Matt Ruby
Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Writer at The Rubesletter by Matt Ruby (of Vooza)
Comedian. New special BOLO out on YouTube now. Also: Writer of the Rubesletter and Funny How newsletters. Link below... 👇
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1 week ago |
funnyhow.substack.com | Matt Ruby
Some recent comedy thoughts:After years of attending shows featuring both professional comedians and open mic’ers, it stuns me that anyone thinks they “hate the elites.”My YouTube feed is filled with vids where some random dude in front of a purple LED backdrop “destroys” or “eviscerates” a famous person. To me, it always feels like a parasite complaining about its host. Bro, you’re heckling from your mom’s basement using that celeb as clickbait juice – maybe tone down the ‘tude a tad.
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2 weeks ago |
funnyhow.substack.com | Matt Ruby
A clip from my BOLO special on YouTube (album out too):A couple of deep dive interviews with Nate Bargatze dropped recently and they’re filled with gems detailing his approach to standup, discussing his family/politics, his onstage persona, and more.
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2 weeks ago |
funnyhow.substack.com | Matt Ruby
When I first began doing comedy, I listened to a bunch of standup albums and wrote down how each joke worked. I was trying to give myself a framework for how to take something that happened IRL (e.g. someone said something dumb/strange/weird to me) and turn it into a joke I could say onstage. Just discovered it again and thought I’d share it here…Ways to make it funny:time dashes = same characters at diff time in their lives. analogous situation = diff characters in similar situation. Make it art.
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2 weeks ago |
mattruby.substack.com | Matt Ruby
The ladies of The View recently asked Joe Biden if he was dealing with “cognitive decline” at the end of his presidency. Guess what? He denied it. What silliness. We really gotta stop asking senile people if they're senile. They're never like, "Yup, ya got me! Now where am I?" No one wants you to take the keys away. And now we’ve got “Original Sin” (melodramatic enough title for ya?), the new book by Jake Tapper and Axios Man No One Knows exploring what happened with Magoogate.
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2 weeks ago |
workingmethods.substack.com | Matt Ruby
Author Hermann Hesse:"When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal...
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Every dude now is either doing ethical non-monogamy or is an incel. It's a real have vs. have not world.
Amazing that being a tattooed lady used to mean you performed in circus sideshows but now it just means you drink matcha lattes and use AI to generate captions for your IG posts.
Wanna get into sacred/ceremonial/healing/medicine stuff? Here's some shaman advice: Find someone old and foreign who's never been to Burning Man and has a lackluster social media presence (if any). That should eliminate about 98% of the wannabe gurus who pervade the space.