ENGLISH COMEDY IS BACK IN LISBON. And has been for some weeks, but I haven’t really been part of it besides helping out some people with their shows. Well, one person at least and so I wanted to write a post shouting him out since this blog still gets bunches of hits off the Google. Jacopo Spaziani has been part of English comedy in Lisbon since I became the host of the Zebras nights. If...
I really didn’t exepct to have any updates to post here for a while. Not much happed since the last one. No comedy. Little bit of films stuff here and there. Mostly focused on work. And then BAM - I get a text message that says “it’s finally happening”. “It” in this case is a little acting part I did last year, which is finally going to be on TV. Oh Fuck. So I still...
Dear IGAC, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin. I left my insta, cell, and website at the bottom. Okay, so I e-mailed the IGAC twice back in June to explain to them that the rules which govern standup comedy here in Portugal are nearly broken. I even CC’d someone I met there to make sure it didn’t end up in a recycle bin or lost in an endless inbox. Did anyone read it?...
The last time I did standup was on the September 24th Comedy Gym show outside at a viewpoint with Paul “Keep it Buttery” Kang, and Jacopo “The Italian One” Spaziani. The crowd was two of Jacopos friends and Paul’s girlfriend. And some random people that passed by. And it was fucking awesome. Really. The weather was excellent, and we were chilling outside with a speaker and mic, havin a good time saying random shit. We...
Alright, so here’s the thing. I’m NOT versatile at all. I do some standup. I get a lot of help from friends making little skits here and there. Those are already stretching the boundaries of my creative spirits. So I alwaaaaaaaaaaays feel iffy when people invite me to do stuff outside of that, like podcasts. Everyone has a podcast. I don’t have a single fucking exciting thing to say. That’s why I spend days writing...
Okay i’m still not an actor, but I did some acting! For a thing that’s supposed be on fucking TV, and they PAID me. Jokes on them, I would have did that shit for some low quality weed. But that made it really cool, and I got to work with a lot more dope people. And it was kinda funny how it all happened cause I thought I fucked it up and that it wouldn’t...
Well, I wasn’t going to share this quite yet. I was hoping to actually sit down and have a meeting with the IGAC before I talked about this. But yeah, Coronavirus went and fucked everything up, so why not throw this out there now. I was promoting comedy events for maybe 5-ish months before the pandemic shut down comedy in Lisbon. When I say promoting comedy events, I’m talking that I’m a legit registered promoter...
So apparently English comedy in Lisbon doesn’t stop. Many people in lockdown around the word due to the pandemic have taken their events online. And Lisbon comedians and other groups have connected online as well. I did a few web shows already. They were okay! Obviously not the same and people not laughing at you in person, but we out here adapting. doin that thang. comedy don’t stop. boom. So there’s two kinds of shows...