85 & 86 of #1001ComedianPortraits Happy 80th Birthday to Steve Martin! @stevemartinreally.bsky.social
#SteveMartin Like many a comedy nerd, Steve Martin's comedy records to me were masterpieces to be memorized. Didn't realize it at the time, but he was really the first to break out with meta-comedy
79-84 of #1001ComedianPortraits I truly think we’re at a watershed moment in comedy, with @marcmaron.bsky.social at the Vanguard, challenging other comics by name. I’m a firm believer in freedom of speech, but some should be called out for the people they promote, and pal around with.
73 of #1001ComedianPortraits- Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman at Zanies last night, and a portrait from Just for Laughs in Montreal, 2007. Same guitar 18 years later. @hardwick @mphirm @goat_song_records @dan_dion_photography @mikephirman.bsky.social
69 of #1001ComedianPortraits - my friend Sarah Silverman, @sarahsilverman.bsky.social shot backstage at Just for Laughs Northwest in Vancouver, 2017.
#SarahSilverman
68 of #1001ComedianPortraits- the inimitable Andy Dick , shot at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco in 2003. I'll post the naked photos later on. It was a wild shoot. #AndyDick #EverybodysGotAnAndyDickStory
67 of #1001ComedianPortraits- Steve Byrne, shot backstage at Lincoln Hall in Chicago before taping his Showtime special- 2016. #SteveByrne
65 of #1001ComedianPortraits - I saw Cake last night in Nashville, and as if I needed to be reminded, they're just so damn funny. This shot was taken at The Warfield in 2006. @thebandcake.bsky.social
62 of #1001ComedianPortraits - Ryan Stout @ryanstout.bsky.social , shot in North Beach in San Francisco, 2004.
61 of #1001ComedianPortraits - My first portrait of @deannesmith.bsky.social , shot at Just For Laughs in 2007
#JFL #DeAnneSmith
59 of #1001ComedianPortraits: The comic who changed everything - Mort Sahl. Photographed at The Purple Onion in SF.
58 of #1001ComedianPortraits - The very funny comic and writer Guy Branum, as scalpel-sharp and smart as they come.
#GuyBranum
57 of #1001ComedianPortraits - Mike E. Winfield , shot at Just For Laughs in 2007. @mikeewinfield.bsky.social
56 of #1001ComedianPortraits - The cast of Family Guy, shot for Just For Laughs in 2007. Mila Kunis , Mike Henry, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Seth Macfarlane.
#FamilyGuy , #MikeHenry , #AlexBorstein , #MilaKunis
#SethMacFarlane
54 of #1001ComedianPortraits GINA YASHERE, shot in 2016 at the Punch Line San Francisco.
@ginayashere.bsky.social
53 of #1001ComedianPortraits - the late, great Gary Shapiro, who left us way too soon. This was shot in 2013 when Paul Provenza and I did our ¡𝘚𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘚! show at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas. @mariopro.bsky.social
52 of #1001ComedianPortraits - Pulled this one out of the deep archives the other day. Wayne Brady, shot on film at The Warfield Theater in 2003. @waynebradybaby.bsky.social
51 of #1001ComedianPortraits - The brilliant maniac Eddie Pepitone. If you've seen him, you know what I mean. If you haven't, do.
50 of #1001ComedianPortraits @bradwilliams.bsky.social , shot in 2018 after he just DESTROYED at the Just For Laughs gala. That's the face of a man who just stuck it to 'em.
48 of #1001ComedianPortraits - shot in 2017 at The Battery- my long-time friend Mary Lynn Rajskub. We've known each other from back in the San Francisco days circa 1993 when we didn't know that we were helping create what would come to be called "alt-comedy", me as producer, her as a unique voice.
47 of #1001ComedianPortraits, the late Mark Russell, mainstay of PBS, who passed away in 2023. Shot at the National Comedy Center at its opening in 2018.
46 of #1001ComedianPortraits- Trailer Park Boys, a very high-minded and sophisticated comedy act for only the most discriminating aficionado of satire.
45 of #1001ComedianPortraits- The late, great Canadian comic Mike McDonald, shot at Just for Laughs in 2006.
44 of #1001ComedianPortraits - Janeane Garofalo, shot backstage at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, 2001. When I posted this previously, I actually had someone OUTRAGED that she would be smoking while meditating. (That was the joke, lady.)
43 of #1001ComedianPortraits - the fabulous Randy Feltface BTS at Just For Laughs, 2017, getting a touch-up before his Gala performance.
42 of #1001ComedianPortraits Oliver Graves, shot at @ComedyDay in San Francisco, 2019. Oliver is having the same problem most comics on the rise have at some point- pissant newbies stealing his material.
41 0f #1001ComedianPortraits - Abbi Jacobson and Illana Glazer, multi-talented masterminds (pardon the unavoidable masculinized compliment) of Broad City. Shot for Clusterfest in 2017.
