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Recording the HaHa
For the past month my behavior has been odd. I’ve been mumbling words to myself. Missing exits while driving. Spacing out while spacing out. Pacing like an Umpa Lumpa in skinny jeans. Visualizing each beat of a story about being at a party where a tiny bread crumb projected from my mouth and landed directly into the tear duct of the woman I was talking too. A tragic tale of dating dreams crushed by rogue bruschetta.
Why relive such a mortifying moment (over and over and over)? This is a question everyone who performs comedy must answer and it’s not an easy one. While I’m still seeking why I’m compelled to stand in front of friends and strangers and share these bits and pieces of my life for their entertainment, one thing was certain: I was recording a comedy album on October 23rd and I needed to mumble my way into cohesiveness.
Stand-Up to Cancer
I’ll never forget seeing a newspaper article several years ago about a group of fifth-grade boys who shaved their heads so their friend with cancer wouldn’t feel out of place. One of their 11-year old classmates went through chemotherapy and lost all his hair so the kids rallied together to ensure no one could tell who was sick. How cool is that. I remember being pretty obsessed with my hair at that age, meticulously shaping my jr. mullet with neon green Dep hair gel. I used Aqua Net if it was windy. #Confession is good for the soul. This was the 80’s man, it could of been worse, I knew guys with perms. Continue reading