I saw a sad sign of our economy the other day. A sex store going out of business. You know life is difficult when you can’t sell enough blow up party sheep and “back massagers” to feed your kids. Apparently when the economy is down, people forgo sex toys and porn DVDs and go back…
Becky Donohue of Coffee and Showbiz put up a great blog post about places you should NOT do comedy. Some of those include: strip clubs, anywhere there are TVs playing sports behind your head, children’s birthday parties, church events, and America’s Got Talent. Comics are known for taking stage time anywhere and everywhere. An audience…
I was just listening to part of an interview with Maziar Bahari on NPR. He’s the Iran correspondent for Newsweek. He spent 4 months in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison where he was beaten, interrogated and tortured for being a spy, which of course he isn’t. At one point during the interview he talked about the…
It’s amazing how fast things move now. Disney just premiered World Of Color last night (and streamed it on Ustream no less). Two nights before there was a preview show and these videos made it to YouTube immediately. This certainly won’t do Disney any damage. I’m sure the vids are nothing like seeing the effects…
I’m shooting my new standup comedy DVD this coming Saturday for a late July release. I’d like to put some cool extras on there and I thought it would be fun to have a Q&A type thing. So, add a comment below with your question and I’ll answer it (and credit you) on the DVD. …
My girlfriend works at a Catholic college. I went to visit her one day for lunch and discovered that college kids are the same everywhere. I walked past two guys and one was saying “Dude! There’s a kegger tonight at Steve’s!” Ah, yes… Good Catholic boys. I’m sure they’d planned a rousing game of Blood…
Since some idiots have once again decided to hack my main site, I wanted to put the link to buy tickets for my June 12th comedy DVD filming here. I’ll be filming 45 minutes of new material for release later in the summer. And this is a great chance to say “Dude, I was totally…
The Insane Clown Posse have popped up on my radar recently. A couple months ago I was in San Francisco and I saw all these guys headed for the Warfield Theater in clown makeup. I didn’t even realize ICP was still active, let alone playing a 2200 seat theater. Next I was grabbing some CDs…
How much does entertainment cost? Most of us like to be entertained in some way every day. And the flux in attendance at shows over the past few years scares venue owners for sure. Some nights are amazing. Some nights are DOA. It’s tough to get people off the couch and out of the house…
Man, file this under “things that will never happen to me.” And gladly. Water animals and I don’t get along. Let alone a 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea experience. Check out this wild video of an octopus stealing a guy’s video camera. Apparently the octopus had left the house that day with no makeup on…
The nature of entertainment, the way it’s presented, and how people experience it is changing. With so many different options it’s become harder to get people off their couch and out to see live entertainment. My girlfriend sent me a video this morning that I thought was great. It’s a flash mob type thing with…
I just saw this great article on WSJ about Joe Wong and his difficulty carrying his American-style, though Chinese inflected comedy over to China. First off, I’ll say that I’ve never heard of Joe Wong before and I wasn’t exactly blown away by the clips I saw of him. Apparently he got an appearance on…
Everyone knows someone on Facebook. And everyone knows someone who’s not on Facebook. And now there’s peer pressure to be on Facebook. And what does a mother tell her child how to deal with it? “If all of your friends exposed every mundane detail about their personal life to the world, would you do it…
There’s a sushi place near me that recently put up a banner that says “Sushi and Cajun Seafood Now Available!” To me that says, “You can have it raw or blackened! It’s that happy middle of ‘cooked correctly’ we haven’t mastered yet!” And based on their reviews on Yelp I wouldn’t trust the raw or…
Erykah Badu’s new video for Window Seat is all about individuality and how it’s suppressed by the world around us. The video itself has been taken off YouTube, but you can see it on Erykah’s official site. All her naughty bits are blurred out so it shan’t offend your sensibilities. She did the video in…
If you think videos of cats and dogs doing ridiculous stunts are an internet phenomenon, think again. Nope, not even America’s Funniest Home Videos gets the honor of the earliest ones. In 1894 Thomas Edison released the Kinetoscope to the public. And one of the earliest films ever made is The Boxing Cats. Humans learned…
At this point, shouldn’t all condoms have an expiration date of 12/21/12? And just think how many guys on 12/20/12 will be using the line, “Baby, you know the world is ending tomorrow, right? Let’s not wait…” Phil Johnson http://www.RoadsideAttraction.com Other Blogs On This Subject
During my shows I’ll often ask some lady in the audience how she was proposed to by her husband. Quite a few times I’ve heard, “Well, the pregnancy test came back positive…” And from a lot of stories it does seem that guys are lacking in the romance department. As in “We were at a…
I have a bunch of friends that work in libraries and we were talking about some of the new children’s books coming out for kids of gay parents. Harvey Fierstein wrote “The Sissy Duckling”. And there’s another out called “One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads”. A nice sentiment, but if Dad is blue,…
Just when you thought that truck nuts were the stupidest thing to spend money on, the ladies take the cake. Or the pie, as the case may be. Vajazzling is a new trend in which women pay someone to stick Swarovski crystals to their bikini area, often in the shape of a moon or star…
I hope you’ll allow me to geek out a little today. I’m anxiously awaiting the Princess and the Frog DVD release on 3/16. There’s a combination of coupons and rebates and stuff that you can use to get the DVD/Blue Ray combo disc cheap. Keep in mind, I have no vested interest in any of…
We, as a people, take great joy in being punished and punishing others. Guys are obvious about it. They’ll walk into a boxing ring or a football game with the intention of beating each other up. In extreme situations men simply blow each other up. Women, however, are more cunning and devious when punishing other…
I think wedding gifts are an outdated idea. It used to be that young kids were getting married and you gave them gifts because they had no household stuff. But most people wait longer to marry now. They’ve been living on their own for years and they’ve got all the stuff they need. She supplies…
…Look for the normal, well adjusted people. They’re not the comedian.
