New Show - persona non grata

Stand-up “New Show - persona non grata” will be presented at Pub Pan-Da in Legnica. In the announcement, the author cites a theory that “a stand-up lets the audience experience an intimate and spontaneous conversation with a madman.” He adds that everyone is mad in their own way.

The author refers to two English words for a comedian: comic and comedian. A comic observes the world, filters it through one of 20 ways of writing a joke, and makes people laugh. Their jokes could be told by another comic with similar results. A comedian gives the audience the sense that they know the person on stage and who they are. They deliver their material in a distinctive way, and their take on the world is naturally funny. In another stand-up's act, such material often wouldn't make sense. A comedian needs time to “find their voice.” The author describes this as a fascinating process. For much of the show he sits down, which he calls a “game changer,” because it lets him talk to the audience like friends. He assures that he is well prepared but remains himself.

According to the author, the audience laughs in the show at two things:

• the absurdity of the surrounding world, which is real and not created by an always-working comedic mechanism,
• comically clumsy attempts to cope with that world.

The description also includes a joke about the word “shambundings,” supposedly a type of brick used around 6500 BC in what is now Turkey, before a better, red one was introduced in Mesopotamia. The author admits, however, that no such word exists. “Szambundinks” is what he says to his son when the boy starts going wild, and he doesn't know where it came from. He also notes that the show has almost no “parental humor.” Instead, he looks at the world from a child's perspective.

Practical information: the show is intended for viewers aged 16 and over. Anyone disrupting the performance may be asked to leave the hall without a refund.