#Josh Androsky

[thecomedybureau]

Please Enjoy Dark Comedy Short About Finding Representation “Unmarketable” from Megan Koester and Steven Feinartz

One of the perpetual mysteries of the entertainment business from the creatives/entertainers/talents’ side is how to get decent representation.

So many factors involve an agency or management company taking you on as a client and two of them are how marketable you are and, unfortunately, how lucky you are.

From the minds of Megan Koester and Steven Feinartz, comes a darkly comedic tale of how attempting to get an agent goes horribly awry with NYTVF selection, Unmarketable.

Watch and enjoy it here. 

Also, props to LA born-and-bred Eric Dadourian giving Ari from Entourage a run for his money. 

[cracked]

Ahhhh, mid-March. Time to pack the bros, the beers and the board shorts into the station wagon and drive down to the beach because it's SPRING BREAK WOOO. But instead of going to Florida or Cancun, the Cracked Podcast is taking a detour to 8 fictional locales.

THIS WEEK: Jack O'Brien is joined by special guest-host Daniel Van Kirk for trips to Amity Island, Zootopia, and GTA's Vice City in our attempt to figure out best place to take a fictional vacation. They're joined by comics Blake Wexler, Jamie Loftus, Alison Stevenson, Josh Androsky and Eric Lampaert for a journey that will take us through the lives of Fraiser, the Gilmore Girls and Satan.

8​ Unlikely Vacation Spots From Fictional Universes

[courtingcomedy]

Woman From Audience: Look at me, look at me. Now, what would you change about me?

Rest of Audience: *Gasps*

Josh Androsky: Your confidence, honey! Get out of here!

[hero-israel]

"If someone wants to lynch" Josh Androsky that's, uhh, not a problem.

This is about Farrakhan, who says Jews are the Synagogue Of Satan. It’s a big fucking mystery why Jews are uncomfortable in leftist spaces.

[boardwalkaudio]

#15 Baby Driver w/Josh Androsky In our 15th episode, Jessica's bro Josh Androsky joins Jess and Kelly to watch and discuss Baby Driver.

[nakedcomedy]

#LA the #Halloween comedy institution #SchtickOrTreat is TONIGHT 8p @thevirgilbar BE THERE! 🎃

From @thecomedybureau​: Every year, some of the best comedians in town get into the Halloween spirit a bit by dressing up and performing as some of the most renowned comedians for our favorite comedy Halloween tradition, Schtick or Treat.

Created 10 years ago by Mark Normand and Matt Ruby, this year’s Schtick or Treat will return to The Virgil will have at least 45 acts “including” Natasha Leggero, Louis CK, Dennis Leary, Pete Holmes, Maria Bamford, Ricky Gervais, Iliza Schlessinger, Norm MacDonald, Ron White, Wanda Sykes, Andrew Dice Clay, richard Pryor, Adam Carolla, Ali Wong, Jeff Dunham, to name a few.

(covered in costume and persona will actually be James Adomian, Amber Nelson, Henry Zebrowski, Chris Thayer, Josh Androsky, Lydia Popovich, Jenny Zigrino, Nick Vatterott, Megan Keoster, Zach Broussard, Troy Walker, Adam Newman, Ed Salazar, Babs Gray, Ed Larson, Grant Lyon and many more)

You can buy tickets for $15 at the door TONIGHT!

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[ID: a tweet by  josh androsky (@ ShutUpAndrosky) that says “the Italian punk band skiantos did the single most punk performance I’ve ever heard of in my entire life” with it attached a picture, a screenshot from a Wikipedia article that reads “On April 2, 1979 they participated to Bologna Rock, a punk rock and new wave festival, and their performance caused a lot of buzz. Skiantos brought on stage a kitchen, a table, a TV and a fridge, put to boil the spaghetti and then ate them, without playing anything; the audience protested, and Antoni responded “You do not understand a fucking thing: this is avant-garde, you piece-of-shit audience.” The same year they released” (it cuts off there).

this was tweeted at 6:14 pm on 16 June 2019. it has 3,988 retweets and 16,892 likes. End ID] 

Would absolutely pay to see this

[berniesrevolution]

Like many women, Margaret McLaughlin is used to dealing with sexism and harassment, whether it’s on the street or in the workplace. And the Democratic Socialists of America, where she is the Washington, DC, chair, isn’t always a refuge.

“At steering committee meetings, I’m interrupted by men who feel they can talk over me,” she said of her organization, which is 65 percent male. She’s not alone. Other socialist women have told her they’re “tired of men not paying attention to the world outside of them,” she said. “It comes out through harassment, abuse, mansplaining, or ignoring women.”

Allegations of sexism against the socialist left aren't new. During the 2016 primary, some Hillary Clinton supporters argued that misogynist "Bernie Bros" were unfairly criticizing their candidate. To many leftists, these criticisms felt like a smokescreen to distract from centrists’ unwillingness to confront more fundamental class divides.

But now similar criticisms are coming from within. A series of controversies over the past two weeks — many of which have stemmed indirectly from sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein — has reinvigorated a debate over whether the socialist left has done enough to condemn the misogyny in the ranks of a movement explicitly devoted to gender equality. Socialist women are becoming increasingly vocal in decrying what they call socialist men’s encouragement of misogyny, while also stressing that leftist attacks on the Democratic Party cannot be reduced to sexism and that sexism is not confined to the left.

For McLaughlin and other socialist women, the fate of a renewed American socialism may hinge on this fight. Though the DSA quadrupled in size in the past year alone, it’s still a blip in the larger left-wing universe. Whether the new socialist left can transcend its peripheral status will depend on if it can incorporate — and listen to — the women in the movement demanding a firmer stance against sexism.

“I don’t think the men of the left are any more or less misogynistic than any other group of men,” McLaughlin said. “But leftist men just think with the equality of classes and races will come the equality of genders, but that’s not necessarily true. If men aren’t willing to do the work, it’s not going to happen.”

The latest controversy on the online socialist left, explained

Before we get to the recent controversies that have brought the issue of sexism on the left to the fore, here’s a quick rundown of the main players involved:

The Democratic Socialists of America: The 30,000-member-strong DSA has grown rapidly across the country since Bernie Sanders’s presidential run and Donald Trump’s election. (Jeff wrote a broader explainer about DSA, which you can read here.) Its founding was explicitly committed to anti-racist and anti-sexist work against capitalism, and — though often dominated by men at the local level — it boasts women leaders at the top of its leadership structure.

Chapo Trap House: A leftist comedy podcast hosted by four men (Will Menaker, Felix Biederman, Virgil Texas, Matt Christman), and one woman (Amber A'Lee Frost), Chapo Trap House earns enough through its Patreon account to gross approximately $1 million annually. (The show has about 20,000 subscribers, who each pay $5 per month. Jeff, a co-author of this piece, is a paying subscriber.) It’s been the subject of numerous profiles, including in the New Yorker and the New Republic, and it is known for delighting in vulgarity and mockery of liberals it views as uninterested in confronting the horrors of capitalism.

Cum Town: A podcast co-hosted by comedian Nick Mullen, Cum Town grosses close to $250,000 annually. The two shows openly swap compliments and promote each other, though Cum Town is much more vulgar and says it is not interested in politics. (One of Cum Town’s hosts, Adam Friedland, was a Vox Media employee.)

The hosts of Chapo have actively promoted the DSA, while Cum Town is less political. But both have vocal, overlapping fan bases who are active online, and both have gained an outsize visibility on the left — Chapo and its fans don’t represent the full spectrum of American socialism, but few socialists, other than Sanders himself, have as big an audience or as large a platform from which to broadcast their views.

Earlier this month, Josh Androsky, an officer with the DSA in Los Angeles, tweeted a photo of himself and two of the hosts of Chapo Trap House — Menaker and Christman — posing with Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (the tweet has since been deleted). The caption, "Hey libs try taking THIS statue down,” was a reference to conservative responses to calls to dismantle Confederate statues.

The tweet, Androsky later explained, was meant to be a criticism of Hollywood in the wake of revelations about Weinstein:

But as DSA-LA acknowledged, many saw it as an inappropriate joke at the expense of harassment and assault victims. “The use of glib and ironic language around such a serious issue minimized the experience of survivors,” the steering committee of DSA-LA said in a statement. “Our city is littered with monuments to men who have abused the women in their lives and confronting that cannot happen if the conversation is one that is too hostile or glib for women and survivors to want to participate in.”

Androsky apologized for the tweet, resigned from the Los Angeles steering committee, and pledged to undergo sensitivity training. Chapo Trap House has donated $10,000 to the Victim Rights Law Center, which helps victims of sexual abuse and assault, and the podcast hosts apologized for the Androsky joke immediately.

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[yoisthisracist]

SCAAARY SOCIALLLIST Josh Androsky finds a way for white folks on the left to not be dicks on this week's podcast.

[thecomedybureau]

If you’re anti-Trump, you ought to know that one of the groups leading the charge is the Democratic Socialists of America.

The DSA is a volunteer activist organization that does a bunch of good shit around town like drive low-income women to abortion clinics, confront politicians who are cool with families being destroyed by deportation, or fight to get our City Council to stop investing money with banks that fund the Dakota Access Pipeline.

They’re throwing a comedy show fundraiser for their LA chapter and they’ve rustled up a damn fine line-up. 

You can come watch the show at Nerdmelt in the back room of Meltdown Comics and they’re just asking for a $20 suggested donation. Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

[coloradoweedshops]

The Cannabist Show: He's writer and comedian Josh Androsky

Spongebob Squarepants writer, comedian, podcast host Josh Androsky talking about how cannabis goes with creativity and politics. from The Cannabist http://ift.tt/2wcwOeW via Colorado Weed shops

[thegrimyghost]

Come see us live! We’re back at @nerdmelt in LA TONIGHT with Scott Blacks!

Featuring Dave Anthony, Jake Weisman, Josh Androsky, Ember Knight, Pedro Salinas and a video by Casey Allen Rup! Feb 24th at 7pm! $8 presale, $10 at the door! Ticket link: http://holdmyticket.com/event/275020

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“what am i gonna do on my first day in prison? approach the biggest toughest guy in the joint and CHALLENGE HIM TO A BALLOON RACE AROUND THE WORLD” pic.twitter.com/l1qXbTY4qp

— josh androsky (@ShutUpAndrosky) November 15, 2019

[ozkamal]

Tweeted

i’ve never seen a family with a stronger P.E. teacher gene https://t.co/0XGAr7jdtS

— josh androsky (@ShutUpAndrosky) January 5, 2019

[johnnywizzz]

Tweeted

i’ve never seen a family with a stronger P.E. teacher gene https://t.co/0XGAr7jdtS

— josh androsky (@ShutUpAndrosky) January 5, 2019