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Where are the bouncers, Pt. II
Check out this video of an incident at the Seattle Underground (at least we think it’s the Seattle Underground… there’s a big sign on the stage that reads “Comedy Underground,” along with an illustration of the Seattle skyline. If it isn’t the Seattle Underground, it’s totally illogical for a club in Columbus or Austin.)
It’s entitled “Comedian Attacked” but we like to call it “Where are the bouncers?”
We don’t recognize the comic. Anyone out there know who it is? Anyone know any of the other circumstances? Our thanks to “Rick in Seattle” for turning us onto the clip. Says Rick: “This goes back to the need for managers to police their clubs and shut down the heckling before you have someone on stage smacking you.” We concur.
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I believe that that is James Inman, of http://jamesinman.com/
He is James Inman. A fellow Seattle comedian, Peter Greyy, identified him here: http://www.roadcomics.com/greenroom/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4109Here is his MySpace site: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=32960332
um. I think a better title might be WHERE’S THE BOOKER?? He’s doing towell head “material.” Oh please. I’m guessing they were Turkish born bouncers.
Um.Let’s see if we have this straight: You see a video where a comedian is set upon by an audience member (two audience members!) and all you can do is whine about the relative merits of the joke?Priceless.You have hit a new, moronic low.
Of course it’s wrong that this lady attacked him, but I don’t feel sorry for him in the least. It’s easy to forget that the paying audience members are real people who react to certain things just as they would if you were talking to them on the subway. This guy went out of his way to provoke the woman. He could have ignored her and finished the joke a couple of times, but he obviously wanted to “win the fight.” Chances are, if enough people get screamed at and insulted by any performer, someone is going to do something stupid. In the end he can at least be satisfied that the audience was engaged.It’s a weird balance fighting for 100% free speech for comedians and 100% censorship of the audience.
klmcomic:This is a joke, right?This is so stupid, so dumb, we hardly know where to begin.You’re a comedian? And you conclude that the audience member doesn’t have the options of silence or walking?We are exasperated by the self-hating comic. You are a simpleton. You lack even the most rudimentary ability to reason.100 per cent censorship? This must be a gag.
There seems to be some agreement that it is in fact James Inman in the clip. From < HREF="http://www.jamesinman.com" REL="nofollow">Inman’s website<>: he’s the 1997 winner of the San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition and Entertainment Business Journal’s Top 100 Comedians in the country.
also as far as hitting a “new moronic low” coming from you people i take that as a compliment. don’t you have some airplane food jokes that need re-tooling. or are you too busy trying to figure out a clever way to work the term “towel-head” into your act.
It is a newer, lower moronic low you have hit.You are hopeless.We will never be able to make you see the big picture.
<>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXyPfFTNnik<>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXyPfFTNnikshows you a much longer clip with the punchline to his joke and his reaction later. I originally saw the first clip and even if I thought the audience members shouldn’t do that, I was disgusted by the Springer-ness of the event. However, in the longer clip, he begins to make a very subtle point and does it well.
Oh, Shecky. You’re the online comedy magazine, and you’re not familiar with the Comedy Underground in Seattle or the past winners of the San Francisco Comedy Competition? Tis a shame.Unless things have changed at the Undergound since the last time I was there, the club has never employed bouncers. A manager or ass’t works the front counter and the light, and has a view of the stage, but there isn’t anyone to ward off hecklers.And based on the scene depicted by fellow comedian Travis Simmons (who submitted the vid, according to MySpace accounts on Inman’s page), it was a sparse crowd that night. I’m guessing a weeknight open mic, even. The women from the audience came from the back of the room, past several empty chairs. I’m guessing that whole show had an off vibe to it.
“Off vibe,” indeed!We’re passingly familiar with the winners of past competitions here and there, but, as we are a humble publication, employing only two people, we cannot be expected to know everything.Actually, we don’t profess to know everything. We just hope that folks <>think<> that we know everything!Oh, if we only had the multi-million dollar resources of Mr. Purcell and the Boston Herald!!
P.S. Mr. McCarthy, we would point out that we <>are<> familiar with Mr. Simmons! We worked with him (and he brought his Canon Xl-1!) at the Tacoma Underground… which, oddly enough, as you undoubtedly know, is on the second floor!
P.P.S. Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Inman hails from Kansas City. We are only passingly familiar with Kansas City, as we have only performed there once… on a cross-country trip in 1993, we arranged to showcase at a club that shall remain nameless. (I, the MHOTS, followed Shang Forbes, as I recall). And the folks who book the room didn’t bother to show up, so it was a giant waste of time (Well, it wouldn’t be the first time!)… just clearing up the record.Still– When I, TMHOTS, initially viewed the video, I said, not audible to the FMHOTS, “that’s that Inman fellow, I bet.” So… we get points.