Stand Up Comedy about Nursing

Published

Specializes in Peds, GI, Home Health, Risk Mgmt.

Is there anyone out there in the allnurse readership with an interest in getting into stand up comedy? I hope so!!

I've been thinking lately that stand up would be a Marvelous Venue for getting the word out about what life in the nursing trenches is really like. Last Comic Standing is calling your name! The postings on this list are FULL of humerous antecdote ideas.

My suggestions for material include:

Before and after on how nurses dress/appear (before = neatly attired in all white, after = something the cat dragged in, just got out of bed look in baggy, wrinkled scrubs with wild hair, strange shoes, and a couple of tattoos).

Call bell/intercom conversations: you need WHAT??, you want it WHEN??

Patient expectations: the unit looks like an upscale hotel, so why can't I get a backrub/massage, an expresso, higher-count sheets, . . . .

You get the idea! You can be the next Rosanne Barr!! Identify yourself and the rest of us will support you!

HollyVK RN, BSN, JD

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

We used to have an administrator here who was involved in Too Live Nurse. You might google that - he was hilarious!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Is there anyone out there in the allnurse readership with an interest in getting into stand up comedy? I hope so!!

I've been thinking lately that stand up would be a Marvelous Venue for getting the word out about what life in the nursing trenches is really like. Last Comic Standing is calling your name! The postings on this list are FULL of humerous antecdote ideas.

My suggestions for material include:

Before and after on how nurses dress/appear (before = neatly attired in all white, after = something the cat dragged in, just got out of bed look in baggy, wrinkled scrubs with wild hair, strange shoes, and a couple of tattoos).

Call bell/intercom conversations: you need WHAT??, you want it WHEN??

Patient expectations: the unit looks like an upscale hotel, so why can't I get a backrub/massage, an expresso, higher-count sheets, . . . .

You get the idea! You can be the next Rosanne Barr!! Identify yourself and the rest of us will support you!

HollyVK RN, BSN, JD

I am a stand up. I certainly hope I am nothing like Rosanne Barr. Of course...I am a guy.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

That would be a great idea! I do think that some of the days of the life of a nurse can equate to a reality show gone bad.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Heck, I've always thought there should be a sitcom or a TV drama devoted to nursing. Lord knows we have enough shows out there about DOCTORS. :uhoh3:

How about a show called .... Nurse.

You could get some great stars to play the roles. I think it could be awesome. :D It could also reflect many things: the demands people place on health care providers -- the healthcare crisis in general -- I mean, we nurses are at the center of it all.

But I do think a reality take on it would be best. Maybe.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

check out these first nurse comedians:

too live nurse

nursing musical comedy troup ---i'm their biggest groopie having attended about 8 shows over the years after meeting efiebeke (ted, guy in green) at an.

meet_gomer.jpg

patty wooten

pwhead110x145.jpg

her company jest for the health of it!, is dedicated to the promotion and development of therapeutic humor. saw this wonderful rn clown at a nursing conference.

karyn buxman

kb_homegraphic.jpg

the humorlab, an organization that researches the art and science of humo, specializes in opening and closing keynotes.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

As a stand up comic, I suggest writing comedy sketches and post them. When I finish paramedic classes in August I can devote time to fixing them up and getting some of the hundreds of actors in NY to act them out on a stage.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
I am a stand up. I certainly hope I am nothing like Rosanne Barr. Of course...I am a guy.

I like Rosanne Barr... she definately was not a talk show host but she even gave that a shot! Can't say she did not try! I definately admire her for that! Hope you can be at least half as funny as she is! :yeah:

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I'm an actress-turned-nurse, with a talent for improv/sketch comedy, who looks nothing like Rosanne Barr. Count me IN baby! :smokin:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
I'm an actress-turned-nurse, with a talent for improv/sketch comedy, who looks nothing like Rosanne Barr. Count me IN baby! :smokin:

well have a sketch group yet!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

We have Jo Brand in the UK, she used to be a psychiatric nurse and is bilarious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.

My nurses all say I'm funny..... Must be the Irish wit....

OTOH, I don't think I'm all that funny... but they nurses all laugh when I come around...

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion