Here’s where it all started. On Christmas Day in 1981, my parents gave me the gift of an official Andy Gibb wireless microphone that played through any standard radio. My act is slightly less dirty than it was back then, but the passion to tell jokes to strangers with an amplification device remains.

I will doing this very thing at Comix in NYC tonight and tomorrow at 8 & 10:30. Please join myself and special guests Jonah Ray (of Web Soup & Nerdist Podcast) and God’s Pottery. This show will be amazing. And afterward we will all hug you.

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Now THIS, good people, is the textbook definition of “lemonade” from that irritating saying about lemons. Professional Australian Christiaan Van Vuuren has apparently been placed under strict quarantine due to TB. To cope with the isolation, he started making music videos in his hospital room under the name Fully Sick Rapper.

Good on ya, mate! And let this be a lesson to all of you lazy creatives with no excuse for not making stuff! It’s like my grandpappy always said, “Don’t wait until you get TB to make cool shit.” He was prophetic that way.

Follow Christiaan’s medical steeplechase at @FullySickRapper on Twitter or see his other “keeping insanity at bay” vids on his youtube page.

via @paix120

If you’re in LA, direct yourself to the Improv on Melrose tonight, March 6th, for two shows at 7:30 & 9:30. I’ll be headlining with support from a pile of great comics. Come by. Bring your favorite portable electronic device so I can tag it with my name.

Tix and info here.

Aces!

The director in this vid is my phenomenally hilarious pal, Brett Gelman. This video is not only NSFW, it’s not safe for home, car, basement, or anywhere really. It is weatherproofed in filth.

And that is why you should watch it.

via Jonah Ray

I am still laughing at this.

PS – Boobs!!! NSFW!!!

This is the 9th year of the San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival but please don’t be misled into thinking it’s soley a sketch affair. The festival spans three weeks and eleven venues with shows ranging from stand-up to improv to films to talk shows and back to sketch.

If you are a self-professed comedy nerd, you will have to step on your boner to keep it out of the way of your keyboard while you read the full lineup. Some (but not by a longshot all) highlights include:

Conan O’Brien, Terry Jones, Reno 911 Live, Neil Patrick Harris, Cinematic Titanic (Joel Hodgson’s MST3K gang), “Weird Al” Yankovic (sitting down to chat with ME), John Hodgman, Dick friggin Cavett, Dave Eggers, Michael Ian Black, Comedy Death-Ray and shitloads more.

Ticket info is available here.

SF Sketchfest is the country’s largest independently produced comedy festival and literally run by only three humans who toil mercilessly and non-corporately for months to make it the wonderfully smooth, mind-blowingly kick-ass multi-day event that it is. Now go support it!!

Thanks to Jonah Ray, Paul Bonanno, Annie Hardy, Rob Huebel, Brendon Walsh, Dave Gibbs, Ambrielle Web, Eli Braden & adult entertainment megastar Dana DeArmond.

Another set of thanks hurled at AOTS EPs Vinny Rutherford and Joshua Brentano for giving us cash money and a great G4-ey crew.

Thanks also go out to the 1980s for existing solely so we could make fun of it.

And thanks to me. I thank myself. Yeah, I’m just that egocentric.

Final thanks go to YOU for watching!!! 30% more thanks if you pass it on but no gratitude penalties for not.

Update: Hilariously, people keep asking where I am in the video. I’m the one with long blond wig, cowboy hat and spandex singing into the microphone with balls on it. I know I should dress that way ALL of the time but I am too attached to my normal costume of a slightly too small ironic tshirt and fancy sneakers.

ATTN CANADA & OTHER NON-US NERDS: Try this link.

Here’s a snippet from Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show featuring ME which just got slapped on the Webs. The show was so much friggin fun and Kevin is fantastic.

Don’t stop now! Catch the entire show HERE!!!