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CD Recording!
I'm getting ready to record my third comedy CD and I'm super excited! This one is going to be recorded on June 6th at 8pm at Go Comedy! Improv Theater in Ferndale. Here's the poster.
Go Comedy! is a great space. It's a small 100 seat theater. I did stand up there a few years ago with Toddy Barry and had a blast.
This new CD is going to be called "nowadays" and I'm really proud of the material. It's a lot more personal than stuff I've written in the past. Since recording the second one, I got to work with Marc Maron a few times as well as Louis CK. You can't share a stage with heavy hitters like that and not come out a better comedian. Here's the pitch for "nowadays"….which I totally know doesn't sound that funny on paper…I start looking inside my brain and talk about how and why I react to obstacles and the things that cause me stress and anxiety in my life. Don't worry…there are still poop jokes. Oh…this is the rough version of what the cover for that CD will look like.
My last CD "Full Frontal Nerdity" is good. I think I developed more as a joke writer, but there isn't really a definitive thru-line to the material. My favorite track on it is "Titty Bars" which to this day may be the most personal thing I ever wrote. It's a surreal bit about how I'm afraid of topless bars because I'm worried something bad will happen to me if I go…meanwhile a whole slew of great things happen, but all I do is focus on the negative. Yep, that's how my broken brain works.
My first CD "Mikey Pooh" is an okay first effort. I have a hard time listening to it, but a Gamestop manager recently told me that it was his favorite of mine because he could tell I was still managing a Gamestop myself at the time. What I do like about this album is that it has a beginning, middle and an end. It follows me through a fictional day and ends with callbacks to earlier bits. I think maybe the best stand up special ever is Eddie Murphy "Delirious" because when he hits that last joke you know it's his last joke. So often when you watch stand up, it's joke one, joke two, joke three, goodnight. Where did that come from?
"nowadays" will hopefully capture the best elements of my first two CDs. I feel like the writing is stronger and more personal than ever, but there's also a real thru-line. The material goes in a logical flow and everything does wrap up at the end. In fact, I've written so much material for this album that I've been putting some newer bits on the back burner because they just didn't fit the story I wanted to tell this time. The first two CDs were pretty much everything I had at the time.
I'll have information really soon about how you can pre-order "nowadays".
Thank you so much!
Comedy Pro Tip: The Tortoise and the Hare.
Maybe it's nerves or the adrenaline rush of doing what we've waited all day long to do, but many comedians tend to talk a bit too fast on stage. Comedian and owner of the Komedy Korner, Leo DuFour once suggested when I got off stage that I slow down and enjoy my time like I would a delicious meal. Maybe that was a health tip and I'm forgetting that I was scarfing down a Poutine platter at the time….it was Canada after all. Let me find another example.
One of my best friends asked me after a show why I don't speak on stage like I speak normally off stage. He was right. I didn't believe in my material at the time so on stage I would yell and ram my jokes down the throats of the audience as quickly as I could.
We need to remember that we're performing for people who more often than not are in various stages of inebriation. Maybe they're stone cold sober, but there's room noise around them so it's hard to stay focused on you. When we speak slower there's less of a gap for the audience to hurdle to catch up with you.
Dave Landau is both one of my funniest friends and funniest comedians from Michigan. He speaks on stage about a half a beat slower than he does in real life. I'd argue that in addition to being a great writer, another reason he's so good at the craft is because he has a slow, clear delivery. His jokes are punchy and his timing is impeccable.
There's also an added sense of confidence when you speak slower. Rushing reeks of desperation. Very early on in my comedy career Steve Brewer said, "What you say isn't as important as how you say it." To a degree I believe that's true. Delivering "edgy" material confidently tends to make that material hit harder. If you show the audience that you're not sure of what you're saying, they won't be sure either.
If I can't understand you, I can't laugh at your jokes. If you tend to be a person who doesn't enunciate well, slowing down may compensate for that. I have a friend who I understand without any problem off stage. When he gets on stage, I have a hard time deciphering a good chunk of what he's saying. Here's the one thing I learned from broadcasting school 22 year ago. Are you ready for this? This is eight grand of wisdom I'm going to impart on you for free. W. That's is. W. Double You is a word that just about everyone mumbles their way through. Most people say dubyou or dub-o-you. There's an L in the word. They stressed saying W correctly in broadcasting school because this side of the Mississippi and the Canadian border, all radio and television stations start with the letter. When I'm nervous before a show or feel like I'm just wrestling with my own tongue I'll repeat W over and over again making sure I hit each sound of the letter. Dub-bul-you. I find myself speaking clearer when I'm on stage. You can paypal me four grand if you want to. In all fairness I also learned how to edit audio tape with a razor blade and tape on a reel to reel when I was at broadcasting school too.
I love metal. The best metal bands are the ones who didn't just play million mile an hour blast beats, but varied their tempo. Dave Lombardo from Slayer blew away headbangers in the late 80s with his double bass fill near the end of the song Angel of Death. It's only because the rest of the song wasn't all double bass that makes that one of the most monumental moments in Slayer history. Since then, a lot of drummers have entire albums worth of double bass, but it's not as impressive because that's all it is. If you start at as fast as humanly possible, where can you go from there? It's the same with speaking. If you're speaking as fast as you can, how can you speed up for impact to stress a point or feeling? You can't. Speaking slower gives you a wider range of things you can do with your voice to make your delivery stronger.
In two weeks I'll have been doing comedy for ten years. I learn something new all the time…and I'm always trying new things. In the past month or so I've tried slowing down even more on stage. I'm speaking slower than I normally speak. Honestly, I think it's helping. I am noticing that I'm speeding up during the beats where I'm not as confident in the material. That's making me take a second look at that material to see if I'm not confident in it because it's not ready yet. By slowing down a half a beat more than I'm comfortable it's allowing me to be hyper aware of things like this.
I don't have a good short set. For the past few years I'm always most comfortable doing a 35-50 minute set. Even as my material changes, 35-50 minutes just seems right. Having a strong short game is just as crucial in comedy as having a long game. Arguably a short game is even more important. No one does 35-50 minutes on Conan. My short set stinks because I try to cram ten minutes worth of material into a five minute set. My challenge to myself is to practice what I preach and do five minutes of material slowly and confidently in a five minute set.
Remember in the fable about the tortoise and the hare…it's the tortoise who wins. Oh…oops….spoiler alert! In closing, a visual pun on tortoise and hare…er…hair.
Comedy Done Right
I had a great time in Chattanooga, Tennessee this past weekend and I love that club.
The Vaudeville Cafe is beautiful and the audiences were smart. But that's not the main reason I loved the club. At the end of the weekend, the owner, Chris Hampton, came up to pay the performers. The other guy was asking if the shows were fine or if they were too dirty or anything. Chris responded with, "I don't care about clean or dirty. All I care about is funny." I think a choir of angels sing every time a comedian hears a club owner say those words.
There is another place for comedy in Chattanooga. I don't know anything about that place first hand, but from what I hear, it caters more to the more redneck kind of crowd. Not judging. That's just their clientele. When the Vaudeville Cafe isn't hosting live stand up, they're home to amazing dinner theatre and murder mysteries. Their customers are more cultured or worldly. That's what Chris wants from his comedians…..funny and smart.
I'm writing this for two reasons. The first, because after a rough couple nights of comedy where I wasn't a good match, I was so grateful to be some place where the people "got it" and this is my way of saying thank you. Secondly, because I hope someone googles "Chattanooga" and "comedy" and stumbles across this. In my opinion the Vaudeville Cafe is the only smart choice for comedy in Chattanooga. I hope it continues for a long, long time because I can't wait to go back!
My Favorite Films of 2012
There were a lot of huge popcorn films this year, but my favorites are made up largely of smaller films. For me in order to really enjoy a story I have to care deeply about the characters. While I recognize The Master as a great film it just didn't click with me. I thought the world was interesting, but it followed my least favorite character in that world….much to the dismay of Jared from the Man in the Movie Hat website. The Master does follow the same theme that makes up my top five favorites though. It's a story about friendship. So here's my list.
#5: 21 Jump Street. Yeah, I know. I had so many movies to put in this slot. Moonrise Kingdom, Goon and Frankenweenie could have all easily been here instead. Ultimately the reason I chose 21 Jump Street is because if all four movies were sitting on the shelf and were the only thing I could watch, it's the one I'd put in the Blu-Ray player. It's fun and Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill have real chemistry together. You get the feeling that it was just a fun film to make. Nick Offerman has a great scene where he basically goofs on the whole idea of rehashing an idea from twenty years ago. It's self aware. There are a couple of great cameos that will probably take you by surprise too.
I don't know or care about hockey at all, but Goon was great. The final scene is cringe worthy. Moonrise Kingdom is your typical quirky Wes Anderson film where every frame is a work of visual art. Frankenweenie had me really caring about an animated character and pleading near the end to just let the film entertain me and not remind me of any life lessons. All three films are ultimately about friendship.
#4 Looper. I'm always a sucker for time travel stories. I've worked on the idea on stage about how if I could go back in time to meet with my younger self I don't think we'd like each other very much. That's definitely the case here with Looper. Ryan from the aforementioned Man in the Movie Hat website saw this before I did. I sent him my prediction of what I thought it would be about. I was way off. So I went in excited to be surprised…and surprised I was right up to the finale. Maybe it's not really a movie about friendship as much as it's about self preservation….but hey…that's pretty important too. Filmmaker Rian Johnson gets better and better with each project. the fact that he glosses over the mechanics of time travel has been criticized, but it's just not important to the story. He does a great job of imagining a near future and creates it with a pretty limited budget. Joseph Gordon-Levitt keeps proving himself as an amazing actor. Just look at his range when you compare something like this to Hesher from 2010.
#3 Safety Not Guaranteed. I haven't been able to get into the whole "mumblecore" thing so I didn't really have high hopes for this thing starring Mumblecore Lord and Savior Mark Duplass. I was pleasantly surprised. It's a small story about two people getting to know each other. One of them is either nuts or a time traveler. The story could have easily been a big film, but I think the fact that it stayed small really let you get to know the characters as opposed to inserting unnecessary big action pieces. Mark Duplass is seeking a travel companion to time travel and Aubrey Plaza interviews for the position. It's a really sweet film. Aubrey Plaza does really nice subtle things with her face that's proving her as a really good actress. I look forward to seeing her do something completely different in the future.
#2 Django Unchained. I just saw this yesterday and fell in love with it and the leads. Christoph Waltz plays a character so unlike his Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds…but maybe a little similar in some ways. Jamie Foxx is just plane cool. to borrow from my friend comedian Mikey Mason, Django is Han Solo cool. Samuel L Jackson is almost unrecognizable at the start and plays a role I don't think I've ever seen him play. It's epic. The music is amazing. It's poetic. It's funny at times…particularly the scene where Don Johnson's posse is dealing with the eye holes in their lynching hoods. The blood and carnage are over the top leaving one of the sets looking like the house from Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. I loved it and can't wait for the Blu-Ray….and I'm not really a big Tarantino fan at all. This is definitely my favorite film of his so far. Again, the friendship between King and Django really clicked with me.
#1 Silver Linings Playbook. I saw this last week and loved it. I've heard mixed reviews about how it's all over the place and the ending is trite. I don't care. I thought the acting was great. I love the way the story telling was frenetic because it matched the characters. The friendship that forms between Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence was engaging. It's arguably Lawrence's first grown up role and she really pulled it off.
Some honorable mentions for me are a horror movie triple threat with The Innkeepers, Silent House and Cabin in the Woods. All three take the scary movie format and twist it to make for interesting films. Silent House is shot as one continuous shot….although not really through the magic of film making. I loved some big pictures too like Hunger Games, Argo and the Dark Knight Rises. Sleepwalk With Me was enjoyable and really captured what it's like to be a comedian while diving into Mike Birbiglia's sleep disorder….coincidentally, I'm typing this at a La Quinta Inn…people familiar with Birbiglia's story should get the significance. I'm on the third floor. Luckily insomnia is my only sleep disorder.
In Bruges is a perfect film in my book so I really had high hopes for Seven Psychopaths. I think my expectations were too high maybe. It's a fine film, but doesn't capture was In Bruges did for me. Hmm, In Bruges is another movie about friendship.
I haven't seen Beasts of the Southern Wild yet, but from everything I hear about it, I have a sneaking suspicion that it will probably end up in my top five. We'll see. I was a little underwhelmed by Prometheus. I think I just fell victim to all the hype and speculation. The Avengers was fun, but I'm not really a big superhero guy. In fact I missed Spider-man completely and have no intention of seeing it unless it pops up on HBO when I have nothing happening.
Religion, The Lack of….and Comedy
For the past few months I've been tooling around with this idea to try to add it to the act, but this morning when I sat down with it, I realized it would just end up being the kind of thing I'm about to complain about.
Religion is a touchy subject, but I want to get this off my chest. I'm tired of the high and mighty pompous attitude of Atheist comics.
What I do or don't believe when it comes to the existence of a higher power is my business and completely incidental.
My experience has been when you encounter a die hard Christian who finds out you don't believe in what they believe, they'll pray for you. Thanks! You'll talk to your poss and put in a good word for me anyway? Thanks bud!
When you encounter a die hard Athiest who finds out you don't believe in what they believe, they act like you're the silliest bastard they've ever met. "You believe in God? What? Do you believe in flying mongoose farts and fairy dust too?"
No. No I don't. It turns out that no one believes in that.
Atheists love ruining things. They're like a person who goes to see a magic show and is quick to tell you how the tricks are done. "He didn't really saw her in half, what's under the box."
Thanks. I was enjoying myself for a moment.
They act like they're movie spoilers and they revel in it. "Rosebud is a sled. Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze. Bruce Willis is dead the whole time."
But they're not spoilers. They're speculators. They don't know how this ends anymore than anyone else. They're more like the people on Ain't It Cool message boards who feel the need to tell the world that the next GI Joe movie is going to suck. Yeah. Probably. You don't know that. Okay. Most likely you're right, but you don't know for sure. We could all be surprised.
The only Atheist I'd put any stock in would be an Atheist ghost floating around, rattling chains and telling us in an ethereal voice, "There is no God. The human body is just a machine fueled by energy and I, and all ghosts, are that energy in a new form that science hasn't figured out yet."
Atheists remind me of the kid in elementary school who first found out about Santa and instead of sitting on it and letting all the other kids in class enjoy Christmas for another year, had to come to school and ruin it for everyone.
I firmly believe that anything should be open for comedians to talk about as long as it's funny. I find when comedians talk about being an Atheist it comes off as preachy and condescending. I'd love for someone to tackle the subject in a funny way. I can't think of an exception where those bits don't end up following the formula of, "You believe in God? Do you believe in this ridiculously poetic bit of absurdist wordplay poetry that I put together too?" If there's an exception to this, or if someone knows of a really great bit on this subject, please point me towards it. I love discovering comedy done well.
I could see it being argued that they feel they're doing a service because religion is corrupt. Yeah, a lot of organized religion is pretty corrupt. Religious people do awful things sometimes. That's because they're people and people do awful things sometimes. But there's a difference between attacking religion and attacking faith. What good comes from trying to shatter people's faith?
And yes, I'm totally generalizing here. Some Atheists are fine and let people have their thing. Some Christians are awful and when they find out you don't believe in what they believe they tell you you're going to go to a place you don't believe in in the first place.
Everyone should be allowed to have their thing even if their thing ends up being nothing.
Lessons Learned: Comedy Club on State
Last week I was at one of my favorite clubs, The Comedy Club on State in Madison, Wisconsin. I absolutely love this place. Gus and Mary who own it are two of the nicest people I've ever had the good fortune of meeting. Their daughters Eve and Anna are beautiful inside and out. Joe, the room manager runs are super tight ship and is an hell of a guy too. The waitstaff is stunning. The bartenders all handsome. Both on the surface and beneath it, everything about this place is fantastic.
Originally I was supposed to be doing this week as a split week where I would headline Thursday and then Eddie Brill who used to book Letterman would come in on Friday and Saturday. Eddie got into a little trouble earlier this year for being misquoted or having his words taken out of context about female comics. So he canceled the gig. Instead I was working with Ian Edwards.
I Googled Ian months ago and saw that he was a staple at the Laugh Factory in LA. Part of me had a feeling that I was going to wish I could time travel because we'd be friends months after I got back from LA myself. Still though, appearance wise, Ian reminded me of the intense Erik King who played the ill fated Sgt. Doakes on Dexter. Maybe it would be a nightmare. Couldn't have been more wrong. Ian is hilarious and brilliant both onstage and off. He's that thoughtful kind of comedian who I love listening to talk about the craft and psychology of comedy. If you look at his IMDB page you'll see too that he's written for some very high profile shows and that's evident in his word choice on stage. It's preposterous how deliberate he is! It also made me giggle a little every time he'd say "preposterous" on stage. That's a word I associate with my dad and comedian Don Reese. Ian is about as far opposite on the other end of that spectrum as you could be….then again, maybe not. I'm building to something. Trust me.
At the risk of being one of those comedians who says the stereotypical, "normally I headline", I have to say, normally I headline. Funny Business has been fantastic to me. Eric Yoder knows what I do and I trust him with booking me accordingly. Sometimes it's nice to test the water so I go into clubs in the middle spot. The Comedy Club on State and Dr. Grin's are the exceptions. I prefer to middle at both of those places because they have the budget and taste to bring in the bigger name people I'd like to work with. Last year at those two clubs respectfully, I opened for Marc Maron and Carl LaBove.
I always have a blast when I'm at both clubs. This time was no exception. In addition to having Ian on one side of me I had my old friend Saurin Choksi on the other. I've known Choksi since he started comedy in Detroit. I've known him since he was just the one named Choksi, sort of like the Cher of comedy! I was a fan of his even back in his open mic days. He's instantly likable and spoke with the same reference for pop culture that I have. He's since moved to Chicago and has gotten even better than he was before. I let him crash in my hotel room and had a great time catching up. I really hope I'm presented with an opportunity to bring him along on a gig again soon. He's silly and dark and what we do works well together.
Okay, let's get to the lessons learned part of this.
I was sick most of the week with either this cold or flu that's going around. I was taking Dayquil during the day and Nyquil at night. I didn't feel 100% on stage any of the shows. Thursday and Friday felt like 70% at best. Saturday I maybe got up into the high 80s. Still though, people were entertained. They said so afterwards. They'd buy a CD or pick up a sticker and tell me something they enjoyed. Without fail, I apologized and told them I wasn't feeling my best.
Saturday night, walking back to the hotel the final time Ian mentioned this. He pointed out that when people quote something specific that you did that they enjoyed, that means their sincere and not just people polite as they walk past. To apologize in response demeans their take on the show. I need to learn to be more gracious and take compliments better.
That's something I thought about for days after. This is what I equate it to. I love Star Wars. Anyone who knows me knows that. I love Han Solo. Harrison Ford always criticizes that role saying it wasn't that strongly written of a character. It bugs me. It bugs me like fingers down a chalk board. Aside from the iconic Harrison Ford roles I grew up with, I think subconsciously it's made me not want to really support other things that he's done because I think deep down when he knocks Han Solo I feel like he's knocking me and my taste. Jeremy Bulloch on the other hand who played Boba Fett has totally embraced the role and the fact that people love it. Obviously that part is much, much, much smaller than Han Solo. Maybe it's Bulloch's promotion that's helped make that small role something loved by so many. I need to be less Han Solo and more Boba Fett in the future.
I've been putting off this last part until the end because I didn't really know how I wanted to approach it. Being in Madison was hard on a personal level. It's a city where I shared a lot of memories with someone who's not part of my life any more. Most of those memories were great. I felt, and feel while writing about it, pangs of sadness when I'd walk past her favorite store or restaurants where we ate. Madison this time was a city filled with ghosts. It was the corner where we fought when I was so positive I was right and now a year and a half later I realize I wasn't. She wasn't able to always go on the road with me. Near the end, there were only a couple places she liked to go. Madison was one of them. I took traveling for granted. I was quick to judge and criticize. I'm glad I had this trip alone with my memories. It let me purge some of them. Hopefully next time I can start to build new ones.
With all of that being said, Gus and Mary who own the club felt the heaviness that I felt. Physically and emotionally I changed. Last time I was there I was about 80 pounds lighter. The depression of this past year still weighs on me literally. In the green room I opened up to Gus a little early in the week. Before he left on Saturday he came in to tell me this. He said that it takes rough waters to make a great captain.
It takes rough waters to make a great captain.
I've been thinking about that a lot. At first I felt like I wasn't a great captain when the waters first got rough. While that may be true, a great captain can't look back at the water behind him. He needs to look forward. I don't know that I've ever been a great captain. I'm going to try to be now though. I've gone back to the gym. I've stopped the comfort eating. I'm going to get through this storm that I've been circling the ship in for months and months. My crew has stood by me and it would be unfair to them and to me to not change course.
Thank you Madison, Wisconsin. I'll see you next time.
Four Hours Until Showtime
While nervously waiting to do WTF on August 28th, I wrote the following.
Today won't be the day everything changes. Real life isn't like that. Real life is a mountain climb. Today I take another step towards the top of the mountain that has no peak.
I'm going to be a guest on a live WTF. If you're not in the comedy world, you probably don't know what that means. Having Marc Maron invite you on his show is the modern day alternative comedy equivalent of having Johnny Carson inviting you to sit on the couch. If you're not in the comedy world, that analogy probably didn't help either. Being on WTF is a big deal. He has more listeners to his podcast than many television shows have viewers. This is my first big credit.
The business of comedy is largely based on credits. That's why when you go to a comedy club sometimes the comedian is still hyped by their appearance on some TV show 25 years ago. Four minutes on Conan O'Brien is a world of difference to club bookers. Sometimes it's just as hard to get in the doors of a club in Peoria as it is to get a nationally televised set on a late night talk show.
Podcasting is the future. It's new media. It's creator controlled. There aren't suits and advertisers running the game. Podcasting is pure. WTF is one of, if not the number one comedy podcast on iTunes. I estimate that a quarter of a million people will hear it. Hear me.
Unlike a spot on a late night talk show, I don't expect anything to change. When it was announced I'd be on the show, a club I'd been trying to get back into do a feature spot contacted me to headline, but I mostly chalk that up to coincidence.
Before being on WTF I worked hard writing, performing, trying to make new opportunities. After being on WTF I'm still going to work hard writing, performing and trying to create new opportunities. But now I will do it feeling validated and confident because Marc invited me to sit on the couch.
Weeks in Review: Wagons West
Two weeks ago I was at Skyline in Appleton, Wisconsin. I absolutely love this club. Todd Glass talks a lot about what makes a club good is when they pay attention to the details. Cliff at the Skyline is so hyper aware of the details. It was a really fun week.
Lewis Black loves the club so much that while he was in town for a theatre show, he stopped by the club and made a video introduction for the show telling the audience, in his Lewis Black way, to be quiet and respectful of the show. It works. Those audiences are amazing. They're smart, quiet and buy a lot of merch! I completely sold out of all the CDs I brought with me.
This past week I had one of the most fun experiences a comedian can have. I hit the road with one of my closest friends. My buddy Steve Lind and I went to Rochester, Minnesota together to perform at Goonie's. Again, another great club! Mark that runs it maintains that fine balance of being laid back, but also running a super tight ship at the same time. He's a great guy. The audiences were smart, quiet….but didn't buy as much merch….step it up, Rochester!
Here's the greatest part of performing with a friend….getting to riff back and forth both off stage and on. Steve would foreshadow my jokes and I'd call back to his and I think the audience knew they were getting to watch two friends having fun. They seemed to enjoy being part of that. And we enjoyed them too!
We also went to the Spam Museum together. Just me and Steve…the audience wasn't invited….although that would've been fun if we invited everyone to meet us there! Were I alone on the road, I would've gone out to maybe go to the movies, but chances are I would've stayed in the hotel the entire time. Having a friend there means taking adventures. Adventures mean better opportunities to riff on the city with the audience. Hm, maybe I'll see if I can write an article comparing Spam and Comedy like I did last week with Houdini and Comedy.
What I'm saying in a long winded way is that I had a blast! This weekend I'm working with Scott Gillespie at Wisecrackers in Merrilville, Indiana. I did a bit of research on him. Maybe "a bit of research" sounds bigger or more ominous than it should. I Googled Scott and I think this is going to be a fun time. He seems to be following the same path that I am in being a midwest guy who is trying to spend as much time in LA as possible while maintaining roots here. We seem to like a lot of the same guys too. I think this is going to be another great weekend. If you're in the area, swing by. And thanks to everyone from the past two weeks!
Harry Houdini
I'm in Appleton, Wisconsin right now. Appleton is probably best known as the first American home of Harry Houdini. I went to the Houdini Museum today and it struck me how much I could take from Houdini's life and apply it to comedy.
Erik Weisz was constantly reinventing himself. His earliest performing was as a trapeze artist. When he moved on to magic, he took the name Harry Houdini. For some comedians it's easy to find your groove and stay in it. I think sometimes there's little difference between a groove and a rut. I doubt anyone today would remember Houdini the trapeze artist, or Ehrich The Prince of the Air as he was calling himself at the time. I don't know how many of us would even remember Houdini the magician. It's that third reinvention as an escape artist that brought Houdini his fame.
I guess the modern day equivalent of this is Dan Whitney. He was your run of the mill road comic from Nebraska. He didn't really stand out until he reinvented himself as Larry the Cable Guy. While I don't think most comics need to be that drastic, I think trying new things is incredibly important. I first envisioned myself as a nerd comic. That's fine. Lots of people are doing it and it's popular right now. Maybe that's the thing that struck me about that. It's popular right now. How long could I stay relevant doing what could certainly be a fad. I don't think nerd comedy is a fad though. I think it's a generational thing. If you look at a lot of the nerdy comics out there, they all seem to be somewhere between 30 and 45. While I don't identify myself as a nerd comic anymore, there are still nerdy references in my act because that's how I communicate. If you watch Marc Maron, he explains his point of view in a much more literary means because he's a well read guy. I watch a lot of nerdy movies. Those are the glasses in which I see the world and the way I communicate it.
Houdini was a great marketer. He had eye catching posters hyping his arrival to a town. If you look at the more successful road comics, they do the same thing. I've never seen the Disgruntled Clown perform, but I know who he is from his marketing. At the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls,Ohio, the Disgruntled Clown had life sized posters of himself at the club plugging his upcoming date. And back to my earlier point, while I don't know the Clown, he's a great example of reinvention. I know he has another character named Rocker John. Comedy legend has it that sometimes he has Rocker John opening for the Disgruntled Clown giving himself the ability to collect two paychecks per performance. I don't know if that's true or not, but I like to believe it is. I also like to picture a poor emcee on stage trying to fill time while John puts on his clown make up in the kitchen of a roadhouse in central Indiana somewhere! My friend Mike Stanley may be a person you don't know yet, but like Houdini, he's a great ground floor marketer. He makes beautiful tour posters that catch the eye.
Up until he died, Houdini was the President of the American Society of Magicians. He got magician groups from Kansas City to Buffalo to join. It makes me think of this new trend in comedy podcasts. You have these podcast networks like The Nerdist or Earwolf that end up taking on all these podcasts which ends up being beneficial to all parties. It gives these individual podcasts more presence and it makes the networks larger businesses. Chris Hardwick just sold his Nerdist empire to Legendary Entertainment.
On a strictly stand up level, you have Chicago super group Comedians You Should Know. I know that I reference them a lot and that's because in addition to being great performers, they're great business people. They've created a brand for themselves. I would think the next step would be satellite branches of CYSK. At least that's what I would do in their shoes. Right now, they're a huge thing within Chicago, but I could see them growing beyond that.
I imagine Houdini was like a lot of performers and got to be sick of his act. He was constantly inventing new grand escapes. In 1904, he did his Mirror Handcuff Challenge. In 1908, he added the Milk Can Escape to his act. 1912 was like his Louis CK period where it was just a ton of new stuff like his Chinese Water Torture Cell, Suspended Straightjacket Escape and Overboard Cardboard Box Escape. I just imagine him frustrated that he'd been a success for 13 years and getting a huge gush of inspiration to get out of his rut. He was at the top of his game, like Louis CK right now, and just wanted to keep pushing himself further and further.
Like many of the performers of today, Houdini ended up doing movies too. Brian Regan said recently that he wanted people come to see him because he was a comic, not because he was playing something on a TV show or was the voice of something in a cartoon. But in that interview, he also admitted to wanting to start looking into those kinds of opportunities. Being in a movie or on a television show is a good way to gain an audience. I'm sure Houdini knew that in his time too.
The last modern day comedy comparison I'll make is to Gallagher. If you're not a comedy nerd, you might not know that Gallagher let his brother take his act on the road as Gallagher Too. I believe the story goes that the original Gallagher would take half the US and his brother would take the other half. In Houdini's time there was another performer, by the name of Theodore Hardeen, doing a lot of Houdini's tricks and escapes. Hardeen, Houdini, the sound similar. Theodore Hardeen was born Frenecz Weisz, and was Harry Houdini's little brother. In fact, early on they performed as The Brothers Houdini. The Weisz brothers didn't have the animosity of the Gallagher brothers though!
Regardless of what you're pursuing in life, a lot can be learned from Houdini. You have to keep working hard and find new things that interest you. Don't be afraid to try new things because chances are that new thing is a lot less scary than behind bound upside down while submerged in water!
The Lighter Side of Breaking Bad
As a comedian, I personally love how many comedians are in the cast of Breaking Bad…arguably the best show on television. Well, to tide you over for the ten months until the show returns, here's a look at some of the stars doing their day jobs.
Obviously the most highest profile comedian on the show has to be the great Bob Odenkirk playing sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman. Here he is in one of my favorite sketches from Mr. Show:
Comedy nerds were quick to spot Bill Burr on the show. He's had a lot of key scenes at one of Saul's lackeys. You may remember him from the inspector who helped Skyler get the car wash and more recently as the truck driver during the train robbery episode. Here's a look at his amazing stand up:
Along with Bill Burr, Lavelle Crawford plays Saul Goodman's "bodyguard" Huell. Yeah, he usually provides some comic relief in the show. Here's some of his comedy.
I had no idea until it came up on the Breaking Bad podcast that Steven Michael Quezada who plays Hank's partner Steven Gomez is a stand up. Here's a quick look at some of his work:
Aaron Paul did a funny video playing "Weird" Al Yankovic. Matt Jones who played Badger is also in this as a bartender. It's a Funny Or Die exclusive, so here's the link: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
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By adamsmom
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I was super excited to get this stroller, but after using it for about 10 months, I'm fairly disappointed. I love that its super easy to get in and out of the car, but now that my son is 11 months and wants to sit up and look around, its very reclined even making it as upright as possible. Also the storage is horrible, I can't our medium size diaper bag in the basket under the stroller, much less anything else. Because the stroller is so lightweight, if you put the diaper bag over the handles, and take your baby out, it tips backwards. Also, I'm 5'6 and find that the handle doesn't stick out very far, compared to other jogging strollers to comfortably hold the handles. Were going to get a different stroller, still trying to decide which one. I would say its a fancy umbrella type stroller, which you can buy for much less.
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By Chloesmommy
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This stroller is great! My daugther is 3 but she is the height and weight of a 5 year old so after 3 strollers giving me horrible back aches I finally gave up. Then I saw a friend with a city mini and I fell in love, not only does she fit but still has a little room to grow and its so light and easy to push I can't even feel her weight. I cant wait to try it out in Disney anyone whose been there know's that is the ultimate test.lol :)
By NJmom
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I never review anything, but felt the need to review the City Mini. I bought this stroller as a 2nd stroller to our Uppa Baby Vista. My 15 month old son has hated it from day 1. The seats most inclined position is still semi-reclined, as it does not sit up anywhere near 90 degrees. He struggles to sit up and see out of the stroller. (He is an average height/weight walking toddler) Maybe he is spoiled by the Uppa Baby, but he whines every time i put him in this thing. That being said, it's super easy to fold and throw in the car. My son hates it so much that I'm trying to sell it to just get a maclaren (which I wish I would have done in the first place!)
By Colleen
from Philadelphia, Pa.
i don't know how i ever lived without this stroller! from advice from my friends, i just purchased a macclearn. I hated the sun always being in my son's face. i loved the canopy on this stroller; that's what initially attracted me to it. this stroller rides like a dream, so nice and smooth. the seat looks so comfy for the baby and it reclines all the way. not too heavy and super easy to fold and open! love it!!!!
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Love this stroller!
By Beana's Momma
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I really love this stroller. I had an UppaBaby G-Luxe umbrella stroller and really hated it. This stroller is easy to open, just one hand pull! It's not as light as the UppaBaby (10lbs) but it's light enough that I can carry it up and down three flights of train stairs with my 28lb toddler in it! Two cons are everything has to be purchased separately and there is nowhere to put bags. But other then that my daughter really enjoys strolling in this stroller!
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Awesome compact/lightweight stroller!
from Denver, CO
I bought this stroller in black last summer for my then-1 year old son. He is now 18 months and we still use this stroller all the time. We also have a BOB Sport Utility but it is much larger, heavier and the front wheel does not swivel. The city mini is the perfect compact stroller for folding up, taking in the car for a trip to the zoo, mall, air travel, etc. It folds with just one pull, so it is super easy to do. Once folded, it is very compact and lightweight. The stroller is very sturdy and I LOVE the extra large canopy to keep the sun out of my son's face. My only complaint would be that the harness is only a 3-point, rather than a 5-point harness. However, this really hasn't proven to be a problem for us, but could be an issue with a toddler who is more determined to get out of their harness. Overall, I love this stroller for multiple uses, including jogging, although I would say this is more of an "around the neighborhood outing stroller" vs. a jogger, for which I still use the BOB due to the better shock absorbency.


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Permalink Submitted by Nairuil on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 17:24
I enjoyed that video but would have liked it if you told us the price
Permalink Submitted by Anarch on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 17:59
Lol!! i don't want to talk about my wife!
Permalink Submitted by Dominique on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 18:37
Diablo 3 steel series mouse: € 59.96
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Diablo 3 Headset € 106.84
Making advertisment without losing dignity
Permalink Submitted by Marly Marl on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 05:44
Sounds too much like a commercial to me. I know the border between reporting about things and advertising for them is a blurry one - but this spot definitly trespassed it.
Permalink Submitted by dominique on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 06:33
Irony and sarkasm aren´t yours are they?
Permalink Submitted by klopl on Sat, 11/03/2012 - 03:11
After watching this vid everybody knows, what it is. Very expensive, fancy stuff, which nobody needs at all. Like the collectors edition of D3. If you want it, cause you wanna be the coolest nerd around, buy it. It´s totally ok. It would have been annoying if force would have presented it as smth you HAVE TO buy at all costs. Somewhere the money has to come from. Industrial packing visakhapatnam
Permalink Submitted by RSC on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:11
I totally agree. FSG always was a place for me where I got entertained and informed on the same time. But this was just a commercial. I do not mind any third party video clips before or after the FSG videos to support your work but i would prefere to keep such advertisement out of your content.
On the other hand I would propably like to see you go into content concerning gaming hardware if cou could provide a basis for comparison of different products.
I see that this Headset has a Diablo III logo. But i would be rather interested in Sound and recording quality as well as pricing compared to other other products that are currently on the market.
Permalink Submitted by dominique on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:35
Yeah it is a commercial. And everybody knows that this is a commercial. So much free content always goes hand in hand with a bit of advertising. And I personally prefer this kind of advertising A LOT more than just default statements from the company itself, which were read out in the middle of smth. like for example in the NBA (this play was presented by.... gosh I hate it)
After watching this vid everybody knows, what it is. Very expensive, fancy stuff, which nobody needs at all. Like the collectors edition of D3. If you want it, cause you wanna be the coolest nerd around, buy it. It´s totally ok. It would have been annoying if force would have presented it as smth you HAVE TO buy at all costs.
Somewhere the money has to come from.
Permalink Submitted by Marly Marl on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 09:08
So what point do you want to make? Is it now irony or is it a serious commercial? It can't be both, can it?
And the possible consequence of loosing followers if Force starts to directly advertise stuff is more than probable from my point of view. But I guess he knows about this dynamics and it's finally his decision how to deal with it.
And maybe I'm wrong all along and people want to see commercials or even worse, can't tell the difference between commercials and information?!
Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 06:28
funny clip of the Wizard with the 2H
Permalink Submitted by skilie on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:16
i know it's off topic, but are dyes and wings going to be one use only in collectors edition?
the mouse is kinda' expensive
Permalink Submitted by kingcoot on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:34
If the Dye and WIngs are like things in wow that are bound to an account and like things in Starwars The old Republic you will beable to share the wings with any character you create. For 100 bux you should beable to have wings and dye on any character you create :)
Permalink Submitted by Kingcoot on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:25
Currently I haven't heard of any other mice and headsets to choose from. Doing a search on google I found RazerStore and they currently don't have anything diablo iii related (Alot of transformer related). I don't think Force meant to force these products out there, they simply are just what is available at this time and I do say they look cool. I registered to win the headset mouse or mouse pad and came up empty. I wouldn't mind having the headset or mouse but my current headset and mouse work well enough. Anyhow the SteelSeries gear is pretty much as close to official diablo iii gear you could get so I can see why there was a video on it.
Permalink Submitted by FSGIlfayn on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 16:37
You don't have to watch this video... So if anything, this is like the ads on YouTube's home page that are muted that you can choose to watch and listen to if you'd like. I don't see what the big deal is. I support Force in his decisions on this matter.
Permalink Submitted by Marly Marl on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 08:29
Of course I don't have to watch it - but how do I know in advance that it is a straight forward commercial? And if you think you are helping Force when you emphasize that advertising is necessary to earn money I think you are wrong. Me and I guess a lot of other people like FSG because it's a good mixture of entertainment and information. If there would be a twist toward advertising, I think FSG would loose a lot of its followers and fans. And this does not help Force at all!
Permalink Submitted by Marly Marl on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 15:42
No, European - eventhough I can't see what difference this makes. Except of course someone thinks that he could judge one person on behalf of his nationality?! But who would seriously believe in such apparent preconceptions?!
Appart from that, I don't really understand how this kind of "personal debate" helps the topic at all.
Permalink Submitted by dominique on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 16:01
So many words on a "commercial" which is neither black nor white but gray. It was just a little teasing.
Sorry I´m out. If u think a highly intellectual debate will solve this, go on. It´s simply gray. That´s what it is. If u got enough brain in your head u will - without any doubt - able to seperate information, advertisment and irony. If not I couldn´t care less.
Permalink Submitted by Jason on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 23:56
Do the buttons on the mouse allow for easily clicking the side buttons during hectic battle?
How long is the cord?
How loud is the clicking sound?
Few of the things I would have liked to scene covered in this. The one thing you did do well was show off the products.


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Amperage (amps) | 0 A | Assembled Depth (in.) | 34.25 in |
Assembled Height (in.) | 15.75 in | Assembled Width (in.) | 17.25 in |
Bag included | No | Brad Nailer Included | No |
CSA Listed | Yes | Compressor Type | Portable |
ETL Listed | No | Framer Included | No |
Grinder Included | No | Handle | Yes |
Hose length (in.) | 300 | Impact Wrench Included | No |
Low Oil Shut Down | No | Manufacturer Warranty | 1 year limited |
Maximum pressure (psi) | 125 | Nails Included | No |
Pin Nailer Included | No | Portable | Yes |
Product Depth (in.) | 34.25 | Product Height (in.) | 15.75 |
Product Weight (lb.) | 80.66 | Product Width (in.) | 17.25 |
Pump Type | oil free | Ratchet Included | Yes |
Returnable | 90-Day | Roofer Included | No |
Sander Included | No | Spray Gun | Yes |
Tank Capacity (gallons) | 10 gal (US) | Tank Material | Steel |
Tank Pressure Gauge | Yes | Tank Style | Single State Portable |
Twin Stack Tank Configuration | No | UL Listed | 4-UL Certified |
Voltage (volts) | 120 V | Wheel Type | Pneumatic Wheels |
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Building a personal brand
I'm headed to a very important event this week, the Type-A Parent Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. I attended back in 2010 when I was still working "behind the scenes" much of the time. The event is jam-packed with value, super-stars in the blogging world who have taken the opportunities presented and run with them. I'm in awe of these women and men who have become leaders, as writers and speakers and authors, who are using technology and online tools like Jedi Masters!
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Watch the video and let me know what you think could be upgraded with your personal brand. We can do this!


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When I pulled on to the property for the first time, I was overwhelmed with excitement. It was a sensation I equate to waking up Christmas morning as a child. So many different presents under the tree, my anticipation escalating with each new gift placed before me.
In January 2013, Sun King Disc Sports will host two weekend tournaments (ams and pros) on the property formerly known as the Gran Canyon. This is a unique opportunity to play disc golf on this legendary tract of land in Brooksville, FL.