Mark Twain once said, "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter." This is a thought that is very well understood by Grammy Award-winning comedian, Lewis Black, who has turned saying what is unacceptable in polite company into an art. Black is a person who seems to have tight grasp on the world at large as he delivers line after line of hilarity in front of an enthusiastic audience. He has something to say about everything, it seems, from Boston traffic: "The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "'The British are coming! The British are coming!'"; to the Atkins Diet: "Turns out we've all been eating the wrong thing...since the dawn of civilization."
Black has not only been a successful comedian, but he is also the author of two books Nothing's Sacred (Simon and Schuster, 2005) and Me of Little Faith (Riverhead Books, 2008). He has also written an impressive number of plays, more than 40 in total. One of these, The Deal, is a dark comedy about business that was made into a short film in 1998 and eventually aired on the Sundance channel. Lewis Black's live show is definitely something worth experiencing for yourself.
Lewis first hit the stage as a comedian in 1996, when his friend Lizz Winstead, decided to choose him for a weekly segment on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. The segment was a three-minute rant about whatever was bothering him at the moment, and somehow it stuck. Black was hilarious and the segment eventually grew into what is now known as Back in Black. Lewis's rants have now become famous throughout America and this from a guy who has said, "Learning to be a comic is like learning to be a boxer with your hands tied to your sides. You just take hit after hit, and while you are getting pummeled, you figure out 'Wow, if I just did this, I wouldn't get hit.' Then you get hit again. I was knocked out a lot. But I learned a lot. I learned I would probably not be much of a comic."
As one blogger has written at HubPages, people actually pay to see Lewis angry, there cannot be much more that a comedian could wish for! How many of us can even dream of having someone walk up to us one day and say "Wow, you're really funny when you're angry, how about I pay you to get angry on stage." Seriously, this sort of thing does not just happen, except to Lewis Black, apparently. Lewis's routine on The Daily Show eventually won him a record deal with Stand UP! Records and his first CD The White Album, was released in 2000, winning him critical acclaim. Lewis Black tickets are now available and are selling out quickly, so be sure to get on the ball and get your tickets while you still can. Black is so popular that you may find tickets hard to come by, but be sure to look for them at online, the best place to get your tickets to see Lewis Black live.
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This article was written by Brent Warnken and sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells Lewis Black tickets as well as tickets to many other theatrical performances, sports events, concerts and special events.
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