Nick Thune- "Thick Noon" CD/DVD

[BillBrasky]

COMEDY CENTRAL RECORDS® TO RELEASE NICK THUNE’S
“THICK NOON” CD/DVD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

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NEW YORK, February 1, 2010 – Get in the thick of things on February 23 as COMEDY CENTRAL Records releases comedian/songwriter Nick Thune’s “Thick Noon” CD/DVD.

The “Thick Noon” CD is a powerhouse hour of live stand-up and songs as well as three studio tracks of Nick Thune’s bizarre and off-center observations and stories. The DVD contains Thunes’s acclaimed “COMEDY CENTRAL Presents” special, “Nick’s Big Show,” Atom Films videos and numerous short films.

Nick Thune has been a busy guy. In addition to his roles in movies in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People” and “Knocked Up” and Mike Judge’s “Extract,” he has been producing and appearing in a segment on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” In addition, Thune has been touring the country to packed houses and producing hugely popular internet videos (a few of them reaching over a million views each). Thune can currently be seen on the web series “Nick’s Big Show,” available on Atom.com, NicksBigShow.com, the “Atom TV” series on COMEDY CENTRAL, mobile phone partners and other leading Internet destinations including iTunes, AOL, Dailymotion and xBox Live. He will also soon be seen in the independent film “Highway 61” opposite Tobin Bell.

[darrylduffy]

NEW YORK, February 1, 2010 – Get in the thick of things on February 23 as COMEDY CENTRAL Records releases comedian/songwriter Nick Thune’s “Thick Noon” CD/DVD.

... he has been producing and appearing in a segment on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

oh cool, press release from today.

[DJ Sam]

This is happening.

[soce]

This thing.

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articl...or-gold,38590/

[Krudler]

This thing.

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articl...or-gold,38590/

Probably already quoted elsewhere, and I'm not trying to start shit, but I love this part of the interview:

"Jay Leno has the same [philosophy about not posting any of his material online]. He told me the first time I did The Tonight Show. He came to my room and he said, 'Never put your stand-up on TV or the Internet. Don’t do a special. Don’t do a CD. Because you can use that material for the rest of your life. But if you put it on a CD you have to give it up.' And I was just thinking to myself, isn’t that the point? His mentality was to keep it."

[drbristol]

This thing.

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articl...or-gold,38590/

It took three visits to the page before I could read that Nick Thune interview. The first two times the picture of Kenny Loggins in a bathrobe scared the shit out of me.

[soce]

Probably already quoted elsewhere, and I'm not trying to start shit, but I love this part of the interview:

"Jay Leno has the same [philosophy about not posting any of his material online]. He told me the first time I did The Tonight Show. He came to my room and he said, 'Never put your stand-up on TV or the Internet. Don’t do a special. Don’t do a CD. Because you can use that material for the rest of your life. But if you put it on a CD you have to give it up.' And I was just thinking to myself, isn’t that the point? His mentality was to keep it."

Yeah that stood out for me too. I've only been doing stand-up around 25 times, and I already get sick of my most successful material. The thought of doing the same jokes for the rest of my life is horrifying.

[dillonflynn]

It's confounding and hilarious on so many levels. Not only that he would be content recycling the same act for an entire career, but also that he would take interest in a new comic on his show and try to offer up some patented Leno wisdom...

[pg13]

Yeah that stood out for me too. I've only been doing stand-up around 25 times, and I already get sick of my most successful material. The thought of doing the same jokes for the rest of my life is horrifying.

...and yet...that's kinda the gig.



How long did Seinfeld tour on his well-refined original material before he finally hung all that stuff up with "I'm Telling You For the Last Time"??? Twenty years? More?

Sure, it took time to build it up...and it took time to refine it all...and certainly, if he had a funny idea, he'd find a way to work it in...

The idea that a comedian has "an act" that they ride as long as they can...that's not that unusual...

...from the traditional, old-school comedy/show-business standpoint, that is...

That idea, of course, IS anathema to a more modern approach that assumes constant material creation--and almost a flippant disregard for holding onto (or endlessly refining) material. Whether it was game changers like Pryor and Carlin...or it is Louis CK, Eddie Izzard, Dave Chappelle, Brian Regan, Patton Oswalt or Jim Gaffigan...the modern comedian can't freeze their act in amber. They HAVE to get their material to the people...and then they've got to start the process all over again.

Jay Leno comes from one school...and he's giving advice that could help Nick Thune be successful...if not for the fact that Nick Thune is never going to think like Jay Leno, and could never imagine NOT crafting material.

...but the advice is spot on--if you put out a CD or do a special, that material might drive people to see you perform live...and some may want you to do the material they know--but it won't have the same effect... That material is burnt...and you'll be expected to write and perform material that is both similar and different...and of a similar quality.

Jay's advice is great if all you want to do is to hold onto what you've got--very effective. It's not progressive. It's regressive. It's also easy for him to suggest that--he's got a platform to promote himself to the public five nights a week...without needing a CD, DVD or tv special to get some name recognition.

Luckily, I wouldn't worry about Nick taking that advice...

pg--Saw Bill Cosby a few years ago at a State Fair from the bleachers of the demolition derby track. He did two hours I'd never heard before...then he encored by doing "Dentist" from "Himself." Not bad work if you can get it.--seattle