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Today almost every young stand-up comic wants to be thought of as both funny and hip—if only because he or she knows that he is speaking to people who have come to believe that if something is both funny and hip, the act of laughing at it will make them hip, too.

But Kip Addotta doesn't play that game. Instead, like Lenny Bruce, Rodney Dangerfield <http://www.kipaddotta.com/rodney-dangerfield.html>, Steve Martin and several generations of musicians and siding salesmen, Addotta seems to be a genuine hipster—a man whose vision of life was always askew, not a guy who has cooked up a set of attitudes that he or she thinks might be cute.

Actually Addotta is a couple of generations younger than any other hipster comics that come to mind. But he has all the traits—the most crucial, for my taste, being the sense that everything he says arises from some reservoir of experiences which he is willing to share with the audience but which he also is determined to husband and protect.

That is, while Addotta knows that he is up there to sell jokes—just as those salesmen knows that their job is to sell siding, and the dance band tenor saxophonist knows that before the night is out he's going to have to play 'Misty'—he sells his jokes in such a way that he, and we know that he's selling them.

Now there's a hip way to do that, which is popularized by Steven Wright and is practiced each weeknight by David Letterman—an ironically coy and cool distancing of ones self from the very idea of joke–telling, not to mention the whole climate of show business.

But the hipster style, that Addotta embodies, is quite different. Hot rather than cool, it wholeheartedly embraces the greasy contradictions of the entertainers role?insisting that there is no way to forget that show business is still a business, no matter how much one might want to dance away from that uncomfortable fact.

So in the area of honesty Addotta has a running head start, and his graceful, rather deliberately paced and slightly sing song delivery adds to the air of conviction that helps him sell his stuff.

He is very funny and different. This is a funny man!

Corporate Roasting
You know what this is... Comedian Kip Addotta is a talented artist skilled at the Art of the Roast. He uses his distinctive point-of-view and combines it with the research he conducts on his subjects. The result is a hilarious delivery of insights, ribbing and loving disrespect for the roastee. We will arrange for you to speak with Kip prior to the engagement to tailor the material and share ideas for helping make the roast a success.

Roasted Clients include:

TV Personality, Gary Shandling
TV Personality, Drew Carey
Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, Oscar B. Goodman
JPL, TMS Manager, Voyager, Alfred Beers
Singer, Frank Sinatra
Howard Cosell
Band Leader, Doc Sevrinson
Film Star, Jackie Cooper
Film Production Designer, John Rothchild

Kip Addotta performs on a number of related topics. Contact us to hear more about his how his talents can add to your conference.

Endorsements:

"Mr. Addotta's observations of my life in law and politics were wonderful! Where he got so much information I will never know!"

Oscar B. Goodman
Mayor
Las Vegas, NV

"The highlight was Kip Addotta. He made me laugh so hard we had to stop the tape!"

Drew Carey

"This kid's funnier than any a you bums!"

Frank Sinatra