{"id":2772,"date":"2018-07-20T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2018-07-20T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:31:07","slug":"dot-ep66-comedian-myq-kaplan-plus-new-music-from-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/07\/20\/dot-ep66-comedian-myq-kaplan-plus-new-music-from-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT EP66: Comedian Myq Kaplan plus New Music from The Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myq Kaplan\u2019s mind is in constant motion. If you saw him early on in his career, you might have caught him in a constant barrage of one- and two-line jokes, all quick-witted stuff that would flit from one premise to the next. Over the years, Kaplan has retained that rhythm, but he has developed the ideas more. Those smaller bits are woven around a larger theme, as with last year\u2019s No Kidding<\/em> in which Kaplan explored his lack of desire to have kids. <\/p>\n

Kaplan is about to bring his next show, All Killing Aside (A Work In Progress)<\/em> to the Soho Theatre in London July 27 and 28, and from there to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it will play through most of August. When I caught up with him for a post-show chat at a local restaurant in Boston last month, he was still working on that show. But he tossed it all out the window to try out new material for the hometown crowd at The Gas, a weekly indie comedy show at the Great Scott rock club. \u201cThe most fun is in the motion, the creation,\u201d he says. \u201cThe moments where a new thing gets a laugh.\u201d <\/p>\n