'If you see one of the people that’s really good at it, it’s like this gift that the comedian is offering that crowd that night, and they know it.' Listen to moshekasher on this week's GoodOnePodcast
Moshe Kasher Photo: FilmMagic/Getty Images Many comedians and audiences are skeptical about the idea of crowd work, as a practice, in stand-up comedy, seeing it, especially when it’s bad, as a crutch, or a stalling tactic, or full of canned, antagonistic insults. Comedian Moshe Kasher wants to disavow us of that notion.
Natasha, my wife, got great advice early in her career, which is, “Get them laughing before you even start talking.” So she does this trick when she comes out that always gets a laugh. It’s before she speaks. I actually do a thing also, so that sometimes can be what crowd work’s job is. Sometimes I call it “opening for myself.” I come out and do bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Let me start the show.
That said, how do you take that temporary gift and turn it into something that feels a bit more permanent? That’s why I came up with the concept of this album, which was, rather than talking about the elements in the room, and rather than talking about the things that I saw, I wanted to ask these very specific questions to elicit stories from people, because I figured every comedian, every human has five or six stories that they tell at every party they go to when they’re trying to be...
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