*below is the video of my performance, and search around my site to see a parody I made and edited in my Junior year of Foux Du Fafa by the Flight of the Conchords.
It all comes full circle.
Humor and being funny is actually a lot more complex than one might think. Studying humorists and learning with Mr. Greco what “funny” actually is and how to achieve it was such an enlightening and exciting experience––an experience we can all benefit from.
In my proposal for my humor project, I studied Robin Williams and the Flight of the Conchords.
My Script:
Stand up script
The vegan from Portland
Now that i can go from california back to portland for visits, the older i got the more i became aware of the different types of people that were from portland as opposed to those from california and emphasis on different.
One thing ive noticed is a lot of people from portland claim to be laid back
Like obviously im super laid back,,,, we all knew that. Right?
But yeah so it’s like everyone in portland is like oh yeAH us portlanders are super laid back you’ll never meet anyone as chill as us
Until youre sitting in the coffee shop and the calm atmosphere is ruined by the vegan who is screaming at the barista for putting soy milk instead of oatmilk in her latte
IM not that kind of vegan even if i asked for a iced latte and got back a scorching hot coffee i would not even bring it up
THATS LAID BACK. THATS NOT.
And im kinda contradicting myself because im from portland and im calling myself laid back after just saying not all portlanders are laid back ok i understand that
But anyways
Aside from the crazy not-laid-back vegan, there are a couple other types of people I have come to observe that are from portland, and if they’re not in portland they’ll make sure to tell you they are from portland and then all the sudden everything makes sense.
There is always gonna be that hipster who claims to be really original only because he is so terrified of being conventional. He wears like non-prescription glasses and carries like a crossbody bag and always has a reusable coffee cup on him. Maybe he’s got a little bit of a mustache too and he definitely works in design in some way.
Oh yeah uhmm.. You know the oreos logo?
Oh no I didn’t make it but I uhhh… take great inspiration from it.
Yeah i think its a loto more complex than our society leads us to believe it is… you know.
Like oreos… you could go soooo many ways and yet… the creator made what he did
I actually wrote my thesis paper on the oreos logo.
Yeah
I went to portland state.
A whole 25 pages on the complexity of the oreos logo.
I think i wrote the entire thing listening to tame impala’s new album
You’ve probably never heard of tame impala theyre pretty underground
Oh youve heard them on the radio??
Yeah they probably only ever play them when i you know call in and request it
No one likes that guy. No one does. He doesn’t even like himself.
Another very *snap vibrant person, i could say, thats from portland is the spiritual yoga instructor.
You of course see this yoga instructor who you see at the same gluten-free-non-gmo-sugar-free-plant-based-vegan-basically-we-only-serve-ice bakery every morning .
Somehow she recruits you to take her class. Its a mixture of guilt and the overwhelming scent of sage and mixed essential oils that makes you say yes so she’ll go away.
You’re at the studio and…
Everyone… humans of the earth, energies of the universe fellow stardust creatures thank you for joining me this wednesday afternoon hi jackie hi to share love and light and energy
It means so much to my soul that you are here not only in this studio but in this present moment let it shower you
We are all eternal souls in a temporary human body to experience this tangible earth —our body. let us nurture it let us praise it let us practice yoga
Some essential oil.
*Sun salutation
*We will begin in a Childs pose
Im so sorry that had to happen.
Ok mOVING on .
This one won’t come as a surprise.
Maybe you were even anticipating this one the whole time.
And this last one i wont label explicitly since … well… we are still in school but uh
Puts on sunglasses
*Cough cough
Dude
Im kind of hungry
(please note there is suggestive language/actions)