A lot of comic buddies of mine were doing online / social media shows or corporate events where you're on a Zoom call with like 30 squares, trying to entertain someone while you're sitting at your computer and so are they. There's too much money behind it!' And then boom! It's six months later. Like a lot of people, when the pandemic hit, I kept watching shows be canceled like: 'They'll never cancel that. "Coming off the tail end of 2019, I was getting invited to feature on the road and tape my first Comedy Central set. "I thought 2020 was gonna be a year where I could take a shot at leveling up a little," Brenden told the Mercury. When he won this year's Funniest Person title, we were quick to note that it seemed far overdue.
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, and the podcast Assville, plus recent winner of Portland's Funniest Person, Shain Brenden is a comic beloved by other comedians-and audiences love him too. Shain BrendenĬo-host of stand-up nights Faded Like Add to a List We spoke with five local comedians-from 2022 Portland's Funniest Person Shain Brenden to rising star Julia Corral, who'd been performing for about six months when the pandemic began-to ask: How did the pandemic impact their careers? How did it change Portland comedy? And what stand-up shows are totally killing it right now.
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Shows are selling out, there's plenty of stages, and those stages are full of new talent. Coming off the winter surge-no one could say where Portland comedy was going.īut now? There's an optimism that we don't even have to fight for. While it seems easy to ask that now, we couldn't have written this piece six months ago. Find out how they see Portland's changing comedy scene. The idea was simple enough: Talk to five comedians about the pandemic. published on our sister site, the Portland Mercury. Santigold plays Franklin Music Hall, with Sho Madjozi, 421 N. It’s not new to me to see how I’ve influenced pop culture. And Beyoncé is somebody who’s come to my shows, she’s been supportive. And Grace Jones.Īlso, I thought it was really cool that considering the original version of “Vogue” had all the white Hollywood stars, that Beyoncé used that platform to highlight Black women who have been important in history and music. I’m happy to be mentioned with Nina Simone and Bessie Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Then finally somebody managed to send it to me, and I was like, “Wow!” I was especially excited when I heard the other names mentioned. “Beyoncé, just put you in a song!” I really just didn’t understand. I was literally sitting staring at the ocean and my phone starts blowing up. Where were you when you heard about the Beyoncé remix? In 2001, she cowrote and produced How I Do, for Philly rock-soul artist Res, and lived in Philadelphia in the early ‘00s fronting Stiffed, a Bad Brains-influenced punk-rock band that never found commercial success. After graduating from Wesleyan University, she worked as an A&R representative for Epic Records. Street who died in 2004, and Aruby Odom-White, a psychiatrist, she grew up in Mount Airy. The daughter of Ron White, an adviser to former Philly Mayor John F.
“Thrill is to make it up.”īut before she was an exemplar of new-millennium cool, White was a Philly-born behind-the-scenes player struggling to make a name for herself. Punk, reggae, hip-hop, ska, dub: On the album originally called Santogold - then changed to Santigold, as was White’s stage name, after a lawsuit - White cut-and-pasted whatever she was inspired by, turning it into something irresistibly her own. In 2008, Santi White broke through as a visionary success story with a debut album that defied categorization as it pointed toward a genre-free pop music future.
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