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Brick Wall Comedy

Comedy Now!

Alan Watt

CTV · 1999 · 30 min

A late-nineties stand-up set from a future bestselling novelist.

Before he pivoted to writing novels and teaching story structure, Alan Watt was a working road comic. He taped this half-hour set for Canada’s Comedy Now! series in 1999 under the title It’s a Beautiful World, capturing a snapshot of his stand-up career just as he was preparing to leave the stage behind.

Watt spent his late teens and twenties touring North American clubs and logging a brief appearance as a hot dog vendor on Seinfeld. He eventually traded the microphone for prose, writing the award-winning book Diamond Dogs and founding the L.A. Writers’ Lab. This television taping aired just as that transition began.

How it plays

Tone
Playful, ironic, cynical, and dark.
On stage
Cynical, observational, self-deprecating humor delivered with sharp wit.
About
absurdities of everyday life, frustrations found in mundane situations, relationships, societal expectations, human behavior, darker subject matter

Backstory

Part of Comedy Now!, a Canadian television series showcasing Canadian comedic talent broadcast on CTV and The Comedy Network.

Details

Released
Taped
Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club, Toronto
Runtime
30 min
Where
CTV
Director
Allan Manson
Topics

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