Powerloafing - Page 17

Pali · 06-02-2006, 12:28 AM

I think you're right there Mike, this place has slowed down somewhat in recent months. Partly due to people like me who stopped posting and simply searched for their name every couple of weeks.

I'm currently doing stand up every couple of weeks in shitty pubs in and around Camden, London. This is all just a prelude to me finishing my degree in a subject which I will never think about again, and then moving to NYC with a friend. Now obviously a move to America can be difficult, but I've already got the job thing nailed down (you know, relatives I can exploit). Hopefully I'll get to performing stand up and from there, who knows? Probably failure. The fact remains however that my love of comedy will always lie in the US, the comedy 'scene' in Britain is somewhat lacking.

I vote ME!!!! for most likely to succeed!

scotch-romanian · 06-02-2006, 01:21 AM

I wrote a full-length sketch the other day (finally). yay.

sorry about all the inane chatter and uncomfortble moments. i've been trying harder recently. good to hear about powerloafing.

and those pics/captions made me

(also good luck Me!!!! and Pali!!!!)

tjamick · 06-02-2006, 03:04 AM

I need to get back into stand up and writing. i have a few new jokes and am working on a few things, but i havent done enough. i've been working and traveling and havent had the time or energy to post much.

agent_PUNT · 06-02-2006, 01:15 PM

I am starting up a comedy show in my hometown with a friend. we are hoping to do it once a month.

travelling to Toronto to do some shows too... and playing the local crap comedy clubs.

I am hoping to make it to NY or SF late this summer... also thought about going to Austin maybe.. but that might be next year.

Hey Mike, is there any way you can put those first 2 photos up again but in bigger dimensions?

Jerkpatrol · 06-02-2006, 01:26 PM

Brand new to the forum, and like to break my cherry, so to speak, by thanking Mike for giving all his sage-like advice to young comedy writers trying to break on thru. You're like a high-school guidance counsellor, if he did his fucking job.

thanks

ME!!!! · 06-02-2006, 02:29 PM

Right now, I'm trying to get a job at the UPS around here (Arby's pays well but sucks ass). Good pay and benifits. Plus I'll have a good shot at applying for a transfer up to New York (family with connections) and a steady well paying day job. At nights I guess I'd just try the ol' slog of stand up and trying to meet people who could help me creativly I'm hoping to save up about $5000-$8000 so I can live up there for about half a year without worrying about rent. So far all I can do is save up, write, and listen to whatever suggestions you all can give.

I'm off to work.

Occupant · 06-02-2006, 02:35 PM

Tell me, from an insider's perspective:

When you actually see how Arby's food is prepared and served, does that make it more or less nasty? I'm inclined to think more, but that's also hard to imagine.

ME!!!! · 06-02-2006, 09:04 PM

Until cooked, the roast beef has a toothpaste like consistancy. Everything else is deep fried in grease. And almost everything lays around for about 12 hours before you eat it. I don't wash my hands and neither does anyone else.

voodoochile · 06-02-2006, 09:36 PM

Quote:

I don't wash my hands and neither does anyone else.

That's just the kind of work ethic the comedy world needs!

Occupant · 06-02-2006, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by voodoochile
That's just the kind of work ethic the comedy world needs!

If you're going to write a comedy scene, you're going to have some rat feces in there.

CptPlanet · 06-02-2006, 10:03 PM

hey mike, ron lynch is fucking hilarious in powerloafing. pass it on.

ME!!!! · 06-02-2006, 10:07 PM

When is the Office Shooting incident episode of powerloafing coming out?/Why haven't you introduced a crazed white power janitor co-worker yet?

Rabot · 06-03-2006, 02:39 PM

I really haven't kept up with this thread at all. Someone summarize it for me.

PLEASE?!

RizzleMcIzzle · 06-03-2006, 02:46 PM

Mike summarized it very well:

Quote:

Originally posted by Upskii
I just reread it for the first time, and it transitioned from spam post to motivational comedy forum to career seminar, with some inane chatter and uncomfortable moments thrown in, but overall it's an okay thread. Especially after I edited a couple of my posts for being stultifying.

It's worth reading since he had some very insightful answers to our questions.

Jerkpatrol · 06-03-2006, 02:57 PM

Its amazing, Fox can't find an audience or a place for the brilliant Arrested Development, yet I just saw an ad for a new Fox show called Hell's Kitchen. The Reality show "Where they find out who's better at cooking...man...or woman".

Who greenlights this shit? Although sadly, I'm sure this show will find an audience which just proves that people are a bunch of fucking clown shoes.