and so i get a desperate call from LA about an acting job, and the next day i'm sitting in a back room in the metreon, putting on a foam suit with a 65" waist, strap-on boots five times the size of my feet, giant white gloves i have to hold on to by clenching …
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well, the end of these days: you know that day. that endless repeating day that begins at around 10 am. the roommates yelling "you have no love in your heart!" and the sun creeping through your eyelids. you think your way out of breakfast and back into sleep. that day that actually begins at 11:40. …
the culmination of months of work comes to a head this friday at 8:30 at the odeon… you heard the talk. the bull-shitting. the fence-sitting. the high-stepping. everyone says it… "hey, i'm-running-away-and-starting-a-circus!" well i finally did it. and i'm still talking to my circus partner ben. we really toured the country. we read the odyssey. …
monsters. menches. villains. cokeheads. gamers. slumlords. i've seen it all in my short time on this roundish rock. the following are simply some guidelines: 1) disregard some guidelines and go straight to the show listings 2) always keep a flashlight and a pocket knife handy 3) know rhymes about snakes plants liquor and sea-weather 4) …
Comedian Alicia Dattner's playfully subversive press kits keep audiences rolling in the proverbial aisles. You are as likely to see her typing on a laptop at a comedy club as you are at a local café with a typewriter. Not surprisingly, she plies her trade from the capitol of unconventionality, San Francisco. "It's a good …
i was on the radio yesterday morning. they called at 7 am to promote a gig i played tonight in santa rosa. the guy producing the comedy show was like "have you done radio before?" i'm like "yeah" meaning "no". "it's a hip hop show. we got a 'rough & ready' crowd. you rough & …
A wacky show last week at the Mock, I just have to say, 'wow'. For those of you who weren't there, it was quite an event. First of all, this 'Tony Clifton' guy walks up to the Mock, and is the 11th person there, makes a very big stink because there are only ten open …
Ok so but then like three civilians filled the Brainwash out last night. Ghost cafe. I hit the open mic after 13 hours at work and also a corporate-sponsored Java One/Sun (TM) Event in which the B-52's played and flexible circus performers patiently ogled lubed up techies ('That's Code Warrior, to you, woman!') uninhibitedly …
So I'm doing a show at this small venue in San Francisco. It's a special gig because I've been asked to feature with two other performers in a non-comedy show. It's great. I get to include a head shot and a bio I've written for the program. And I get to come in and …