I'm trying to rewrite my "Farmer Bingo" joke. I need to lead the audience into my train of thought. But I need the name of the grammar phrase that fits here **********. **EDIT** my wife said it's a subordinate clause.

I've had this song stuck in my head all day. "There was a farmer, who had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o." And then it ( Read more... )

Not the greatest crowd response, but it still cracks me up. Maybe it's abstract humor... tilt your head to the side and the shit's funny.

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I went to the comedy club last wednesday to do what I was told would be a ten minute set. I practiced all my little jokes all week and had all ten minutes of shit to talk about. Then, about ten minutes before I am going onstage, the guy who runs the show tells me he will give me the light (the cue that means I have one minute left) after I've ( Read more... )

So now my work schedule has shifted and I work on Thursday nights so my act has shifted to Wednesday nights... So you get the videos a day earlier ( Read more... )

I must have used that subject line before. As soon as I started typing it the line appeared by itself.

I finally did a set while there was a small enough crowd to play what they call "the little room" or the Oasis Bar at the Comedy Caravan.

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**One of those things you think of hours after it's too late ( Read more... )

"Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker on a guitar doing a cover of Hey Ya. The studio version of this song can be found on the recent live album release".... I must find!

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some of you have probably seen this one already "Terrorists Virgins, and Gods, oh my".

I'm practicing with the embed thingie.

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The guy who runs the open mic at the comedy club made a suggestion to all the comics as to how to improve their writing skills and get in the practice of constantly writing. He calls it "The notebook challenge." The object is to write three pages a day for two weeks... any subject, doesn't even have to be funny. For instance, one of my planned ( Read more... )

Just in case somebody is still reading this, I thought I would post the youtube video of my first time back on the comedy stage in close to ten years. I fucked it up 10 different ways, shapes and forms, but I think it turned out o.k. I am hoping to make a regular thing of this again (not the fucking it up part, the performing part. but who knows ( Read more... )