I recorded this podcast with Brandon Wetherbee the other day, give it a listen. The show is great, and there are some other really great episodes of the podcast on his website YouMeThemEverybody. Be sure to check them out. I’m trying to get my own podcast started soon, maybe two different shows. Could be lots of fun.
I’m headed to Springfield this weekend for my cousin’s wedding, but I don’t really have a free weekend between now and November with shows and things, so be sure to check my calendar if you want to see some stuff.
Here’s a pic from the 4th of July with my brothers looking unknowingly patriotic.
Judging by the comments of three people on Facebook, supposedly I was on Comedy Central this past Sunday July 5th around 12:45pm! I didn’t see it, so I hope it’s true. I’ll probably never really know, but the idea of it gives me hope-boners.
I went to Chatanooga this past weekend for the 4th and had a blast with my brothers. We got completely and expensively shit-faced at a great restaurant and saw a very low-key fireworks show.
And when I got back, this hilarious little video that I helped make was edited and ready for the internet. Give some love to the Multi-Purpose Kitchen Tool:
Hey! I’m featured on Comedy Central’s Jokes.com in an Open Mic Challenge they’ve got going on.
Some of the network’s favorite picks of the contest will be aired this weekend on Comedy Central during the 4th of July festivities they are broadcasting. So watch that channel this weekend and let me know if I’m on it! I’ll be in Chatanooga, TN visiting my brother. Have a great 4th.
Just got back from visiting Boston, had a blast. Lot’s of great sights and sounds. Food was boss, and so was drink. Stayed at a creepy hotel called Lord Wakefield’s. Did an open mic at said hotel. Had the worst Chinese Food of all time. Slept in an airport for five hours waiting for a rental car place to open. Stared down a creepy soldier statue. Ate shrimp after shrimp after shrimp. Had some terrible rootbeer at Borders. Loved the carts with the words “Fried Dough” plastered to them, but didn’t eat any. Climbed a tree. Watched a clown juggle on a tightrope in the Quincy Marketplace. Bought a new brown suit. Attended an Italian wedding. Performed at the Comedy Studio. Here are some pictures of all these things.
Be sure to check out the new edition of SHARP ALPHABET over in the comics section. It’s all new for the month of June, and all in new colors.
So I stumbled upon this great little blog while sifting through my google search results, and I couldn’t have been more excited. It’s a blog about the life of a guy named Budd Denson, who has some amazing stories to tell.
His first name is one letter off from my last name, so naturally, I was intrigued. Check out his site to peruse his details on making a profit from fire ants:
“I am now offering free to a good home purebred, suitable for breeding purposes, very prolific, quality mound building fire ants. They make great gifts for Yankees.”
“I’ve got several handguns but when things go bump I reach for a shotgun.”
Like Budd, I too hate when things go bump. Whenever I hear something go bump, I immedately want to blast away at it with a shotgun. When something bumps, you know it means business.
Last, this blogger switches it up every now and then with a little fiction, but doesn’t use titles or headers of any kind to identify the text as such, thus making a random daily entry stand out as a vibrantly as a rich, premium channel drama like True Blood:
“Budd pleasantly walks in smiles and very nicely says to the nurses Hello how are you? Suddenly fangs and claws appear and Budd is being attacked he fights for his life,he can’t just fight his way to freedom he must save the patient.”
So be sure to check out my buddy Budd and follow his adventures. I know I will.
Hey, since I’m taping a half hour DVD on July 11th with my good friend Anthony Sarfino, we’re practicing our longer sets frequently in the months leading up to it at places like Cigars and Stripes in Berwyn, IL.
We’ll be making some special features for the DVDs along the way, and we’ll have the discs for sale probably towards the end of the summer. It sucks talking about the end of the summer when it’s not even here yet, but gotta think ahead!
Tonight I’ve got some standup in Country Club Hills, IL at Pros Sports Bar and Grill.
Tomorrow night I’m at the Charly Horse in New Lenox, IL doing some comedy right off of Route 30.
Next Tuesday I’m doing my friend Joe Anderson’s radio show “Haters to the Left” for DePaul University downtown. That’ll be a blast from 9pm-Midnight.
My calendar is pretty full for the summer and fall, and I’ve got weddings in Springfield, IL, Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA to go to every summer month. Busy busy busy.
Scrubs Finale was really good. They said it’s “JD’s Finale” but I hope the whole series is over, and they don’t try and bring back some washed up version of the show for another season. I wouldn’t mind a spin-off called like “Scrubs: Interns” or something to keep that kind of comedy going in a hospital setting, but the ending on this last season was so good, it would make an excellent end to the series.
How I Met Your Mother is one of the funniest shows on TV. The cast is amazing and the jokes and story lines are so well written. There’s that intertwining, hint-of-Seinfeld thing going on inmost episodes, too, which is always impressive.
Harper’s Island is one of the lamest new shows on right now, but I can’t stop watching it. Someone, sometimes more than someone, gets killed every episode, usually in a brutal way, which makes it watchable in my book. The acting and characters are very lame, so watching them all die is the best part. Check this out if you’re looking for a non-funny version of CLUE on an island with no talent.
The Mentalist is the best new show this year, and even though it’s the same scenario every episode, it hooks me because the main character is such a slickster. The show is about an Australian actor with an American accent constantly outsmarting people, but for some reason I feel dumber after every viewing. I think it’s the idea of something so simple trapping me on the couch for an hour every week that makes me feel like less of a sleuth and more of a lazy jackass. But the show is good!
I’ll stop here with the newest season of RENO 911! which is one of my favorite shows of all time. They lost three of their best characters for some unknown reason this season, and it started off with a bad episode and no hope, but it got so much better. Every episode since the first has been perfect. Great characters and scenes all around. Junior is my new favorite character. Watch the episode where they try and disgust the pope’s clergy so he won’t make a visit to Reno so they don’t have to do extra crowd control and work. It’s great.
Tonight is the first show of a new monthly show I’m running at a pizza joint called Barraco’s in Orland Park, IL. Here’s the flyer for the show. It’s gonna be sweet, come check it out if you can!
I just got a new laptop today, which means I’ll be able to churn out more viral videos and projects. I plan on posting way more stuff, way more often. Stay tuned for a new web series about…something.
Go see Adventureland. It’s really good. Absolutely awesome soundtrack, too.
