Comedy Show Tag

Greg Shapiro Audiobook Preview – THE AMERICAN NETHERLANDER

May 17, 2022
The question was: “Would you be willing to give up your acting career in Manhattan to do comedy in Amsterdam for a start-up theater called Boom Chicago?” Since I was living on tips and paying rent via credit card, the answer was an immediate YES. When you’ve tried being broke in New Amsterdam, you might as well try being broke in Old Amsterdam. 

The EU Needs a Late Night Comedy Show | a TED Talk by Greg Shapiro

April 6, 2022
‘The EU Needs a Late Night Comedy Show.’ It's been proven: Comedy helps cognition, especially in younger demographics - exactly the ones we need to engage. In America, a majority of 18-35 year-olds say they get most of their news from late night comedy programs, like The Daily Show. And for good reason! Jokes engage emotion. Emotion aids cognition.

HOW NOT TO LIVESTREAM: a Greg Shapiro Online Mini-Show

March 25, 2022
Now that we’re all ‘Post-Covid,’ who knew The New Normal would still include Working from Home? Well, surely by now we’ve all mastered the basics of Home Studio video conferencing… NOPE.  Time for a new training strategy: HOW NOT TO LIVESTREAM. Kick off your next online meeting with 5-10 minutes of ‘Sharing WORST Practice.’ Do yourself a favor and start your next video meeting with a guaranteed icebreaker. How NOT to Livestream. Because sometimes the best HOW-TO is How NOT to. 

Remote Meetings Are Dead – Long Live Hybrid Meetings! Greg Shapiro

Remote Meetings Are Dead; Long Live Hybrid Meetings!
March 7, 2022
In February I was called upon to do two separate events for Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Belgium - both remote meetings. Now that Covid restrictions are lifting in the Netherlands and Belgium, you might expect a return to 100% live events ! And you’d be wrong. Looks like hybrid meetings are the New Normal.

Greg Shapiro New Comedy Show LISTPUSHER at Utrecht Int’l Comedy Festival

March 3, 2022
Based on my experiences as a real-live (fake) politician - I’ve created a new 30-minute show called LIST PUSHER. A friend of mine on Amsterdam city council asked me “Could you help us on our campaign to reach out to the expats and internationals?” And I said yes. The upcoming city council elections - the gemeenteraadsverkiezingen - are the one time expats and non-Dutch citizens can vote. Basically, if you’ve lived in the Netherlands long enough to pronounce the term gemeenteraadsverkiezingen, then maybe you can vote in the gemeenteraadsverkiezingen.

Arjen Lubach: Curse Breaker (So Says Greg Shapiro)

March 1, 2022
Is it time for the Netherlands to get its own long-lasting daily late night comedy show? Looks like the answer is YES. Arjen Lubach has already mastered the weekly format of John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight.’ Why not go for daily? Introducing De Avondshow! It's really good. The reviews are good. Now if only we’d give him time to really find his form… Here are a couple of quotes I gave to Dutch newspapers about Arjen Lubach's new show. 

Greg Shapiro Presents: HOW TO BE DUTCH – THE QUIZ SHOW

February 7, 2022
Hi, it’s me Greg Shapiro - the American Netherlander. I grew up in America first, and I moved to the Netherlands second. Along the way, I took the Dutch citizenship exam, and I wrote a couple books on the subject - including HOW TO BE DUTCH: the Quiz. All the questions that SHOULD be on the Dutch citizenship exam, by the American Netherlander who’s been living here 25 years.

Greg Shapiro Mini Standup Special ‘LEAVING TRUMPLAND’ 

January 4, 2022
I wrote a comedy show about America during Trump and during Covid. It’s called LEAVING TRUMPLAND. And it’s partly about how Trump and Covidiots killed my stepfather. Most of my performance dates were cancelled due to Covid. But thankfully, a Dutch performance series asked me to perform part of my show for them, at the ITA International Theater Amsterdam. And here it is: GREG SHAPIRO’S LEAVING TRUMPLAND on ‘Cultuurexplosie Live.’

Greg Shapiro New Video Series: ‘DutchNews of the Week’

December 7, 2021
“The headlines are from DutchNews.nl; the punchlines are from me.” So begins every episode of my new weekly video series ‘DutchNews of the Week.’ DutchNews.nl already has a daily newsletter and a weekly podcast. So I thought: “Why not a weekly video as well?”
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