ready for JORDAN TEMPLE!
JORDAN TEMPLE! So funny! That fucking baby cake right? Jordan's set was filmed at On The Offensive at The Creek an The Cave in Queens. Of course, follow Jordan on twitter at @JordyPloy!
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Next up is one of the funniest dudes I met at Beast Village last year! You can hear him on the Arguments & Grievances podcast (where he kicked my ass) and you can follow his recaps of "Man Vs. Food" on his tumblr. People, all the way from Austin, Texas, it's time for ADAM HRABIK!
ADAM HRABIK! Holy fuck! Adam's set was filmed at Cap City in Austin, Texas. Such a good dude! Please, follow Adam on twitter at @ahrabik!
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Alright, here we go! This comic is the fucking best! Originally from Oklahoma by way of Portland, she has quickly made a name for herself in New York City. She's performed at The Bridgetown Comedy Fest, you can hear her on the Keith and the Girl podcast and she co-hosts the monthly show Creep at Over the Eight in Brooklyn! Get ready to love MARCIA BELSKY!
MARCIA BELSKY! How awesome was that? She’s the best! Marcia's set was filmed at UCB Chelsea in New York City. Fucking rad! Please, follow Marcia on twitter at @MarciaBelsky!
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Ok! This guy is one of my all time favorite comedians! He co-hosts The Bomb Shelter Stand Up Comedy Showcase, Solomon and Kitzman Presents AND is a founding member of the famed Dog and Pony Show in Des Moines. He's also performed at the Green Gravel Comedy Festival and the Cabin Fever Comedy Festival! From Des Moines, Iowa, hang on to your tits, here is RYAN SOLOMON!
RYAN SOLOMON! How funny? How great? That dude is one of my best friends in comedy! His set was filmed at Underground Comedy in Des Moines, Iowa. Please, follow Ryan on twitter at @RyanMSolomon!
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It's that time! We have one comic left! Our headliner! He is without a doubt one of the best comics in New York City! He was a "New Face" at the 2012 Just For Laughs festival, he has been featured on Gotham Comedy Live on AXS and he performed at the 2014 Limestone Comedy Festival! Everyone, get your shit together (and then lose it) for ANTHONY DEVITO!
ANTHONY DEVITO! Goddamn! So funny! Also, you can totally hear my dipshit laugh in that video! His set was filmed at The Creek and the Cave in Queens! Please, follow Anthony on twitter at @anthonydevito_!
That brings us to the end of the second INTERNET STAND UP SHOW! I hope you’ve had fun! Please, follow all of the comics you saw today and support them!
You can follow our show on twitter at @InternetStandUp and you can follow me at @PatrickHastie! If you need to email, send to [email protected].
Lastly, please please please share this and tell your friends! Help spread the word of awesome comedy!
We’ll see you all next month!!!!!
Done with the Training Montage:
Last summer we moved downtown with barely enough money to open the doors. Between being an unfinished theatre, as well as a further drive for some, plus no booze for the first 4 months, and being thrown under the bus by the stand-up community, our theatre lost probably 80% of our fans, and over half our talent. As jarring and struggling as this was for us, we were able to train a completely new generation of strong players. Our shows suffered for a while, but lately they've been really solid again. And now, a handful of our last generation has returned, plus we have beer, and money is returning to renovations. I also have the help of 3 others to run the place. This Friday we introduce our 2nd Harold team at Backline, The Documentary. They'll be opening for our original Harold team, The Sitcom. These teams are both amazing. Plus 88's Tim Schoenfeld will be joining us for Interrogated! This, plus the Omaha Improv Festival in a few weeks is a great way to kick off our super strong comeback. If you haven't seen a show in a while, this Friday is the perfect night to do so. If you have, then you will not want to miss it.
Rance is funny and offensive and everything you want your kids to grow up to be. He is co-host at Omaha's Most Wanted Open Mic.
The Comedy I Originally Found:
When I was starting to really consider moving back, I researched Omaha Improv and Omaha Comedy. Didn't find much besides the Funny Bone and two improv teams, 88improv and The Weisenheimers. I'd like to state that my time doing long-form in LA made me have no interest in short-form, however The Weisenheimers are really talented and I now like their shows. At the time, though, the name Weisenheimers really bothered me. It was like places called the Chuckle Factory, or the Funny Bone... (Which I also now support.) While stand-up was growing in LA, I still felt really pretentious about it in general and never tried it once. There was a common mindset that the only way to be a respectable comedian was to do improv back then. I heard of a few friends who did it, but never supported it. I also dabble in that these days, and now I like watching stand-up every once in a while. There are a lot of funny stand-ups in Omaha. 88improv had a website, and they were the only long-form team in Omaha. They performed at a place called Pizza Shoppe, which I didn't know about, but I knew it wasn't an actual theatre. To be honest, the video I saw wasn't that impressive to me. I wanted to make peace with them, though, so I invited them to do a show shortly after moving back, once we started having weekly shows. They did amazing. I've been a huge fan of them since, and my respect grows with each show. Seeing as I respect them all so much now, I feel shitty judging them the same way most people probably still do when comedy comes from Omaha, but I'm glad I did. I wouldn't have been so cocky coming out here if the videos I watched all killed it. Most importantly, I've learned that if you can make people laugh, who cares how you do it. My searches for Lincoln, NE comedy came up empty...(even though it turns out they have a huge Open Mic.)
If you know exactly what you’re going to say before your scene partner speaks, then you’re not listening. If you know what you want to speak about, and let their words and actions influence your words, then you are listening.
Improv Etiquette
Chicago and New York Guests Tonight:
We have a rare opportunity tonight! We have two guests performing at Studio Gallery. Both Omaha natives, and one of them a Backline Alum. Will Meinen left us for Chicago last September. He was one of the guys that ran Studio Gallery, and I took it over when he left. He's been studying with iO and Annoyance, plus a workshop with Kevin Mullaney. The other is a young woman who has been performing and studying at UCB and Magnet Theatre out in NYC. She also has a pretty good Twitter following @royalfetus. You can see them both performing with Backline's finest in the 10pm hour. The show tonight starts at 8pm with a Level 5 Class Show.
