Bragging
Myq is/was/will be in these things:
“Comedy Central Presents,” 2010
“The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien,” 2009
NY’s Funniest Standup Competition, 2009 (winner)
Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, 2009 (New Faces)
New York Comedy Contest, 2009 (winner)
Caroline’s on Broadway’s March Comedy Madness, 2009 (winner)
Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham”, 2008 (featured performer)
Boston Phoenix “Best of Boston,” 2008 (Best Local Comedian)
Great American Comedy Festival, 2008 (featured performer)
Comedy Central’s Open Mic Fight, 2007 (finalist)
Boston Comedy Festival, 2007 and 2008 (finalist)
Boston University’s Funniest Student Competition, 2005 (winner)
Some things people have said about Myq:
Punchline Magazine
“Myq Kaplan: Comic to Watch in 2010″
The Comic’s Comic
“Myq Kaplan blew plenty of minds with his awesomeness, earning multiple applause breaks and the attention of everyone downstairs in the lounge/green room [at his ‘Live at Gotham’ taping for Comedy Central].”
The Comedians
“Myq Kaplan is a comedy machine, in the best possible way. The way that some machines vend soda or prevent other machines from killing future revolutionaries – that’s how Myq Kaplan does comedy: relentlessly, methodically, unblinkingly.”
The Boston Globe
“Kaplan, 28, writes some of the best one-liner, quick-hit comedy in town.”–Nick Zaino
TimeOut NY
“This rising local star is a thinking person’s comic. You’ll have to pay close attention to keep up, but don’t worry, you’ll want to.”
Punchline Magazine again
“…lightning fast mind…”
Dead-Frog (at Just For Laughs in Montreal)
“Later at New Faces 1, first-up Myq Kaplan stole the show early with fast-paced language-play that tackled religion, technology, the dubious legacy of ‘Final Destination’ and begged for repeat listens.”
The Somerville News
“Myq Kaplan, a fresh-faced, wisecracking Boston University undergrad, had a subversive, cerebral wit that poked fun at popularly accepted notions.”–Doug Holder
Brown Daily Jolt
“Myq is one of the wittiest and most wry comedians around.”–Toby Muresianu
Daily Free Press
“…one of the most intelligent and high-brow comedians in the Boston scene…”–Dan Klein
www.seattlecomedy.net
“Myq is a small man with a big creative talent for taking a simple idea and spinning into a wonderfully funny and complicated mess. This is a compliment…He’s got the right combination of edge, confidence and vulnerability–and he uses that to get across some excellent material.”
–Peter Greyy
Ipswich Rotary Calendar
“…will make your stomach hurt from laughter.”
–Ipswich Rotary Calendar
http://monkz.livejournal.com/
“Kaplan had tears-in-my-eyes comedy.”
Some places where Myq’s writings and jokes have been published:
The Comedians
ComedySmack.com
The Comedy Thesaurus
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes
What Would Bill Hicks Say
DailyComedy.com
