STEINGART...

In honor of our search for better comedy, I'll be chronicling the greatest comedian of our time. The man, the myth, the legend...Elliot Steingart. His rise to fame will be legendary and we'll be following his every move here at Jason Jacobs. We'll also closely examine many of his jokes, blog entries, and his stand-up (I'll give you a hint, the reviews will begin with "h" and end with "a"). It was once said that Steingart was given a restraining order to stay at least 50 feet away from any microphone for fear that his jokes were so funny that God would laugh so hard it would collapse space and time. A genius that uses his words like Einstein did math. Rumor had it that Al-Qaeda was working on their own Steingart but even they felt that was "crossing the line." So right about now you might be asking: Who is Elliot Steingart? And what does, as one spectator described "the face that launched a thousand laughing voices" and an esteemed psychologist refered to as "the cure to anhedonia" look like?

picture courtesy of Elliot's My Space.

According to Elliot's youtube profile he is "is one of the most recognizable faces on Youtube. With 1 featured video and 80 more videos and counting, Steingart is one of the most prolific young comedians recording jokes into his digital camera." This would only be more accurate if the word "awesome" was put into capital bold letters then cut and paste an infinite number of times. Even then it would drastically undersell America's most priceless speciman. What do we know about Elliot Steingart? He is a Jewish Comedian that was born in Pittsburgh and moved to San Diego at the age of 17 as shown in this clip...



He spent some time in Canada as told in his authorized My Space account blog entry comically called "Canadian Challenge" (we know there is no such thing as challenges for Elliot, what we call "challenges" are what Elliot calls "jokes". Of course, we're not sure what he calls "jokes" but whatever it is, it would probably go so far over our heads it would be happening below us). Here's Elliot's own words:

"At eighteen, I spent a summer working as a camp counselor in rural Quyon, Quebeche." He went to the now historic Darby's, a local pub in Kitsilano that held comedy Monday nights. He later would say "Yes, I challenged myself to see if I could be funny in a different country. The challenge is one I accepted and perhaps that particular challenge was never fully realized, but because I had taken the important step of moving to Vancouver to develop my comedic voice, to this day I continue to challenge myself each time I walk on stage to perform comedy." Did he succeed? I'll let Elliot answer that question as he turns his keen eye for observation to our moose loving friends in this youtube clip...



Hahahahhhahahhaahhahahaha...Yes, it's "aboot" time somebody shed some light on how to identify those Canadians. I never even NOTICED those funny accents. Thanks, Elliot. After honing his craft and conquering North of the border, Steingart decided he was ready to take his special Jewish brand of humor to the place God chose for his people to live and prosper...Los Angeles. Ever since, he has been rocking one comedy club after the next. I leave you with this gem from his early stand up experiences...



Here's Part 2...



Join us next week as we begin to break down some of Elliot's earlier work and attempt to better get in the mind of this burgeoning titan of comedy...until next time PRROOOOOOO...BOOOOOM!