Sarah Palin, The Joke’s On You, by Arthur Tebbel & Chris Toia – Pop Art… and Chris #66

March 9, 2010 Arthur Tebbel & Chris Toia 7 Comments

Did you see my great comedy debut on The Tonight Show this week?  I got to do a bit on the opening and then got to do an entire stand-up routine.  While I’m pretty sure it was incredible there’s always room for growth.  How can I improve myself as comedienne?

-Sarah Palin

Sarah,

There are widespread reports that the laugh track under your routine had to be sweetened considerably.  I would have that sound editor follow you around pretty much everywhere you go.  But let’s assume for a moment that you didn’t need a laugh track added people will laugh when they’re uncomfortable so just go with that.  Tell shockingly personal stage.  Not even funny ones.  Have you ever had a ghastly medical procedure performed?  Tell that story completely straight you’ll get a couple laughs.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Richard Pryor is widely considered one of the best stand-ups of all time.  Get a few of his albums and just repeat those routines verbatim.  There is practically no amount of money we wouldn’t pay to see this.  It would basically be the funniest thing ever.  We recreated this using YouTube and iTunes and we laughed for about 10 minutes.  Feel free to try this at home.

Sarah, we have no stand-up experience but we do know a little bit about being funny.  The key is to be yourself.  This is especially true with you.  Your out of control arrogance could be harnessed to great effect.  Like Andrew Dice Clay, he got a solid 15 minutes of fame out of just being a dickbag with no discernable funny material.  You could also have those 15 minutes.  Or we guess you could stay in politics and have a far more lucrative career.

We’d like to take a moment to talk to Jay Leno.  Jay, you’re notorious for being hated in the stand up community partially because you’re seen as not giving new comics a shot on your show.  So you gave a shot to Sarah Palin?  That four and a half minutes could have actually helped a young comic’s career instead of forcing more Palin down our collective throats.  You had a hack politician come on and do hack partisan material and you didn’t call her out on her bullshit at any point.  Comedy is about speaking truth to power not cowering in the face of a tarted-up failure from Alaska.  Then again you’ve been hiding from the truth for a long time.  You went on Oprah to complain about being “sucker-punched” by Jimmy Kimmel because he went on your show and did the EXACT bit you brought him on your show for doing.  You’ve long ago lost touch with anything remotely edgy or funny and making believe that Sarah Palin is even remotely funny is just the latest symptom.  Oh well, at least Letterman isn’t a pussy.