Subject: RE: Stand-Up Material |
From: "David Madow" <dave@madow.com> |
Date: 3/23/09, 17:54 |
To: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Barrett-
Thanks for your interest and your bits. They are OK but
not exactly the direction I want to go… mummies, witches, werewolves!!! If
you could send some more samples, that would be great. I have gotten a ton of
responses as you could imagine. I do love sarcasm, making fun of myself, crazy
situations… I could give you more ideas as well. I would love to do
bits more on everyday type situations. Just making fun of regular stuff, if
that makes sense. Feel free to send me as many samples as possible. I would
never use any of your material unless we have a deal! Thanks so much.
Dave
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From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:06 PM
To: David Madow
Subject: Re: Stand-Up Material
Oops, sorry. Here it is for
real this time:
When I was a kid, my uncle
came over for Christmas one year and gave me a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Basically, he had given me a probability whereby I might receive a Christmas
gift.
Look, I need to make a
confession, because I feel really bad about something. I just made that whole
thing up, about my uncle giving me a lottery ticket for Christmas. That never
happened. I don't know why I said it did. I don't even have an uncle. I guess
I'm just a liar. Worse, I'm a thief, too. I used to steal lottery tickets from
my uncle all the time when I was a kid.
You know those old movies
where some British explorer is exploring a pyramid or some such and then he
open a sarcophagus with a mummy in it, and then the mummy gets out and starts
chasing the explorer with his hands outstretched like this, you know? What is
the mummy going to do if he catches the explorer? What is the mummy's
motivation? Frankly, I can't imagine that a mummy would have any motivation
whatsoever. And why would you run away from a mummy? He's been rotting. That
doesn't make you stronger. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that some of these
movies are made up.
You want to know something
really sad? Every time we discover a new mummy, it becomes that much less
likely that we're going to find another one. At this point, we're probably not
going to find any more mummies, so you're just going to have to learn to enjoy
the mummies you already have.
There was a poll that Time
magazine did a few years back which revealed that twenty percent of Americans
believe in witches. Twenty percent. Isn't that great? I really admire those
people. Think how exciting that must be, to believe that witches are running
around and casting spells on things. I could really use some excitement in my
life. So I've decided to believe in werewolves. Making yourself believe in
werewolves is a time-consuming process. You have to spend a lot of time looking
at pictures of hairy people. I've been trying to get a picture of Robin
Williams with his shirt off, for instance. I'm probably the only person who can
say that.
Oh, just a quick
announcement before I forget - if anyone is interested in buying some stolen
lottery tickets, please come see me after the show.
Anyway, who wants to see me
do some impressions? I like to do impressions, but I like to do them wrong. I
don't like to feel constrained by convention. So I just do them how I want to
do them. For instance, this whole time I've been talking,
I've actually been doing an
impression of Sean Connery. Did you catch that? And during the parts when I
wasn't actually being funny, I was doing Carlos Mencia. Now I'm going to do
Arnold Schwarzenegger. (In robot voice) "LOOK AT ME, I'M ARNOLD
SCHWARZENEGGER! I'M A BIG ROBOT, BEEP, BEEP, MALFUNCTION EARTH HUMANOID!"
And here's Liz Taylor (in Mr. T voice) "I PITY THE FOOL THAT DOESN'T BUY
ME SOME FUCKING DIAMONDS AND TAKE ME OUT TO EAT AT SOME FANCY RESTAURANT OUT IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OR PARIS OR SOMEWHERE LIKE THAT! I'M HUNGRY FOR SOME CAKE,
SUCKA!"
Oh my god, is that a
werewolf back there? No, way in the back there... okay, I guess it's not. Well,
you never know, do you?
Did you know that in
Japanese culture, cats are considered symbols of sexuality? Never, ever go to
Japan. Ever. Not even a little bit.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Madow <dave@madow.com> wrote:
Barrett-
Thanks for your response. You
indicated some material was included but I believe you forgot to attach it.
Could you please give it another try?
Dave
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:20 AM
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Subject: Stand-Up Material
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Hi-
I understand that you're looking for material, so I thought I'd send the
following short routine for you to review. It hasn't been used; I wrote it a
while back in hopes of selling it to someone. My other work has appeared in Vanity
Fair, National Lampoon, McSweeney's, and dozens of other
publications.
The material is below; take a look and let me know if you're interested.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
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