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Friday, Jan. 14-Saturday, Jan. 15: Rebecca Corry
Tacoma Comedy Club
By Volcano Staff on January 12, 2011
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Courtesy of Wikipedia, here are several facts about comedian Rebecca Corry - in town this weekend for at the Tacoma Comedy Club: (a) Corry has had enough success in the biz to earn a Comedy Central special, (b) she's done this despite the fact she was born in Kent and (c) she stands a robust 4 feet 11 inches. While none of these facts alone may be enough to persuade you to pay the $12 ticket price, the fact that Corry's fucking hilarious should.
[Tacoma Comedy Club, 8 and 10 p.m., $12, 445 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, 253.282.7203]
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Mike M. said on Jan. 15, 2011 at 4:31pm
Yes, she was f'n hilarious Friday night. I haven't laughed so much in months!
(I'd go see her again, but I gotta work Saturday night. :(
Sugar Garcia Hall said on Jan. 16, 2011 at 1:16am
F'ing F*U*N*N*Y!!! If you missed out you GOTTA check her out next time!! If you live in Seattle and wanna see her come back, contact The Parlor Live Comedy Club; Phone (425) 289-7000 or Email: info@parlorbilliards.com ~ Att: The Booker & tell them you want to see her perform here!!! THANKS!!
BRING REBECCA BACK!!! BRING REBECCA BACK!!! BRING REBECCA BACK!!
- The WEEKLY VOLCANO
I would like to thank you for your performance tonight at NMSU; I really enjoyed it. I am a Theatre Arts Major in my second year and am very interested in Stand Up Comedy. I know that the NMSU crowd isn't like New York (and BIGGEER) crowds but I know they had a blast. I appreciate what you do, keep up the great work and as far as your tour goes; Break a Leg....no seriously!
-LeRoy B. Martinez
- New Mexico State University
"Can't wait for you to come back to Michigan State!! We havent had anything cool since.....Maybe I can bug our activities board to get you back here!! Have happy jolly merry holidays!!! "
Student
- Michigan State
Hi Rebecca! You were so frickin funny! I am not a easy person to make laugh,, maybe cause I think I'm funny? I dont know... But you were f'in hilarious. And I commend you so much for putting up with the jackass students. They should have put me in charge!! I really wish I had you on dvd from that night to show all my friends who weren't there. I hope you add me as a friend and hope you come back to Michigan sometime. Seeya!!
- Michigan State
You rocked it out at NACA... you rocked it out at Grand Valley. Twice now, I have almost peed my pants. Just wanted to let you know you did an awesome job! We have gotten nothing but compliments on the show. Hope everything is going well for you. And um, I hope the poor soul next to you on the plane ride home is doing well also. Take care!
Miranda
- College
It's fascinating to watch how certain men avoid blue material, and inventive women like Rebecca Corry sneak up on it. What fan doesn't speculate on Shaquille O Neal's apparatus? Corry gets right in there.
Libby Molyneaux - LA Weekly
Theatre Review- PLAY Odes(It's a Play on Love)
The 11 member cast is Remarkably solid, with special praise due Rebecca Corry and Christopher Marshall as partners in a relationship on the wane.
John Levesque - Seattle Post Intelligence
We had the pleasure of casting Rebecca Corry in Mix It Up!, our first TV show. We quickly learned she has an amazingly racy sense of humor, tremendous sense for physical comedy and was a joy to work with. She's one of a kind.
--Courteney Cox and David Arquette
- Courteney Cox and David Arquette
If there are variations on the theme of Local Girl Makes Good, then standup comic Rebecca Corry's would be Local Girl Makes Poopoo Jokes on National TV.
The Kent native, 35, nearly went the distance on the most recent season of NBC's "Last Comic Standing," and is busy stretching her 15 minutes into a showbiz career with appearances on "The King of Queens" and -- incongruously -- MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." The bawdy, karate-kicking little (4-foot-11) performer blew my hair back by phone from her Los Angeles pad before her three-night gig at the Comedy Underground starting Thursday.
Q: You almost made it to the end of "Last Comic Standing." Did you feel like Faith Hill at the CMAs? "WHAT?!!!"
A: (Laughing.) No, I didn't really. I felt more like Pee-wee Herman in the movie theater. When I didn't get it, I just kind of felt like I was caught with my penis in my hand.
Q: How did growing up in Kent lend itself to comedy? I mean intentional comedy?
A: There's not a lot you can take serious growing up in Kent, including life. It's just the one-tooth capital of the world, you know what I mean? It's just how people roll -- El Caminos and pregnant teens.
Q: So if you can take the girl out of Kent but not the Kent out of the girl ...
A: No, because I'll tell you something. You're right about that, and I will tell you this: As refined as I like to think I am now ...
Q: It's the fart jokes.
A: As I chuckle. I still enjoy the smell of hot dog water. So you're right, you can take the girl of out Kent but not the Kent out of the girl.
Q: If you get heckled at Comedy Underground, are you going to go all Michael Richards? One of your challenges on the show was to deal with a black heckler -- which makes your opinion on that train wreck relevant.
A: Everybody asks comedians what they think about what Michael Richards did and whatever. To me it's a bigger issue than heckling or comedy or standup. I mean, this guy's a nut job. He was on the verge of breaking in one way or another, and unfortunately he did it in front of a bunch of people and directed it at two specific people and got caught. It's like sort of the same as Mel Gibson. It's really no different to me. One was on the street and one was in a club, but they're both nut jobs.
Q: Did the "LCS" format allow you to show your chops?
A: No. I think in the end, if you make it to the final five you get the opportunity to really do standup comedy, but throughout the show, no. I performed 20 minutes, and they aired two minutes and 35 seconds.
Q: Pretend this is "Match Game," and I'm Gene Rayburn holding that freakishly long mike. You got yer Seinfeld observational comedy, yer Lenny Bruce social satire and yer Rebecca Corry BLANK.
A: Well I hope you have room, because this is sort of what it is. I would say mine is physical comedy with not many segues ... kicking ... [starts busting up] and that's it.
Q: What's the deal with the karate kick?
A: You know, that is a good question, and I do get asked that a lot. You know what it is? It's a physical punctuation. If someone were to, say, act out what an exclamation point looks like, that's what it would look like.
Q: What about behind the scenes on the show? Was it all sex, drugs and rubber chickens?
A: Behind the scenes of the show it was a lot of people talking about what they thought was going to happen with their career. There was a lot of drinking. Because they always supplied us with as much of an endless supply of alcohol as possible, because that makes for good TV. So there was alcohol everywhere, all the time.
Q: What was your drink of choice?
A: I like the pinot grigio, but I watched "Real World" before, so I stayed away from alcohol. I let the others do that.
Q: What kind of advantage did that give you?
A: It just allowed me to keep my mouth shut and not say things I really wanted to say.
Q: Well now's your chance.
A: I wanted to say so many things. One thing I wanted to say is, "Could I have my own room now?" Another thing was I wanted to say you can't have a comedy competition. It's like asking athletes, it's like asking a hockey player, a basketball player, a soccer player, a football player to all compete against each other. Comedy is so subjective. I don't even necessarily know if I agree with a comedy competition at all. What you might think is funny is not what I'm going to think is funny.
Q: You want more of a comedy Special Olympics where everyone's a winner.
A: That's exactly what I want! I just think if there's going to be a comedy competition, America should have voted on all of us, not just five. They should have voted on all of us. [Viewers only voted on the final five.]
Q: Having done a one-woman show called "Have You Ever Been Called a Dwarf?" please tell me the high points of being 4-foot-11.
A: I can work part time as a wedding-cake figurine. And I can run a 5k without a bra.
Q: Did "Last Comic Standing" increase the size of your dating pool?
A: Absolutely not. No, I did get a lot of psychos contacting me. So in terms of people in prison and what have you, yeah, I'm a hit. In most penitentiaries I am huge.
Q: What is it about you that appeals to the incarcerated?
A: I don't know! Maybe they think that I can be snuck into a visitation and slipped into a book and help them escape. I have no idea, but it's creepy.
Q: You talk about your weight onstage. Put on your winter layer yet?
A: Yes I have. When you're 4-11, if you smell a doughnut, you get a new dimple on your ass. That's just how it works. You have to work extra hard. 'Cuz you take tiny steps. So when I run three miles on the treadmill I'm really running six, because I have to take twice the amount of steps someone normal would have to take.
Q: If anyone thinks you're all Lifetime-style girlie jokes, you're a female comic who dwells on hunting and farting.
A: Yeah, because farting is always funny. I don't care how old you are, and I don't care if you don't even want to admit it. Farting is funny.
Q: What about doing so while hunting?
A: That's funny, too. Although hunting, not funny. Farting, funny. Farting on someone's chest, funny. Farting underwater, funny. When I die and I go to heaven, I'm going to ask God two things: What were you thinking when you created me? Was it a half-day? And really, is farting necessary? Really? Burping isn't enough and all the other things that we do, but we have to push hot, smelly air out of a hole in our back? But I do think God has an unbelievable sense of humor.
Q: I understand you're obsessed with Doug Pitt.
A: I've just been really feeling for him lately, because can you imagine what it would be like to wake up -- he's three years younger than Brad. Brad Pitt is his older brother. Doug Pitt owns a computer company in Missouri. He looks just like Brad, but not quite.
Q: I'm surprised he hasn't committed suicide.
A: [Laughing.] That's exactly my point! It is beyond devastation! So I called him like two weeks ago. Because I wanted to say to him, first of all, "You matter, and we do care about you, too, and it's not that bad and you're going to be fine."
Q: What's coming up for you?
A: The latest pilot I did was for Fox, and I sold it and co-created it with Courteney Cox and David Arquette. It was called "Midnightly News," and the concept was real news delivered by real comics. We shot that, but unfortunately it did not get picked up. So right now I am in the process of trying to sell a show and gearing up for pilot season.
Q: A year from now you won't even take my calls.
A: That's not the case. I will always take your calls.
Mark Rahner: 206-464-8259 or mrahner@seattletimes.com
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Rebecca has shot pilots for CBS, FOX, ESPN, GSN, OXYGEN and was a guest on LOGOS The Gossip Queens and was the new face of 4 international HERTZ spot playing the GAS alongside Owen Wilson as the voice.
Rebecca says she understood funny, "when I came out of my mother's womb thinking... what is this? Some kind of joke?" She was born and raised in the Seattle suburb of Kent, Washington...or as she likes to call it, "the El Camino-driving, hot dog water loving, one-toothed pregnant teen capital of the world."
Rebecca lived in Chicago for 9 years, where she studied writing, acting and improvisation at The Second City, Annoyance and Center Theater. After an 11-month run in the Chicago production of Tony and Tina's Wedding as the pregnant maid of honor, Corry moved to Los Angeles. Immediately following her arrival she appeared at the HBO workspace in her first one-woman show, "Have You Ever Been Called a Dwarf?", hosted a pilot for the Oxygen Network and was chosen to perform as a "New Face" at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Shortly after that, she landed a memorable role as Paul Giamatti's receptionist, Astrid Barker, in the feature film "BIG FAT LIAR." She then guest-starred on CBS's "Yes, Dear" and was in a national commercial campaign for Gallo wine. Between performing at clubs like The Improv, The Ice House, The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and many more, Rebecca hosted the second season of "Mix It Up." The interior design show created and executive produced by Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette. She went on to guest star on "The King of Queens," "The Bernie Mac Show," "The Wayne Brady Show," NBC's "Late Friday," "Comics Unleashed," E's 101 series," Comedy Central's Premium Blend" and Rules Of Engagement. Her second one woman show "REBECCA CORRY WITH BALLS" was the LA Weekly's "Comedy Pick of the Week." Rebecca beat out thousands to become a finalist on NBC's "Last Comic Standing 4" and currently headlines at universities and clubs around the country.
Rebecca's 1/2 hour COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS special can be seen on Comedy Central and her first one hour special "Thanks, God", is available now on DVD! Currently, Rebecca is commenting on VH1's TOP 100 SEXY SINGERS.
Rebecca's true passions are comedy and animal rescue and she travels the country with her beautiful rescued Pitbull named Angel. If you see them in your town or on your plane...be sure to say hello!
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