One Night Stand #64: Bonnie McFarlane

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 19th, 2005

In our half of the country, it airs (can we even say airs any more, now that it technically doesn’t travel through the air, but through a cable?) at 9:30 PM. We advise you to check your newspaper (yeah, right… a newspaper! Or click on this.) for the time in your area.

An uproarious stand-up performance with Bonnie McFarlane who was featured on Last Comic Standing and who has appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Show With David Letterman.

Read the interviews with the comedians who are One Night Standing. Or just read Bonnie’s interview.

Yeah, I don’t know anybody who buys jokes. Comedians will sometimes sit around with each other and give each other jokes. Or you’ll watch somebody say it and you’ll think of a tag and give it to them. But there’s also comedians who are really controlling, so even if somebody comes up with something good for them, there’s a 90% chance they’re not gonna use it because it’s like ‘I have my own thing going on here.’ Sometimes a celebrity will want to start doing stand up and then they’ll buy some jokes. But the problem is that, for whatever reason, until you’ve been doing stand up like 15 – 20 years you can’t just do somebody else’s material. It’s it just doesn’t work usually.

Whatever you do, DO NOT click on the link that takes you to the One Night Stand Bulletin Boards to “Discuss Bonnie McFarlane.” It is an utter waste of time. And, judging from the number of posts and their pathetic quality, an utter failure.

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