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Stand-Up Routine
By PaperSmile
06 December 2006
Okay....yeah, it's crap, but I'm just going through my PC looking for things I can be bothered to upload.

Cheers,
Paper Smile.

-         What’s got three legs and lives on a farm? The McCartneys. Sick joke, I know. God, I hate the Beatles. Not just the insects, the human ones too. Hate ‘em. Can’t bear ‘em. Most of all I can’t stand Paul McCartney.

-         When I listen to Imagine, and then listen to Mull of Kintyre I wonder if they shot the wrong bloke. Did you know, a few days ago, McCartney’s up on stage playing to this huge crowd, and he’s ‘singing’ away, ignoring the fact he’s sixty, and as relevant as the Mary Rose, and he’s supposed to walk over to this huge grand piano that mysteriously appears through a hole in the floor.

-         So, he walks over and doesn’t see that the piano isn’t there; he falls five feet down into this hole in the stage and lands on the piano. Now…surely you’d see that the piano wasn’t there, but no, not Maccas. Is it his age?

-         You know what I think?  It was the roadies making amends. The wrong guy got shot back in 1980, so they’re putting it right 25 years late. And good on ‘em.

-         Anyway, McCartney crawled out this vast expanse and he proceeded to tell the crowd it was meant to happen! The only idiots stupid enough to believe this fall was scripted are the kind of idiots who would pay a hundred quid to hear McCartney ‘sing’ anyway! And what happens for the rest of the tour? Does he hire a stunt double? “Wanted, geriatric stunt double with a fetish for one legged women”. Is he going to gradually make the stunts more dangerous, finally cumulating in him being fired out a cannon, or stepping on a land mine?

-         Or, will it be a one off? There was talk of them building a nice little picket fence round the piano, to stop him walking into the hole again. Maybe instead he’ll trip and fall into the fence?

-         And what is it about musicians? This great bunch of retards, this ecliptic group of spastics. People who become multimillionaires because they can strum a guitar and shout. The guitarist with the Stone Roses, throws his guitar in the air, can’t catch the damn thing and it breaks his nose! Seahorse? More like carthorse.

-         Some of these idiots, it’s amazing they survived infancy, never mind stringing their first guitar without accidentally wrapping the thing round his neck or stabbing his own eyes out. And some of them, Jesus, how much bad luck must they have? Steve Tyler, alien or experiment gone wrong? Maybe he just fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch. And he’s famous? He has groupies! He looks like Michael Jackson next to a fire!

-         Now, I’m sure you’ll have all seen lately that Jacko managed to once more beat back American justice, and all those accusations of child abuse. What’s Michael Jackson’s idea of a perfect 10? Two five year olds. Why did Jacko call Boys-2-Men? He thought it was delivery service. As a terrible irony children can now buy the Wacko Jacko Halloween mask. This distorted vision of terror allows kids to molest their friends in total secrecy.

-         He was quoted as saying “I’m just like anyone else. I cut and I bleed”. Well, cut your wrists and we’ll see if you’re right. Or, “Why can’t you share your bed? It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. The whole world should do it”…and he wonders why he’s always in court.

-         Americans…they pride themselves on being the land of the free, and the land of opportunity. Freedom and opportunity my arse. Only in the US could a group of white supremacists rule the entirety of the south for a hundred years. President Truman famously paid his dues to the Klan. But surely there must be a use for the Klan? Environmental policies perhaps, “keep the artic white”.

-         Speaking of white supremacists, George Bush and his staff…talk about a fuck up. New Orleans, Tom Delay, house majority leader said “now tell me the truth boys, is this kinda fun?”…to three young hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston. And, believe it or not, it gets worse. "Louisiana is a city that is largely under water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at a news conference, September 3rd, 2005.
-         Even during his election campaign in 2000 he managed to make a fool of himself. You’re a citizen of a country who has just said goodbye to arguably the greatest modern president, and only the second democrat since Truman, what do you chose as the slogan to win your presidency? Reform’N’Stuff. Oh my God…but I’ll give the guy his credit, he is good at bullshit. How many Bush’s does it take to change a lightbulb? Three. One to change the lightbulb, one to promise he’ll do it better than anyone else, and one to obscure the issues.
-         But Bush isn’t the only idiot the great American people have voted for lately. Arnie, governor of Californian, said on his campaign trail that he believed, “gay marriage should be kept between a man and a woman”. Need I say more?
-         Then again, we can see stupidity closer to home too. Good old Tony, our PM, the man in charge, decided to ignore advice from the man in charge of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, and invade Iraq, despite their patchy, incomplete, obviously correct intelligence, which turned out to be utter bollocks anyway. Of course, to rub in the opposition against the war the Nobel Committee gave their Peace Prize to the man himself.
-         …Terrorism is a huge threat these days, Al-Qaeda, obviously.

Reviews

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3459 comments posted) 6th December 2006
It seems funny reading a stand up routine. It's natural home is in a club with lots of atmosphere and a manic comedian spouting it while coping with hecklers. With something like this a lot depends on the "attitude" of the comedian so it's really difficult to judge. There are some good moments but it could do with an edit to tighten it up and a few more killer punch lines. 
I downloaded a Blackadder script and on the page a lot of it looked dull When Blackadder says "So it''s Bob then"- doesn't do much on the page but was laugh out-loud funny on the screen 
It's all in the telling, 
Good effort 
J

Written by Phil (6851 comments posted) 6th December 2006
Some good material - I think. As BBS says, difficult to judge without hearing it. For me it clicks along nicely without having any really great punch lines. 
 
I wonder who picture delivering this. 
 
Phil.
Hmmm
Written by givitsum (651 comments posted) 8th December 2006
 
Not sure about this one. There's some funny enough material, but for me stand up needs an element of visual stuff to go with it. Watch Billy Connolly, always on the move.  
 
To be honest this is probably the first time I have read a stand up routine written down, so maybe they all lack punch in this format.  
 
Brave of you to post it though, well done. 
 
Rgds 
 
Givitsum
Different..
Written by woody44 (777 comments posted) 8th December 2006
A very interesting concept this one. I, like others here, have never really seen stand-up written down. I think it helps if one visualizes a particular comedian, say Peter Kay, and then read it - out loud! There was certainly some good throw-away lines, and a brave attempt at something new on the site. Good on ya! 
 
Woody

Written by coosh (894 comments posted) 8th December 2006
Some of the material seemed good, I just had to keep trying to picture someone I know doing it, with a particular crowd. I've no idea - I've always assumed stand-up is based on a degree of improvisation woven around the comic's familiarity with his/her own routines (depending on the length of the gig) - plus the timing and the delivery.... and the (friendly/difficult) audience factor. An original post for this section - club stuff would scare me shitless - have you got a video on youtube?
Reworking..?
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 8th December 2006
Like the others,I thought there was the right approach here, but I found the material a tad lame and predictable. Its too easy to throw out a few well known names as targets and hope to raise a laugh McCartney/Jackson/Bush/ Blair etc. What you need is some original material, a distinctive angle and more than anything, good gags. I thought it started off promising; but then had nowhere to go and resorted to tired jokes which fell flat.  
 
Contrary to opinions above Stand Up [ Monologue ]delivery has been done before on this site. It really does require pacey material. And sadly I don't get that feel from this. 
 
Well done for trying. It isn't easy. All about confidence. Never was the old cliche ' Comedy is a serious business ' better illustrated. Worth reading though. 
 
Slan!
Well I laughed!
Written by Leigh (241 comments posted) 5th March 2007
Not been on here for a while, so only got around to reading this today, but I enjoyed it. As others have said, it isn't always easy reading a stand-up script and seeing it in black and white is totally different to hearing the gags in a comedy club environment, but there are some witty bits in here. 
 
OK, maybe some of the targets are easy ones, but they're ripe nonetheless (enjoyed the McCartney bits)!

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