Breaking from my regular routine of angering Christians and Republicans with my posts, I thought I'd fill in the six people that still read my blog with my life.
If you've ever had a conversation with me, read a pulse or two of mine, or just read
@Pink_TeaCups' interview with me, you likely know that I do stand up comedy for fun, profit, and as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy. Of course, sometimes the last of those reasons can backfire, because I deal with trolls in real life. We call them hecklers.
In all honesty, if you're doing comedy right you're baring a part of your soul to your audience. You're putting yourself out there, completely at their mercy, whether they love or hate you. Once you get used to the experience, there's nothing quite as cathartic.
I love performing, and I'm extremely lucky in that more often than not, the crowd likes me. I've been doing amateur comedy for almost 9 years now, but I've started getting serious (pun unintended, and also a little bit terrible) in the last few months, performing two to five times a week. Today, I sat down with some people to work on promotional material for the first show I've ever organized. I know it's a small local show, but goddamn having my name on a poster makes me feel like a fucking rock star.
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That's AWESOME! Hopefully in the future you'll have a collection of posters with your name on them ;)
Exciting! But man... you opened for Mitch Hedberg so you've already won.
cathartic. is that the vatican's north pole outpost? i'm happy doors are opening up for you. the first time i was on a poster was when i was asked to solo at a performance of a college choir but i wasn't in that college. i was told they couldn't include me in the program for fear of causing trouble for having me sing when i wasn't enrolled but they would put my name on the poster in the lobby. as time passed i was even more in demand. every poster i appeared on had the word in big bold type, "Wanted" at the top. it's a shame i don't sing at post offices. i could have cleaned up.
Way to go.....thumps up!!
Yay!!!!!! Soon you will become as famous as Gabriel Iglesias and Russell Peters!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a fucking rockstar. Go you!
Good luck!
oh that is so cool! i would so watch comedy central presents krisko!
you got it man! getting heckled is fun! it's the REAL assaults, not threats, that are scary. Hopefully, some dope ass MMA guy/girl who thought you were funny comes to your defense :D
You have a real gift, I honestly really hope I can see you perform someday!
Dude... I can't wait to see you on Comedy Central... or at the Funny Bone in Dayton... or the legendary comedy club, Wileys in Dayton!
Best of luck to you.
You've always been a funny guy. I'm glad that your comedy is finally working out. Putting yourself out there is never easy but sometimes you just have to give people a chance. Just keep it going and the real trolls like the internet trolls will never matter as much as your audience. I'm a fan. You know how your stuff makes me laugh... =D a smile and laughter really helps in the worst times of life.
Being able to make people laugh is a gift! Being able to make people laugh so hard they gag and blow snot out their nose is the sign of a true genius.
Since you're a "godless liberal" maybe you've already seen the website run by the Skeptic Society, but if you havent', there's got to be a gold mine for comics in some of their articles.
I'm definetly a skeptic, so I'm even skeptical of what THEY say!
Gosh,
I swear I have seen your picture on a poster for years in every Post Office I walk into. (Or maybe it was in every church I walked into........ops, I don't go to church. ) Glad to hear you are partaking in more therapy, but check your health care program for mental health as well, just in case. Of course you could just come down here to the jungle and go rafting. It works a lot better and sounds safer.
Also you do not bother me with your opinions. I too feel that Christians or any rigid belief system, including yours, is silly for the following reasons. For one, you nor anyone else can prove that they are right and as you know you have never been perfectly right about anything except for love in your life.
Now an argument could be made about where this deep sense of love comes from. A feeling so strong that we will sacrifice our life for complete strangers, but again, since no proof either way can be offered, I say support them no matter what they think. In other words, believe what you want, I believe in you.
You are a wicked smart young man. Even though I hold a doctorate I admit that your use of vocabulary exceeds mine, but sometimes "I" feel your common sense should see that your rigidity that you put forth in support of your religion is just as blind as the knuckleheads that think that the perfect word of God is that as written by guys who never wiped their ass with pillow soft Charmin of flushed a toilet.
I guess I understand that my 15 year old and 12 year old teach me new stuff every day. I never close the door to anything.
May good thoughts fill your heart and mind and all of those you come into contact with.justmarty
Get video of it and post :D
I wanna see said poster. Now.
Hey, congrats, and good luck with the show! I think you'll do great.
congrats.
phew... for some reason i read the last sentence wrong, and i though "he want to do what with a rock???"
glad that it's not actually what i (mis)read..
Congrats on your comedy life! Sounds like good things happening and bigger and better things in the future. Keep it up! =D
That's awesome ! Keep going for your dreams dude! :)
props to you. the stage can be quite frightening.
What a come-rock star!! I hope the show goes well. Good luuuuucck . I've bought the ticket