It wasn’t a brilliant joke, but I wrote it myself, and it had been consistently cracking my friends up:
Dateline is planning to do a spin-off of its popular series To Catch A Predator, and the new spin-off will be hosted by Jeff Foxworthy.
It’s going to be called Are You Horny for a 5th Grader?
(And if [...]
If comedy equals tragedy plus time, then I’m sure I’ll find this latest development hilarious in due course: last week, I fucked myself up pretty badly in a bike accident.
On Tuesday night, I was on my way to the Laughs open mic when I hit a fissure in the road. Long story short, I catapulted [...]
This morning, I had one of those days: I woke up ridiculously, obscenely early and couldn’t get back to sleep, despite being bone-tired. Now I’m drifting through the day in a zombie-like haze, and inventing a dozen excuses per minute for why I should skip my morning workout.
In other words, this blog entry is going [...]
When performed by a comedic genius like Jim Gaffigan or Brian Regan, squeaky clean humor can be brilliantly funny. But clean street jokes, as written on the page? Not so much.
Exhibit A: Reader’s Digest’s Top 10 Jokes in America. Some of them are mildly clever and made me smile, but none of them merited [...]
Last night at Giggles, an open mic newbie approached a few of us with some questions about how the evening worked: who gets on stage, how much time you get, etc. — standard n00b questions. Then he asked, “What about feedback? How do you know whether your stuff is any good?”
“If the audience laughed, it [...]
