Scott LaRose
A highly physical nineties club comic who treats standup like sketch.
1 special · 1995
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Scott LaRose approaches the microphone like a sketch player without a cast. He fills the space with physical act-outs, dropping his body into slow motion or pantomiming a fast-forward button to skip the dull parts of an anecdote. He rarely just recounts a conversation. To complain about a bad movie, he slides into overlapping impressions, forcing Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to argue through an Abbott and Costello routine.
Specials
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Full Frontal Comedy: Episode 1 (Romano / Schimmel / White / LaRose) with Ray Romano, Robert Schimmel & 1 more
A 1995 premium cable showcase of domestic neuroses and club filth.
Showtime · 23 min
On stage
He has the exact rhythm of a 1990s club comic treating a late-night set as a live audition. Watching his older clips feels like opening a time capsule of an era when volume and constant motion were the main tools a comic used to hold a noisy room.
His material starts with minor, everyday friction. A parking ticket spirals into a full-body reenactment of a serene roller-skater stopping to offer unsolicited advice. He commits entirely to the characters. He abandons traditional structure, preferring to stretch out a physical bit until the audience laughs at the sheer physical effort required to maintain it.
That flexibility gave him a second career. He spent a decade booking over a hundred national commercials and landing guest spots on sitcoms like Seinfeld. He took the broad, hyper-mobile characters from his standup act and dropped them directly onto television.
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