An album of street comedy or unfunny performance art recorded October 23rd, 2016 in Horton Plaza Park, an outdoor auditorium and public space. All 'jokes' written and performed by Mike Coppolino, a comic or a figment of Jim Carrey's imagination.
Tracks on this album:
1. Schizophrenic Roommate
2. \"I have to do 10 of these.\"
3. Cesar Milan
4. First Interruption
5. People want to be informed
6. Adult Bookstore (classy version)
7. Kid-Friendly Elements
8. Going to Hollywood
9. 2nd Interruption (it's like a nightclub, right?)
10.Manscaping
11.David Attenborough
12.Colorado River Toads
13.Q-tips and tampons (w/Shane)
14.Psychonauts on the Loose
I'm Mike Coppolino. I'm some guy that holds three mannequin arms and wanders around on the street I may look insane, but that's just a character I play. Actually, I'm. The extra arms I carry around have hands that move around. Usually I have the fingers making gestures that are code for my mood that day, like a semaphore. If I have them it's an advertisement for a stand up comedy room very nearby, probably a block or two away. You should follow me to that show, it's almost always free admission. Once there, you'll be at a comedy open mic, where people are trying to get better at comedy. Some people there are not funny and are trying to quit. Some people, like me, are less trying to get ahead (or two) and more like hopeless addicts. All of them are attempting stand-up comedy and some, are really good at it.
I strive to be a Kingmaker. I evaluate talent based on who's funny. I see who gets people walking out of a room smiling, because I know it takes something to make that happen... and I respect it. For that, I'll go to places that are undignified and find people with talent. Garages, street performances, laundromats, sometimes even backyards. I would like to work clubs because that's where the money is; but if that's impossible, I'm happy working the sewer. Or the internet. Same thing really.
I live in San Diego. There's nice weather here and little else. Because of this, I have a van and I tour, sometimes with other comics.
The sale of albums and other merch is how I fund these little excursions. This is one of the albums.
'Get Arrested' is not one album. It is actually a series of albums I recorded between September 2016 and June 2017. Some of the other albums include 'Get Arrested with This Commercial', and 'Tarikh Stole my Lighter'. The recordings were an attempt to get better at long performance and work on putting together 'Headliner' sets and achieve 'flow' or full creativity within a joke.
Many of these jokes are 'Aristocratic'. They are loose stories with plot points and multiple tags designed to look spontaneous. They are not spontaneous at all. I have just thought of everything ahead of time, multiple times.
There are 14 of these recordings. Some of them are ruined by hecklers. One was almost ruined by a riot following the 2016 elections. In all of the recordings, the street noise is often a character in itself. It's very accidental what happens or it's just anarchy that makes sense.
You have a recording of it right now. If you have about 48 minutes, you've probably already listened to fifteen minutes of it by now, go ahead and listen to the rest of it decide for yourself what it is.
Check out other stuff at mikecoppolino.com.
All of the equipment I used to make this album is super cheap. Message me at the above site for details, and maybe some tour info. Some CD's will be in record stores. You can get CD copies of every performance through the website for a small fee.
Thanks for listening. Please share with other weirdos you know.
