If you ever have to do 11 minutes in front of a drunk audience at 12:30 a.m., you should try it. Makes you feel alive. Thought I was going to bomb and they ended up having a really good time, although I had to spend about a third of my set crowd-working a guy who thought yelling the word "fisting" was going to bring him constant applause. b

I'm a shitty comedian, but I'm a good shitty comedian.

Please let me get this fucking apartment. I didn't get any of the jobs I wanted, and now I'm stuck going to graduate school for a year, but at least let me get the apartment with shiny new wood floors, goddmanit.

Had an absolutely killer show yesterday. The host called it the "Headliner Spot" because I actually did better than the longer sets by the professionals. I usually do okay, but I rarely kill, and it was a good feeling. A lot of it came from me talking to a girl in the front who kept talking during the set. Eventually, I just decided that, if ( Read more... )

All I can say about this news story is Y-E-S

Drinking until 3 in the morning with other comedians is a dangerous experience which should never be taken lightly.

Last night at the Improv was motherfucking delicious. They moved our show into the big room (downstairs), and the crowd was 200-strong. I went up second, and I absolutely killed them bitches. Got an applause break during the act and whistles as I got off the stage.

In the 1930s and 40s, a "boner" meant a goof-up or a prank. With this in mind, the Joker of Batman fame from this era left us plenty of gems:


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I'm starting a new experiment on something I'm calling Improv Fiction. Although all fiction is, by necessity, improvised, I'm trying to write stories under strict time limits and using an idea-producing process I've picked up in my improv workshops.

The general hope is to become a better improviser and writer through combining the two.

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Dear L Train:

Yo, fuck you. How about you come on time and take me home so I'm not stuck between a masturbating homeless man and an elderly chinese woman yelling at her grandchildren?