UB Comedy will host a world class solo stand-up show for the first time in Ulaanbaatar tonight only at Revo bar.
The show will feature Matt Davis, an award-winning comedian who has released 5 albums over 18+ years as a touring performer. He has arrived in UB yesterday to perform. He has kicked off a year-long comedy tour around the world since July, 2015. He has visited and performed stand-up comedy at 29 countries so far. His twelve months tour is near to finish and he stated that I want to continue the next thing and it involves even more.
Tickets for the show is available at 86266339 and the price is 30,000 MNT which includes one free beer and free delivery. For more information, please click HERE
You are taking A World in Jest comedian tour around the world. Where did this idea come from?
The original idea came from when I started touring US almost 20 years ago. I did all of the US, most of Canada, Caribbean and then I did China two years ago. Then I started realizing you do not have much stand-up comedy was going around all over the world. I noticed that I was not completely connected yet. There were independent guys doing shows in few countries.
I believe people have that interest a lot in common. So if you are interested in stand up comedy or doing comedy or if you are interested in building boats, when you have a lot of common with someone else likes to build boats and it does not matter where they are. I wanted to prove that. There is a community of those people that are not just connected. But you could connect them.
I put the idea together and started reaching out to people. Then people coming back and introduce me to more people and then the more people. I feel like I maybe proved that.
Stand-up comedy is newer in Mongolia. Have you ever watched the video of Mongolians?
I watched the show last night. I went to UB comedy show last night and it was very good. The local people and the comedians were really funny. It was in Mongolian and I do not know what they were saying. However I can tell a lot just by the way someone`s talking. They clearly good at what they are doing and the audiences were loving it.
What advice do you have for the Mongolian stand-up comedians?
The only advice is just keep doing it. There is no magic way of learning how to do comedy. Because stand-up comedy is performing, writing and it requires a lot of self-exploration and understanding yourself. It just takes time and effort over and over. If you want to learn how to be a painter, there is no magic way to learn how to be a painter. You just have to paint, understand and learn, get better. You hope you get to that place where you have unique style of painting. I would say as a same. Comedians in UB are doing well.
I started with trying. These guys run UB comedy they run open mics where people can sign up and try for the first time. That is the first step. When you go through that, you get better and better. There are many festivals around the world and you can go or start touring like me. There is no degree you can get. It is an art form.
Tell me about your tonight`s show at Revo bar?
We are going to have couple of guys from UB comedy and they will open the show in English. Then I am going to go up and do an hour show. That hour is based around last year. It is all new material. It is not the materials I was doing twelve or thirteen months ago. It is not that show. It is like a different show. I will talk about places I have been and things that common or different from my point of view.
What is your next country?
Next one I will go back to Thailand. I will work on new stuff there. There were no shows there and no one have done it before. They is no comedy there. I am working with some guys trying to get some stuff.
They have a bad view on the world. People say to me you should never go there. But it is just people. They get bad view in the world for other reasons. But the people who are they just people like everywhere else. We are going to try to do it.
Good luck.
UB Comedy will host a world class solo stand-up show for the first time in Ulaanbaatar tonight only at Revo bar.
The show will feature Matt Davis, an award-winning comedian who has released 5 albums over 18+ years as a touring performer. He has arrived in UB yesterday to perform. He has kicked off a year-long comedy tour around the world since July, 2015. He has visited and performed stand-up comedy at 29 countries so far. His twelve months tour is near to finish and he stated that I want to continue the next thing and it involves even more.
Tickets for the show is available at 86266339 and the price is 30,000 MNT which includes one free beer and free delivery. For more information, please click HERE
You are taking A World in Jest comedian tour around the world. Where did this idea come from?
The original idea came from when I started touring US almost 20 years ago. I did all of the US, most of Canada, Caribbean and then I did China two years ago. Then I started realizing you do not have much stand-up comedy was going around all over the world. I noticed that I was not completely connected yet. There were independent guys doing shows in few countries.
I believe people have that interest a lot in common. So if you are interested in stand up comedy or doing comedy or if you are interested in building boats, when you have a lot of common with someone else likes to build boats and it does not matter where they are. I wanted to prove that. There is a community of those people that are not just connected. But you could connect them.
I put the idea together and started reaching out to people. Then people coming back and introduce me to more people and then the more people. I feel like I maybe proved that.
Stand-up comedy is newer in Mongolia. Have you ever watched the video of Mongolians?
I watched the show last night. I went to UB comedy show last night and it was very good. The local people and the comedians were really funny. It was in Mongolian and I do not know what they were saying. However I can tell a lot just by the way someone`s talking. They clearly good at what they are doing and the audiences were loving it.
What advice do you have for the Mongolian stand-up comedians?
The only advice is just keep doing it. There is no magic way of learning how to do comedy. Because stand-up comedy is performing, writing and it requires a lot of self-exploration and understanding yourself. It just takes time and effort over and over. If you want to learn how to be a painter, there is no magic way to learn how to be a painter. You just have to paint, understand and learn, get better. You hope you get to that place where you have unique style of painting. I would say as a same. Comedians in UB are doing well.
I started with trying. These guys run UB comedy they run open mics where people can sign up and try for the first time. That is the first step. When you go through that, you get better and better. There are many festivals around the world and you can go or start touring like me. There is no degree you can get. It is an art form.
Tell me about your tonight`s show at Revo bar?
We are going to have couple of guys from UB comedy and they will open the show in English. Then I am going to go up and do an hour show. That hour is based around last year. It is all new material. It is not the materials I was doing twelve or thirteen months ago. It is not that show. It is like a different show. I will talk about places I have been and things that common or different from my point of view.
What is your next country?
Next one I will go back to Thailand. I will work on new stuff there. There were no shows there and no one have done it before. They is no comedy there. I am working with some guys trying to get some stuff.
They have a bad view on the world. People say to me you should never go there. But it is just people. They get bad view in the world for other reasons. But the people who are they just people like everywhere else. We are going to try to do it.
Good luck.