by Rob Cottingham | May 9, 2005 | Communicating, Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics
Hot on the heels of our discussions over what great political candidates stand-up comics would make (triggered by a post by John Rogers)… …Mike Nichols suggests the story-telling skills of film and theatre are desperately needed in politics, too: In... by Rob Cottingham | May 3, 2005 | Comedy
Along with a number of other comics, I’ll be doing standup at the Laughing Bean coffee shop on Friday, May 20. You have been warned. The show starts at 8:00 pm; seating’s limited and usually vanishes quickly (and not just because of Vancouver’s... by Rob Cottingham | May 2, 2005 | Comedy
Thanks to everyone who asked; the 6-MB QuickTime version of my stand-up debut can be downloaded right here. (Warning: Includes some sexual content, mild profanity and one joke that gets, at most, a few titters.) (“Titters” is not the sexual content in... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 30, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Politics, Speechwriting
…we’re just catching the last ten minutes. Is it the worst ending to the worst political movie ever made, or is there an even more appalling candidate? by Rob Cottingham | Apr 21, 2005 | Comedy
…and now, so is comedy, thanks to two posts at The Artful Writer. One is the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker Fifteen Rules of Comedy, and the other is the trio’s Comedy Glossary. ZAZ being the team that brought us the Airplane! and Naked Gun movie series, this is... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 17, 2005 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Media Mix
Via Scott Piatkowski, a long-overdue post about CBC Radio’s Promo Girl… … who was outed a little over a month ago by The Globe and Mail — the swine! — as none other than… …Shauna MacDonald, who plays hard-boiled private dick...