Katt Williams Standup

John DiMaggio spent most of his time behind a microphone these days, but there was a time when he actually had a chance to show his face to the camera, first as a stand-up, and as an actor on Chicago Hope and in the TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. After DiMaggio foothold in the world of dubbing, however, he did his best.

CAC: One of the things you do incredibly well is that you have these trademark comparisons, for example, the night I saw you in the Cellar you made a comparison with a guy in the crowd who walked by with his friend and said, "Oh look, a male model, and the guy that does his website," you've described Insomniac as " Wild On for ugly people," and when you did my podcast before you said it was "Like Comic Con without the costumes."   DA: Analogies are for people who don't actually have time to write jokes, that's what I do. "Hey, you look like a whatever," that's crowd work, it's all that is.  There's no science to it.  I guess that's just from the New York scene.  All the clubs in New York are loud and all the people are moving around and talking and stuff like that.  If you go on late you see a lot more of it.  That's not just New York, that's being on the road all these years, you see all these different situations and you kind of have to make the best of it.  But the problem is that eventually people want to hear what you have to say and then you're like, "Ut oh, I wish somebody would yell something."  But it does break up the flow and I like that.  I kind of got used to that it's never going to be people sitting there like a recital and that you have to make the best of the situation.  Now these kids are better at being quiet, they're on their Droids and Blackberries the whole time, so it's kind of different.  They're quiet, but they're networking and doing something else while they're there.  So you feel like you're holding them there, it's weird.  ...

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