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Tales From the Script: Part 4 (The Book is better…)
I mentioned before that Final Draft is the most important tool and screenwriter can use. Another, almost as important, tool is this great book called Writing Movies for Fun and Profit. I’ve read a...
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Tales From the Script: Part 5 (Voices Carry)
When Lesley and I initially started writing our script, we were writing it with the intent to find a local production company to shoot it for us with us in the leads. Once we changed our minds on...
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Tonight: WTF Live with Marc Maron…and me!
Tonight at the Trepany House at the Steve Allen Theater: The audacious and critically acclaimed comedian, Marc Maron is bringing his legendary podcast to life on the Trepany House stage on the last...
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Tales From The Script: Part 6 (Here Goes Nothing…literally)
Through comedy I know a few people. Through her work, Lesley knows a few people as well. In my mind, here’s basically how I thought this would work. Lesley and I wrote a really good screenplay. We...
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Big in France
WordPress offers a lot of cool stats. Below is a chart of what countries the people live in who come to this site. I assumed I would have the most readers in the US and then Canada. I was pleasantly...
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Week in Review: West Coast to the Midwest
This past weekend I was at the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase with my friend Nate Fridson. I’ve only seen Nate once since he moved to New York about a year or so ago. He churned out a ton of new material....
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Scrabble Schtick
Maybe it’s the lack of sleep last night, but for some reason I found this entire conversation via Scrabble with my best buddy Bob Phillips to be ridiculously funny.
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Tweets from Los Angeles
I was super active on Twitter over the past couple weeks while I was in Los Angeles. In case you’re not following me there (and why aren’t you?) here are some of the highlights. Aug 22: The first time...
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Skyline Comedy Cafe!
I’m returning to the Skyline Comedy Cafe this weekend. This is such an amazing club!
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CYBER MONDAY DEAL!
Want to find out how you can get a physical copy of my most recent CD “Full Frontal Nerdity” for only five bucks? That’s half the price that you can download it for digitally! Either shoot me a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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