"Now I tend to just keep glomming onto something and adding more and more layers and pieces and then taking away stuff that was weak.It's like the way they make Samurai swords. Highlights from the great commentary on Louis CK's "Chewed Up" DVD
#JACK WHITE SERIOUS JIBBER JABBER FULL#
(Ya can click through on the links to read the full piece. It's neat how frequently and openly CK discusses his approach. Lots of good, meaty stuff in here for folks who care about the nuts and bolts of standup. Most of these are about CK's standup though there's a few pieces on the FX show thrown in. So I decided to search through the 'ol Sandpaper Suit archives (lots of microfiche!) and bust out a COLLECTION POST of choice cuts. I've been hitting readers over the head with CK quotes/articles/recaps here for years – way before his FX show hit the air. Nice to see that everyone loves Louis CK now. the lack of instrumentation reminds me of a White Stripes song that returns to my brain a lot as relevant to standup (or any creative thing really): "Little Room." Later on in the interview, they discuss Jack's favorite song. Every time I hear a standup comedian talk about his craft or what he's doing, like that comedian was ripping off my jokes or taking my material or I did this joke and it bombed and I took it out of the set or the next joke i told murdered, I think, "That's exactly how I play music onstage."
I treat the scenario exactly like they do. I've always felt about my stuff that I'm like a standup comedian onstage. He works with no set list and is very "off the cuff" onstage. Talent's important but the real accelerant, the real coefficient that's the mystery number is hard, hard frickin' work.Īnd then Jack talks about reading Steve Martin's autobiography and why he feels like a standup comedian. At 11min in they start talking about the importance of hard work. Rocker Jack White on Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien. Good question to ask yourself: Would anyone still care what you're talking about if you took the jokes out? I try to do a show where if you took the jokes out it would still be an interesting speech. Reminds me of something Bill Maher said about George Carlin: When people come up to me and say, “Holy shit, man, I can’t believe you said that, that’s exactly what I’m going through, and I hate that shit too.” That’s way more meaningful than, “Funny shit, dude!” I almost write stuff with two goals now: to have it be really, really funny, but also have ideas that resonate with people. So many people have come up to me and talked about how they and their friends have been going through this same shit. With this new material about texting and stuff, this has been even more pronounced. I found it in Buried Alive, where after the show, so many people around my age said, “I’m glad you said that, I don’t feel ready to get married, I’m scared of my friends having babies, and yes, it is hard to meet someone you really like.” The second type is, you get a laugh, but you also get the feeling that the audience is saying, “Thank you for saying that!” I find the second type way more satisfying. That would be how I feel my first two stand-up specials come off.
One type is me talking about miscellaneous topics and getting laughs. With my stand-up now, I’ve realized there are two types of jokes. In Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral”, Aziz talks about the difference between jokes that just get a laugh and ones that elicit an "I'm glad someone said said it" response.
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