I’ll share with you an experience I had tonight at the Wendy’s drive-thru. I was craving a milkshake. A real milkshake made with real ice cream. None of this “ice-milk” malarkey. Seriously, if you are serving this blatantly phony version of milkshakes, don’t even call them “shakes.” Instead, call them “lies that you can’t suck easily through a straw.” Wendy decided to call her brand of bullcrap a “Frosty Shake”. I should have just gone to a nearby Jack In The Box instead of pulling the lazy move of trying the closest fast food joint. Here’s the convo at the drive-thru speaker. Continue Reading…
The following column first appeared in AntithesisComedy.com. I’ve added pictures and a little more words so you can feel like it’s new.
“Do you do your act in Asian?” is a question I get asked a lot by nimrods who just found out that I do comedy shows in Asia.
When I tell them that “Asian” is not a language, they reply with, “Oh, my bad. Do you speak Chinese?” It’s a good question, though still incorrect in that Chinese isn’t a language either. But I get what they want to know. Continue Reading…
On a makeshift stage cobbled together with crates and canvas, my body pumped full of prochlorperazine and scopolamine, fighting off dehydration, exhaustion and seasickness, bobbing atop the high seas on the landing pad of a Navy ship, I see the laughing faces of the troops and I smile as I think, “This is worth it.”
Over the last couple of years I have been more than fortunate to be part of Comics On Duty, the ongoing series of comedy shows for the U.S. Armed Forces. Executive producer Rich Davis takes the tour, now in its 19th year, all over the world to wherever the troops are. This time it was fellow comedian JR Brow and I heading off to undisclosed locations on ships at sea! Continue Reading…
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