by Paul Ogata | Dec 19, 2011 | Blog, Shows
I am returning to the Bay Area to do battle with your funny bones! What would my monster name be? “Mirthra”? Mark your calendars and get ready for a big night of fun. 142 Throckmorton Theatre (aka The Throck) is the setting for Mark Pitta and Friends, a...
by Paul Ogata | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog, Video
OMG. I don’t know what a good day at a regular job is like. When I had a regular job, it involved frying chicken nuggets or stamping parking tickets. And I never had good days at those regular jobs. Ever. But at a comedy show, a good day at the office starts out...
by Paul Ogata | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog, Video
As you may already know, I am a master chef. After the Saturday shows at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club in Las Vegas, I concocted a new dessert for the other guys on the show: Rice Cream! I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but “Toot! Toot!” This was...
by Paul Ogata | Dec 7, 2011 | Blog
Walking the Strip in Las Vegas and I ran into this lady. She reminded me that sometimes we can be too focused on color. Lady Liberty started out the color of a penny, but began to turn green. Many people were worried about her new color and plans were made to paint...
by Paul Ogata | Dec 2, 2011 | Blog
With all the shady, clusterhumpy, evil going on in Washington these days, this is still a pretty awesome country. I just got back from two months on the road in foreign countries. It was just the kind of thing I needed to rejuvenate my zeal for this place. We still...
by Paul Ogata | Nov 13, 2011 | Blog
It has been pointed out before that comedy is a brutal endeavor. “Dying is easy, comedy is hard,” is the old saying. Comedians destroy rooms, or they bomb. They crush clubs, or they get eaten alive. And, ultimately, they either die or they kill. Such...
