ANGELA COBB
This self-deprecating smartass has performed at venues such as Broadway Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, and The Laugh Lounge, captivating audiences with her likeable personality and entertaining blend of intellect and silliness. Her unflinchingly revealing content embraces life’s awkward moments, churning comedy fodder out of her own imperfections.
Ms. Cobb was featured in the first annual Stand-Up 360 Comedy Festival and currently co-hosts "Fun Size and Venti Present," a monthly show on Manhattan’s upper east side.
January 22, 2012
“ Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - “My God, the floor’s immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch.
January 9, 2012
January’s “FUN SIZE AND VENTI PRESENT…” look at this lineup!!!
For those of you who don’t know, this is the monthly bar show that I co-produce/co-host with the brilliant and hilarious Cindee Weiss.
If you’ve never been, THIS would be the one to check out.
*FREE*
Baileys Corner Pub is located at 1607 York Avenue in Manhattan.
November 30, 2011
November 24, 2011
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler, Harvard Commencement speech, 2011
Over the summer, one of my friends posted the video of Amy Poehler’s commencement speech. The above quote really struck me and I’d been meaning to write this for a while (since like…July), but alas, I’m no good with sentiment and I tend to procrastinate.
Simply put: I’ve been very lucky to have found several of these people. I’m so proud to say that I surround myself with such talented, hilarious people. We all know I’m not the most charming and social person in the world and sometimes I don’t want to deal with people (and honestly, I want to spare them from having to deal with me), but when I do find these kinds of people - these people I have an immense amount of respect for as comics and as human beings - I want to spend as much time as possible with them.
I can be exhausting to put up with. So anyone who actually bites the bullet and gets invested in me deserves sainthood. I sincerely appreciate all of you.
You know who you are. And, if you don’t, I do. Thank you for challenging and inspiring me. My life is better because you’re all in it. I mean it.
And now let the gluttony and masochistic eating begin! Happy Thanksgiving!!!
~Angela Cobb
October 18, 2011
This is crazy! In a good way!
(via Mr. Hankey As Rectal Cancer Awareness Mascot: One Woman’s Open Letter To Matt & Trey)
I’m so proud to know this wonderful comic and person. Hell yeah, Michelle Dobrawsky!
3 months ago • 6 notes
October 13, 2011
Fox News To Female Comedians: Be Sexy
Some women can be sexy and funny. Good for them. If it’s all the same to you, Fox News, I’ll just take pride in the fact that I’m a lot funnier than most of the sexy women I know (kthanksbye).
PS Since when is Fox News the expert on comedy? Oh, right, it’s their job to talk about shit they know nothing about.
PSS I love how in their list of examples of hot comedians…they fail to list one actual comedian.
October 9, 2011
September 22, 2011
“ No…. no. I - it’s not funny to me, when people heckle I just think ‘that’s a shit person’. I can’t fathom someone who’s at a show, where somebody is doing something that makes them as vulnerable as standup makes a person, and they go ‘hey yeah, ya hurr durr’. I just instantly incinerate them with hate in my mind, it just makes me sick when people do that. And I never play with them. I always just tell them, “the thing you’re doing is really destructive to the show and I want you to stop”. And they feel weird. And they usually stop.
Louis C.K., when asked “Do you have any funny stories about being heckled?”. (via ivormarlow)
THIS!
“…doing something that makes them as vulnerable as standup makes a person…”
BINGO!!!!!!
THIS!
“…doing something that makes them as vulnerable as standup makes a person…”
BINGO!!!!!!
(via tracysoren)
4 months ago • 16 notes
September 18, 2011
Sexualized Heckling: Part Three of a Three-Part Response to the Status Quo, Diversity and Misogyny in Comedy
By Barbara Holm
AMAZING article!!!
The closest thing to “sexualized heckling” that I’ve ever experienced was at this bar show I co-host. A guy at the bar said, just as I was about to bring up the next comic: “I like you. You’re very smooth…no camel toe.” I could tell from the way he said it that it wasn’t meant with malice, and he was pretty drunk, so I didn’t go off on him. I responded with: “Yeah. I get complimented on that a lot. That and my smile.” And then I threw a few mild digs his way. But it was definitely an interesting experience. And just as this woman stated, it certainly came out of nowhere, and had nothing at all to do with any of the jokes I’d told.
An article like this makes me proud to be a woman and a stand-up comedian and a woman stand-up comedian.
