Joel Warner and Peter McGraw: In your opinion, what makes a good comedic performance space? What makes a bad space?
Christina Pazsitzky: The ideal space is a small room made of brick with low ceilings. The audience all faces one direction — towards you, and they’re not chomping on nachos. The sound is great, lighting is bright, but not blinding you to the point of not being able to see the crowd. I need to see the disappointment on their faces.
Things that make a shit room: The bar is in the back of the showroom so you can hear all the daiquiris being blended, ice being crushed, orders being yelled, etc. The servers talk loudly to the patrons taking orders. Patrons eat seafood or some type of cumbersome food during your show. Patrons are allowed to talk, yell, whistle, be on their cellphones during your set and nobody polices the room.
But the thing that ruins stand up the most is DRUNK AUDIENCE MEMBERS! I hate when clubs let in the drunks who have been going at it since 5 p.m. that night and it’s now 11 p.m. and they’re hammered. They don’t listen to jokes, they are disruptive and ruin any ability for me to be vulnerable up there.
Standup in Stilettos’ Christina Pazsitzky on Emasculating Hecklers / wired.com / By Joel Warner and Peter McGraw / June 14, 2012
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Showing posts with label Christina Pazsitzky. Show all posts
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky
Tom Segura: I kind of feel like you get, well I get like energy out of opening with new stuff.
Christina Pazsitzky: I like to do it too. It’s risky. It’s scary.
Joe Rogan: Christina, you’re a risk taker!
CP: Yeah! I’m a daredevil, man!
JR: Thrill seeker!
TS: That’s exciting…
JR: Yeah, you have to be, to be a comedian, right?
CP: Oh yeah!
JR: Don’t you?
CP: Oh, you have to be completely willing to not have comfort financially, emotionally…. Sometimes physically.
JR: But if it works out…
CP: It’s awesome.
JR: If it works out, you have such a much better way of life than doing something you don’t want to do.
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky / aprox 2:20:00
Christina Pazsitzky: I like to do it too. It’s risky. It’s scary.
Joe Rogan: Christina, you’re a risk taker!
CP: Yeah! I’m a daredevil, man!
JR: Thrill seeker!
TS: That’s exciting…
JR: Yeah, you have to be, to be a comedian, right?
CP: Oh yeah!
JR: Don’t you?
CP: Oh, you have to be completely willing to not have comfort financially, emotionally…. Sometimes physically.
JR: But if it works out…
CP: It’s awesome.
JR: If it works out, you have such a much better way of life than doing something you don’t want to do.
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky / aprox 2:20:00
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky
Joe Rogan: Yeah. Well I’ve definitely… we’ve all gone through that experience of recording something and then the next week you have a new tag line.
Christina Pazsitzky: Oh, it kills me. It kills me.
JR: Mitch Hedberg actually redid a bit on the second album because he didn’t have the tagline and said it on the album that he was doing that. “Here’s the new part…”
CP: Yeah, cause that’s tempting when you’ve actually recorded the bit… then maybe you should throw it out. Because you’ve recorded it. You know, why hold on to something that you can’t use again?
JR: Well, I talked to (Jim) Gaffigan about this and he and I are sort of in agreement about this. Yeah, you gotta have all new shit but you also have to do well. You can’t have a bad show and if you’re tanking it with all your new stuff it might be time to bust out some shit that really works and just pull this bitch out of the fire. You have to find… when is that time?
Like some guys, I think Louis CK pretty much just guts it out. And when he does new stuff he just does only new stuff. You know? Chris Rock used to do that too. Remember he used to come to the (Comedy) Store and he would just do only new stuff. And you know, not be concerned whatsoever about it not going well. He’s trying to make it go well, but if it doesn’t, he’s sticking to it. He’s not going to pull out some old shit out of his bag.
Tom Segura: Well, that’s the way you build.
JR: That’s one way. That’s certainly a way. Some guys like to sandwich it between other bits and you know, then slowly develop them as new chunks.
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky / aprox 2:20:00
Christina Pazsitzky: Oh, it kills me. It kills me.
JR: Mitch Hedberg actually redid a bit on the second album because he didn’t have the tagline and said it on the album that he was doing that. “Here’s the new part…”
CP: Yeah, cause that’s tempting when you’ve actually recorded the bit… then maybe you should throw it out. Because you’ve recorded it. You know, why hold on to something that you can’t use again?
JR: Well, I talked to (Jim) Gaffigan about this and he and I are sort of in agreement about this. Yeah, you gotta have all new shit but you also have to do well. You can’t have a bad show and if you’re tanking it with all your new stuff it might be time to bust out some shit that really works and just pull this bitch out of the fire. You have to find… when is that time?
Like some guys, I think Louis CK pretty much just guts it out. And when he does new stuff he just does only new stuff. You know? Chris Rock used to do that too. Remember he used to come to the (Comedy) Store and he would just do only new stuff. And you know, not be concerned whatsoever about it not going well. He’s trying to make it go well, but if it doesn’t, he’s sticking to it. He’s not going to pull out some old shit out of his bag.
Tom Segura: Well, that’s the way you build.
JR: That’s one way. That’s certainly a way. Some guys like to sandwich it between other bits and you know, then slowly develop them as new chunks.
Joe Rogan Experience #207: Tom Segura, Christina Pazsitzky / aprox 2:20:00
Friday, June 15, 2012
Standup in Stilettos’ Christina Pazsitzky on Emasculating Hecklers
Joel Warner and Peter McGraw: What are the biggest misconceptions about what you do?
Christina Pazsitzky: That it’s easy. Everyone thinks they can be a comedian but they don’t know there’s a vast difference between telling a joke to your buddies and getting onstage in front of a ton of people. It’s a skill like any other. Just like a carpenter, it takes years to hone your craft and get good. For some reason, people feel challenged and threatened by what we do. That’s why they yell out and heckle during a show. Yet they wouldn’t yell out at a theater performance. Why? Because they feel they can do what you do as a comic — and they’re usually hammered.
Christina Pazsitzky: That it’s easy. Everyone thinks they can be a comedian but they don’t know there’s a vast difference between telling a joke to your buddies and getting onstage in front of a ton of people. It’s a skill like any other. Just like a carpenter, it takes years to hone your craft and get good. For some reason, people feel challenged and threatened by what we do. That’s why they yell out and heckle during a show. Yet they wouldn’t yell out at a theater performance. Why? Because they feel they can do what you do as a comic — and they’re usually hammered.
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