Standup Comics
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 Standup Comics logo |
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| Author(s) | Basil White |
| Website | http://www.basilwhite.com/comics |
| Current status | Updating Weekly |
| Launch date | October 23, 2003 [1] |
| Genre(s) | Dark humor |
Standup Comics is a webcomic by Basil White, debuting on October 23, 2003. The comic is material from Basil White's live standup comedy performances presented in comic strip format. The unchanging single image of White is a tongue-in-cheek reference to White's deadpan performance style. Several recent comics were adapted for two mass-market joke books in 2006, It's a Man's World (ISBN 0-7607-6829-3) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes (ISBN 1-59257-538-2).
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[edit] Setting and storyline
The setting is Basil White, presumably onstage, with Basil White's unchanging head in front of a Featureless Void. As every comic is based on White's stage act, the storyline mirrors the same topics: science fiction conventions, murder, religion, and sex.
[edit] Time frame
As the strip is a transcription of a comedy show, there is no time frame beyond an individual strip, and there are no obvious story arcs among any two strips.
[edit] Cast
The comic has one character: Basil White, rendered as a static image that almost never changes.
[edit] Quotes
- "I knew I had a drug problem when I got a voice mail message from myself. 'This is you. Marijuana has destroyed your short-term memory. Write this down. Buy more marijuana. Save this message.'"
- "I used to be a food addict. I switched to alcoholism. Oh, much better addiction. 'Cos you can drink enough to forget you're a drunk. You cannot eat enough to forget you're fat."
- "Beauty magazines piss me off. 'Cos they teach you women to obsess about whether he approves of your clothes. I pick out my clothes by smell. And I went to college."
- "I used to be real depressed. Doctors say when you're depressed, you should try to do something creative. All I thought of was a creative way to make my suicide look like an accident. Just write a note - 'It was never my intent to kill myself. I just wanted to rough myself up a bit. Teach myself a lesson.'"
- "Allergy season. Mother Nature's way of telling me flowers get more sex than I do. I don't throw my seed all over the place. I keep it where it belongs. In a sock."
[edit] Drawing style
The only image in the strip is a single clip art rendering of White.
