I’m a comic and a writer. I also produce, promote and perform in HOT BOX COMEDY. After our successful European debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008, we're back to tackle new US audiences. The following is a video we shot and premiered in Edinburgh. Guys, I think you might like it. And thanks to the lovely ladies who helped us out. Also, you can check out my blog at www.claudiasaid.tumblr.com for more about me, the trip, the comedy, etc...
Website
claudiasaid.tumblr.com
Influences
George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Bill Cosby, Emma Thompson, Absolutely Fabulous, Jon Stewart, my mother, my sister and Jane Austen.
Members
I just recently returned from Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was pretty fucking amazing! Below is a little imovie to give you an idea of it all. Also, there is a short movie from from my trip to Greece last year. I highly recommend going. This is why I love imovie, my digital camera, my laptop, and traveling abroad. Although I’m reassessing my comedy career for a travel writer, or could there be a comedy travel writer. Or a comic who travels but only to their chosen destinations. I think so... I’m working on it.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUG. 2008
GREECE - SEPT. 2007
TV Shows
This may seem lame, but I did appear on CMT. That's right. Country Music Television. That pays a little hommage to my Texas peeps. I was on MTV for maybe 30 seconds, but it was me, I was speaking and I made a joke. Not bad. I was NBC, once again, if you went to the bathroom, you may have missed me. I know, I know. No one likes a braggert.
Claudia's Interests
General
Wine. Coffee. Combating boredom. Spelling bees. Stimulating Conversation. Meeting the underdog. Aligning with most underdogs. Singing the theme song to Rocky. Okay you get the point. Becoming a detective in the form of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot - but not being old or fat in the process. Cheese. The perfect holiday destination. The theory of true love. These are all subject to change except the part on wine, cheese and my future as Miss Marple. And my most recent great love... GREECE.
Music
U2, The Shins, Coldplay, ABBA, Nina Simone, Cowboy Junkies, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Sibelius, Ravel, Arcade Fire, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Tracey Chapman, CatPower, The Cure, Eminem, Green Day, The Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Earlimart, Cyndi Lauper, Talking Heads, Electric Light Orchestra, Air
Movies
Before Sunrise/Sunset, Garden State, Fight Club, Sense & Sensibility, Stripes, Romancing the Stone, The Royal Tennenbaums, Good Will Hunting, Bowling for Columbine, Gone With The Wind, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, When Harry Met Sally, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Gosford Park, The Great Race, Some Like it Hot, Breakfast Club, The Jerk, Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Life of Brian, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, You Can Count on Me, Shakespeare in Love to name a few. I also just recently saw Brick and have to add that too. Also, The Devil Wears Prada was a girls' great guilty pleasure. However, all things John Hughes still rule as my most favorite films when I'm low, bored or just in the mood for a little Molly Ringwald.
Television
The Daily Show, Lost, Arrested Development, Project Runway - nothing else on now, but Seinfeld, Friends, Sex in the City, MASH, The Office (only UK version), Cheers, The Wonder Years - all back in the day.
Books
Pride and Prejudice, Blindness, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Man's Search for Meaning, Lonesome Dove, The Reader, I Know This Much is True, The Eyre Affair, all Jane Austen novels (minus Northanger Abbey - why do you think it's the only one not a movie) and I just read The Time Traveler's Wife - beautiful, and I bawled. All things Harry Potter.
Heroes
I wish I had a hero. Now I feel like I'm missing something. Do thousands of you have one hero that you can name immediately? Wow, impressive. I think thousands of people have done heroic things - like during 9/11 or Hurrican Katrina, but maybe that's my hope. That one day I could be heroic rather than always forever, like a badge, be a hero. That seems unrealistic and a bit greedy to me. I guess I'll leave the heroes to movies, sports, battles, great literature and possibly to my future!
More information about me? Shheesh! I'm exhausted and talking about myself feels schmucky. Is that a word? Here's some old standup. Feels equally schmucky, but I'm getting used to it....
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Who I'd like to meet: Jake Ryan, Lloyd Dobler, Renn McCormick, Kirby, Ferris Bueller, Bender, Mr. Darcy, Rhett Butler, Indiana Jones, Dr. McDreamy, Hubbell, Atticus Finch, Harry.....
Hi me loves! I just wanted to tell you and McQueen that i miss yall! I know you two are having fun....lol, I can't wait to hear about it! Oh, comedy night has been soooo much fun to work; )! I am going to miss it when yall get back!!! mwah, love, peace!! Robin; )
what about throwing your boy (thats me) up on stage monday night? i got 4 or 5 people that wanna see me monday night. I told em i know just the place!!!! hope you are killer!
Thanks for the spot on Monday... I had a blast. Also - that michael mcdonald sketch you guys have... so funny i pooped a little when i watched it... not in my pants, in my neighbors yard. thanks again.
OK, your tag line is a brilliant nod to the classic movie that I love! Genius!!! I am off work on sunday, you available? Love to see you and catch up! Miss ya, call me and let me know!
