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"...David Angelo was the second comedian to entertain the audience that night..." "...David Angelo fixed the event...He is not funny..." "...David Angelo...came from Chicago for the show..." "...David Angelo was a weak spot in the show..." "[David Angelo] is essentially making me money." "...David Angelo is a great comic..." "...David Angelo...stinks..." "David [Angelo] is lethal." Quotes culled from the following sources: THE LOYOLA PHOENIX 2/15/06 ...David Angelo was the second comedian to entertain the audience that night. His kind of random, awkward humor involved long pauses and repetitions of the same joke with different punchlines, which for some audience members, was hilarious... Comic Ryan Conner's Blog 8/24/05 ...David is the first comic I've ever seen get a crowd going by slurping a drink. Truly inventive. What a class act. And he came from Chicago for the show... Michael Goldberg's homepage http://home.gwu.edu/~loataka2 2/19/04 (caption to photo) ..This is me preforming at the DC Improv's Stand Up Comedian Competition. I did very well and thought i would place either 1st or 2nd and go on to the next round. But, I failed to realized that David Angelo, president of Recess and organizer of ther event, had fixed it so he would get 1st place no matter what. He figured there would be no one funnier than him so there would be no reason to suspect that he had cheated. But in reality, I was funnier than him and so was Matt Allard, the guy who placed 2nd. So, he was announced as winning 1st place he was not shocked at all, but everyone in the crowd could not understand how he has won. It's simple. David Angelo fixed the event. This is why he won. He is not funny and Recess isn't either. I wrote Michael Goldberg an email notifying him I would use his accusation of fixing the comedy contest (see above) as a quote on my press page. His response is as follows: March 8, 2006 (over two years since February 19, 2004) I am ecstatic that GW has not taken away my email address for the sole reason of receiving your email. Additionally, I am also honored to be added to your website. After finding your website and my contribution to it, I was glad to be in company of The Loyola Phoenix and Ryan Conner's Blog. Though, I don't know if you read The Loyola Phoenix's complete review of your comedic talents (here is the website if you need it), but I think they were telling you that you weren't that good. The Phoenix liked Josh Cheney ("This past Friday, comedian Josh Cheney hosted the show and began with his own short segment of stand-up, which encompassed a variety of topics, including, believe it or not, a science experiment testing Newton's law of gravity by rolling up the two segments of his tie. The pun? 'It's a tie!'") and raved about Sean Flannery ("Sean Flannery, whose material covered everything from the good old days of playing Oregon Trail to the population of Taco Bell after midnight, kept the audience enthralled and laughing throughout his entire segment"). However, they said this about you: "David Angelo was the second comedian to entertain the audience that night. His kind of random, awkward humor involved long pauses and repetitions of the same joke with different punchlines, which for some audience members, was hilarious." Now, you must have read that because it is on your website, but that begs the question of if you understood it. I think they were putting a positive spin on a performance that got few laughs on a lame repetition of lackluster jokes. But, I could be wrong; so I emailed the author of the article. I believe his exact words were: "David Angelo was a weak spot in the show." Call the Phoenix Diversions Staff at (773) 508-7114 or email them at phoenixdiversions@luc.edu if you want to hear it yourself. Ryan Connor is a good comic with talent and ability. You should be honored that he devoted an entire sentence of praise within a lengthy review in his blog. There is no way I can take that away from you. Treasure it. Hold onto that sentence! Never let it go. But all these reviews are from other people. I am sure you have improved since college. But sadly, this isn't the case. I saw you MCing at the DC Improv last summer. The line up was Caroline Rhea and another comic, if this can jog your memory. I remember the other comic commenting on your failed attempt at warming up the crowd, but I am sure this was an inside joke between you too. Then when you introduced Caroline Rhea, you actually stole jokes from other comics. I wish you had sent this email sooner so I could have remembered the exact lines you stole. I know first heard them on various Comedy Central Specials. I don't think those comics would appreciate that. But, I am only an amateur comedian, maybe I am wrong again. Maybe profession comics, like yourself, do not mind when other professional comics steal their jokes and parts of their acts. Maybe they take it as flattery and not uncreative stealing. I hope you remember that night. And I'm sure I just caught you on an off day. I do not know exactly what I was thinking when I write that email over two years ago, but perhaps it was a little rash to accuse you of fixing the contest. Although, it was rather odd that the organizer of the contest won. But I am sure your little rant about Jesus followed by awkward pauses while you consulted with the index card in your pocket to decide on what killer joke to follow up with won the unbias judges over. I am positive your act wasn't the abortion as I recall it to be and I am sure referring to you as "Just as funny as Cancer" would be less than accurate. I mean, from your web site's glowing reviews and lengthy Scheduled Appearances (in both DC and Chicago) how could these things be true? I'm sorry if I was a little to thorough, but if I am going to be put on your website I think should do my best. I want to represent myself appropriately to all the visitors. And if you are keeping track of the number of hits on your website and wondering why there have been so many recently, it's because I am sending it to my friends to see how you can waste 4 years at $40k per year. Good luck in your stand up future I am sure your big break is right around the corner. I look forward to seeing you on your very own Comedy Central Special, but I wouldnÍt steal any other comedians' jokes. They'll get mad if you do it on national TV. Also, thanks for giving me a little something to do today instead of work. It's been fun. I look forward to your response, but I understand if it might take some time considering your comic talents are in such high demand. Michael Goldberg View my response here Response to Michael Goldberg's email from comic/producer Jared Logan 3/10/06 Dear Mr. Goldberg, Wow. What a terrible guy you are. It's really breathtaking. You've got that awesome combination of sadness, regret, bile, and ignorance that you find only in the most depressing losers of all time. I'm a Chicago comedian. I've known David Angelo for about a year. David and I have done shows together and I recently booked him for the premiere of my late night showcase. We had a good turn-out and I put David up first. He had my entire audience laughing their asses off the moment he got on stage. He destroyed. Of course he did. I just wanted to say that I booked David Angelo for the premiere of my showcase because I wanted a strong comedian who could get the crowd going and impress them enough to come back to the show again in the coming weeks. I had no doubt David would deliver, and he did. The icing on the cake is that David Angelo's material and performance are completely, totally, 100% unique. He made my show look good. He helped give the show a reputation for offering up a unique brand of humor. Mostly he just blew everyone away with how funny he is. Michael Goldberg, how dare you whine in David Angelo's direction? You're so sad I want to cry. Your paranoiac delusions about David, ahem, 'fixing the contest' in college give us insight into your character. People with a tendency to fail also have a tendency to blame their failures on others. Maybe you should have talked to David, watched what he did on stage, and tried to learn how to become a better comedian by following his example? I'm done. David Angelo is a great comic. Goldberg is an excuse-making little bitch. What more needs to be said? Sincerely, Jared M. Logan From comic Mike Bridenstine's blog 3/20/06 David Angelo is the greatest stand-up comedian of all time ever. I once saw David Angelo do stand-up and laughed so hard at one of his jokes that the woman seated in front of me ran screaming out of the venue covering her ears in terror. I learned later that the woman, who shall remain nameless (I never caught her name) suffered severe hearing loss and will never recover. Doctors and law enforcement officers informed me later that this woman's cochlear nerves and eardrums were "completely destroyed" and "useless", rendering her job as a musical critic for a popular magazine equally useless. Feeling a bit guilty, I hired this woman as my gardener, where I use a complex system of sign language to communicate with her. It is a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' system for when I approve (seldom) or dissaprove of her work. I once saw David Angelo fight a wild Kodiac bear on stage. David trained the bear for years to attack him at specific times during his set. The bear was massive. But David is lethal. The bear and David faught for four hours during one of his performances in Rio de Janiero. David ended the fight by ripping off a man's head and pounding the bear with it on the chest until the bear's heart stopped. David then fucked the bear. To hilarious results. He was declared "King of the Universe" by the people of Brazil and ruled with an iron fist for 5 years until, at age eighteen, he decided to go to college. Post from comic Mike Burns 3/20/06 I used to offer people between 5 and 20 dollars to grow a moustache for 2-weeks. Some golf for leisure, I offer people money to grow moustaches. It relaxes me. "David Angelo" and I had no such agreement. In the biz, we call this a "freebie". By growing a comped moustache, "David Angelo" is essentially making me money. Lunch is on you today, "David Angelo". Lunch is on YOU. Post from comic Amy J 3/20/06 David Angelo has made direct eye contact with me at least two different times. Post from comedy fan "Angel" 3/20/06 I once was at David Angelo's workplace afterhours for an HTML seminar that never happened, because I was the only one who showed up for it. While alone at the office with him, I began to get this strange feeling. Like I was the girl in his comedy bit who he follows home late at night into an elevator... Scary. Post from comic Renee Gauthier 3/20/06 I think David Angelo is a good person with strong family values... and he stinks kinda nice.. WASHINGTON POST 9/9/2004 [At GWU, Aspiring Entrepreneurs Learn Art of the Spiel] by Paul Schwartzman David Angelo, 21, a lanky GWU senior who showed up in sandals with stubble on his chin, planned to pitch a film script starring Yao Ming, the 7-foot-6 basketball star, as a medieval warrior. "It would be awesome to have him fight little people," Angelo said, before he was told the rules barred identifying an actual person. He quickly changed gears. Gesticulating with both hands as he stood before the judges, Angelo suggested that health clubs be turned into sources of electrical power by hooking up treadmills to generators that could power street lamps. "I don't know if they were ready for that," Angelo muttered after the judges greeted the proposal with silence (in fact, the judges had already heard the same idea). |