Live Comedy L.A.

I picked up the Rolling Stone Comedy issue in the Vegas airport this weekend on my way home from BlogWorld (yeah…I was at BlogWorld). If you can still grab it, it’s a good read. My biggest take away from the issue was how opinions differed on the importance of the internet to comedy.

It’s 2008 folks. This isn’t debatable anymore. The internet is extremely important to comedy and comedians. Some quotes:

Dane Cook
“It’s the most important tool any comedian can implement into their career. It’s up to you to gather your fans for your own personal personal programming. That’s powerful.”

Katt Williams
“I think it’s been wonderful for comedy - a gold rush. It happened with the comedy clubs in the Eighties and Nineties, and it’s happened again now with the internet. Whoever thinks differently is looking at it the wrong way.”

Craig Ferguson
“I think it’s actually bad for performers who are starting out. They’re not getting a chance to fail in private.”

Zach Galifianakis
“The little bit of success that I have is due to the internet. It has nothing to do with me guest-starring or being on a sitcom at all.”

Albert Brooks
“I think the internet is slowly going to take down all creativity.”

Live Comedy L.A. friend and favorite Ryan Sickler makes his broadcast debut tonight on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Sickler is the second guest. The show is scheduled for 12:37 AM.

We’ve written about him a million times…and he’s one of the best in the business…it’s so great to see that he will be in front of a national audience. Get ready for CAIDS and Dash of Downs to be household jokes!!!

Don’t forget to check out the trailer for Sickler’s movie Cutman. He and fellow comedian Tom Segura co-wrote the short film.