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Live Comedy by Cub Lea

In the Spring of 2010, with the encouragement of a few friends I planned my summer around a serious attempt to establish a performing career as a comedian. Within a couple of weeks I had more material than I would ever be able to use...and nowhere to perform it. You can't develop an act without an audience. And where I live, comedy is about as popular as liberal thought. I'm keeping the live section active on the off chance that I might still find opportunities to perform.

...live stuff...

Projector icons on this page are quick links to video clips of the piece described. Clips may be mp4 (mobile video), QuickTime, or Flash movies.
Speaker icons connect to mp3 audio clips. These icons are file-download links only and will not stream the audio and/or video.
Rapid Composers' Consortium
(mp3 audio clips)

Some of my best lines I reserve for some of my favorite people. This is some of the funniest stuff I've done in years, some of the worst stuff I've ever put my name to, and in a couple of cases, the closest I've ever come to the quality of my comedy idols: the Firesign Theatre. There really are true flashes of brilliance here, in fact I'm using several pieces originally produced for RCC in my current act. Links connect to the associated page, where you'll find scripts, explanations of each piece, and download links for the mp3's.

  • RCC section homepage
    Menu of RCC compositions and the concept explained
  • Dr. Heat's Relationship Dynamite: Howlingly-funny parody of a relationships self-help CD.
  • EMWZ Radio Midiwarez Air Check: Send-up of campus radio deejmanship; includes the infamous original Enema Brothers Pizza ad.
  • Jesus Loves Me (But He's Hot for My Ex): A little Mojo-Nixon-style uptown hillbilly insanity; my vocal and lyric over a top-notch bed track by a California studio ace. Worth a chuckle or two, but unfortunately I front-loaded the laughs into the title.
  • Abdab Fetches the Rarg: A "junior miss". Created as an audio performance, skip the mp3 unless you're manic...the real entertainment here is actually in the readme file.
  • I Got Nothing to Say That You Wanna Hear: a not-bad little rock track under a spotty spoken-word vocal track...beat poetry for the rave generation. Three great minutes of a six-minute song, and the best rough demo I've tracked since 1989.
  • What Is This?: A strange spoken-word pseudo-rant with a few interesting moments and quite a few rather confusing ones.
Live Performances
(Icons to the left of the titles are direct-download links)

Here's where you can find downloadable (but not streamable) clips from actual performances. Save 'em to disk, copy 'em to your phone or ipod and watch or listen to 'em at your leisure..

  • The Similarities Between Comedy and Sex: A case of true blonde ambition, as I ended up developing a whopping 40 minute set around this one theme, and only got to deliver half of it to the intended audience. Here's a video clip of the first quarter, an audio clip of the second quarter, and the full script with all expurgations and stage directions. (it makes great bathroom reading if you're severely constipated) (Recorded 06/10 in Cranbrook, BC before an audience of 12; two sections provided in separate swf/mp3 files).
  • Candy Story: The challenge? To insert as many candy names and terms as possible into a performable story. The result? For a first draft, I think it's pretty damned impressive! Here's the full 14-minute performance as presented July 8, 2010 to a Cranbrook Toastmasters group, in both Flash movie format and as a compact (but still very listenable) mp3.
    **JUST IN** 08/11: I just heard from the artist who inspired this piece, BC musician and comic Todd Butler, and he loved it!
  • Bob Newhart tribute: "Sir Walter Raleigh: Introducing Tobacco to Civilization" (no multimedia; script only)

 


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