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The Best of Standup Comedy?

King Kamala

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So many dude bro comics have moved to Austin, TX. I feel bad for the comics who were already there. It WAS a good scene but now Idk...
 

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What I know about the Austin comedy scene is that the comics seem way more relaxed and accessible. I hear more stories about just hanging out with various ones after shows than the shows themselves. One of my seriously misplaced priorities when I was considering moving there a while back was having friends who will get smoked out by Morgan Murphy whenever she's in town.
 

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tbh almost every Austin comic I've met has been chill as hell but that was all pre Rogan. There were some galaxy brained libertarian types too (who were super nice, I guess) but hey, Austin's Alex Jones' hometown so its had that streak long before Rogan hit the city.
 

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I was going to make a remark about how while he may be a horrible comic and seem like a horrible person, he did a truly heroic thing but I keep getting distracted by the fact he's wearing a hat adorned with multiple Chief Wahoo logos while recounting this harrowing tale. #VirtueSignalingKamala
 

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I have no idea who those guys are but I just know the ones I want to get Covid haven't. I also live in a pretty woke twitter bubble when it comes to comics so I've got a bit of a bias. I wonder if Andy Kindler and I are still bros re: woke comics.
 

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And I felt like a putz for spending $150 to do a workshop with semi-disgraced former booker for Letterman in year 3ish of doing stand-up. I didn't even get sick but we did spend an frustatingly inordinate amount of time arguing about how to split our lunch bill.
 

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Nah. Eddie Brill, the guy who was stand up booker until 2012 when he got fired for telling NYT that too many female comics just wanted men to like them.
 

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Now that's fucking scary. Didn't even have someone to dump him at Eric Stoltz's house.
 

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I know but they're a lot more intimidating when he is spouting antivaxxer stuff instead of telling jokes about how messed up drinking too much tequila makes you feel.
 

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Falling for every single dumb conspiracy theory has to be hard on one's sleep cycle.
 
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