{"id":20175157,"date":"2024-05-15T06:32:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/?p=20175157"},"modified":"2024-05-15T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:32:14","slug":"christopher-titus-brings-new-comedy-to-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/christopher-titus-brings-new-comedy-to-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Titus Brings New Comedy to San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Comedian Christopher Titus is not only the hardest working comedian in the biz, but also one of the best comics to dive deep into talking about mental health, depression and rage. Twenty years ago, when his first hit special, Norman Rockwell is Bleeding<\/em>, was being performed, comics didn\u2019t normally bare their soul onstage in such a personal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, I\u2019m performing the Rockwell<\/em> show in LA,\u201d says Titus from the dock of an editing bay. \u201cThe space is a 99-seater. There\u2019s 16 people in the audience. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019ll give 100% no matter how many people show up. Turns out, two of the people in the audience were from Fox.\u201d The executives couldn\u2019t believe what they were seeing. During a time when every comic was trying to be Seinfeld, Titus was like what would have happened if the Blue Collar Comedy Tour went to a bad therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that one show, Titus landed a television series, the eponymously named Titus<\/em>, which won an Emmy nomination, and garnered Titus a WGA Award for satirical, biting writing. \u201cIt\u2019s different now because executives don\u2019t look at content or quality anymore. They look at followers. And this is why comedy has kind of gotten to a weird place. There\u2019s a whole generation of people that are doing stand up right now that don\u2019t understand how it works. They weren\u2019t educated in it. They might be great on Tik Tok, but the stage is different,\u201d Titus says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titus\u2019 latest foray into the depths of his soul, Carrying Monsters<\/em>, was written before Covid, and he had performed it for about three or four months. But when Covid did hit, stage time dried up and he couldn\u2019t work. So, back in 2020, when the world shut down, Titus geared up. \u201cI built a soundstage and we filmed a concert with Everlast. I shot specials with Ron Funches and Fortune Feimster. We also did a thing called Viral Shield, where we sanitized the studio and invited like 18 people over (we were all masked), and we fought! It\u2019s all on my YouTube channel now,\u201d Titus says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titus has eight 90-minute specials under his belt. His eighth special, Amerigeddon,<\/em> is available on Amazon. He recently shot his ninth special, Zero Side Effects<\/em> (being edited as we speak), and is currently touring his next special, Carrying Monsters<\/em>, a bookend companion piece to Norman Rockwell is Bleeding<\/em>. \u201cI tend to go back and forth between personal, social, and Carrying Monsters<\/em> is the most personal one I\u2019ve ever done. I\u2019m just starting to break in new material now, so if you go to San Jose, you\u2019re going to be seeing me doing some new material, as well,\u201d Titus says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never one to hold his tongue, Titus is very clear that comedy, despite the influx of influencers and the anti-woke brigade, is healthy and where it\u2019s always been. \u201cI see comics that are talking about cancel culture and they are on every show there is. They\u2019re actually working constantly. What are you talking about? Who got canceled? No, Louie CK did not got canceled. Louie lost everything because we can\u2019t watch him now without seeing him jerking off in front of an assistant. You know, no one got canceled for their comedy. Kristi Noem is getting canceled because she shot her dog in the face. Yes, there\u2019s certain things that you can do that show that you\u2019re basically against humanity. But nobody with comedy got canceled. Dave Chappelle keeps getting more deals with Netflix. So, enough about how you can\u2019t say what you want in comedy,\u201d Titus argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are ever lucky enough to engage with Titus, you\u2019ll find a passionate, supremely funny and prolific artist. \u201cProlific? I don\u2019t know, man. I think it\u2019s the fear and desperation. I love doing what I do. But you always wanna, gotta, make money at it,\u201d Titus says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while you might want to talk to Titus about his past, Titus has his eyes pinned on the future. \u201cLast thing I\u2019ll say is, we know we have an economic issue when private citizens have their own space programs. I think we\u2019ve gone too far. What\u2019s the line? That\u2019s the line right there. If you\u2019re privately going to another planet. Maybe we need to figure out how to get you just to pay your share of taxes. How about that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Titus performs at San Jose Improv on May 22 at 8pm. Tickets are $30+. improv.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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