The Death of Comedy
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The Death of Comedy is a neo-vaudevillian radio sitcom and sketch comedy show, written and created by Michael J.
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1925 Blaine Street
Port Townsend, WA
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Sometime 2014 in a small bar in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula a couple of comedians proposed doing a sketch comedy show for their local public radio station. One of them remembered and asked the other about it when they were both sober. Two years later they aired their first episode. The Death of Comedy is a burlesque radio sitcom and sketch comedy show, mixing the Vaudevillian, with the absurd and often surreal, with influences from Abbott and Costello. The Marx Brothers and Warner Brothers Cartoons to Monty Python, Del Close and David Ives. The DoC centers around two callow and amoral and often anarchical DJs (DJ Bao Ze and MC Nuggets), their tendency to discover bad ideas and their dogged determination to see them through to their disastrous ends. This show is fueled by its devotion to impropriety and transgressiveness, a devotion held by fools and jesters from time immemorial. In pursuit of this, the DoC crosses the line, violates the sacred cow, jumps the shark and smashes the Overton Window. In the spirit of a medieval carnival or feast day, the DoC violates the standards of propriety and politeness, mocking what is sacred, scoffing at authority, questioning expertise, deriding the PC and standing on the very edge of the FCC’s established rules for what is fit to broadcast. Our principle loyalty is to our sense of what is funny. It’s an idea which has become a little more edgy in recent years, but t’s the hill we’re willing to die on.
KPTZ has been a great home for us, because they have given us a long leash and a lot of trust. We are grateful for their support as we that of our to the loyal listener. Hi Bob. This is The Death of Comedy . . . We’re killing it!
