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JEN KIRKMAN
SATURDAY 5/28
JEN KIRKMAN
Some comics make you laugh (yeah, okay), and some comics make you laugh and make you feel something (FUCK YEAH, OKAY). Jen Kirkman is the second: a brilliant, honest, throbbing raw wound of a person. She is difficult and magnetic and lovable. She spreads her whole life open onstage and turns all the vulnerabilities, neuroses, wrecks, weirdnesses, and triumphs of being a woman/a comic/a woman-comic/a person into fucking great entertainment. Sorry that this column reads like an obituary when it's supposed to be about jokes—I just really, really like Jen Kirkman. A lot. In my heart area. She is at Re-bar for one night. You should be there, too. Re-bar, 7 pm, $15, 21+.
MONDAY 5/30
Stranger Personals
EXPENSIVE GENES
I've already written in this column about all of the comics in this show (Ron Funches, Mike Drucker, Ahamefule J. Oluo, et al.) and how great they are, so if you don't go to this show, then you are basically calling me a liar. To my face. Fuck you. El Corazón, 8:30 pm, $7, 21+.
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Man, Jen Jirkman is the worst. Here's my edited version of this promo:
"Some comics make you laugh (yeah, okay), and some comics [are] Jen Kirkman. [She's not funny for] a second: throbbing raw wound of a person. She is difficult. She spreads her whole life open onstage and turns all the vulnerabilities, neuroses, wrecks, weirdnesses, and triumphs of being a woman/a comic/a woman-comic/a person into fucking [excruciating] non-entertainment. Sorry that this column reads like an obituary when it's supposed to be about jokes—I just [heard some] Jen Kirkman. A lot. In my heart area. She is at Re-bar for one night. You should [flee]. Re-bar, 7 pm, $15, 21+.
"Some comics make you laugh (yeah, okay), and some comics [are] Jen Kirkman. [She's not funny for] a second: throbbing raw wound of a person. She is difficult. She spreads her whole life open onstage and turns all the vulnerabilities, neuroses, wrecks, weirdnesses, and triumphs of being a woman/a comic/a woman-comic/a person into fucking [excruciating] non-entertainment. Sorry that this column reads like an obituary when it's supposed to be about jokes—I just [heard some] Jen Kirkman. A lot. In my heart area. She is at Re-bar for one night. You should [flee]. Re-bar, 7 pm, $15, 21+.
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Sounds like Daily in LA does not have a sense of humor nor is man or woman enough to put their real name next to their commment. I just like to say that comments like Daily in LA's just reflect bad on the person who wrote them. If you don't like Jen Kirkman that's fine to each his own but don't clutter the world with more negativity.
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Sounds like Daily in LA does not have a sense of humor nor is man or woman enough to put their real name next to their commment. I just like to say that comments like Daily in LA's just reflect bad on the person who wrote them. If you don't like Jen Kirkman that's fine to each his own but don't clutter the world with more negativity.
~Manda Garcia
~Manda Garcia
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Man, Jen Kirkman is the GREATEST! Eff your edited promo. Burned alotta calories to be that wrong LA.
Love ya Southie
Love ya Southie
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Daily in LA - That's a lot of energy exerted to show you have profoundly bad taste. Jen Kirkman is one of the best things going. She's amazingly funny and I feel super fortunate to have her in Seattle.
At the new-hire orientation of an old job they asked "what's your favorite TV show?" as an ice breaker. I see one guy in the back kind of perk up excitedly. One after another everyone told their favorite shows with this guy chomping at the bit more with each person. When the line finely came around to him he said "I don't like TV...but my favorite book is Beowulf."
Again, he was super excited to tell people he didn't like TV and that his favorite book was FUCKING BEOWULF. You are the that guy of comment threads.
At the new-hire orientation of an old job they asked "what's your favorite TV show?" as an ice breaker. I see one guy in the back kind of perk up excitedly. One after another everyone told their favorite shows with this guy chomping at the bit more with each person. When the line finely came around to him he said "I don't like TV...but my favorite book is Beowulf."
Again, he was super excited to tell people he didn't like TV and that his favorite book was FUCKING BEOWULF. You are the that guy of comment threads.
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Wrong boptart. Instead of what you said here is what actually happened. The Internet allowed people of all shapes and sizes to be heard. Artists like Jen grew in popularity because of it while at the same time she had to endure more criticism. As for your hypothetical guy relating to this column, it is too bad you don't understand comparisons. We are not all required to like the same things.
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"The Internet allowed people of all shapes and sizes to be heard." Yup...you're that guy. Now I feel like the third person at the party trying to awkwardly get out of a conversation with you after hearing you say something like that.
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You always have to wonder about the motivations of a person who rushes to crap on another person. Whether you think Jen Kirkman is the best comic in the world or the worst, why would you troll through media to be first in line to take a shot at an article like this one?
I can only surmise that "Daily in LA" has some sort of vendetta against Jen. Nothing else explains why someone would be so quick to spend so much time trashing another person. The article was a short promo type thing for an upcoming performance. It wasn't an announcement that Jen Kirkman was being nominated for the comedian of the year award and opposing viewpoints were needed to determine her suitability for the award.
If posting nonsense, ad hominem vitriol is what makes Daily in LA feel like he has righted the cosmic wrong of Jen Kirkman's success (and the corresponding cosmic wrong of his being nothing but an online hacky troll), then I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with the Stranger leaving the comment on the site. However, as a reader, I don't think that Daily in LA added anything other than an unattractive turd on the reading experience (and untrue/unwarranted disparagement of Jen Kirkman) and it certainly violates the Stranger's terms of use. I'd shitcan the comment just because it adds nothing and is pure disparagement.
I can only surmise that "Daily in LA" has some sort of vendetta against Jen. Nothing else explains why someone would be so quick to spend so much time trashing another person. The article was a short promo type thing for an upcoming performance. It wasn't an announcement that Jen Kirkman was being nominated for the comedian of the year award and opposing viewpoints were needed to determine her suitability for the award.
If posting nonsense, ad hominem vitriol is what makes Daily in LA feel like he has righted the cosmic wrong of Jen Kirkman's success (and the corresponding cosmic wrong of his being nothing but an online hacky troll), then I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with the Stranger leaving the comment on the site. However, as a reader, I don't think that Daily in LA added anything other than an unattractive turd on the reading experience (and untrue/unwarranted disparagement of Jen Kirkman) and it certainly violates the Stranger's terms of use. I'd shitcan the comment just because it adds nothing and is pure disparagement.
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I've got my ticket. Who else is actually going to this show? Let me know if you're interested in meeting up, before: jduplant (at) gmail (dot) com.
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