Winslow Dumaine - Where Does Comedy Go From Here?

Performance Revue

Winslow Dumaine reveals the myriad of projects he has undertaken during the pandemic, from organizing, donating, and protesting, to taking another deep dive back into his ever-growing Tarot Restless universe.

Winslow is a writer, artist, comedian, and merch wizard. You may recognize him from opening for Kyle Kinane, his Tarot Restless project, or art featured on his website.

His new Kickstarter launches soon. Check it out here, when it's available.

Time Stamps:

01:07 – Useless advice on getting booked

• Mentions of Kyle Kinane, ‘Trampoline in a Ditch’

02:30 – A goth and a metalhead discuss Marilyn Manson’s album ‘We Are Chaos’

• Mentions of ‘The Pale Emperor’, ‘Heaven Upside Down’, ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’, ‘The Golden Age of Grotesque’, ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’, ‘Antichrist Superstar’, ‘Portrait of an American Family’

05:40 – “He’s a hair’s breadth away from being actually cancelled”

06:04 – “Is the ‘Trump Effect’ actually the Marilyn Manson Effect?”

• Mentions of Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Regan, Mike Pence, The Nuremberg Trials, Pink Floyd

08:12 – “Mike Pence is irrelevant”

• Mentions of Kenosha’s Sheriff, Steve Bannon, Darth Vader, World of Warcraft, Nebraska, Incels, Game of Thrones

11:39 – How fascists infiltrate nerd sub-cultures

• Mentions of My Little Pony, ‘The Road’

14:04 – “When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the apocalypse”

• Mentions of ‘The Stand’, ‘Swan Song’, Patton Oswalt

15:03 – A brief history of the Tarot Restless Universe

• Mentions of India Weston, Alternate Reality Games, ‘Restless’, Tarot decks, Dark Souls, Silent Hill

21:28 – “…And you’re also a comedian”

22:14 – The Lost Summer of Winslow

24:03 – Protesting and other civic duties

• Mentions of George Floyd, Brave Space Alliance, ‘It Could Happen Here’, ‘Behind The Bastards’, Robert Evans, Black Lives Matter

26:07 – “Not doomsday prepping…”

• Mention of suicide, Jon Torres, Don’t Tell Comedy

27:33 – Violent Social Justice Fantasies

28:00 – End-times currency

30:38 – Naked Cowboy Summer

32:31 – Awkward, aggressive flirting

• Mentions of depression, low self-esteem, Incels, Social Justice Warlocks

35:20 – Scrutinizing online receipts and how to apologize

• Mentions of Twitter, Facebook

37:27 – “We live in a world that demands constant apology and gives no forgiveness”

40:31 – “People see your crimes, but they don’t see you doing the time”

41:13 – How to apologize on Twitter; James Gunn edition

• Mentions of Twitter, Cancel Culture, Disney, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Louis CK

43:44 – Silly thirst traps

• Mention of Le Aboav, Instagram

44:49 – I was the fat kid

• Mentions of Seattle, Miami, 9/11

45:59 – Winslow was the skinny kid

• Mentions of Anorexia, Self-Loathing

49:04 – “When I started lifting weights, heavy”

49:47 – Working through depression

52:10 – “How has your approach to social media changed?”

53:05 – “Gatorade Should Be Thicker”

53:45 – Mayor of Silent Hill

55:09 – Gatorade Should Be Thicker, explained

• Mentions of Google, Twitter, Jim Gaffigan, “Who Is John Galt?”, Cole’s Bar, Hannibal Burress, Kyle Kinane, Dave Ross, National Geographic, and old memes: “pee is stored in the balls,” throwing car batteries in the lake

59:49 – Success is not overnight

60:55 – Water bottles labelled “CUM!”

• Mentions of The Onion, Facebook, C2E2

1:04:19 – “Judge ask me if I regret I name my son Barp…”

1:06:12 – Media Diet

• Mentions of BLM, don’t read ‘White Fragility’, ‘White Rage’, The Goon Show, The Firesign Theater, Monty Python, John Cleese, ‘So, Anyway’, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Simpsons, The Beatles, ‘Chernobyl’, Marilyn Manson, Black Metal, ‘Behind The Bastards’, ‘Worst Year Ever, ‘The Dollop’

1:11:06 – I pitch ‘The Wire’ to Winslow

• Mentions of ‘Fight Club’, David Simon, HBO, ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’, ‘True Detective’, HP Lovecraft, Silent Hill

1:15:44 – “Where does comedy go from here?”

• Mentions of John McCombs, ‘Breaking Into Business’, Brooks Wheelan

1:19:05 – My son Barp, Redux

1:20:04 – Final Words