Since Whip It Out Comedy is still pretty new to the world, we thought it would be a good idea to meet some of our neighbors in a recurring feature we’ve aptly titled Welcome To The Neighborhood. Today, we’re lucky enough to have an interview with an LA-based comedy site that’s even newer than us.
The Coming, which launched today, is the latest production from the comedy empire that spawned The Apiary in New York and The Bastion in Chicago. The site claims to be about “keeping you informed of the goings-on in the LA underground comedy scene with the latest news, interviews, and show recaps,” but we decided to find out a few more details for ourselves. Here’s a look at our interview with The Coming’s editor Rick Paulas…
Welcome to the web. Do you plan to work for the forces of good or evil?
Right now, it’s an internal battle I’m struggling with. My heart is telling me to be good, that everyone can get along in the blogosphere, that there’s no need to muck-raking, name-calling and publishing photos of famous folk’s genitals… but my brain is telling me otherwise: crotch-shots equal ratings! How else do you explain the success of The Golden Girls?
We understand that you will be focusing mainly on the Los Angeles comedy scene. How do you think the LA comedy scene is similar and/or different from the LA dating scene?
I’m only using my Internet dating experience here, but they’re similar in that everyone, comedians and horny singles alike, is a whole lot fatter than their photos claim. Oh, and the plastic surgery. Every LA comedian has at least one implant.
As the youngest sibling in the Apiary/Bastion family, do you get picked on a lot?
I used the same tactic for this “birth” as I used for my REAL birth: pick someone out, kick their ass, and teach everyone else a lesson about what happens when you mess with me. Unfortunately, my mom went down a whole lot easier than The Bastionities, mostly because she was too tired to use the dreaded “Stop Hitting Yourself” tactic.
Obviously the masterminds behind the Apiary/Bastion/Coming empire are choosing site names in alphabetical order, but what made you settle on calling this site “The Coming”?
Well, besides the obvious porn connotation – this is only a hop, skip and jump from The Porntropolis, after all – there’s the whole up-and-coming nature of LA comedians; one day they’re on-stage, the next they’re on some shitty sitcom. But really, most importantly, it starts with a C.
You debuted with a Jimmy Pardo interview. Do you think you’ll be able to top that or is there part of you that is considering retiring now so you can go out on top? And if you did retire now, would you pull a Jay Z and come back in a year with a much shittier product?
The only way we’re going to top that is with our NEXT Pardo interview. Actually, that’s the only person we plan on interviewing for the site, in about 138-seperate parts. Why mess with a good thing, right? Also, if we retire we plan on staying retired; no one should ever come back from retirement unless they get a sex-change.
It’s the question on everybody’s (and by everybody, we mean Tenacious D fans) mind — are you more of a KG or a JB kinda site?
Like everyone, I was drawn in by JB’s charm and exurberance, but stuck around for KG’s oddly-shaped body.
Can you tell us at least one super secret thing you have planned for your site that you haven’t announced yet? We’ll keep it between us (and everybody who reads our blog)…
Besides unveiling the first in our 40-part essay on the German improv comedy troupe “Kraut Worke” next week, we plan on having quite a bit more anal jokes than either of our comedy news siblings.
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