Comedian Doug Stanhope’s blog Comedy Death Camp received tremendous buzz this week as he ripped the comedy seminar business and some of its key players:
On comedy classes:
They are all 100 percent bullshit. It wouldn’t matter if it were Pryor, Carlin and Mark Twain at the podium at the Holiday Inn banquet room, it would be them ripping you off.
On motivational speaker Judy Carter:
…there are people equally as worthless but with better “marketing” skills that can make a career out of it…J.C. had the audacity to write a book called The Comedy Bible with no more qualifications as the guy at the VFW hall who re-words old Polish jokes into Iraqi jokes or whatever the unpopular country of the day may be.
On industry veteran Jeff Singer:
…the industry guy who has never done comedy teaching you from an “Insider’s Perspective.”…Singer is most shameful doing this because he is also the talent guy for the Montreal [Just For Laughs] Comedy Festival, the iron pyrite gold ring for up-and-coming comics. Singer isn’t just dangling a carrot in front of you with his sham comedy workshop, he’s flopping it out of his pants and rubbing it on your lips while you cry on the couch.
On comedian-comedy coach Kyle Cease:
…there is a plague called Kyle Cease who has either bribed, bullshitted or butt-fucked his way into making Louie Anderson a de facto partner with him in the biggest Comedy Hucksterism that I have seen in 20 years…”Stand-Up Boot Camp” is without question a complete waste of time, money and probably more damaging to your chances of being a successful comedian than cutting out your own tongue.
Read Doug’s full blog, Comedy Death Camp.
