I wish there were some sort of video game - let’s call it “Comedy Star” - where you play as legendary stand-up comics through time - and you have to hit the button in the right sequence and rhythm for them to do their set-up’s and their punchlines just right to get the biggest laughs from the crowd…off-rhythm and you start getting heckled, then eventually booed off stage…Certain buttons could be put-down’s, certain one’s could be crowd work, or catchphrases, or dropping an N-bomb (for Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy and Lenny Bruce only…although maybe there should be a secret, very controversial unlockable Andrew Dice Clay)…there could be an impression button…a “dick joke” button…
You get a mic, a prop, a ventriloquist dummy, a whiskey tumbler and a heroin needle…
You start off at an open-mic at a seedy strip club vs Gilbert Gottfried…
Advance to franchise comedy clubs vs. Paul Reiser…
Go on Carson vs. Ellen DeGeneres to see who gets called over to the couch…
The final level is you go against Steve Martin in Madison Square Garden…
