{"id":16723,"date":"2019-09-26T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=16723"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:12:12","slug":"a-chat-with-ryan-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-chat-with-ryan-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chat with Ryan Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23fefefe&amp;d=oct19_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=12&amp;showOtherPublicationsAsSuggestions=true&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F<\/span><span class=\"s1\">rom rural Idaho to Manhattan to the <strong>State Theatre<\/strong> in Portland on <strong>October 18<\/strong> at 8 p.m. <strong>Ryan Hamilton<\/strong> has recently been on <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,<\/em> Conan, and opened for Jerry Seinfeld. He\u2019s one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><i>\u2019s<\/i> \u201cFive Comics to Watch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Ever been here before?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Yes. I spent a summer internship very close to Maine one year. I lived in Exeter, New Hampshire, on a blueberry farm. I did a lot of exploring\u2014Boston, Portland, and up the coast of Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What are the first three things you think about Maine?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">Let\u2019s see. 1) Forestry. 2) Potatoes. Maine is the other potato state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">I thought that was Idaho!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">Number 3: Craggy, beautiful rocky coastlines. I love seeing them when I drive to Maine for visits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">So you were kind of adopted by New England?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">My first TV set was in New England. My first comedy festival was in New England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What do you have to say about Maine\u2019s famous exports: lobster, Anna Kendrick, and craft beer?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">My comedy is driven by my life. Craft beer I don\u2019t drink. Anna Kendrick I like, but I don\u2019t have a lot of reason to think about Anna Kendrick. So it\u2019s lobster that gives me joy. So many of my experiences of Maine are about lobster on the coast. Lobster is the most likely subject of the three that would inspire a joke from me. I\u2019d write something unusual I\u2019d see about it. That\u2019s the first part. When something is odd or interesting, it\u2019s usually not funny yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Is performing in Maine like performing in the Catskills?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t think of it that way. But every place has its own quirks. That\u2019s what makes touring great.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Some stand-up comedians try a little acting\u2013and not just on<i> Law and Order <\/i>re-runs<i>. <\/i>How about you?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">I studied method acting with an acting coach in New York\u2014a couple of times a week for a couple of years. Standup is my first love, but I have acted a little and am interested in more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What\u2019s the opposite of Maine?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">Maine is beautiful, peaceful. So I\u2019d say a desolate, chaotic place. I like fly fishing, to be in the water. I love to be around nature. So for me, Maine is the right place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/category\/editor\/\">Click here to\u00a0view past\u00a0<strong>Letters from the Editor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[356,484,25,127,126,483,358],"class_list":["post-16723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-colin-w-sargent","tag-comedian","tag-interview","tag-maine","tag-portland","tag-ryan-hamilton","tag-state-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18508,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions\/18508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}