As a lot as I’m positive we’d all like to see this, Paul Mazurkiewicz, the drummer for Cannibal Corpse, will not be doing stand-up comedy. I repeat: Paul Mazurkiewicz will not be doing stand-up comedy. The un-Comic Corpse apparently wanted to set this file straight, as he did in a latest interview with the Iron Metropolis Rocks podcast.
Mazurkiewicz has been doing these little pop-up performances at The Commodore, which is a Florida-based improv and sketch comedy membership. Primarily based on the placement, I suppose I can see why folks would suppose he’s the Cannibal Comic (what number of extra occasions can I riff on this earlier than it will get previous?). Right here’s what Mazurkiewicz needed to say about it, as transcribed by Blabbermouth:
“Effectively, man, it’s humorous as a result of I do know it’s gotten on Blabbermouth [that I was doing it], and it obtained on Blabbermouth the primary time I did it. That is my third time doing this. However all people thinks I’m doing standup comedy. I don’t know why they checklist it as I’m doing standup comedy. I’m not. And in case you learn what it says, it’s fairly self-explanatory what the state of affairs is.
“What occurred is — we had been speaking sports activities earlier — I’m from Buffalo. I nonetheless play ice hockey. That’s what I’ve been doing my entire life, really. I began skating after I was 5, and I’m nonetheless enjoying. So, a man that was on my staff, I assume it was a few yr in the past, ’trigger the primary one I did was final March [of 2024], he was, like, ‘Hey, I obtained slightly sort of bizarre factor for you,’ and requested me if I wished to… He’s concerned with The Commodore, this place in Tampa that’s sort of an improvy sort of a comedy store, they usually do completely different sorts of exhibits, however lots of it, the factor is improv. And he mentioned, ‘Hey, man, that might be nice. Perhaps what you’ll do is go up and inform some tales, inform a narrative for 5 minutes.’
“So I’m simply speaking, sort of like I’m now. I’m doing an interview and I’m speaking a few story, whether or not it was [actor] Jim Carrey or something that was, I felt, worthy of speaking about, that has occurred to me in my life or within the band, however particularly me. After which they might do the troupe, which is like six or seven people, the blokes and ladies would do comedy skits, like improv skits. So I discuss, I do my factor, I’m going sit down, they go up on stage for about 10 minutes they usually simply go off the cuff. And it’s loosely based mostly on what I’m speaking about, I assume. So, I assume it’s like 4 tales I find yourself speaking, after which they do the comedy like that. So it’s perhaps slightly over an hour of a present. However that’s it.”
Effectively, there you go. It’s probably not comedy, regardless that there are some ha-has moments thrown in there. I think about Paul has some nice tales, so whether or not it’s standup comedy or not, it’ll absolutely be entertaining.
