Cornell said the SA chose Kroll because he was going to be in the area and because of his high rankings on the Student Association Programming Board surveys.
Note: Cornell feels the need to explain this choice, since at this point... Nick Kroll is almost completely obscure. Someone in the background is questioning this. or no such explanation would be needed to be offered by writer, Sophia Rosenbaum.
So yeah... uh... he uh... was listed in uh... Comedy at Cornell uh uh... surveys. yeah, that's the ticket...
he scores high on those ... where are those surveys, you ask? Uhh.. what's it to you. Jules Kroll will kill me if I tell you they don't exist.
Sophia Rosenbaum,
Nick Kroll will be Cornell's pick has nothing to do with Jules Kroll being an alumnus? a big time Cornell board member? A big time funder? No mention that less than a year before Jules Kroll won Cornell's prestigious, " Entrepreneur of the year," award.
(Google Jules Kroll Cornell to see how influential he is at Cornell, and pretty much everywhere)
Is going to be in the area the new way to score gigs when you are an unknown comedian(Kroll was almost totally unknown back then.)
Dear Cornell, you've never heard or me but I am going to visit my aunt Claire in Ithaca, next month. Can you fit me in for a Comedy show at that time?
(SARCASM - for the those who are literal types)
High rankings on SA surveys?
No need to dignify any of this bullshit, but you just can have no doubt that no such surveys exists.
Prior to the night of the show, ticket sales were at 254, but the show ended up generating 732 sold tickets. Past comedic acts have included Aziz Ansari — a stand-up comedian known for his role on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” — and Jon Stewart, of “The Daily Show.”
Note: show ended up generating 732 tickets????
Doublespeak/Gobbledygook is necessary when Jules Kroll's craven son is on the scene. Someone writing this senses something is fishy here, we can guess.
So Prior to the show, the Cornell students rushed the theater or crammed the phone lines trying to get tickets to this hot show?
NO. Fake it till you make ,and favor for favor Nick Kroll bought those tickets. For him it's like spending a penny. And, he's not going to face defeat if he can buy his way out of it.
And, look at that spin.. Instead of Aziz Ansari and John Stewart were able to fill big auditoriums and this bowel movement obsessed heir to the Kroll fortune had to buy his own tickets - to save face.
However, unlike this year’s event, Stewart performed in the Events Center and Ansari performed in the West Gym. “I like that we’re having it in the Anderson Center this year,” Cornell said. “It’s a much more intimate space and it’s how comedy is supposed to be heard — in an intimate theater, not in a cramped gym on bleachers.”
Let's not just say Nick Kroll is not famous enough or respected enough to sell many tickets. Let us not even just not say anything. No, let us spin it that a small theater is what Nick Kroll wants and needs and so does Cornell .
Why? cause Nick Kroll does not like to look like a failure. Fair enough. But, the fact that he can fix everything to defraud( in big ways- court cases, attempted railroadings and little ways - this Cornell thing) is not fair and I'm sick of it.
So during my "OMG Tig Notaro never had cancer and Nick Kroll set it all up," period, I experienced so many incidences of "HOLY SHIT!" But the most holy shit moments involved the fact that publications that covered music( Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan) and then teen girls(Rookie Mag - Ask a Grown Woman feature) were seemingly breaking with traditions to feature INCONGROUS articles on both Nick Kroll and Tig Notaro. Sweethearts with music fans, and teens these two????
(Let's not even get into how Esquire then promoted this strange old lesbian tig notaro talking to said teens..!) Google Rookie Mag Esquire Ask a Grown Woman Tig Notaro to see.
Out of all the fine comedians in the world, this music publications chose one mediocre comedian(Notaro) and one profoundly sub par one(Nick Kroll) ???
Well, I knew it wasn't one bit kosher... I knew from a world of circumstantial evidence that Nick Kroll not only set up this Notaro with a world class malicious prosecution, and a fix for all the civil suits she'd brought upon herself, but that when Nick Kroll felt he needed to help notaro some more(cause he'd essentially screwed her with his "counsel" as evidenced by Judge Richard Fruin's words on April 25th 2012) he and she "laughed so hard," as they concocted a let's try to make Tig Notaro famous and wealthy with a huge cancer RUSE...
Then, I realized why Ira Glass was acting so gung ho and why NPR was pretending to be obsessed with Tig Notaro's cancer non-story... You see, Jules and Lynn Kroll give a lot of money to NPR and PBS and other public outlets.... so that is why soon even Stef Willen was finding herself sitting across from Ira Glass, on "This American Life." It makes me think that maybe Willen did not want to be a part of the sick vendetta and needed more and more incentive. Either way, she's evil, cause no non evil person would consider any of it to begin with... But the idea that she had to be given more and more incentive... interesting one.
And then this grifter and serial liar, Stef Willen, was actually given a L.A press award, a Mcsweeneys contest was mysteriously wone (Nick Kroll donates and is friends with the staff and owners of Mcsweeneys) and a Funny or Die Video( Again, Nick Kroll gave a lot of money to the Funny or Die guys in exchange for them pretending they find him and his strategically picked, "comedy friends," a hoot!)
Stef Willen then was able to transfer these incredibly ill gotten gains(that show up as credits and awards) into a book contract... The agent was seeing these credits and either this agent was fooled into thinking that Stef Willen was a popular and award worthy writer, or Nick Kroll just wrote another large check to cover the deal...
Willen is an uninspired and uninteresting writer, but hey for the right price -why not publish her, if we only can make money in the deal... AKA Nick Kroll promises to cover any losses. This is what he did with Kroll Show.
Back to the strange situation of music publications and their mad love for Tig Notaro and Nick Kroll:
Here's an old one on Rudi Greenberg, of the Washington Post, and how Jules Kroll's voraciously rapacious famewhore son is playing the public using seemingly legit journalists.
(See also how Nick Kroll got Cornell magazine- to pretend he was their most in demand comedian(when he had no background in Stand up), and forgetting to mention that he is Jules Kroll's youngest son. And that Jules Kroll is on their board and one of their most generous and famed alumni.
"programming survey " that compelled them to choose Nick Kroll as their ... of the fact that Jules Kroll is a very famous and generous donor to Cornell, and that he ...
Apr 17, 2012 - Last night's performance, “Nick Kroll and the Comedy Central College Tour,” was held in the Anderson Center's Osterhout Theater. Cornell said ...
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The Washington Post Vs. The Washington City Paper: Kroll and the "reputable publication," trick.
It has come to my ATTENTION that Nick Kroll is writing checks to
"journalists" as a means to impart the appearance of success. Nick Kroll
is not just an untalented comedian --who has the assets to falsify
success in the press-- he also is a Savvy Businessman, and he has
learned the lessons his father taught him.
Let's just focus on schmoozing, for the purposes of this post.
He
recruited a savvy coterie of former CIA spies, FBI agents, and prosecutors by
paying them as much as twice their public-sector salaries.
But there's more to
Kroll's success than waving big paychecks at top talent. He has long inspired
loyalty among his staff by remembering the names of even the lowliest clerical
workers. He once even lent one promising young investigator the downpayment for
his house. The personable Kroll is an avid schmoozer, too.
Like Father like son, but in a much less serious avocation- comedy.
Nick Kroll actually told his self professed "Best friend," Tig Notaro
that "being nice is smart." I was sure he'd say it's smart cause why be
mean or rude... Being mean or rude is useless and stupid.."
But, no... Nick Kroll, continued.... " If I'm nice to airport workers, they'll do something for me in a month."
(I can see that checkbook being used against me, and it really grosses
me out and angers me to a degree that is hard to handle. It should anger
all those who take exception to some very rich and rotten bastard like
Nick Kroll- fixing cases and taking many steps to railroad innocent
people into jail because he could.)
Now, maybe I'm the exception and not the rule but.... I have never been
nice to any airport worker with quid pro quos in mind. He must travel
an awful lot to justify that kind of manipulative consideration. Even
such an open admission shows that he somehow assumes that all of us are
nice with payback in mind. It's just not the case, Nick. The idea that
your every nice gesture must be met with something in return is honest,
but it's also honestly scary. Nick goes on to discuss how "it pays to be
nice to comedians, so I'm nice. This way they put you on their podcasts
so you can promote your work."
Anyway, that was all just written to provide context to the "reputable
press" device that Jules, Jeremy, and Nick Kroll are so reliant on as a
means to lend their incredible lack of credibility- credibility. If you
can get "reputable" press to solidify your position, well what else is
there for the detractor -- who has no access to such press...
Here's just one wild example-- where Nick Kroll has set up press for himself and Tig Notaro.
Any layman would regard "The Washington Post," as real reputable. When Rudi Greenberg submits this http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2013/10/10/back-on-the-bentzen-ball/on
October 10th 2013, to the public, why would anyone doubt the veracity
of what she'd present? It's fluff stuff anyway- a guide to local
entertainment. Can't get less grativas-y.
Surely, Rudi Greenberg has no ulterior motives when she promotes Nick
Kroll and Notaro and this Bentzen Ball ? No one would know about the
twitter posts where local comics were complaining. I sure didn't. And,
had anyone known they would still figure that Rudi Greenberg wouldn't
steer them wrong cause she must be super reputable to be writing for the
Washington Post.
At 12.38 A.M she puts this out. I see it as a means to neutralize any
bad press that Nick Kroll foresees, as a backlash against their
mistreatment of local comedians, but you be the judge, of course.
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT
Saturday at 5 p.m., aggressive Los Angeles-based comic Brody Stevens
is hosting a happy-hour comedy show at The Howard Theatre starring local
comics. (The show is free to anyone with a Bentzen Ball ticket stub, $5
otherwise.) One of the hallmarks of the festival is its focus on D.C.
comedians, who are part of nearly every showIt’s good to
expose the locals,” says Notaro, who handpicked the festival lineup.
Here are a few w around town. of Bentzen’s funniest D.C.-area dwellers
End of story, right? Buy a ticket not only to see such fine comedians
as Tig Notaro and Nick Kroll but you'll be supporting the local comedy
scene. Cough up that ticket price. Randi Greenberg of the Washington
Post give it the okay.
Very small story if you're not a local comic, anyhow, right? A non-story, really. Just a part of an entertainment guide
But, to me, it highlights how devious and deceptive is Nick Kroll's
comedy career "business plan." It is a small, and even absurd,
exemplification of what his father has done, on a grand and very serious
scale. It also is relevant to how he or his paid trolls have responded
to my highly viable allegations against him. He can't deny but he can
deflect by pointing to lack of "reputable publications" covering it.
So few could know that he has that kind of power to shut down stories
and to plant stories. His other form of deflectory obfuscation(I think I
made that up) is to point to court rulings that he knows were won due
solely to fraud and due to his machinations. How few would take the time
to figure that mess out?
Very very few.
But, it wasn't the end of that local comedians story, or non
story....You see, the twitter complaints had happened nearly a month
before, and savvy(and strangely insane) Nick Kroll stepped in and likely
made it even more of a non issue with that Washington Post piece. But,
was it true? Was the Bentzen Ball a boon for local comics or a bane? Any
truth to this, " One of the hallmarks of the festival is its focus on D.C.
comedians, who are part of nearly every show around town. “It’s good to
expose the locals,” says Notaro, who handpicked the festival lineup.
A few hours after Randi Greenberg filed that, an Alexa Hauk, from the
less "reputable"( or maybe less prestigious is more like it,)...
Washington City Paper is released a piece.
Rejected From Bentzen Ball, Local Comics Book Their Own Comedy Show
Back after a four-year hiatus, Brightest Young Things' Bentzen Ball comedy festival is named after a Danish man named Ole Bentzen who laughed himself to death while watching A Fish Called Wanda. But when the event kicks off tonight at the Lincoln Theatre, featuring curator Tig Notaro along with Doug Benson, Wyatt Cenac, Heather Lawless, and others, not everyone will be as giddy as Mr. Bentzen. Some local comics are saying the festival left them out in the cold.
"Not to toot our own horn, but beep beep," says comic Randolph Terrance, sitting outside a bar on U Street NW about a week ago. "Beep beep.”
Terrance and fellow jokester Andy Kline are among
the many local comics who were not booked to perform at the four-day
festival this weekend, and some of them are a bit miffed about it. So
they're doing their own event. Kline and Terrance have run a Saturday
open mic at the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse for the last five and a
half years, and this Saturday, while Bentzen Ball is in full swing at
D.C. venues, the comics plan to host "The Best of the DMV Comedy Showcase" (alternate title: "Rejects of the Bentzen Ball") at the Arlington comedy spot.
To get on the bill, Kline says, the criteria is as follows: 1) You are
funny, 2) you applied to get on the Bentzen Ball roster, and 3) you
didn't make the cut.
After Brightest Young Things announced Bentzen's then-latest lineup
on Sept. 10, some comics took to Twitter to criticize what they
considered a lack of local talent.
BYT had made an effort to recruit local comics, though—about a week earlier, they'd posted an open call for YouTube clip submissions. The open call yielded 92 entries, according to BYT co-founder and publisher Svetlana Legetic.
In the end, 19 locals were booked for the festival. Several of them
were added recently as part of a cheap (or free, with purchase
of another Bentzen ticket) locals-only "happy hour" show on Saturday at the Lincoln Theatre.
Nineteen seems like a pretty healthy number of locals. Yet Kline says
the culture website and promoter still lacks a strong reputation among
many area comics, who doubt its "on-the-ground" knowledge of D.C. comedy
is equal to its understanding of, say, local music.
Legetic says she's fully aware of the Brightest Young Things
stereotype. "I understand that a lot of people think that we’re smug
assholes who sit in an office and drink, like, Vodka Red Bulls and throw
parties,” she says of the six-person full-time staff. But she says "I'm
incredibly aware of people who are trying to make it. We in the
publishing world are also trying to make it. All the support, all the
exposure, all the everything, matters."
The Bentzen Ball was curated by professional stand-up comic Notaro,
who hooked up with BYT in 2008. At the time, Legetic says, Notaro felt
that D.C. was a "really smart city that got a lot of jokes." She teamed
up with BYT to produce the first Bentzen Ball in 2009, and it became the
group's biggest event yet. "The idea was to do something over four days
that's like this magical comedy camp, where people small and big, in
terms of fame, can hang out," Legetic says.
Kline and Terrance performed at the 2009 festival. Since then, the
local comedy scene has improved dramatically, they both agree. At the
same time, Bentzen Ball has shrunk. There were 45 or 50 shows in 2009,
which made it easy to accommodate lots of short sets from locals,
Legetic says. But it also made the festival difficult to manage. This
year, Bentzen Ball only booked 12 events. And critically, no one who
played the 2009 festival was considered for this year's lineup. That was
Notaro's decision, Legetic says, and BYT didn't make that especially
clear to local comedians who responded to the open call.
The 2013 shows are organized into categories, including stand-up, improv, and variety (musical acts like Garfunkel and Oates), and they have themes, like the "Handsome Men of Bentzen Ball," featuring locals Michael Foody and Brandon Wardell. Legetic
says after they pulled together all of the YouTube clips, Notaro sent
BYT a list of around 30 people whom she thought would work best. That
list was then whittled down to the final group based on their
availability and how well they fit into a particular lineup.
(BYT staff member and stand-up comic Jenn Tisdale is
one who made the cut, a fact that may rankle some applicants, Legetic
says. "We had a conversation about whether we should put Jenn on it...
But she works very hard and we think she’s very funny and Tig thinks
she’s very funny, and in the end, that’s it. Are we going to punish
someone?")
The festival is funded almost entirely out of pocket by BYT; 10
percent of the funds come from sponsorships. It's a gamble, but it might
pay off: As of Friday, they had already sold more tickets—3,000—than
they sold in 2009. But the process still feels very hectic and thrown
together. Marc Maron, John Hodgman, and Eugene Mirman
were all confirmed but had to drop out, Legetic says. They lost venues
like the Hamilton, Sixth and I, Penn Social, Studio Theatre, Woolly
Mammoth, and Black Cat, because they couldn’t keep holds without a
concrete lineup. "It was like, 'We’re getting Amy Schumer! We’re getting John Hodgman! Tig just texted Louis C.K.!' Then, ‘This is not happening, that’s not happening. Zach Galifianakis is having a baby, Adam Scott’s, like, child is having a birthday that weekend."
Kline acknowledges that the local comics bummed about getting turned
down may just need to develop a thicker skin. After all, it's comedy,
where consistent and brutal rejection is normal, and can even fuel great
material. "When I was younger, I’d probably have had my feelings hurt,
too," he says. "Once you've been through that process where you know
that you should have gotten that thing but you didn't get it for reasons
other than just purely who's the better comic, you sort of laugh it
off." Kline says that a D.C. comedy festival doesn't necessarily need to
be hyperlocal, either. "I mean, Asheville, N.C., has a comedy festival.
It’s not so they can showcase the local scene. It’s so other people can
come to Asheville."
But the planned Bentzen Ball Rejects show—which Kline and Terrance
are still finalizing—serves a distinct purpose, Kline says. They "wanted
to point out that there are always people who get left out of these
things, and let’s shine a light on them. Because quite often the locals
are just as good as a lot of the people who got on or came in from out
of town. They just don’t have the credits or the visibility." For
Saturday's Bentzen Ball rejects show, they've confirmed appearances from
David Tveite, Matty Litwack, Reggie Melbrough, Tyler Richardson, Chelsea Shorte, Chris Milner, Randy Syphax, Nate Johnson, Becca Steinhoff, and Ryan Schutt.
Are there any comedy festivals that get it right? Kline and
Terrance both mention Just for Laughs, the mammoth showcase held every
summer in Montreal since 1983. But even that one has its critics. "You
can get into Montreal and it's this big industry gang bang, and if you
don’t get attention from Montreal, you’ll be like, 'Fuck Montreal, it
wasn't that good,'" says Kline. Case in point: Comic Doug Stanhope's answer to the Montreal festival, "Just for Spite."
While Legetic says she hasn't received any direct complaints about
Bentzen's selection process, she acknowledges that some people are
unhappy. But she hopes that if this revival of the Bentzen Ball is
successful, it could get bigger and open up more opportunities for
locals. "If this succeeds and this four days doesn't kill us, bankrupt
us, destroy our faith in humanity," she says, "we’ll be there next
year." Photo by Darrow Montgomery
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