by Paul Ogata | Oct 31, 2013 | Blog
Since it’s Halloween, and in keeping with the death theme from yesterday’s website debacle of posting my death notice too early, let me tell you about dead things brought back to life. I was in Las Vegas last weekend shooting a television pilot. One of the...
by Paul Ogata | Jul 29, 2013 | Blog, Shows
The first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. But the first rule of Comedy Club might very well be that you always talk about Comedy Club. So here it is. I’ve just finished a great week in Las Vegas at the newly relocated Big...
by Paul Ogata | Jun 24, 2013 | Blog
In the TV series Entourage, Vincent Chase had his friends and family fill several slots in his posse: chef, trainer, bodyguard, manager, driver. My entourage usually consists of just one person, my wife. But based on the above photo, I’m firing her from the...
by Paul Ogata | Jun 1, 2013 | Shows
The old rule was, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” But I’m going to take some initiative here and make a new Vegas rule: “What happens in Vegas is awesome and you should tell your friends, especially if it involves me doing shows at the...
by Paul Ogata | Mar 26, 2013 | Blog
Hello. My name is Paul Ogata. I am a stand-up comic. Or a comedian. Is there a difference? Famous dead comedian Ed Wynn once explained that, “a comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny.” But what did he know? Ed Wynn wasn’t even his real...