A Loose Five, the podcast on standup comedy, gets some great insights this week. We’re smack dab in the middle of the set as Andy Kindler delivers another hot joke so host Wampus Reynolds and comedian Dan Alten can get down to business.
Subjects covered include:
False bravado vs. false humility!
Room playing!
Basements in Albuquerque!
Stage personae!
T. Rex arms!
A bongo drum!
Brain function!
How the Ramones and Willie Nelson are similar!
A Greyhound joke!
Punk touring!
Even more!
Dan Alten is a Louisville comedian who tours extensively and has carved out a niche but devoted fanbase. He’s quirky and twitchy and hilarious. Follow him on IG at Lafffest2014.
Wampus Reynolds is a cheesemonger during the day, tired cheesemonger at night. As a standup, he has appeared at Blue Whale Comedy Festival and opened for Todd Barry and Josh Gondelman. He is the producer and host of this very podcast! Twitter: @wampusreynolds mail: wampus@yahoo.com
A late night set is arduous work for a comedian, each word and beat labored over at mics and on paper, alone and with producers. They have to deliver a “tight five”- five minutes on the nose. On A Loose Five, host Wampus Reynolds and comedians from around the country take on one joke each episode from one comedian’s set and discuss it and how it relates to their own comedy and feelings. It is a great dissection of humor and the people who use it onstage.
A Loose Five – Dan Alten “I don’t like to take sides!”
