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I have some dignity...
Male
101 years old
Austin
United States
Last Login: 11/19/2009
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chris's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | Every once in a blue moon, an aspiring comedian takes the scene by
storm, and becomes a success overnight! Chris Keimling is not one of
those people.
For the past 5 years, he’s earned his chops at Austin’s prestigious Cap City Comedy Club as well as the Velveeta Room, a venue with a proud reputation as being one of the toughest clubs in the country. In December 2006, he headlined there for the first time, closing the show as Klaus Schicklgruber, a character who made his national debut on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, season 2. Klaus has also appeared on seasons 4 and 5 and in the promotional ads for the show. With his trademark lederhosen, Charlie Chaplin mustache and German-accented rap songs like "Klaus Klaus Baby," and "Klaus is in the Haus" he has been known to kill audiences with consistency.
Although he has a penchant for alter-egos, the majority of Keimling’s material consists of traditional stand-up. He delivers well-honed routines with energy, intense act-outs, deft crowd interaction, and an avoidance of graphic raunch and unclever vulgarity.
Keimling chose to pursue stand-up seriously because he can’t seem to
do anything else right in life. He has adult ADD, has only managed to hold two jobs for more than two years, and was fired from both of them. His overbearing, highly critical German mother and emotionally distant father were enough to cause their only child to seek approval from outside sources. Mind-numbing predictability is not part of his act. |
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chris's Interests
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| General | Staying hungry, having a sense of purpose, overcoming self-doubt, winning friends and influencing people, setting goals, performing stand-up comedy, learning from my mistakes, hugging people while inebriated, trying to get myself and others focused, developing friendships with positive people, listening to NPR, interpreting hip hop lyrics, browsing used bookstores, finding meaning in a consumer society that doesn't share my values, improving relations with my parents, planning vacations. | | Music | I can't defend my taste: AC/DC, just about any rap song with the word "booty" in it, Duran Duran, Rammstein, Pantera, White Zombie, James Brown, The Killers, Nirvana, ABBA, dance music, that Punjabi MC song. Old school rap. The soundtrack from Barry Lyndon. Enigma, Portishead, Sade. Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Mozart's Requiem. 70s pimp blaxploitation music. Comedic songs by Tom Lehrer. | | Movies | Children of Men, The Lives of Others, Office Space, Hustle N' Flo, Lord of the Rings, Scarface, With a Friend Like Harry..., Faust (1926 silent German movie), The Mack (best pimp movie ever made), the ape-man sequence from 2001 A Space Odyssey. I like documentaries, independent movies, foreign films. I enjoy horror movies that rely more on creepiness/ atmosphere than gore. Action: District B-13, Ronin, Ong-Bak the Thai Warrior, Ahhnold's early work, James Bond, Hardboiled. Akira Kurosawa. All sorts of crime/heist/mafia movies. Drama. Anything with compelling characters. Stand-up comedy specials,"Comedian". | | Television | King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Chappelle Show, Monty Python, Benny Hill. The X-Files, but only the episodes that stand alone; that convoluted-government-cover-up alien-conspiracy crap was annoying. PBS. Rick Steves. | | Books | Hermann Hesse. Nietzsche. Guy de Maupassant. Henry Miller. Kurt Vonnegut. Kafka. J.K. Huysmans. Poetry; Shelley, Milton, Earl of Rochester.
H.P. Lovecraft and Poe, (more so when I was young, but they'll always appeal to me). J.R.R Tolkien, Robert E. Howard. I like any author who can create his own world.
Nonfiction. Books about religion, the paranormal, the occult. Skeptic magazine, because they share my perspective, even if they are a little smug about it. Books by Elaine Pagels, a scholar who writes about the early history of Christianity.
Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" ("Television doesn't ban books, it simply displaces them"), "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright. The subject of evolutionary psychology is very appealing to me. I like "science for the layman" type books.
I enjoy some graphic novels. "Y: The Last Man" is good.
Chalmers Johnson. | | Heroes | King Ludwig of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Salvador Dali, H.P. Lovecraft. Visionaries, dreamers, philosophers. The ancient Greeks. Independent thinkers, scientists and skeptics who freed the human spirit from the strangehold of organized religion. Irreverent comedians: Lenny Bruce. Richard Pryor. Monty Python: intelligent, timeless comedy (I love their TV show a lot more than their movies), Sam Kinison. Likeable comedians. Johnny Carson, Rodney Dangerfield (because he came back to comedy after 12 years of selling aluminum siding). Paul Hogan (well, the early part of his career) because he had fun playing characters. Jim Carey - I'm not a huge fan, but I respect the fact that he quit a successful, well-paying career doing impressions in order to achieve something greater. Chris Rock, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart. |
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Comedians of MySpace, Austin Comedians, Comedians Corner, Marketing/Sales for the Comedy Industry, River Center Comedy Club, The RockBox and Bourbon Rocks Rockin' Fan Club, People who want to hump John Merriman, Chinaman's Comedy Forum
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chris's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Heidelberg, Germany | | Body type: | 6' 0" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate |
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This weekend, and why I didn't do the contest
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Keimling 2.0
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Guns and freedom
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Dolls from the Crypt
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My dad
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chris's Blurbs |
About me:
I'm a stand-up comedian.
I'm on MySpace mainly to promote upcoming shows and chat with my comedy scene friends.
I would describe myself as an extroverted loner and a quintessential Gemini with a mild case of ADD. I'm proud of the fact that Tom Jones, Prince, Dean Martin and myself all share the same birthday.
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Who I'd like to meet:
The 30 or so people on my MySpace friends list who I have never met in person.
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