by Paul Ogata | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog
You tend to lose a lot of freedoms under religious governments. A tourist couple visiting the United Arab Emirates were arrested for having sex before marriage when a doctor discovered the woman was pregnant. Meanwhile, here in America, the Supreme Court (dominated by...
by Paul Ogata | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
Television is a strange thing. From era to era, what was allowed to be said over its airwaves has changed. Back in 1960, after NBC censored one of Jack Paar’s relatively harmless jokes about a toilet, the Tonight Show host walked off the show in mid-broadcast as...
by Paul Ogata | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog
I’ve always said: “Be specific what you ask the Universe for.” Well, I wanted to do a half-hour for Comedy Central, and the Universe granted my non-specific request… with a half-hour for Comedy Central in Asia. No complaints. I’ll take...
by Paul Ogata | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
Just back from a bunch of amazing shows in Malaysia. I always love doing shows there, and especially in Kota Kinabalu as it reminds me of where I grew up in Hawaii. But in KK (as the locals call Kota Kinabalu) they have a dish I never ever encountered my whole life...
by Paul Ogata | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
There is an old saying which goes, “comedians are not paid to do shows, we are paid to travel to the show.” If it were true, then I am grossly underpaid since I seem to be in transit for most of my life these days. Which isn’t such a bad thing if...
