Beantown Podcast - King of Pakistani Comedy Reviews Chicago's Laugh Factory (07102021 Beantown)

Episode Date: July 10, 2021

Quinn, aka the KARACHI KID (just thought of this and it's gotta be the new nickname, I mean come on) comes to you LIVE from Lincoln Park to review Chicago's Laugh Factory's poor excuse for stand-up comedy, complain about no water, and discuss the chlorine vs urine balance at the Burbank Water Park

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn DeWitt, furnace welcome to my show, Quinn DeWitt, furnace presents the bean town podcast for Saturday, July 10th, 2021, year four. What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn. I am the writer, creator, producer, director, and showrunner of this hallowed podcast. Part of the Beentown podcast multimedia conglomerate. I think in the US, you got, we're talking big dogs. You got, you got, you know, like Ted Turner and you got Sony and Fox. And then you got, you know, I'd say coming in at number four, bean town podcast media, bean town media. We're gonna need a snappier name,

something that combines the power and prestige of a Warner Brothers with the sleek, elegant sexiness of a Margot Robbie, if you will. Not that she really has much to do with multimedia conglomerates, but it's just kind of who I thought of. Kind of on a big Australia kick, not actually. Did anyone listen into this ever see that movie?

Was it just called Australia? What? Talk about a creative title for a film. I don't really remember anything about that film. I'm looking it up right now. I think it was Hugh Jackman and I don't recall much else. I don't really remember anything about that film. I'm looking it up right now. I think it was Hugh Jackman and I don't recall much else. I never saw it. Let's see.

Australia's a 2008 adventure drama film. Ooh, kinda like my life. Add suspense, erotica, and... Oh, that'd be good. And you'd have the perfect Quinn film. Oh, I've heard of this director, and I don't know how to say his name. Baz Lumen Lerman, something like that.

He did Mulan Rouge, Romeo and Juliet. I think the Claire Danes one. The great Gatsby. I don't know how to say his name. I apologize for butchering it. I don't think I've ever actually seen one of his films though to be honest I never saw him move on Rouge. I'm a huge human McGregor fan never seen it never saw a great Gatsby never saw Roman Juliet And I'm not too worried about it

starring Nicole came in and Hugh Jackman Okay in Hugh Jackman. Okay, it's a character story set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatized backdrop of events across the Northern Australia at the time such as the bombing of Darwin. Oh, I didn't know Darwin got bombed. Let's click on that hyperlink. We could have a whole show here today that's just Quinn clicks on hyperlinks. Let's just get this out of the way and it will be the educational portion of today's program. If there are any kids listening, you know, and they have a short attention span, you can just have them listen to this first five minutes and they'll learn about Australian directors and a little bit of World War II history.

We'll mention that listener discretion while we're talking about kids here is advised when you're listening to the bean town podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language number two's podcast is objectively terrible. Although I'll say this, while we're in the Easter and Hemisphere, we mentioned this last week on the show, but it literally was buried like grind Reynolds. I got that email from whatever podcast, you know, aggregate site last week. Carlos' name was yours truly, the new king of comedy in Pakistan. I'm not lying.

If you didn't listen all the way to the end last week or you missed the last week's episode, I am now, my podcast is the 104th ranked comedy podcast in Pakistan and it's silly and it's a joke. It's not actually a joke like that. Actually, I actually got an email saying it, but it's kind of joky. But think of how far we have come. I started this show on the third floor.

I don't even remember what unit did I live in in Baltimore? 817 St. Paul Street, apartment 306, I think. Started this show in a tiny studio, a 400 square foot studio in Baltimore, Maryland. Sitting in a flower chair with no vision, just a couple of guest interviews and the strong charisma and flowing locks of the host with the most, Quinn David Furnace, and just a boy with a dream back in 2018. And here we are now, 104th ranked podcast in Pakistan. Okay, we are, we are, I am coming for that top spot.

And then we're gonna move on to Africa. We are, we are, I am coming for that top spot. And then we're gonna move on to Africa. And it's gonna spread like wildfire there. But back to, let's, I'm actually learning with you all as you all are learning, because I've never heard of this before. You know, in America, we don't learn a lot about Australia or Australian history outside of like, You know, in America, we don't learn a lot about Australia, or Australian history outside of like,

I feel that Americans, general perception or knowledge of Australia comes down to Nicole Kidman and finding Nemo, and we know that they got all their like half of their animals died two years ago in the wildfires, the bushfires, and Steve Irwin, okay. I would say outside of that, we don't have much knowledge of Australia. Certainly not 80 years ago. The bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin on 19 February 1942 was the largest

single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 240 Japanese aircraft in two separate raids attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbor, and the town's two airfields, and an attempt to prevent the allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II. Let's see if there's anything else. Let's get to some casualties here. I love the military term, belligerence, referring to the nations that participate in the skirmish belligerence, B-E-L-L-I-G-E-R-E-N-T-S. Hey, do you see that,

that middle schooler from Louisiana, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee first ever African-American student to win? That was pretty neat. Let, oh, commanders and leaders. Okay, we got four from Australia, David VJ Blake from some flag. I don't recognize hang on who what flag is this? Air chief Marshall the guy's name is Frederick Sugar, which sounds very German Maybe it's a flag of the I don't know what it is the Royal Australian Air Force Why wouldn't it just be the Australian flake? Not sure. It's kind of got a cool like, it's a United Kingdom related flake.

When I clicked on the icon, it brought me to the UK's Wikipedia page, but it's like a baby blue background with whatever the classic Britain red and white symbol is in the upper left hand corner. Anyways, the Japanese leaders, Twichi Negumo and Mitsuo Fuchida, Fuchida, casualties and losses, 236 killed on the white side, two killed for Japanese, hey not bad. Only one prisoner of war, one Japanese prisoner of war, in this entire thing. Looks like kind of, kind of sounds like the Japanese kicked ass, but I don't know, maybe it didn't take.

Anyways, now you know that in 1942, the Australian town of Darwin was bombed, and you are learning so much on today's Bean Tom Podcast. We're just, there isn't a huge central theme, Darwin was bombed. And you are learning so much on today's Binton podcast. We're just, there isn't a huge central theme or power rankings or anything going on today. It's a little, little, you know, in kind of classic Binton fashion, a little recap of this past week.

Got a couple of things to share. And then we're going to keep it short. And I know that's another iconic thing to say at the start of an episode and then you get 40 minutes later and you're like, bullshit. But no, I actually, because I woke up this morning to Saturday, so it's my long run day. And I knew that like any other Saturday morning in the summer, at least I was going to try to wake up last night

I knew I was going to wake up early today. You know, usually this time of year July granted it's not that hot today, but typically I try to be up by five or so. You know, I want to leave at some point in the five-am hour any time before six works so that I can be back. If you're back by like eight, if you're done running by eight, then you usually don't have to worry unless you're just at an excruciating heat wave. You don't have to worry about the heat being a huge issue.

Obviously, the earlier you go out, the cooler it is, generally, more importantly, you avoid the sun. So yada, yada, yada, everyone knows this. I wake up this morning and for whatever reason, I wasn't even going that hard last night. I went to the last factory, which we're going to talk about towards the end of this program because I got some thoughts.

And as the 104th ranked podcaster in Pakistan, I feel suddenly that I have a platform to provide my comments and not so constructive feedback. I could be constructive, but it would take longer. But man, to move ahead with this story here, which is all just to set up why the podcast is not going to be long today, so it's going to be like a two minute set of process to talk about why it's going to be a short episode. Anyways, alarm goes off.

It's like 5.15 and man. Most of the time when my alarm goes off for these early Saturday morning runs, it's like, ugh, this stinks, but I'm going to do it. If I don't do it, it's not gonna happen because it's gonna be, it's physically just like not gonna be possible if it gets hot or it's sunny, et cetera. But today, I think I relied on the knowledge that I knew today was gonna be relatively overcast

and not getting any higher than like 75 degrees outside. And I totally just slammed that snooze button into oblivion. I didn't wake up till like eight, seven, forty-five, eight and at that point I was like, because I ran sixteen last weekend and I was just like, I still gonna go out but I'll probably just try to do like a 10k because I'm really just not feeling it. I don't know. I was drunk last night I probably had four or five drinks throughout the course of the evening from literally like five o'clock to 10 o'clock But I was just like I am not for whatever reason body just wasn't into it. So I go out I

leave at about 8.30, something like that. And I'm just think, you know, I'm going north on Lakefront Path and yeah, we'll just do a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Next thing I know, I've rent a half marathon. And it was totally, you know, if I'm feeling good these days, where I'm at with my conditioning, a half marathon on a Saturday when you take the day off before and Friday. It's I can usually knock it out like without feeling it too much. Today was not that way. Boy, I don't know if it was the humidity or what?

Because it's, it's mostly overcast and windy, but not so windy that it's debilitating, more so windy and that it refreshes you and cools you off. But yeah, the last, last mile and a half or so, I was just, felt like I was dragging ass. I was still running, you're like, eight, 30, something like that. I'm always, always proud of myself. And this, this metric really doesn't mean much of anything because it's not like I'm running against other people, but it's just kind of

something I do in my head to keep me sane. I got today, it actually happened once I got passed by one runner right at the top of the lake front path, literally between Bryn Morrow and the end. But last week when I ran my 16 miles, I went, you know, diversity up to the end of the path, back down south, down to North Ave, and then back home. Didn't get past once. I was really proud of myself. And today, it might even be a bigger feat because, you know, usually I'm out there at 6am, you got the whole earth to yourself more or less today. Not being out there until 8 o'clock, 8.39 whenever I left. It was very crowded as you might expect.

All this is to say, even though I only ran 13 and changed today, which is still a lot, but not as much as I will do sometimes. I'm just like feeling, I don't know if it's the overcast miss or what, just kinda like, yeah. The coffee you didn't really bring my energy levels up, I'm still actually drinking it. I mean, having a lot of ice coffee lately. And I do this thing, which is not even a thing,

but just where it'll take me like three hours to drink it. It just take a lot of little sips. And next thing I know, and it happens during, you know, when I'm working too, because I'll pour it at nine o'clock, and next thing I know, I'm like getting ready, I usually have a meeting or an info session at noon. And I'm like just finishing it as I'm getting ready. I usually have a meeting or an infosession at noon, and I'm just finishing it as I'm getting ready

for the infosession. Then I'm like, I should brush my teeth, but then I run out of time because I have to work. Fourth at July was Monday, and we were out in the suburbs, out in Burbank. We went to the Burbank Waterpark. I think is what it's called, BWP, which is just like a very stereotypical

suburban public pool experience. You got this pretty small pool with, you know, diving boards in one end and it's just, I will say this and I'm not a, I'm not very experienced when it comes to public pools because we had a, a, a, a background pool growing up in our backyard. And we would go swim in public pools, but it'd be swimming laps and stuff as part of club swimming. There wasn't a lot of general mingling going on. So this was a relatively new experience for me.

This was the exact opposite of the Puntikana pool experience where there's like seven pools and no kids and you pretty much if you want you could go find a pool where there's nobody in there and you could just swim or stand and drink. This the Burbank Waterpark is a slightly different experience not that I was expecting it to be anything different or anything less than that. But yeah, I got it, I got it, I got a handy to them. Every hour or top of the hour for about 15 minutes, they do adult swim, which is where the pool goes from a million little kids and a million adults to just one million adults,

which gives you a little bit more space. But you know, you know, you got masks floating in the pool. You got band-aids, always a classic. At any given point in time, I would have been satisfied if the chlorine and urine split was 51% or higher chlorine. And then you come out and it's so like there's no deck space. It's just very crowded. And so you got beach towels on the grass and there's ants everywhere and stuff. And not complaining or anything and shout out to Betty Raymos

for paying our entry fees. It was very kind, very generous. And I had a good time. It's just a fun, classic, suburban American experience that I don't typically have. The best part is when adults who amends slowly throughout the like 15 minutes so the kids aren't allowed in the pool and they slowly start to creep towards the edge, it kind of feels like a horror film.

Like they should, it definitely should have had the jaws soundtrack playing over the last five minutes at least of adult swim. And you get, you see all the lifeguards. They're coming back. They stand up, or they climb the ladder into their little chairs. They do their little head bob scan. And then three, two, one. Big whistle blow, like the end of a soccer match or something.

And just a stampede of small children, reminiscent of whatever the water buffaloes in Lion King. Do that do the stampede? What kind of animals are it? Are they? I don't recall. I have not seen the Lion King in a while. The classic scene, spoilers ahead ahead were Mufasa

James Earl Jones Bites the dust Anyways a classic American experience. I wasn't actually that was the that was Monday. I was the fifth of July But it was a federal holiday So we do that come back busy week of work and But it was a federal holiday. So we do that. Come back, busy week of work. And this was fun. So I've been into this apartment for about a month and a half now.

And this was what Thursday? Trying to get my day straight here. I think it was Thursday, right? I can't even, I can't even, it was Wednesday or Thursday. I'm trying to remember what I did. Oh no, it was Wednesday. It was Wednesday. I'm working the afternoon and I'm having a pretty normal work from home schedule which is you know only only a couple weeks left of that rest in

peace gone too soon. So I go out for my run, I leave it like four o'clock which is what I usually try to do. That way I can like have a full work day, go for a run, come back, shower up, get dinner, go in, do whatever I'm doing that night, whatever. It's my routine. And unfortunately, it's going to be gone very soon. Which is too bad. I come back. And I haven't been super vocal yet on the podcast, but I just total disdain for this apartment. but man, I just this was easily my worst department I've ever had, for a whole variety of reasons. And I don't want to be super negative and spend a lot of time talking about that. We'll

we'll be here for another 10 months, okay? So lots of time to talk about this awesome place. But I come back and I got no water, which is just great because not only there is the obvious thing, like water is great to drink. Like I love doing that after running five miles, six miles in July. Like, I'm a big fan of being able to drink water. That's number one.

Number two, I was all of a sudden in this like really rough situation or just tight situation. I was supposed to get out to Wicker Park by like seven, seven, 30 something to meet some friends for drinks, although I didn't end up drinking, but just to hang out. And so I get back from this run and it's five o'clock,

515, and I'm still trying to shower, drink some water, make supper, and then head out, but all of a sudden I got no water. And so I can't shower, and I'm just dripping with sweat. And you could be like, well, just go first, go find some water, like go to the store or something, buy something, okay, yeah, I could do that. But I'm just like, I'm trying to be here

to figure out what's going on. Right, no notice, there's no mail that says,, you know, waters getting shut off, no signage, you know emails, no phone calls, no texts, whatever. So I text. First I text our handyman. I've got a general handyman for the building or for the, the, whatever you want to call it, collection of units, apartment complex, I guess, although it's not a traditional complex.

Anyways, I texted them and I never actually ended up hearing back from him, although I learned what he was doing later. I call my landlord nothing. And I'm just like sitting here in my apartment. It's like 5.30 on a Wednesday. I've got stuff I'm trying to do. And I'm just thinking to myself, like, what, like, I can't, I'm very thirsty. I really love to take a shower because I'm just

dripping with sweat. Like, what do I do? I feel, felt very handcuffed. Eventually, probably around 545, 550, my landlord calls me back, and she's this 75 year old Greek woman. And I actually just got, I know she's capable of communicating things by print, she doesn't email, okay. But we talk on the phone, but she can also communicate things via paper because she literally on Friday yesterday,

stuck a thing through my mail slot as a sheet of paper, saying announcing to all tenants that she is going to be on vacation from this upcoming week in July through mid-September. So she's going to be gone for two months on vacation. And I just, I can't say anything else, I'm jealous. Okay, I hope I assume she's going to grease, I don't know. Maybe Arkansas. Hope you have a great time. So she could have, you know, announced, I found out

that our handyman Raphael is apparently replacing someone's hot water heater and that necessitated shutting off water for the entire building. I don't know how any of this stuff works, whatever. I, I don't mind having my water shut off. And this isn't like a big corporate like deal where you bring in people to do it overnight when everyone's asleep. Like I get it. You're trying to do it like during normal working hours because Rafael is just like one person who's managing this entire building. I get it, okay. But I'm talking to my landlord on the phone. She's like, oh yeah, we're replacing a hot water heater like has to be done. It was an emergency. Rafael told me that he let every resident know. And I was like, well, that's not, like no.

And I get that it's an emergency, but how hard would it be to print something and like stick it in people's mailboxes? And I don't know the legality of this. And I'm not that upset. The water came on at about, I don't know, 6.45. So it's not as if it was like off all day or something like that. It just happened to be very inconvenient timing for me.

And at the end of the day, I really wouldn't mind if the water was off for 90 minutes, two hours, whatever it was. But having some heads up would have been great, because then I wouldn't have gone for a run-rate then knowing I would have had to wait super long to shower. I also would have filled up some water more importantly before I ran, because I liked to drink water and be hydrated. So just potentially a preview of fun things

to come in this APT, who knows. There, I mean between the smoke smell, this weird backsplash thing that they said was gonna be installed before I moved in and it's still sitting on my fireplace mantle. Like, you expect me to do it? Like, what's going on there? My great aunts problem, which could be a whole other podcast, but it's just, it's been rough so far.

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From Genesis to Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. I also want to give a shout out to a cut-spy cue. I got to tell you, I felt like Narcissus last night. I guess we'll just lead into the story here. I went out to the law factory by myself, invited friends, but for idea of either no responses or just like didn't see this until later,

which I'm not upset, like whatever, I don't care. But like a text email, like one o'clock, didn't see this until later, well, okay. The show is at seven. Anyways, so I went out, what I'm trying to say is I went by myself. Rachel was at a Darius Rucker concert. Is Darius Rucker the guy who does Wagon Wheel? I don't know.

I was just talking about that. I was talking about Wagon Wheel with someone, I think my sister-in-law, the other day. I can't even think of a hoodie in the blowfish song. I can't even think of a hoody in the blowfish song. You and me are come from a different beat. Nothing I can do. I only want to make what you. Is that hoody in the blowfish? I think so. I've never gone on YouTube and searched for hoody in the blowfish.

So I don't really know. Are they still a band or does Darius Rucker just kind of do his own thing right now? T.B.D., I guess I can ask Rachel tonight when I see her. I can pasta. But so to go all the way back to what I was originally saying, I wore my flowered shirt. And my nice kind of salmon colored shorts.

And I was just admiring myself after a shower in the mirror. I was looking, I was looking fancy, man. Like I could have, I could have hit up those Rigglyville bars after the show and just, you know, probably gotten a lot of free shots. You know, I had the top two or three buttons undone. I just, I had the hair had the flow. It was just, I was rocking it. And that's all thanks to Cuts by Q. Okay, so last thing here I go to the last factory last night. I have not been to the last factory since I Think very early 2020 so more or less a year and a half was you know pre pre-COVID and

I'll say this the last factory Traditionally for me at least is very hitter-miss. I've gone enough times now, I've probably gone to laugh factory seven or eight times in my life. If you're wondering, well, if it's so hitter-miss, what do you keep going back? Well, here's the thing. It's strange. I don't know their whole business strategy, marketing behind this, whatever, but you can

go on Eventbrite. I think any night of the week and get free tickets to the Lafactory. If you go directly through their website, it will take you to Eventbrite, it'll be like 30 bucks for a ticket or something. Or you can literally just search Chicago Lafactory Eventbrite, pull it up from a Google result and get a ticket for free on your phone. That's what I've always done. It's been that way forever. Obviously, they know what they're doing.

It's a two drink minimum and drinks are overpriced. It's like whatever. But I can go hang out, watch a 90 minute set with five or six standups. And at the end of the day, bottom dollar, pay like 21, 22 tax and tip, have a couple of glass of wine. Although last night for, I don't know if this is with COVID or they just had some, there's a glass shortage on this part of town, but we were drinking our wine

from paper cups, which I'm fairly confident relates to a death cab lyric somewhere down the line. Is it grapevine fires? Does Ben Giverard mention something about wine from paper cups? Well, we'll look it up later. If you don't know the song, grapevine fires, check it out. Great drums. Strong lyrics, as you might expect. But, you know, I can go there, watch, you know, stand up with low expectations, but, you know, watch them, have a couple drinks, 21, 22 bucks,

okay? Like, great. Even if it's not perfect, not amazing. Like, that's a fine way to spend a night, if you're looking to just like hang out. Okay, so I've been many times in the past, and it's usually pretty hit or miss. I've gone enough times now to where I know kind of the majority of the regular people who are there doing sets all the time. And actually last night was, there was only one or two

regulars there. Granted, I haven't been in a year and a half, so I don't have a great grasp on what a regular is at this comedy club. But it's just man. And here is kind of the thesis of what I'm trying to say here. It was weak. And usually when I go, I would describe it more as hit or miss rather than straight up weak. Last night was weak, man. There were,

I think, six or seven acts, 10 minutes long each, which is not very long. And you can find comedians who will be like 10 minutes, so typically new ones are like, oh my God, that's so much time, how do I fill this time? And then you'll kind of have the more refined comedic personalities, like remind you of anyone, or 10 minutes and I'm being serious 10 minutes is not long like you want that to be tight I mean five minutes is kind of the classic

but 10 minutes is not like you you need to be on you don't have you know when you're doing a 10 minutes set you don't have that you know, when you're doing a 10-minute set, you don't have that room, you know, you watch a like a Netflix stand-up special or hulu whatever, you know, they all got them these days. You know, they're an hour long, which I was thinking about this last night because there's, I'll get to this in a second. Someone actually has a special,

someone who's doing stand-up last night has a special in Amazon Prime and those are usually like 60 minutes, which I think is like, okay, if this is a special specifically for a streaming platform, 60 minutes is a long time. And I know that because I watch a lot of them, and I, you know, even the great stand-ups, they'll have, you know, like five or 10 minute stretches

where it's just like, like they're still telling jokes where it's just like, like they're still telling jokes, but nothing is like that interesting or super well-written or anything like, it's just kind of okay, whatever, a little bit of time filler. When you have a 10 minute set, there shouldn't be any of that. Like I'm not saying you have to have just knee slap joke

after knee slap joke, but it should be pretty like, let's move it along. You shouldn't have two minutes of like, I'm in the audience completely zoned out thing about something else because literally I haven't related to anything you said or you've said anything of note or anywhere close to hilarious in the last 90 seconds. You just can't afford that. And I'm sitting here on my high horse and my glass house here. But it was the, and I hated this.

I hate when you're not funny collectively as a group of comedians. And then the host comes back and he's like, boy, this crowd really sucks tonight. And it's like, well, as a crowd, we do suck. We also expect when you go to a name brand institution like the LaFactory that your comics are going to be at least halfway decent.

Here's an example. And at no point, I wanna come across with this critique as being like, oh yeah, I could do so much better. Stand-up comedy is really hard. It's not, you know, a supernatural thing. It's an art, it's a craft. And I haven't myself, I haven't done many stand-up acts in the past, and I haven't, you know, ever been amazing at it.

So I know it's hard, but, you know, if this was like open mic night at some dive bar in Rigglyville, and this was the quality you were getting from what I saw last night to be like, okay, yeah, whatever, like I'm here just hanging out, but this was the quality you were getting from what I saw last night, I'd be like, okay, yeah, whatever, like I'm here just hanging out. But this is the laugh factory. Like, this should be top tier standup talent in Chicago. Right, how many other like comedy clubs are there devoted specifically to stand up? Because when you think of comedy,

you think of Chicago, you think Second City, okay? That's improv. So when we're talking stand up, like, LaFactory should be topped here, okay. The girl, the woman, she's in her late 30s, and I just, I was doing some Google searching to try to find more about her before I started recording. I don't actually recall her name, which is OK, because I'm not really here to bash people or call people out. I'm just here to share about my experience.

She was maybe third or fourth in the lineup of 6 or 7. And she leads with a whole minute about how she has a stand special on Amazon Prime video, and that's why she's a good comedian, so make sure we laugh and clap a lot. So that's the first minute of her 10-minute set, is basically her telling us, yeah, she's a really good comedian. It's like, all right, kind of a strange way to start setup. And I would actually, I wanted to, I went back,

I watched like a three minute thing of her on YouTube this after early before I started recording, about two o'clock in the afternoon right now. Just to see like, was I in a bad mood last night? Was I grumpy feeling lonely? Like, was I just notding the mood to laugh? So let me watch a three minute clip, five minute clip, whatever.

When I've had my coffee, completely sober, I'm rested, whatever. Better mood, spirits are high. Nope, still not funny. I just like, here's an example of a joke. And I gotta tell you, pretty much across the board, the comedians last night, and this tends to be true at the laugh factor, Chicago.

Very, I guess the best word I can use is raunchy, but unnecessarily raunchy. Just like if you're going to, anything should be able to be a tool or a weapon for you as a comedian, including cursing, including highly adult sexual material. I'm not approved, I'm not offended by that stuff, but you should be able to use it as a comedic, you know, something, a building block. It shouldn't, or a punchline, it shouldn't be like, oh fuck it, like, it's just, you're always talking about it, whatever. This girl, this female comedian,

I'm not even exaggerating. She's talking about, she's just out of the blue mentions that in decent proposal, I just give you a pair of phase of her joke here, and you're not missing anything. I promise. In decent proposal is one of her favorite movies. She likes to talk about or likes to watch her with her grandma. She's like, who here is a CNN Decent Proposal?

And you know, it's a young crowd. So you get like a couple of whoos in the back. So then she spends the next 30 seconds describing the plot of Indcent Proposal and say, OK, whatever, like maybe you should find a joke with a more relevant movie. A decent proposal, great movie. It's also 30 years old. And it's not like an instant classic that everyone watches.

Good movie, it's worth watching, but it's not probably popular enough to make a joke around. Anyways, here's her joke. After she's spent, again, wasted so much time, talking about something that is just not terribly interesting from a comedic perspective, she's like, so I'm watching it with my friend the other week. And if you are listening to this

and I'm doing the same thing out of the comedian's doing, which just shows you how you need to find a better movie Indies and proposals basically Robert Redford offers Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore million dollars For Redford to sleep with Demi Moore and they agree to it and then it ruins their marriage Okay, see I just summarized it in like eight seconds and she spent four times that Steading up this quote joke. Here's her and I say quote joke and I mean it. She's talking, so she's like, I'm talking to my friend

after we watch this movie and my friend is like, would you suck a dick for $1 million? And I thought about it for a second and I was like, yeah, I would. Okay, so that's a joke, that's supposed to be a joke. And I'm just sitting in there, sitting in the audience, watching this, and I'm like, you know, there's some very muffled laughter,

it's just very uncomfortable. That is that. So she keeps going. So she's going to try to lean into this harder. And then my friend is like, would you take it of the butt for a million dollars? And I'm like, yeah, I love that. And that's another joke.

And it's just like, what? How long did it take you to write this? Like negative five seconds? And I got to tell you, that like, I can't even say level of humor, level of comedy, that like structure, that lack of any sort of creativity was pretty much represented of the entire night. The last two guys to go, one guy, the penultimate guy, I thought his jokes were fine.

Definitely multiple jokes that made me laugh. He was a very good physical comedian, which was severely lacking from pretty much everyone else. And I'm someone who relies a lot on physical comedy, not necessarily when I'm like, or not only when I'm doing like, comedic things which doesn't happen much these days, but just life in general,

it's just like, you know, very Michael Richards, Jonathan Winters, inspired, you know, Sid Cs are like, it's just kind of what I do. It's part of my being, if you will, what makes me a person. There just was almost none of that. And it's like, if you're, if you're going to eliminate that completely, you don't have to be so exaggerated as some of those classics that I mentioned.

But these are people who would just like stand there, like they're doing their first open mic ever. And it's like, a lot of them are also spent so much time talking about like, oh, yeah, I just got back from touring in Wisconsin or I was doing a California tour for the last two months. And it's like, man, you must really love what you're doing because there's no way with this quality of standup that you're giving us tonight, presumably, you know, this is what you've been traveling with for the last month

or whatever it is that you're making. I mean, you got to be losing money off of this, right? I don't know. The last man to go and I can't find his name, I was trying to find he was an African American gentleman. The other thing, this show had six or seven comics. He was the only non-white person. Everyone also is like extremely white, very pure-bred, area-in-white. This is the only person who wasn't, which is just like, I don't know. There's got to be a little bit more diversity

in the comedy scene. Obviously, it's a white rule sort of thing, but come on. Like, give me something. He was awesome. He's done some stuff with presumably minor stuff, but you know, like I think he's worked with Dave Shippell in the past. And it certainly showed kind of his timing, his topic, his subject matter.

This guy was just like, what you expect to see. And he wasn't like the greatest thing I've ever seen, but just solid, like 10 minutes tight. Like imagine you're watching, you know, Dave Chappelle do a stand up for 10 minutes, just like, well written, very good at like kind of creating humor out of something that's not necessarily the joke, which was just so lacking from everyone else. There was almost no like the people themselves, regardless of what jokes they

had, what they wrote. They weren't like funny people, which I think is kind of important, right? If you're going to be a good stand of comedian, you you should be like You should be a funny person. I will say there's there's what pretty much the only person there last night last I'm gonna say I promised Who was more of a regular in my experience, which is obviously a very limited scope here, but She's this she's this mom who's maybe you know, I don't know, mid-40s, something like that, short, overweight, white woman. And she's a little bit more what I just mentioned, like she's a little bit more of a funny person compared to at least pretty much everyone else who's there last night. But here's the problem. I've seen her before, which is not a problem at the laugh factory. Most times they go, she's there doing a set.

She was using the exact same material as the last time I saw her, which was at minimum 15, no more than that, like 18 months ago, where she talks about her teenage sons embarrassing them by, you know, dancing to Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, making pizza rolls. Like it's not that bad, but just like you don't have new material that you wrote during the pandemic that you can try out on us. I don't know, like what were you doing the last 18 months? I don't know, man. Really, and I'll go back. It's not like, oh, yeah, I'm never going to go back, because they do a variety of different shows, you know, maybe get some new blood in there, whatever.

But, uh, and I don't think I'm being, you know being overly harsh of a critic. I think my feelings were generally validated by the audience's reaction to some of the things I've just mentioned. But it wasn't like I had a bad Friday night because of it, and it's not like I felt like, oh, wasted money on this. It ever is still something to do.

It haven't been a year and a half, but boy, as the 104th ranked comedy podcaster in Pakistan, I assume folks at the Lafactory are listening to this. Just, there's gotta be better standup talent out there, right? I think. I don't know. QQ daddy over here might have to get involved. If things don't turn around next time I go, not saying I'm gonna start you in sets at

the laugh factory, but we'll see. This went on longer than I thought, because once I started time at the laugh factory, I didn't have any more to talk to about it. I did, I faced some friends last night and just briefly shared thoughts, but I don't have a lot of friends who are comedians or do like a comedy podcast or something like that. So this is my outlet to just channel some frustrations. Anyways, it's a hard art, very difficult to do it well.

And I don't necessarily think I could do better on the spot, but these are people, these are people, this is their, their gig and you're at the laugh factory. Like, I just thought it would be a little bit better. That's what I got for you. Sorry to end it on such a fun and positive note, but I hope everyone is having a good week. We are in the middle of July here. Some crazy weather across the country. You got flooding in New York, you got the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, you got a hurricane in Florida, and here in Chicago it's overcast in 70 and super high humidity. So you never know what you're gonna get. This is the King of Pakistani comedy signing out. My name has been Quinn David Furnace and this is my show. Thank you for listening. We are on the road to 200.

And I will check in on you next time. So stay safe, stay sane. We'll get that music going. See you next time. Bye everyone, peace out. I'm going to play the piano. nd Thank you.