Marlon Wayans was heckled by Chris Rock and quit standup for 20 years
An interview with the actor and comedian (and show business dynasty member) ahead of his first ever Just for Laughs appearances.
An interview with the actor and comedian (and show business dynasty member) ahead of his first ever Just for Laughs appearances.
“I was very afraid until I got there, but once I was actually on stage, I wasn’t afraid any more. I felt like, ‘Oh, okay, this is what I’m supposed to do!'”
“I thought, ‘This is it, I’m just going to go walk into traffic right now.’ And then I remember talking to a veteran comic — this had been my 8th or 10th show — and he was like, ‘This was the first time you bombed?’ And he started laughing and said, ‘Oh! There are so many more that are coming!'”
“Now that I think about it, that’s a lot of f*ckin’ work.”
“I want a Nasty Show that runs a genuine risk of being hit with public obscenity charges. I want Chris Rock, Bernie Mac and Tracy Morgan in the ’90s levels of nasty. I want ribald, crass and bawdy, but clever. And while there was certainly some of it this year, it was all too often inconsistent.”
“A quadruplet of olds at BriTANicK’s show declared that it was the worst bloody thing they had ever seen. They are wrong — not only in their assessment of the show, but perhaps about life and how they’ve lived it up until this point.”
Davis will be performing two free outdoor Just for Laughs shows this week — without his cats, and they are not loving that.
An interview with the Quebec comedy star ahead of his one-off English-language show at Just for Laughs on July 26.
An interview with the Lucas Brothers — playing seven Just for Laughs shows this month — about transitioning from law to comedy, co-writing Judas and the Black Messiah and more.
“A lot of times, when you hear a comedian is ‘nasty,’ you think about vulgarity. I think it’s just being unedited. Someone who’s unfiltered, and someone who has edge.”