Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with

Will Sloan.

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On this episode, we are talking about stand-up or live comedy on film. Yes. Almost all of them, except for one, was shot on film that we're talking about today. And let's define our terms. Yes. Because for the most... Define them. And then we'll break it for whatever we want to talk about. Exactly, exactly. So,

so for the most part, we're going to be talking about theatrically released concert films featuring

comedians. Most of them stand up, one of them, a sketch comedy group. And these are movies that

were given wide theatrical release, were reviewed and received as movies, were shot on film, and we would

like to interrogate a little bit, not just the comedians in the films, but what is cinematic

about these movies? What about being on film and being shown in a theater is important?

And then we're also talking about... Robert Williams Live on Broadway. We're talking about a film figure and who we've talked about

before, you know, in his element. Are you a fan of stand-up, Will? Yes. I'm going to say yes.

I'm a fan of stand-up. Do you consume it, like, live? Very rarely. Sometimes I have a big collection of, like, stand-up comedy albums.

I like stand-up. Wait a minute. Let me take a step back. Is this from the 40s or the 50s? Well, definitely. Most of it. Well, here's the thing. I don't think they didn't really have stand-up. Yeah, I know. like Bob Hope as we learned, was a real progenitor of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I do like stand up because it's a very pure art form. You know, it's going out on stage, and it's putting yourself in the most vulnerable possible position of saying, and now I'm going to make you laugh.

And if they don't laugh, like, the embarrassment of that is potentially enormous.

Now, as a kid, I surprisingly listened to a lot of stand-up because we would take two to three-week camping trips during the summer with my dad, and he would have a burn CD of oftentimes just random acts that he probably got off Napster or something like that.

So there was like an Orlando Jones bit that I remember involving semen at a crime scene,

but most specifically all of the classic George Carlin stuff.

And we could not get enough of it.

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