Michael Podolinsky TakeOut Comedy Club Singapore Open Mic 210709
Mike Podolinsky TakeOut Comedy Club Singapore Open Mic 210709
TakeOut Comedy presents the FIRST and ONLY Stand Up Comedy Open Mic in Singapore.
I watched a TV series years ago on PBS back in OOOSA with grand master of comedy Alan King interviewing the funniest comics in Las Vegas and Hollywood. He asked, “Is going crude and dirty necessary?” A young comic said, “No…. but it sure helps.”
Then Tim Conway, the Emmy Award winning star, movie star and stand up pro said, “No, I think it hurts.”
Alan King said, “That sounds like a challenge.” The two comics faced off against each other. The young guy used ‘shock and awe’ tactics, F’in this and F’in that. He got a big laugh albeit nervous laugh. (this WAS public television)
Then Tim Conway gets up and tells a joke; clean as a whistle. He massages it, stair steps it, works it, builds, repeats, builds and BAM… they could not stop laughing for 90 seconds or more and then clapped for another 30 seconds; eclipsing the other ‘comic’ with more laughter and applause than he had gotten INCLUDING his joke time.
Just after 20 years in Singapore, I’ve really grown to love the fact that I can have dinner with my family in almost any restaurant, coffee shop or tavern or sit in a bus and not hear raw sewage spewed out from the mouth of the guy behind me or at the next table. I LOVE the idea of comedy coming to Singapore.
To me, after 20 years in living in a really clean Singapore environment, I was shocked that this is what the English language has evolved into. My personal measure is simply, “Are our words uplifting and improving the world we live in?”
Mike,
Brave, man. Out of the box, out of the comfort zone.(More trite sayings to follow.) You were FUNNY! Liked the Mongolian wife bit. Sarnai is a sweetheart! The mother-in-law; good thing she knows no English.
Hope to see you this winter.
Mike,
Great stuff. It’s is wonderful to see you doing standup. I once tried doing standup comedy sitting on a stool but something about it just wasn’t right.
Way to go!
Thanks Randall
You are so multi-faceted I believe you can do just about anything. Thanks for your kind comments. I have no intention of being a comic. Just want to stretch myself and further develop my humour for speaking and training. I already see the benefit in my speaking. God bless you.
mike