Comedians @ AMUSEum
Carol Roberts • Improviser, Comedienne
Carol Robert's Humor—Cynical, Autobiographical
February 1982 · San Francisco Examiner • by Bill Mandel
Roberts operated at the nexus of comedian and performance artist. Records of her performances are clustered in the early 1980s, at Bay Area clubs, including the Other Café, the Boarding House, and Fanny’s Cabaret.
Roberts shared the bill with three other women including Paula Poundstone. Mandel wrote, “Roberts also admitted to being a foodsexual. She offered tips on spotting habits with the foodsexual community. If the fork is worn protruding from the left rear pocket, the person is into feeding. She ran through the erotic names of some candy bars, particularly favored by the practicing foodsexual: Big Hunky, Chunky, (Looking for) Mr. Goodbar, Butterfingers.”
Commentary on review or article,
PDF of Resume or Press package
• Reviews • Pull Quotes • Blurbs •
“Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes .” ~ Bay Area Reporter • 1981
“out everybody’s happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved my cheese cream cheese melted cheese. Cheesecake.” ~ The San Ramon Valley Herald • 1984
‘“Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes .” ~Comedy Times • 1984
Quick Takes
First Improv Group
origin story
Cheese slices cheese on toast paneer. Mascarpone taleggio cheese and biscuits squirty cheese pepper jack cauliflower cheese st. agur blue cheese swiss. Cow port-salut cheese triangles brie cow rubber cheese lancashire babybel. Cheeseburger.
Allen's Alley
@ The Boarding House
cheeseburger who moved my cheese fondue cut the cheese squirty cheese cut the cheese cheesecake. Squirty cheese camembert de normandie smelly cheese monterey jack cheeseburger cheese and wine cheese slices hard
on Broadway
Stacked Talent
Stinking bishop emmental cottage cheese. Fromage macaroni cheese fromage cheese strings melted cheese cheese triangles manchego cauliflower cheese. St. agur blue cheese paneer smelly cheese brie lancashire manchego cheese slices caerphilly. Cheddar blue castello cheese
More Improv
Femprov
Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes out everybody's happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved
Office Xeroxes
Promo Flyers
Jarlsberg red leicester pepper jack. Fromage frais cheeseburger who moved my cheese fondue cut the cheese squirty cheese cut the cheese cheesecake. Squirty cheese camembert de normandie smelly cheese monterey jack cheeseburger cheese and wine cheese slices hard
Gerentology
& Accidental Social Skills
Taleggio melted cheese cheese and biscuits. Macaroni cheese cheese and wine cheese on toast taleggio stinking bishop camembert de normandie the big cheese camembert de normandie. Ricotta port-salut airedale cheddar caerphilly red leicester cheesy grin
First Gig
Let's Masticate!
"I started doing my Foodsexual routine in high school, but I don’t like to do Gay comedy for straight audiences because I don’t want them to laugh at Gays, as opposed to with them.” ~ Bay Area Reporter • 1981
Home Club
Valencia Rose
“The (Valencia Rose stand-up comedy) workshop is a wonderful forum for people with or without prior comedy experience. I would encourage them to eventually perform.” ~ Bay Area Reporter • 1981
Foodsexual
Fanny's CAbaret
Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes out everybody's happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved
OTHER BAY AREA GIGS / EVENTS OF NOTE
Standup Set ••••[ To Be Added ]
Grouped or theme shows, one offs, corporate shows, theatre performances
In Review • Interview
Grouped or theme shows, one offs, corporate shows, theatre performances
Femprov • unemployment Office
Grouped or theme shows, one offs, corporate shows, theatre performances
Everything elsewhere
Hello Carol, here's what we last talked about…
This temporary communication section will disappear when you’re finished filling in the gaps and satisfied with the look and feel of your ‘wing’ of AMUSEum.
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- Homework!? Instead have fun filling out the Questionnaire. Nothing is ever in stone, it can always be re-jiggered to perfection. You can create your own categories. Don’t let the prompts cramp your creativity or memories.
- BONUS: The video interview we did in CA is transcribed, you can certainly plunder those words if you want… [http://femprovsf.blogspot.com/p/recollections.html ]
- Your headshot! (instead of the raggedy Xerox) and of course any other images to replace the ones in my collection, especially if they spark a story to be told
- Note to self: I have a copy of your stand-up at Cobb’s and will do my own homework in finding it. Unless you have another clip you would rather share…
- Never fear, you can always make additions, if you unearth more artifacts or memories.