We’ve got one show of comedy special v2.0 officially in the can. I had a great time with the hometown crowd in San Jose at Art Boutiki. We’ve got some great footage that I’ve seen so far and the audio came out great. <Wipes forehead in a “whew” gesture.> We’re filming 2 more shows in…
I’ve never been the most graceful person to stand on a stage, but this was a new one even for me. I was playing at Loonees Comedy Corner in Colorado Springs last weekend. And it wouldn’t be a Saturday late show if some weird shit didn’t happen. And for this one, I apparently forgot how…
My girlfriend and I took a trip to London recently. Fantastic city and you’ll be hearing about it more in my shows this year. Because I can’t take a vacation without getting 5 new minutes of comedy out it. 🙂 While I was there I managed to get Pink Eye. The lesson is to wash…
A pic from last night’s show at the San Jose Improv with Reylina and Hana. The hair has many uses…. I liked the opener, so obviously we had to play with his hair @philjohnsoncomedy #biotingoals #improvcomedy A photo posted by Hana ? Sayles (@iwannahana13) on Aug 25, 2016 at 1:35pm PDT
Coming to you from deep in the heart of Las Vegas at the annual World Series of Comedy. When I showed up yesterday I noticed the posters for the event around the casino featuring different comedians from years past. And then I saw this one… Joe Lowers, the creator of the festival said he…
The other day I was asked by TheBesty.com to offer my favorite places to eat around the country for listing in their “Celebrity Chefs” section. I know, I know… Neither celebrity nor chef. But hey, flattery will get them everywhere. 🙂 If you’d like to see what I gave them, it’s at http://www.thebesty.com/philjohnson However their…
Comedy Hack Day, produced by Cultivated Wit is an event that pairs coders with comics in a 24-ish hour marathon of building something interesting and funny for the web. I haven’t done any hard core coding since programming and Apple IIc in middle school. And I could program that crap out of that little green screen…
I’m playing at Penguins Comedy Club this weekend. My favorite club named after a flightless arctic bird. I’m playing The Crested Auk later this year, but it’s not nearly as good. But the real reason I was excited to come back to Cedar Rapids, IA is The Lost Cuban. Most food of Latin…
Wow wow wow! Sorry it’s taken me a couple days to get to this post. The filming of my new comedy special last Saturday went fantastic! My audio engineer is mixing the sound as we speak. And as soon as I get back from my short Midwest tour, I’ll be handling the editing myself. Hopefully…
Sometimes you’re presented with an idea that in every way looks like a bad idea. And yet you still consider going along with it. My recent reality show experience is an example. Another example is the evening I was playing a casino gig that was really out in the boonies. A large contingent of the…
Vegas is an interesting bird for comedians. You get audiences of all different types of people from all different places with all different points of view and bases of reference. So it always makes for challenging shows. I did four shows on this run. The first in Vegas at the Rampart Casino and the other…
Rock Formations was a milestone event in the career of Roadside Attraction. And some milestones are both good and bad. Normally I would give you insights to these songs, but I didn’t write the lyrics for any of them, so I’m honestly not sure what some of them are about. But from a musicians standpoint,…
I’m just beginning the preparation for filming my next comedy special. And it occurred to me that I’ll need some of that good ‘ol behind the scenes stuff. So I’m going to do my best to document the whole process from the very beginning to when a finished DVD reaches your desperately outstretched hands. Or…
This song has taken way longer than I wanted it to to get done. Sorry about that. I think I remixed it about 10 times and had to learn some new software in the process. Finally finished the final mix literally 5 minutes before I walked out the door to catch my flight for the…
If you haven’t read the first part of this story, check it out here. Long story short, about a month ago I started having chest pains right before a gig. Brilliantly, I decided to go on stage anyway and find out what it was after. I get to the ER at Sonora Regional Hospital and…
While preparing to go on stage at Black Oak Casino last week, I started to have some chest pains. Not “merchant marine standing on your chest” type pains. Maybe more “this isn’t really a lap dog” type. Could have been heart burn, but it felt more pressure-y. And my limbs were starting to feel weak. …
For most of high school, at least since I’d picked up a guitar during my sophomore year, I’d been telling people I was going to start a band. There were a couple false starts. Lots of talk about a band with my friend Carlos that we were going to call Social Disaster… until we heard…
I was doing a show at Mission City in Santa Clara last year. Before the show, the talent booker, Matt, told me his friend Maria was coming to the show to hang out with him. While I was onstage performing my song “Geeks Don’t Care”, I saw a bit of smooching happening behind the sound…
Awhile back I was doing shows in South Dakota. I didn’t get a chance to see Mt. Rushmore, but I found something way… way… better. I always love to find quirky little attractions that I can’t do anywhere else. 1880 Cowboy Town in Buffalo Ridge, SD definitely hits both those qualifications. I love a concept…
Whenever my brain isn’t occupied with creating something, it’s usually busy consuming someone else’s creation. I read and listen to stuff constantly because it spurs my brain into new creations of my own. Often a theme will develop in my reading and listening that I didn’t expect. I was out on tour recently and here’s…
I thought today I’d continue my series of “Boobs I Haven’t Seen” after my recent post about the lady who only wanted me to lie about showing me her boobs. Years ago, I used to play the Borders Books circuit. They used to have indie artists perform in their cafes. It was a nice gesture…
This happened at one of my shows recently. A lady comes to my merchandise table outside the showroom while the other comic is on stage. She hands me a $10 bill and said she wants a CD. Then she tells me that her husband doesn’t want her to spend the money. So if he asks…
As a comedian, I spend a lot of time traveling, particularly by car. I often tell people they pay us to drive and we do comedy for free. Since I’m in the middle of a tour right now and thinking about all this stuff, I thought I’d impart a little wisdom on how to travel…
I’ve done a lot of awesome shows. I’ve done a lot of really bad shows. This particular one was a really awesome bad show. It was February 10th, 1997. I only know that because I googled the bill and someone actually has it listed on a webpage. That makes me think that person doesn’t get…
