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My 5 Jokes for the Week

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Stand Up Reboot

Last night, I did my last gig for the year 2010, though I still have a couple of pending corporate gigs. And as I announced in my FaceBook account, I am semi-retiring all my material for at least a year. If you’re familiar with The Comedian, a documentary on Seinfeld’s return to stand up, then [...]

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Stand Up Comedy Fundraiser at Votre Bar

Here’s a snippet of the fundraiser we did for the Ifugao kids a month ago. This was organized by GB Labrador and his supportive friends with the hilarious Comedy Cartel, the only Filipino Point of View Stand Up Comedy group in the Philippines, and Hong Kong comedians from Take Out Comedy. WARNING: Contains adult language. [...]

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Pinoy Stand Up Performance in Singapore

Here’s a clip of my set at Comedy Masala in Home Club in Singapore. I had to set up my Flip camera all the way in the back so the video quality is not that good. Big thanks to Umar who runs the show and also to all the other comedians over there. I’ll be [...]

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Pinoy Stand Up Comedy at Aruba

Here’s a snippet of last night’s Pinoy stand up comedy performance at Aruba Bar. We are still on wait if we’re doing a run there this November so stay tuned. In the meantime, you can watch the Comedy Cartel at 19 East tonight around 9pm in Paranaque. This Tuesday, if you’re in Singapore you can [...]

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Sax and Comedy

They said sax and comedy don’t mix. They said it couldn’t be done. They said sax isn’t funny and comedy isn’t sexy. We will all prove them wrong. Watch the Comedy Cartel, the best Filipino comedy group in the country, this September 27, 2010 at Spicy Fingers in Greenbelt 2 with saxophonist Vince Lahorra for [...]

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Handling Hecklers During Your Stand Up Performance

RATED PG13 You can’t help it, at some point in your stand up career, there will be a drunk guy who thinks he’s being funny and will try to heckle you with some stupid question. How do you handle it? Well, you have to put him in his place without being mean and alienating the [...]

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Filipinos and Their Sound Effects

Here’s a short snippet of one of my sets at Votre Bar in Q.C. upstairs from East St. Louis near ABS-CBN. We do this every Thursday night around 9:30pm. Watch the Comedy Cartel perform live making you laugh your ass off.

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Laugh Out Loud!!

It’s official, I’m doing a show with Jon Santos on June 4th at the Carlos P. Romulo theater in RCBC Plaza along Ayala Avenue corner Sen. Gil Puyat (Buendia) in Makati. It’s been a long time since I’ve shared the stage with the very hilarious Jon Santos and his different spoof characters: Erap, Noynoy, Mama [...]

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Rules of Standup Comedy

I’m writing this while it’s still fresh in my mind. I just got back from a so-so gig. Actually it wasn’t that bad, it was just that one of my new jokes bombed and so even though my staple bits got decent laughs, I felt like I had a horrible set. I committed a couple [...]

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