[Eat, Pray, Love] is about a newly divorced woman who travels the world on a journey to find herself. See that's the difference between men and women right there. Woman gets divorced, she travels the world to find herself. Guy gets divorced, he's traveled up the 5 to a studio apartment in Barstow, ok? (laughter) Yeah. Yeah yeah. She's in Italy eating Italian food; he's at The Olive Garden with a 20% off coupon. (laughter) OK?… (laughter)
Michele Bachmann is a celebrated performance artist whose controversial act gained widespread attention when she did a satirical piece referencing McCarthyism and its reflex in current political discourse. In a piece she did with Chris Matthews, she mocked Sarah Palin's paranoid campaign rhetoric about Barack Obama "palling around" with anti-American liberals like Saul Alinsky and Tony Rezko, the climactic point of the performance being a call for all anti-American senators and representatives to be exposed.
We have Oscar winner Javier Bardem on the show tonight. (ecstatic cheers) He is in the movie, Eat, Pray, Love. (ecstatic cheers) Doesn't that sound like something that Arnold Schwarzenegger would say to Maria on a Sunday morning? [imitating Schwarzenegger] "Eat Pray Love!" Then you eat. First you eat, then you pray, then you love —Argh!" (laughter) 
Dana Gould is a bit absurdist, a bit storyteller, a bit impressionist, mostly caricaturist. He's one of the most complete acts working. Let Me Put My Thoughts In You, besides being wonderfully titled, is a good look at him.
That is another really weird thing I developed from my father: just this bizarre genetic inability to create muscle tone. I barely eat. I could do sit-ups all day. I stand up: I'm still built like a condom full of walnuts.
Leukemia will still be there. Multiple sclerosis will be fine. We've gotta crack the old guy boner draught!
And TMZ is reporting that Kim Kardashian and…former boyfriend Reggie Bush got into a huge fight at a wedding reception…. It's a shame these two can't get along better. I mean they have so much in common. I mean they are both outstanding tailbacks don't you think? (groans and applause)To me, you can just feel that the people who made Airplane! were just, were really into it and were just you know just love these dumb jokes and were like, 'Look at all these dumb jokes everybody. Isn't this so funny? Aren't we all just having fun?' Whereas like, those disaster movies just feel like cheap cash-ins, they feel really lazy.
But are you sure that it's that and it's not just because at the time, that we were a little bit more just impressed with it at the time that it was happening?That we were younger and therefore more susceptible to laughing at those things? And now there's an establishment associated with it that there isn't associated with the disaster movies.
Brittain is a Chicago based comedian, who has worked with the iO comedy team, Mike Helicopter, also teaching at the theater. He has worked with the Second City and the Annoyance Theater. He also did his solo show, Sex Ed, at the TBS Just For Laughs Festival.
Bayer, a Cleveland native, is now based in Chicago, working with the iO team Revolver, the Annoyance Theater, and The Second City Touring Company. She has interned at Conan O'Brien's NBC gig, and on Sesame Street!
Killam might look familiar from his work on MADtv, How I Met your Mother, one of the strange incarnations of Scrubs, and plenty other television appearances. He is also a member of The Groundlings.
Naomi Campbell [is] testifying at the war crimes trial of the former liberian president…Charles Taylor. …It's over what they call conflict diamonds. Apparently she got them from Taylor. He was trying to impress her. You know what those are, conflict diamonds? Those are diamonds that are sold to fund wars. They call them blood diamonds. That's what it's about. Don't confuse those with conflict zirconium. No No. No. (laughter) That's a conflict that develops after your wife finds out the diamond you bought is really a cubic zirconium. That starts another war completely. (laughter) That is a whole different war. A different war. (applause)
Will Forte has announced that he is leaving Saturday Night Live. He will not be with the show when the new season begins this fall. He has been with the show since 2002, starting as a featured player, then moving up to a regular.
Hey this is kinda serious. Physicist—you know Stephen Hawking?—Stephen Hawking's now warning that if [the] human race doesn't colonize other planets, we will become extinct. You know, I know Hawking's a genius, but has colonizing ever worked? If we took over another planet, you know what would happen: We'd feel guilty. We'd make up for it by giving the original inhabitants casinos. We'd lose all our money. We'd be right back where we started again. (light laughter and applause) Exactly. Exactly. It doesn't work.
You know, it's all about jobs. That's what it is. "Jobs" is the issue. And this recession has hit Las Vegas especially hard. I read today lap dancers say they're making half of what they used to make. (laughter) Well you know what that means? A lot of these young women are gonna have to give up their dream of finishing college. You know it's just… (laughter and applause)
Wendy Liebman is probably best known for her one liners that work by changing meaning halfway through the sentence. That's a pretty standard structure for jokes, but much of Liebman's material stands out as particularly bound within the sentence.
Well you know, today, the same day that this new anti-immigration law went into effect, Arizona made it legal to carry a concealed weapon without any training or a permit. So if you're illegal, working the nightshift at the Phoenix Walmart to support your family, get the hell out of there! (laughter) O my god! (cheers)
Don't expect watching this HBO special to be easy. It's full of spasms, puns, prop comedy, crowd-work, and fart jokes. On top of all that, Howie Mandel's delivery makes Mitch Fatell sound like Jeremy Irons.
Marc Maron's WTF podcast has dropped 100 episodes. He started putting them out in September of last year, and through all the changes, he has consistently produced provocative, entertaining and engaging shows. It's one of two podcasts that I started listening to from the beginning and of which I've not missed an episode. For the 100th episode celebration Maron put out a special version. A quick synopsis:
On the tail end of that, we listen in on a tender conversation with his mother, who asks him if the girl he's dating has graduated high school yet. Then a conversation with his father, who says he's been too busy to listen to a single episode, then gives a quick goodbye and hangs up.
It's a good episode. He sounds genuinely pleased to still be doing the podcast. And he promises he's in it for a while. Maron knowingly approaches vulnerability on the stage and on WTF. His fans are devoted to and invested in his story. It's easy to see why so many think they know him, understand him, and perhaps that he even knows them. That he's talking just to them.
As you know, Lindsay [Lohan] was released from jail the other night, 1:35 in the morning…She was sentenced to 90 days in jail but she only served 13. Authorities said she was released early for good behavior. And today Snooki said "Good behavior? What's that?" She didn't seem to understand. (light laughter)
Jamie Kilstein is a good comedian, but his tweets probably won't make you laugh so often. He's a very political, very passionate, very sarcastic performer. Take the content of his act, subtract the form of humor, and you've got his twitter feed.Chelsea's wedding is this weekend. Yeah. (hoots and applause) Chelsea's wedding. Doesn't that sound like the ultimate chick flick? (light laughter) Didn't Julia Roberts marry Hugh Grant or something in that one there? (light laughter) Chelsea's Wedding. Sounds like it should be on a double bill with The Notebook. Yeah. (light laughter)
Nothing new here. And if you like stand-up, you should have seen these already. Two Richard Pryor concerts are available: Live on the Sunset Strip, and Here and Now.
Hey, you know that cap BP put on the well? Federal officials have now detected seepage. See, I'm not sure what seepage is but it it doesn't sound good, does it? (light laughter) Sounds like that warning on the side of the bag of potato chips that have Olestra, you know? (laughter) Eww, may cause seepage (laughter) Eww I don't know what that is. Just sounds yeah, eww…don't like the sound of that. (applause)
Episodes 101 and 102 of Comedy and Everything Else focus on Kyle Cease and his controversial Stand-Up Boot Camp. If you're going to put in the 3.5 hours to listen to the two CaEE episodes, read Doug Stanhope's tirade first. His blog post was what put Cease's project on the map. Or perhaps, on the battlefield.
Tickets go on sale today for Brian Regan's show at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Saturday, October 23.A new study shows that teenagers and young adults are not reading newspapers. They say young people do not read newspapers at all. You know what that means: George bush was ahead of his time. He's hip now (laughter) He's in with the young people. (applause)
Greg Fitzsimmons, host of his self-named show on Howard 101 on Sirius, and his own podcast since August 2009, has written a book titled Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons, a collection of letters his mother saved, written to her by the authority figures who saw little Greg getting in trouble.
