Last night I had my first foray into standup comedy. Or, to be more precise: I, together with three other people, put on a mess of a show made up of a couple of unrelated dumb skits and parody songs, and my contribution were a couple of bits I stole from Bill Cosby.
Italians are pretty much unfamiliar with the whole concept of pure standup comedy. What comes close is something they call "cabaret" (read, "bad hacky jokes and obnoxious characters") which in itself has very little to do with actual "cabaret". Or maybe "One Man Shows" which again do resemble standup but they're something else entirely. Really, a comedian alone on a stage telling jokes and bits for 30-60 minutes, like Seinfeld or Williams or Carlin or Prior or Dangerfield is something alien to the italian audience.

So I thought "I'll just bring a couple of bits I know and love, just to test the waters".

People loved the "Dentists" bit (from Cosby's "Himself"), they laughed the whole way through, but "Noah built an Ark" seemed to completely fly over the audience's heads. I swear you could almost hear crickets. Not only did it bomb horribly, but after the show was over, some retarded cunt stopped me just to tell me "You have offended MY Lord". .... Yuck!