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Rick Shapiro is an underground comedy icon in NYC...Any working NYC comedian has a Rick Shapiro story due to his erratic behavior and eccentric lifestyle...Shapiro has battled drug addictions throughout his entire life and it's great to see him cleaned up...His on stage act is an intense, borderline insane rant about today's society...He is known for putting on 2 hour long shows in small NYC rooms...More often that not audiences simply don't get him. But when he's on and the crowd is open minded, Shapiro KILLS...Shapiro truly is a misunderstood genius
Official Bio: Rick is a staple of the NYC and LA Underground Comedy Scene. His life story is featured in "Getting It Right," a book by award-winning author Adrian LeBlanc, which will be published by Random House this summer. Rick has been a featured performer on "Conan O'Brien," "Tough Crowd" and "Howard Stern." For Conan, he created Richard Black and appeared as himself doing angry rant poetry and sketches. Rick has also performed on "Law and Order," "Deadline" and "Saturday Night Live." Commercially, he created a character for Nintendo, which won the most popular character contest voted by Nintendo users. On stage he has performed on the popular "Tony and Tina's Wedding," and performed in "Edmond," directed by David Mamet. Rick has also performed various original one man shows "Repeat Offender," "Unleashed," "Torment at the Flea Theater," "The Bowery" and "Melrose Improv." He also performs live regularly at the "Sidewalk Cafe" in NYC.
Rick Shapiro "Unconditional Love"
Nothing quite captures the full experience of Rick's performance artistry like seeing him live. But if you can't do that, the album...is the next best thing. Rick Shapiro is not merely a stand up comedian. He doesn't really have a routine, per se. Really he just gets up on stage and explodes into a sort of stream of consciousness rant. During his performances, Rick unleashes the many characters living in his brain in a rapid fire purging that almost comes across as an assault. The former junky/prostitute turned actor-comedian has been called the Lenny Bruce of the East Village and it's a name that suits him. Fortunately for Rick, though, he is not living in the repressed age that censored and eventually ruined Lenny Bruce. Rick's act is so obscene and raunchy that it makes his predecessors look like girl scouts. But his humor doesn't just rely on obscenity. It's quick witted social criticism... with the occasional reference to fisting. 5.0 out of 5 stars...Rick Shapiro RULES!!!!
1. Get Pissed 2. Family Values 3. The Sexy Anorexics 4. Writers 5. Getting Laid 6. I Sucked Dick for Heroin 7. Fuck, Fuck, Fuck! 8. WBAI-FM 9. The Leonard Cohen of Dick Whippers 10. K-Mart! Staples! The Gap! 11. Riffing, Stomping and Managers 12. I Miss Drugs 13. When the World was Wild 14. Whitney Houston 15. Suburban Butts 16. Whitey Politey 17. Bush 18. Riffing 19. Sucking Ass 20. Eating Pussy 21. God's an Idiot 22. Mr. Duane Reed
