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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

So right now there is a tour on the books for the east coast which i will be doing with fellow comic Kate Davis. 

It includes St Johns Newfoundland, Halifax, Moncton and others to be posted later.

This will be the last chance you have to see me before i go off the road for awhile with Baby #3.   

We have  afew nights off,  so if anyone has a venue and some people then contact me and we can hook something up.

Here is the tour poster for the shows

This Christmas there will be a boxed set that will chronical the history of Canadian Comedy.  It is a set of five discs that has hours of standup from many comics.

I am part of the package with a small intro and about four minutes of standup.

The package includes clips from many great standups that hail from Canada that include: Kenny Robinson, Mike Wilmot, Howie Mandel, JAson Rouse , Aaron Berg, Shannon Laverty etc

Check it out

So for the last eight years I have been asked in countless interviews who i think is the funniest comic going and every time I say Louis CK.  Most people just ask me who that is, but that is changing quickly and thank god for it.

I saw Louis CK last night in toronto for a third added show during his recent canadian tour.  It was amazing to see  another great new hour of standup.  It was also interesting to see someone who gets away with jokes that are so edgy that they would never fly in a normal comedy club.  That is what I took away from the experience the most.  Jokes I have been vilified for were nothing compared to the ones he threw down.

Of course the difference is that his crowd was there to see him and his style of comedy.  Most knew what they were getting into.  I just wish comedy clubs catered to this kind of crowd but they dont anymore.  We are just yelling over drunks mixed in with a few educated comedy fans.  Being judged by waitress’s filling out reports on comics performance basing it on how the comic treats them,  not what they threw down on the stage.

Now more then ever in urban markets other places are springing up to replace comedy clubs for those educated comedy fans.  There is little the comedy clubs can do.  With the advent of the internet now a young comic with ten minutes can be even bigger then a veteran and pull in more asses in the seats.  Those comics can work off the door and make more money then the comedy club pays for a little more work.

Comedy is changing Bobby and I hope you are ready for it.

Louis CK is on a big canadian tour and you would be a fool to miss it

more info at

http://www.louisck.net/

so if you go to the video section you will see that i added two new videos and there is a revamp of the youtube section.

just trying to make it cleaner and looking better

both clips are from ottawa wednesday 09,09,09

tampons

midget wrestlers

So I am not sure if I am going to be doing a nasty tour this January as my third child is on the way and due at that time.

I know I know everyone thinks anger comes first but not in this case.

TOUR DATES

have been updated till the end of the year ..so if you want me to come to your town please email me what city and if you are a bar or venue and you came here to find more info then contact me and lets spread the hate together.

PODCASTS

There is full links to all the podcasts I am currently interviewed on so check them out and download some others as well

STOKED and BAKUGHAN

I am still doing voices for the animated shows.  Bakughan is finishing season 2 and Stoked halfway through season 2.  Check your local listings