Modified On January 11, 2008
The Columbus Dispatch interviewed Kathleen Madigan in anticipation of her first theater gig in Columbus tonight.
Naturally, she talks about her experience as a “talent scout” for the most reason season of Last Comic Standing. Madigan claims she “had a tough time tolerating the inexperienced.”
“Stand-up comedy is not like singing,” she said. “Some people who work at the post office, let’s say, actually can really sing. It’s astonishing.
“Yet even if you’re funny, if you’ve never done stand-up the way you do stand-up, you can’t go on national television for 15 weeks and wing it.
“I’m not saying you have to be a headliner, but at least you have to have done it for a couple years.”
Brilliant move on Madigan’s part to invite the local DJ’s to open! That should assure a packed house at the Vern Riffe Center.