Black Market Comedy

Bringing Live Stand-up Comedy to Ashland, Talent, Medford, Grants Pass, & Jacksonville, OR

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The Bleeder

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Is there a bit of slang in performance art called the “nosebleed?”   If not, there should be. I’m not sure what it would pertain to, but something to do with blasting through obstacles in a performance.  The urban dictionary has a few interesting definitions of nosebleed, and as is common with the urban dictionary, every word has to have at least two sexual definitions, whether they make sense or not.  One seemingly normal definition, however, was:

  1. Metaphorically used to describe incredible heights
  2. Metaphorically used to describe incredible speeds

I can get behind this definition as a starting point for deriving a whole new definition of the “nosebleed” in the context of performance art (such as Stand-up Comedy, for example).

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Why the keen interest in the nosebleed? It comes from my latest travels during the holiday season.  While on the road, I spent some days in Portland, OR and there just happened to be a few Comedy Open Mics during the nights I was in town.  Well, hell yeah, I’ll sign up and do a few minutes of my shit for P-town. It was cool how many performers there actually were at the different clubs in town. Portland has a nice little comedy scene going, and it seems like the crowds are quite supportive.

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Hong Kong Komedy – Sept 20, 2009

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Lordy, lordy, the show that almost didn’t happen.  Sorry, we didn’t get any video this time around (except the shameless plug below), but the night turned out well.  Three (3) of our comics called in sick this Sun., we had no working microphone, and the crew had added and pulled show events from Facebook enough times to thoroughly confuse our fans, ADD/ADHD or not.

Sunday Night – Live Web Blast (Sept. 20, 2009)

But, we luckily had three (3) new comics who wanted to give stand-up a shot, and an ample enough audience to deserve a good show, so the remaining BMC decided to go for it.  Levi “the Wrangler” hosted the evening, introducing three (3) newcomers: Scott, Victoria, and Adam; followed by a 25-minute set by Tyler Foley.

The lack of microphone allowed the audience to participate a little more than should be healthy for an amateur night, but Levi and Tyler had a blast with the outspoken members.  First there was the old bearded guy from Talent, who wouldn’t share his weed but wanted to share his Michael Jackson joke.

Old Guy: What do Michael Jackson & Wal-Mart have in common?

Audience: GROAN.

Wrangler: That one’s too old to be funny anymore.  What you haven’t heard is what Michael Jackson’s first words were after he lost his virginity.

Old Guy: What did he say?

Wrangler: His ABCs.

The Wrangler then proceeded to do a little song and dance to “A.B.C., 1,2,3.”

Later, while instructing the men how to extend a second orgasm after sex, one female in the audience thought she’d share with us that she could have ten (10) orgasms at a time, easily.   The Wrangler then traded web addresses with her, directing her to https://blackmarketcomedy.com, and in turn getting her private webcam link.  Yeah!

Tyler Foley soon took the stage, first redeeming himself from an earlier joke by one of our amateurs about his ineptitude at properly replying to the phrase, “I think my ass is getting bigger.” In all fairness, who wouldn’t go to Google for help? Foley continued to entertain with his take on the paradox of hating racists, how he may have contracted AIDS, and being a pool life-guard for convicted rapists/murderers.  These aren’t the kind of life skills you can get just anywhere.

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