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Well my episode of the debators will be airing this weekend at 1pm.  Come listen to me argue the pro’s of anger.

CBC RADIO 1

Sat Dec 12 1pm

Also a little quick reminder that if you are in the kitchener area that I will be headlining the Yuk Yuks festivities,  I generally do a run down of the whole year in terms of material and I hope they like it a little edgy in ol berlin.

For more info go to yukyuks.com

So since I am having a third child I decided to go and look on how I am doing to keep up with the rest of the worlds birthrates.

Turns out that that I am having double the rate for my country.  The Canadian national average is 1.52 where the .52 are reality tv stars waw waw.   When you look at it based on religion something interesting happens. The average muslim has over 5 children and based on religion, islam is the fastest growing religion.  Some predict that by 2050 that the world will be predominantly muslin if current birth rates continue.

That is why i dont understand terrorism …if they were just patient they will be running the world without doing anything but living and breeding..plus they wont have to rebuild anything they once blew up.  I am lazy..to me you are just creating work you dont have to do ..it is like cutting your lawn in winter.   Of course not all muslims are terrorists and it is sad that a few bad apples blow it for the rest of them.

I will say this about terrorists they are committed to a cause and i can at least appreciate that.  They are willing to give up their lives for what they beleive, in some cases as young as late teens.  Where in north america we cant even get our kids to committ to abortions:

“next week we will do it baby ..grand theft auto 4 comes out this week and we are a little strapped..were not at the third trimester yet”

They are also doing it for a higher cause.  There is the arguement that they are doing it to receive the virgins in heaven and make alah proud but at least they are not doing for monetary gain like criminals in north america.  Plus they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifce for what they believe in by taking thier own life.  When was the last time you heard someone was going to rob a bank and run in screaming:

“everyone on the floor and you start filling this bag or i am going to take this gun and shoot myself in the face…do it I am not fucking around right in the face where the only hope for a career is if they shoot a sequel to Mask with cher..come on people not fast enough I am starting to put the gun in my mouth”

Standup: New Five from Halifax new talent night wednesday November 18th

Best Of Corktown Podcast Eps 13

So I did my third eps of CBC Radio the Debators and it was a lot of fun.  The topic was Anger and how we need to rid ourselves of it.  Of course I took the side of the arguement that we need anger in our lives and that it is a basic human emotion that we can not get rid of.  It wasa great debate with a funny comic named Rebecca Kohler. 

Believe it or not it was not easy for me to fight this side of the arguement.  In the past I had topics you can research and do jokes on pretty easy: censorship and Somalian Pirates.  Anger is not so black and white ..pro or con.   So you have to step out of your comfort level in standup and now try and make valid points while still trying to bring the haha.

This show is the best show for comics to do in Canada cause it is the only one that lets comics be comics in their own way and style.  Most shows try and force you to be what you are not …or change your act and style so much cause of the confines of tv.  This show only asks you to make points and keep to time.

The one problem is thatafter the research it can be hard to fit all you have to do in 13 minutes for the debate.  I had tons of jokes that didnt even make it into the debate.  The whole point is you write 20 jokes on the topic and then you record maybe ten of them.  Then the audio guys cut the show down in length so maybe five of your good jokes stay in.

So I thought i would post some of the material that was not recorded but I may do a rant on anger in my act and these may or may not get in

It’s a cliché but true whenever you see a report of a someone finding 18 heads in a freezer they always say the guy was a kind man a quiet man.  That is why you are never going to find 18 heads in my freezer..cause I am that angry and I deal with my anger  and my freezer is too small..there will be twelve and they will be russian that fit inside each other

Some of the greatest pieces of art was created in anger and then was used to create something groudbreaking.  Where would rock and roll be without anger.. Anger is rock and roll and everything else is just easy listening you ever tried to headbang to miley cyrus ..actually that might help..where would alanis morrisette be without anger..singing itsy bitsy spider in malls in saskatoon. 

Anger management is just a joke for celebrities to use to make it look like they are doing something about their anger but really they are just paying off the man…where is passive management classes…a room ful of canadians and swiss trying to get through a doorway “no after you ..no I insist after you”

How do you get rid of the tension….so are we going to open more massage parlours or what I like to call  ”Anger Management” massages for guys to release that tension with “angry endings”…..if so I am all for it.

The episode will be on the show in the coming months and when i hear it if there are any of the ten jokes not used then i will change this post.

The show airs on cbc radio one saturday mornings at 1 pm and wednesdays at 11:30 am

Oh the drama

So after day one of a western tour, I thought things would flatline a little.  It can never be easy

So we drive the two hours to Calgary and make jokes at every small town we drive through.  We are doing a big show that night for a radio station in a venue that is way bigger then the event.  This can be the kiss of death for any show.  People in a venue that doesnt know comedy will be on especially when it is a big sports bar and this is Calgary.  They take their sports seriously.  Now if you know anything about me you know I hate sports guys.  It is built into the system for me. These are the guys who use to beat the fuck out of me during high school and now they are bald wearing jerseys like fan boys.  Not all of them, I know that but the ratio of douchbags for me goes up at sports events.

That is why when people ask: why I am so pro gay?  It is cause no gay guys ever did shit to me.  No one ever ever said to me right before dunking my head in a toilet bowl

“what do you think of erasure or the new depeche mode cd”

I know: why did I take the gig then..well the money was good and I was told they wanted dirty comedy.  Plus I am not stupid in thinking that I need to get over some shit from my past.  So I take the gig

We get to the gig after the rock show lethbridge was and we right away notice that this is not gonna be good. The venue is huge and can hold around a 1000 people and our event is only 200 tops.

Before the show we are told that the owner of the venue (not the booker) is worried that there will be too much bad language.  We are told by the booker to do what we do and just keep the swearing to a mimimum.  We can use some F Bombs.

Now let me stop right now..whenever anyone calls it an F Bomb you are fucked right there.  When it is just you and me and you still use the code then maybe no F Bombs should be the rule but i digress.

So they start the show and they start giving out tons of really amazing prizes like tickets to flames games and then a right before i go on a trip to cuba.  Yeah they want to see me after that “Hey everyone here is the all inclusive trip to cuba and now a short fat  F Bomb to yell at you”  This is one reese cup where the ingredients dont mesh..this is more shit and vomit then chocolate and peanut butter….

So I go on and I dont lie I actually do pretty well and start to build some momentum.  Now I am opening the show for the other comic so my job is to set the rules and get some laughs and try and get them into it as much as i can. I say some F Bombs here and there and I do my thirty minutes to applause breaks and laughter.

After I end I feel pretty good about it but then the trouble begins.  The other comic comes up to me and says that I have to follow him to the front of the club right now.  Now whenever something like this happens I am automatically concerned that I am in some kind of physical danger as I did make fun of some audience members and they are drunk.

Turns out that the owner of the bar is quite upset with the content and the booker doesnt know if the other comic can go on.  I understand the problems from both points of view: the owner does not want to piss off the other hundreds of patrons with our potty mouths and the booker wants to give a show that his people want to see.  It is just another shitty situation I am involved with.  Now i  It just seems that when i tour now I have this huge shit magnet set to full and the human body can only handle so much shit before it comes out one way or another.

Luckily for me i had not reached my full shit intake and after the other comic goes on and kills everyone is happy.

The moral of the story kids is make sure you have a high tolerance for fecal matter before you go on the road cause it dont get any easier it just tastes less and less like chocolate.

Bye Bye miss american bowl

So last night i performed in Lethbridge Alberta with Aaron Berg to five people total if we dont count employees.

The set up was in a bowling alley that screamed death but once we got there and saw the room was actually one of the best set up rooms I have seen.

There are many problems in this town i guess with meth and other drugs.  It has hit the town pretty hard.  This is pretty much what went down.

I get to the stage after Aaron does 45 minutes of chatting with the crowd and riffing.  So i go into some material but of course there is a drunk guy there who is not an asshole but when there is 5 people you have to go with the flow.  He starts to yell at me pretty quickly like this

“Blah Blah coke on my dick”

Somehow in the exchange he brings up santa clause and I ask him if that is what he is the town drunk santa and that he cant wait for xmas to get there so he can have little boys on his lap and ask them what they want for xmas

He thinks I ask him what he wants for xmas so he yells

“Red Lobster”

I said

“you telling me your biggest gift you could get is a red lobster…most people want millions of dollars or something life altering and all you want is to get ass cancer from shitty shrimp.  That way you can sit in your wheelchair at xmas and ask the young boys what they want for xmas and keep eating shitty shrimp”

This gets somewhat of a laugh from three people ..yeah more then have the room.

Then the guy gets up and postively heckles me and walks out

“You’re pretty good buddy”

I continue the show and it turns into some kind of staring match where i start to get a little crazy and they i say this

“I know aaron brought up the meth problem and hope the kids get off it..see i see the world differently then aaron…i hope more kids here turn to meth…I hope your whole town turns to meth so that way eventually it will just disappear.  Gone from the map totally”

Now the only people who pretty much laugh at this are the guy who runs the room, aaron and a guy who is old enough to understand that kind of anger.  He is 54 and already has told the room he wishes he never had kids with his daughter sitting right next to him.

I look at him whne he laughs at the meth line and say to him

“you like that one cause you are old enough to see the beauty in that line…you are angry enough to understand the frustration of what is going on here…all you young people still have hope and think it will all be ok but i am old enough to know that we are all swimming in a vat of piss looking for apples juice…me and this guy are old enought to accept the fact we are going to swallow piss for the rest of our lives and you youngins still are trying to build up a tolerance to piss”

the shows ends very awkwardly which i am very good at and then we sit at the bar and are told from the five that they really enjoyed the show and that they hope we come back.  The dad in me just wanted to rub their teary dead eyes and say try not to swallow too much piss kid.

So how do you get laughs in front of 15 people ..you threaten to kill yourself after the show among other things

It was easily in the top ten freak out shows for me…i would rank it number three.

Between a group of three guys  in the front in parkas..who would not take them off just staring at me

To a group of woman in their 70’s not sure they want to watch xrated comedy.  At one point one of the nana’s got a cell call and took it so i just yelled at her “what are you doing calling the cast of Cocoon 3 for backup….or are you ladies so upset with the content you are getting matlock over here to start the lawsuit”

That was not enough trust me..then a woman would not stop heckling me.  At first she said “give us a better one” which i replied “that is what your husband said on your wedding night”..then it got really weird when she felt like she needed to make me feel better.   She would say things like “you are good at this”….”keep going i like it”.

I had my camera but it did not record the show and i am so angry at it.  I would have had easily a thirty minute tape of me freaking out for my next dvd.

I hope those 15 people got their moneys worth and the show burns in their memory.

Here is an email from one person i received just this morning:

tonight i saw your “vaughn show” and let me tell you between the three thugs in front who didnt seem to know how to laugh, the old lady offended due to the nachos incident and the drunk middle aged lady in the back, this was a comedy show i don’t think i’ll forget.

My friend XXXXXX XXXXX is the few other comedians ive really seen perform live, so i can’t say i have much to compare tonight too, but tonight was soo funny at times i was brought to tears from laughing. 

now i’m not sure if you knew the pep talk lady at all but it realy added someting interesting to the show. My goal tonight (after you proving me wrong tonight about ajax not being a city where “dreams are distroyed”) is to write you the single nicest letter you will recieve from a show. I hope you forgive ajax for the “teachers” that exsist in the city. maybe i am doing this so that you will come back to ajax so that neither of us have to experience this wacky town called vaughn again.

Darren Frost your show had elements of shock, disgust & “i cant believe he said / did thats”  Making it probably one of the funniest in your face (or fuckys rather) that i have ever seen. comming into the show your words rang very true “comedy is about targeting” it seemed at the few comedy shows i’ve seen ive always without a doubt been the target! so being able to watch someone else get targeted is great. especialy by you, as you almost make the person your friend while still cracking jokes at thier expense. Now tht more then i can say for the senior ladys in the back.

you darren frost have become my comic hero!!! I do hope to see you perfrom again! and hopefully death will not be upon your show that night.

xoxo
girl in black who wont go back to vaughn.

sometimes a review is cut down due to size constraints….

sometimes the reviewers are nice enough to send the whole article…

this is it:

Darren Frost – Leatrice Spevack

The caveat at the bottom of Little Darren Frost’s Cutting Myself Open Tour poster reads: “Happy clappy fun boys stay home” – a warning well worth heeding because when Frost cuts himself open – comedically speaking of course – he bleeds bile.

 Appearing Yuk Yuk’s swanky new digs on Richmond St. West this past week and heading to Yuk Yuk’s in Mississuaga (Nov. 21-24) and Barrie (Nov. 28-Dec.1), Frost releases a careening barrel of bitterness that will have bracing yourself against rolling in the aisles from laughing at things your Aunt Joyce told you weren’t funny.  Frost’s constant warnings to “buckle up” should not be taken lightly.

Banned from three Ontario universities for his twisted takes on world hunger and Princess Diana, Frost takes toxic stock of the teen fans of bands Limp Bizkit and Korn with:  Angry 14-year olds? What is a 14-year old angry about?  My cock is hard and I can’t do my math?

Boy bands such as ‘N Sync get: If I had twenty million I’d pay for Lance Bass to go to the moon.

Despite views that are so liberally laced with vitriol, the diminutive Frost (“I’m huge in Japan – literally.”) is often more teasing than threatening. “When I was in high school I applied for a foreign exchange trip and I chose Quebec,” he quips.

While Frost’s face is a familiar feature on film (Don’t Say a Word) and TV (Gutter Ball Alley, La Femme Nikita), it is the commercials for Bell (he donned the 60 lb. dime that roved the city streets), Microsoft (as the golden Hermes – messenger to the Gods) and, most recently, as Listerine’s evil-gingivitis-fighting super hero, that he is best known for. His ad for Telus earned him a Kiri Award for Best Performance in a commercial.

This Brantford-born 31-year old stand-up scores high on the squirmability scale as he, uttering a barrage of expletives, takes us willingly down the dark corridors of Gary Glitter’s prurient pedophilic porn, dysfunctional families, female midgets and Slobodan Milosvec. Frost is crude, rude and marvelously maniacal.

Now on the last legs of his tour, he muses over the born-again style roadside diners he’s come across offering breakfasts of Jesus with orange juice, toast and bacon.  Wisely (or not) he orders: I’ll have the devilled eggs to go.

here is what people have said so far about my so called comedy:

Darren Frost has advertised himself as little man hate and audiences attracted to the man will not be disappointed.  Considered the most controversial comic in the country for his ability to find a touchy issue and pick at it till it bleeds.  Darren leads the field as the victim of audience assaults death threats and other UnCanadian behaviors.  His bullet headed mug rarely smiles on stage as his voice keens from soothing to enraged and back again. If the audience didn’t laugh it would be unwatchable performance art but the man is a consummate pro and audience explode in laughter at a comedian who may represent our troubled age better then anyone.  There’s the edge..and then there’s further..and then there is Darren Frost

Mark Breslin Yuk Yuks Guide to Canadian Standup Comedy 2009

Frost certainly inhabits the spirit of Lenny Bruce. Their styles are nowhere near similar, but Frost, like Bruce, likes to take the audience to places that they maybe don’t want to visit

What’s So Funny October 08

Darren Frost doesn’t take a back seat to anyone on the Canadian eccentric comic front

Bill Brownstein Montreal Gazette 2008

Frost is brilliant, but careful with his words.  His humour is unabashed and rude at times, but the man is not simply sprouting obscenities to get a rise out of the audience.  The jokes are calculated, political and meaningful

Echo Weekly 2007

Following Darren Frost is like trying to do a puppet show in central park, five munites after tower one fell

Mark Walker, Standup Comedian 2006

Darren’s entry DVD was jawdropping…both because it was damn funny…but also because it took no prisoners, it killed countless sacred cows…and most of all, it didn’t give a damn what you thought of it.

Seattlecomedy.net 2005

Imagine booking Rage Against The Machine for a sweet sixteen party.  Imagine booking Al Sharpton for a Knights of Columbus dinner in Nebraska.   Now Imagine booking Darren Frost to do a country club banquet room

Seattlecomedy.net 2005

With a kind of demented energy normally reserved for the incurably insane, Darren Frost takes the stage like a possessed hobbit, spewing so much bile and venom that, once your ears have acclimated, you can’t help but laugh. You may recognize him from his more sedate roles as the original Listerine Bottle Action Hero and Microsoft’s “Hermes, Messenger of the Gods,” as well as recent appearances in such films as “Fever Pitch,” “Don’t Say a Word” and “Assault on Precinct 13.” He is also currently working on an internet S&M cooking show called “The Leather Chef.” (an idea he stole from George Burns)

 Just For Laughs 2005

Frost’s standup has the quality of a satanic revival meeting.  He brings so much bile and venom to the stage it can be overwhelming.  Frost is at his best when he tempers his barbs with a little finesse and last night he showed this technique off to great affect.  Among the most daring comedians in Canada.

 Toronto Star February 2005

 If you’ve ever wanted to see what is it is like to use a nuclear weapon to swat a fly

 theseriouscomedysite.com 2005

This man is a truist. Pure uncompromising genius. I have never seen rage so carefully orchistrated and sick imagery executed with such amazing percision. Darren Frost will fuck you up, and he’s coming to get you.

Shane Ogden, Standup Comic 2005

Frost releases a careening barrel of bitterness that will have bracing yourself against rolling in the aisles from laughing at things your Aunt Joyce told you weren’t funny.  Frost is crude, rude and marvelously maniacal  

Toronto Star 2003

This Brantford-born 31-year old stand-up scores high on the squirmability scale as he, uttering a barrage of expletives, takes us willingly down the dark corridors of Gary Glitter’s prurient pedophilic porn, dysfunctional families, female midgets and Slobodan Milosvec. Frost is crude, rude and marvelously maniacal

Toronto Star Nov 2002

The sort of comedic moments I live for….  Frost feature week is a great chance to see one of the scene’s most overlooked comedians.  One of the few comics who actively pushes to keep his comedy evolving. I caught him a few months back and he blew the doors off the  room

Eye Magazine Aug 6th, 2001

Frost is a character comedian.  On stage, his opersona is that of a nebbish,slightly demented, self-aggrandizing guy with a nervous laugh.  One year after his arrival in Toronto, he has made the jump to the big leagues

Eye Magazine April 3rd, 1997

It’s not hard to imagine the little fella ripping up a bit of flesh.  Frost’s lets it flow now and on a good rant …no question —-the guy is a riot!

Now Magazine 1998

The standup pipsqueak turned public-pontificator and original “Good for Me!” kid let it flow and stole the show at the 98 Toronto Comedy Festival’s Extreme Comedy Lab.  With “mutherfuckers!” flying, the most bitter of his personae was in control this night–ya never know with this guy–and he got on the most raucous of rants.  When he does that, it’s a riot.  He will go far.

Now Magazine Top Ten Moments 1998

Sketch troupe of the year honours go to the Shoosts (Tony Krolo, Wintson Spear, Ophira Eisenberg, Darren Frost, and Tim Goodall), who managed to class up the jammed, puking, shit-grabbing, chainsaw roaring environs of the Tom Green Show’s second Comedy Network season bash.  Warped and wonderful, they click together like Fred Astaire’s tap shoes

Lame and Shooster: Now Magazine Top Ten Moments 1998

 Energy, anger and absolute hilarity are only some of the adjectives that can sum up Darren’s show. He had it tough growing up…….but now the joke is on the bullies as Darren laughs himself to the bank every night. A whirlwind on the stage, ending with the crowd on it’s knees laughing; Darren is fast becoming one of Canada’s funniest….albeit oddest comedians. Darren has starred in numerous national television commercials, can be seen on the comedy network’s “Gutterball Alley” and is destined to be a superstar! Really he is!

Unknown Program Description circa 2002

So I just completed a weekend in the town where i filmed my last dvd.  When i went to do the filming many comics voiced their concern that it might not be the best venue to film a dvd.  For whatever reason I seemed to remember having good shows at this venue but like cher said

If we could turn back time

There was a really funny lineup for this weekend.  That is the other reason that it bothered me as much as it did.  Normally I have a show lineup where both comics can be pretty new and that can lead to a set of problems.  This weekend it was a strong one with Kyle Radke hosting with Phil Mazo middling.

I have worked many times with kyle and know exactly what to expect: a great job with someone working on some new stuff and setting up the show.  I did not know Phil before the show and was really surpirsed on how good he is.  Not knocking him at all with that statement it was just i thought he was from toronto and farely new but in reality he is from jersey and experienced.

I watched from the back of the room crowds just staring at great jokes.  Once again that is not to knock the comics..they were on their game but they just stared.  Now you know if you have seen me before that this is not a recipe for success for me.  I have a bad attitude if i am watching funny stuff die on a vine.  Both comics were able to fine tune and do well in the end of those sets since they are pros but it didnt look good for me.

So it became a weekend of people staring and yelling out stuff.  Guys in the front row pissed off for being called fucky all night.  Seriously, one set of two guys looked pissed like they are not in on the j0ke or something.  Who sits in the front of a xrated show and thinks that being called fucky is too much.  I didnt even shit on him that much.

So all would be lost but I got to work on some new stuff again this weekend and have at least 20 new minutes, including a new ten that is two weeks old.  It felt good to hone and craft it.  I am still trying to get a ton of new stuff out there for my eastern trip that will have tons of repeat customers from my last tour.

It is also hard to sit there and watch how crowds do not even know who roman polanski is.  I had to say more then once he is a skier that jumped over a 13 yr old girl in the 70’s, so the kids would nod their heads.  We had over half the crowd night after night not know what auschwitz was.  Conversations with waitstaff that could not believe it.

I could

Crowds are getting dumber or they just dont want to talk about these things at comedy clubs..even if they are in the news.

Now i have to figure out if I am even going to do a third DVD in the spring of 2010 with  a new baby in the house it might be too much.  I might have to push it back or just release a quick bootleg of a show.  Then i have to figure out a different venue to film it in as i cant risk a weekend like that when so much is riding on it.

Sometimes you wish it was just about the funny