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Comedy Etc: Silver Lake
Every Saturday:
@ 7:00pm Open Mic
@ 9:30pm Feature Show

3253 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057

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09/01/2012: Open Mic

09/01/2012: Feature Show

09/08/2012: Open Mic

09/08/2012: Feature Show

09/15/2012: Open Mic

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The Comedy News For 05/23/13

Comedy Fan Corner [+]

I will begin updaring this site again from behind the curtain. If you are seeing this, you are seeing the first sign this site is about to come back to life.

Posted May 4, 2012 by Shayne Michael under comedySite News for All | No Comments | Bookmark

Comedy Etc Show Recap 08-25-2012

Last night I thought we would have a decent turn out for the booked show and the open mic. I was correct. For our third show, we had our longest list so far with twenty performers. We had a high energy crowd, that reminded me of the Joke Gym at its best. We paid all our feature performers. Thanks to Jeff Leon for his unique musical comedy. I think someone put caffeine in Jeff's caffeine. For two of those performers, Scott Shimamoto and Tracie Walker, we wished them a happy birthday in style. We had a cake and Red Velvet Cookies for the audience. A separate cake for our headliner and feature. And they were paid. How many shows can say that?

Read the entire show recap here....

Posted August 26, 2012 by Shayne Michael under Comedy Etc for All | No Comments | Bookmark

Comedy Etc Silver Lake Presents Tracie Walker 08-25-2012

The Comedy Etc Show
Saturday @ The Tribal Beverly @ 08/25/2012
3253 Beverly Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA:

Feature Show: 9:30pm
Feature Show Events Page

HEADLINER: TRACIE WALKER

I liked Tracie Walker the minute I met her at the Comedy Store open mic nearly ten years ago. You have to know how many nut jobs hang around the Comedy Store open mic to know how hard it is to make a good impression on anyone by playing there. Tracie is the kind of female comic I really enjoy. She is smart and unapologetic with just a little bit of an edge.

Tracie is a native of Georgia. She was nominated the best female comedian at the Atlanta Comedy Awards. She has put on a one-woman comedy show called Tracie Walker: Just Talking at the world-famous Knitting Factory in Hollywood and the LA Comedy Connection. She's performed at the Ice House, the Comedy Store and many clubs throughout LA.

FEATURE COMIC: SCOTT SCHIMAMOTO

In 2007, Scott Shimamoto completed a stand-up comedy class. That's where it all came together: his Asian-Cholo-American childhood, his rap skills, and his observations about the lunacy of the business world. Since "graduation," Scott has performed at The Ice House, the Comedy Store, the Ontario Improv, the Haha Café, the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club, and the Commerce Casino. He also produces benefit shows for the American Cancer Society and private shows for business and trade organizations.

MUSICAL GUEST: JEFF LEON

Jeff Leon is currently based in Long Beach, CA and is gigging actively. He has played major comedy clubs (Comedy Store, Ice House, the Improv Clubs) , coffee houses, rock clubs, hip hop showcases, lesbian and gay venues, restaurants, birthday parties, a bar-mitzvah, sports bars, radio stations, art galleries, a trustafarian's loft party, a heroin rehab center, a fundraising event for three legged cats, a university fund raising event, a memorial event in a Pentecostal church, and a naked hippie festival. He appeared on season 7 of Last Comic Standing and has been a featured artist on the FUMP (Funny Music Project), which is the premiere internet site for funny music.

Posted August 23, 2012 by Shayne Michael under Comedy Etc for All | No Comments | Bookmark

The 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comic Trends

Steven Wright: New Rank 4 + / Showdown
Ellen DeGeneres: New Rank 5 -
David Brenner: New Rank 48 +
Mort Sahl: New Rank 49 -
Gilbert Gottfried: New Rank 63 + / Showdown
Richard Belzer: New Rank 64 - / Showdown
Russell Peters: New Rank 94 +

Comedian Corner [+]

The Cadence Of Comedy

What does it mean when someone says your timing is off? Tonight material that always works fell flat. And I started to wonder why. It may have been the same material I always do, but it wasn't in the same order. It wasn't delivered with the same subtle inflections. I didn't deliver it remotely close to the manner I usually do. At one point my dad dying of stage four cancer got a sympathy applause break. Talk bout throwing the audience for a loop. I've had sympathy laughter before; I have never had a sympathy applause break. On the drive home I realized the cadence was wrong. There's a reason I sometimes will work in a story with a long set up. I used to think it was to get the audience to practice listening. Tonight I realized I use long stories to intentionally change the cadence of the delivery.

Posted September 10, 2012 by Shayne Michael under Timing for All | No Comments | Bookmark

No matter how much good you do, someone will always find a way not to appreciate it.

Posted August 27, 2012 by Shayne Michael under Intermission for All | No Comments | Bookmark

The Importance Of Humility In Comedy

It's one thing to have faith in yourself. It's one thing to feel you deserve the best. It's one thing to be constantly be seeking better opportunities, so that you can leave the old ones that aren't paying the bills behind. But it's quite another thing to constantly put down other performers who don't reach your level of genius. Yes, I know this is the exception to the rule. I realize not many people who fit this mold, but when you cross the path of performers with no humility, boy do they stick out.

Post something inspirational, they respond with something sarcastic. Get booked in the same line up, they publicly wonder how the two of you ended up in the same show. Someone thanks you for being a part of the show, they ask why.

Humility means recognizing, no matter how often you're on stage, there is still something for you to learn and places to grow. The minute a comic rejects this lesson, the comic they are is the last comic they will ever be. Comedy, unlike music, suffers very quickly from becoming dated, even when it is not based on the news. A comic that never changes, because ironically they think they know everything, will never change. They're the same comic today they were yesterday. They remain static, while the audiences will be dynamic, changing and waiting for something new. Surprise, a comic that never changes, may once have been brilliant, but will quickly become irrelevant to the changing audiences living in changing times.

That said, I'm writing this to get it out of my system, as the people who need to hear it will never listen, otherwise I would have named names.

Posted August 26, 2012 by Shayne Michael under Humility for All | No Comments | Bookmark

Upcoming Stand-Up Comedy Seminars

Kurtis Mathews: San Francisco, CA on 09/13/2011 6pm / FREE / Visit The Class Website
Greg Dean: Los Angeles, CA on 09/26/2011 7pm / FREE / Visit The Class Website
Joe Falzarano: Los Angeles, California on 11/03/2011 10pm / 325 / Visit The Class Website

Pending Comment: Promotions 202

Way back when, Joe Braza wrote an article called Promotions 101 for Rob Twohy's LAugh Support. You can find all the back issues of that magazine on my old site. But I always wanted to expand on it for bookers who were really serious about promoting their shows. So here's some of the tools I've learned about while promoting the show at iCandy. Most who have headlined can attest, we're trying really hard to drive the audience to the room. And more often than not, we do. Before I lay down my strategy, here's the link where you can find Joe's original article on promotion. http://www.shayne-michael.com/laugh_support.php ... [Read Entire Article]

Posted August 24, 2011 by Shayne Michael under Promotion

Recent Biographies [+]

On January 17, 1949, in New York, Stanley and Janice Kaufman gave birth to Andy Kaufman, though it's said Janice did most of the work. Kaufman began his career as an artist at a young age. By the age of five Kaufman created his first broadcasts from his room. Sometimes, his only listener was his sister, before that he made the wallpaper his audience. In 1968 Kaufman enrolled in Boston's Graham Junior College, to study television and radio. That year he began performing in public. In his act, Kaufman would claim he wasn't a comic. In Andy's mind he was a song and dance man. He would do anything to evoke a reaction, even if it wasn't laughter. When the crowd demanded Latka, he read the Great Gatsby aloud, to intentionally alienate the audience. Still he gained fame as a comic genus through intentionally bad impressions. It was his impression of bad comedians that... [Read Entire Bio]