DELRAY BEACH – While many comedians are attempting to take their live shows to the internet, some internet content creators are attempting to Frankenstein their memes into real life.
In a growing national trend, some of the most internet’s most famous meme creators have starting hosting live performance-type shows where they display some of their newest creations. Those performances combine art shows and stand-up comedy shows. And they are proving successful.
According to Gizmodo, “In contrast to lifestyle or travel influencers, who are adept at posing for controlled photo and video shoots, meme account admins operate behind the scenes. They are not themselves the subject of their accounts. The memers who spoke to Gizmodo took pride in creating original content both on- and offline, pairing images or footage they made or tweaked with overlay text and captions they penned. They write their own material, a skill that translates to IRL performance. They find themselves surprisingly well-suited to the stage.”
Taking memes to concert audiences seems like a natural progression. Memes are a growing portion of communication lexicon, and some of them are pretty funny.
We’re curious to see whether any South Florida comedians will add self-created memes to their sets, or whether some local memers are ready to join the comedy scene.
Also in today’s Stand-Up Spotlight, news that comedian Dane Cook’s newest project may bring yet another comic book character to life. There’s also veteran comic Orny Adams interesting take on why he doesn’t like performing in comedy clubs, and a quick look at D.L. Hughley’s opening stint as a “Daily Show” guest host.
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STAND-UP SPOTLIGHT – Feb. 6, 2023
Instagram Memers Are Performing in Sold-Out Live Shows
At 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in a small Manhattan comedy club, Annie Rauwerda brought down the full house with a PowerPoint slide, a blurry picture of Vienna bread illustrating a Wikipedia entry. The baked good was enhanced with motion-blur, looking inexplicably like an oncoming car. The audience, around a hundred 20- and 30-somethings, roared.
Rauwerda is part of a growing group of funny, often faceless people behind social media meme accounts who are taking their talents to stages around the country in an unexpected evolution of online humor: sold-out live shows. The IRL performances transliterate the deadpan, absurdist jokes of the internet into gags the audience members can laugh at together.
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Dane Cook Teases Meeting with Valiant Comics
In a move bound to surprise comic book readers and stand-up comedy fans, Dane Cook has taken to social media to reveal he took some kind of meeting with Valiant Comics. The performer writes in a tweet, “Had a great meeting with @ValiantComics! Tons of wild and wonderful possibilities. Nothing geeks me out more than a killer origin tale!” No further context was given by Cook, or Valiant, who retweeted the message to their followers. Is Cook in line to pen a comic for the publisher? Is he being recruited to develop a movie? Is he set to purchase the publisher outright? We have no idea!
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Comic connects with audiences using absurdities
The veteran comedian considers the show a homecoming of sorts, he said by phone from Los Angeles. “A theater, for me, feels like home,” Adams said. “The stage is pristine, the sound is pristine, the sightlines are pristine. Every theater show is like a homecoming for me.”
Comedy clubs? Maybe not so much. “To get more people in, they’ll put tables with people with their back to the stage, and people don’t even turn their chairs around. It drives me crazy,” he said.
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D.L. Hughley Was Almost a Little Too Cool for The Daily Show
During his third episode manning the Daily Show desk, the King of Comedy shone brightest during segments where he engaged with those around him.
A King of Comedy took a turn behind The Daily Show desk this week. Following strong hosting showings from Leslie Jones and Wanda Sykes, veteran stand-up comedian D.L. Hughley brought a different flavor to The Daily Show, letting his laid-back vibes and “chill uncle” energy carry him through his third show behind the desk.
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