By April MacIntyre Sep 17, 2007, 3:49 GMT
Michael Ian Black opens his comedy CD, “I Am A Wonderful Man” from the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago by greeting the audience with superlatives, stating, “white people, yay!” Applause. “Good, be proud of your whiteness.” Applause. “White power, yay…” and the audience trails off.
Black blames Sierra Mist.
Black doesn't care what you are. “If you want to be Korean, go for it,” then he cautions the audience, “but not on my time.”
Sardonic riffs of recorded musical satanic messages, yet his Duran Duran records played backwards yield nothing out of the ordinary. The onset of CD’s thwarting the devil’s evil marketing plans for mass induced satanic message seduction are discussed.
Word association and good/bad PR are touched on. Black spins his theories that the Nazis lost the war due to their bad PR. “I don’t agree with EVERYTHING the Nazis did, but they did do some things very well, for example, calling it a ‘party.’ “
“Now it sounds like a B-52’s song,” quips Black.
Black suggests terrorists up their PR game by talking up their chocolate chip cookie skills.
His visit to New Orleans yields a story about performing in the same venue as the Black Crowes, the druken, crass audience were “f***ing a**holes.”
“Nobody could hate New Orleans, except God,” says Black to a female fan in the audience.
Black's tongue in cheek humor has earned him a cult following in TV, film and live performances. He appeared in ‘Stella” on Comedy Central; the comedy trio consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, and David Wain.
During his “Gay?” segment he talks about his high school nickname “faggot,” after telling the audience he discovered that most people assume he is gay after Googling himself, “three or four times a day.”
“My kids are dumb,” states Black. His six year old son writes him a “knock knock” joke, with the end answer to the “who’s there," "Monkey," "Monkey who?"
“Monkey Fish Stick."
It's the answer that kind of disappoints dad, who thinks the kid should have mastered the "knock knock" joke by now.
“Married… to a lady…with a Penis...” deadpans “not gay” Black. “Women are nature’s perfect killing machines…that is their biological function, to kill the male species.”
Lack of any football skills and a beach body plague Black, who talks about his personal peeves in “Walk it Off.”
Vexed by jocks and macho bravado, Black revels in his feminine side and muses if he could figure out how to die a man’s death “on the moon,” that’s the way he wants to go.
"Michael Ian Black: I Am A Wonderful Man." The CD drops in stores nationwide on Tuesday, September 25 and will also be available at http://www.shop.comedycentral.com/. This album is a collection of Black's best story- telling stand-up.
A multi-talented actor, writer, comedian and director, Black will begin a national stand-up tour in October. He also wrote the film "Run, Fat Boy, Run" which was directed by David Schwimmer and stars Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and Hank Azaria, and will be released in the U.S. on October 26.
Pegg plays Dennis, whose biggest mistake was leaving fiancée Libby (Thandie Newton) at the altar even though she was carrying his child. Five years later, he shares parenting duties, lives in the basement of an Indian widower, and secretly hopes to win back Libby's heart. Libby has met Whit (Hank Azaria), who's American, rich, good-looking.
As an actor, Black recently wrapped the film, "Kids in America," in which he was featured opposite Topher Grace and Anna Faris.
Black has been seen in the films "Wet Hot American Summer," "The Ten," "Reno 911!: Miami" and "The Baxter." For four years, he was a series regular on NBC's hit drama, "Ed."
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