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Stand-Up

1Q 1A: Paul F. Tompkins

To celebrate the release of Paul F. Tompkins’s’s’s latest stand-up release Freak Wharf, I had the honor of sitting down with him as the inaugural personality for my 1Q1A series:
CH: So how are you, Paul?
PFT: Great.
CH: Thank you for being here.
PFT: My pleasure.
If you enjoy comedy, pick up Freak Wharf digitally on iTunes or in [...]

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Places I’ll Be Making Jokes in LA

We’ll all agree the title of this post is unnecessarily long and clunky. It doesn’t change the fact that I will be doing many sets in Los Angeles this week:
Tuesday, 10/27, 8p: Comedy Death-Ray – UCB  Theatre
Wednesday, 10/28, 8p: Tom Arnold & Friends – Laugh Factory
Thursday, 10/29, 7:30p: Cinematic Titanic – Largo
Friday, 10/30, 9p: Where’s [...]

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Trocadero in Philly 2-Nite!

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Come on out! Show will be fun. Special guest, Mike Phirman, which means special appearance by Hard ‘n Phirm. Good times are calling…will you accept the charges???
Meet up after the show. Hope to see you there!

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Tix! D.C.! Sixth & I! 11/21!

Yes, the exclamatory post title is true. Tickets are now on sale for my show at Sixth & I in the federally-administered city of Washington, D.C.

Purchase those little bastards RIGHT HERE.

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Portland! Oregon! Aladdin! Tix!

If there’s anything I love more than exclamation points, it’s performing December 5th at the Aladdin Theater in the PDX. Yeah, I’ve been to Multnomah Falls! That alone should warrant your patronage.
Come to the show. Afterward we’ll get some gluten-free pizza and go to that rad arcade bar that was ripped right from the dreams [...]

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Stand-Up Clip: Abercrombie & Fitch

Many people who know me from their tele-o-vision sets send me tweets like, “Hey! I didn’t know you did stand-up!” Well, here is visual proof that I do the aforementioned joke telling while standing up. As with most things I do, I have laced it with filth. This is because I am really just a [...]

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Bill Hicks’s Principles of Comedy

I get the “How does one go about being a comic” question a lot, so I thought it would be groovy to address that in post-form for the damaged masses of n00b joke-slingers. Before I get to the Bill Hicks of it all, here’s my tuppence on the matter: There’s no special trick to it. [...]

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Comedy Death-Ray, 9/1

I’ll be working out some new stuff for the Nice Tweets tour! Click the image for ticket info.

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The Nice Tweets Comedy Tour!

I am damn excited to announce my Fall/Winter stand-up comedy tour, entitled “Nice Tweets!” I would be very happy if you came out to the show and said ‘hello’ afterward–think of it as a Tweetup with live comedy. Look for special ticket codes on Twitter via @nerdist!

August 28-30
Laughing Skull Atlanta, GA
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Sept. 3-6
Comedy Works Denver, [...]

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Lakewood Civic Center – 06/20/09

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