20.1 Laugh, Clown, Laugh: "Too Soon, Too Soon"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
20.1 "Too Soon, Too Soon" from our “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” show performed & recorded live at The Slipper Room in Manhattan on 9/25/16.
Larry Learner is a stand-up comedian—a struggling stand-up comedian. And a thief. Theft of material is a major sore spot in the highly competitive world of stand-up comedy. This is the story of one of the worst kinds of theft imaginable and the terrible cost that came along with it.
This episode also features a darkly beautiful live musical performance by Martina DaSilva accompanied by Dov Manski.
Starring Ali Silva, James Rieser, Michael Pate, Mary Murphy, Annabelle Rollison, Courtenay Gillean Cholovich, Bill Heidrich & Eirik Davey-Gislason
Original story and radio play by Silbin Sandovar
Directed by Annabelle Rollison
Podcast production by Ali Silva, Greg Russ and Daniel Graves
Musical score improvised by Steve Blanco
Theme music by Jason Graves
Associate producer and sound designer Greg Russ
Production assistant Brontis Shane Orengo
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez, Ali Silva, Daniel Graves & Rebecca Graves for Fireside Mystery Productions
For upcoming live shows visit: http://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com /// @firesidemystery
Copyright 2016 Fireside Mystery Productions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello, friends. |
| 0:30.6 | We're excited to present for you the first episode of our third season, |
| 0:34.8 | an original radio play from our show, Laugh, Clown, Laugh, that we performed on |
| 0:40.1 | September 25th, 2016 at the Slipper Room in New York City. |
| 0:47.3 | Mark Twain once famously said, the secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. |
| 1:00.7 | From the wise fool in Shakespeare's King Lear to Edgar Allan Poe's viciously vengeance-thirsty |
| 1:07.4 | jester, hop frog, the clown who amuses us from the center of the spotlight, |
| 1:13.6 | so too reminds us to keep our guard up once he retreats for the shadows behind the curtain. |
| 1:20.6 | That which makes us laugh is often the same mechanism that ignites our innermost fears. |
| 1:28.3 | Too soon, too soon, a radio play by Silban Sandovar |
| 1:34.3 | will now wind that mechanism up tightly for us and then let it go. |
| 1:40.3 | What about this new Mel Gibson movie that just came out that's got everyone in a tizzy |
| 1:47.0 | with the passion of the Christ? |
| 1:49.0 | Has anybody seen this movie yet? |
| 1:51.0 | Me? |
| 1:52.0 | I'm not going to see it. |
| 1:53.0 | I don't have to. |
| 1:54.0 | I already know how it ends. |
| 1:56.0 | Darth Vader cuts off his hand with his lightsaber. |
| 1:59.0 | No, seriously. |
| 2:04.1 | Here's why Mel Gibson is such a failure as a director. |
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