Larry Scarano
A time capsule of loud, late-eighties club comedy.
1 special · 1995
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Larry Scarano moves with the fast, restless pacing of a late-eighties club comic. He crosses the stage constantly, dropping punchlines at a high volume and leaning hard into the microphone stand to wait for the laugh. His material runs on the specific fuel of the boom years: setups pulled from tabloid headlines, conspiracy jokes about cocaine busts, and a rhythm designed to cut through the chatter of a packed room.
Specials
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Full Frontal Comedy: Episode 3 (Kravitz / Rogerson / Scarano / Slayton / Vidale) with Steven Kravitz, Ken Rogerson & 2 more
A 1995 Showtime cable showcase featuring five comics doing short club sets.
Showtime · 25 min
On stage
He stands as a record of a very specific moment in Los Angeles comedy. He was a fixture around The Comedy Store in the 1980s, working the door and living inside the combative, high-decibel style that dominated the room during that decade. He appears in the 1988 concert film Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen, doing his act on the same bill as Chris Rock and Bill Hicks, and later performed on the mid-nineties series Full Frontal Comedy. Watching his set on those old tapes shows what the era actually looked like at the ground level. This is the loud, rough-edged club comedy that filled basements across the country.
Before standup, Scarano played drums in 1960s garage bands. He occasionally brought that past into his comedy life, performing under the alias Larry “Copcar” Scarano.
At a glance
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