iansg75's video: Drake Sather 1991 San Diego Improv full 30min complete set

Drake Sather 1991 San Diego Improv full 30min complete set*, incredibly funny material from the much-missed Mr. Drake Sather. "I like very subtle, yet violent humor," Sather said. Why? "I've always had kind of a morbid sense of humor, and I always liked morbid things," he replied. "I think it's just from growing up in a nice suburb in Seattle: I was always drawn to things that were kind of the opposite of my life. I had a very nice family life, everything was rosy, and I always wanted to see the dark side. I wanted something sinister. "A lot of comics just do what works," he continued, becoming as close as he gets to animated, "but I have to do what I think is funny in my routine. I do have some harmless stuff that works really well, but if I just do that, I don't feel good when I'm done. I (want to) make people laugh at things that they wouldn't normally laugh at.' He realizes that this objective means some of his rougher, dirtier material--indeed, maybe his act overall--won't be for everyone. But he wants it that way. That's part of the objective, too. "I think a comedy club should be like this dark underground place, where people go to hear things that they can't hear in their normal life, to hear something that you haven't heard before. I don't care if it upsets you, I just want you to have this experience. That's the way it used to be, I think--comedy was much more of a subversive art form. . . . "There has to be mixed response. Of course, I want the majority (to respond), because nothing is more fun than just destroying a room. "But when the whole room laughs at everything, I get very suspicious. I start thinking, 'These people are not discriminating at all or maybe I'm not so clever anymore. Maybe I'm getting too normal.' " source: LA Times 1988 article: http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-15/entertainment/ca-223_1_drake-sather *Found footage from an archive trawl, credits/kudos to original uploader Mike Carano.