Steve Martin’s Standup Life

I got Steve Martin’s new book Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life for Christmas and plowed through it in 2 days. It is a good quick read about Steve Martin’s early life and standup career. The most interesting part for me was hearing about how hard he worked at developing his craft. [...]

Top Phrases of 2006

Here are the top phrases - some ironic, some funny, and some just great in the way that your grandfather is great. Not because he’s cool, just because he is.

A tie with “Double-True” and “I’m dropping Hamiltons like my name is Aaron Burr” from the best video of 2006, SNL’s Lazy Sunday. Which just [...]

Kramer’s Racial Tirade

This is an insane video of Michael Richards - Kramer from Seinfeld - doing a pretty racist and rough standup show.   This is definitely worth checking out…

Other link: http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1772645

Rita Rudner Quotes

Some good quotes by Rita:

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

To all the mothers out there (especially mine): you rock. This video is for you:

Best Juggling Ever

I was forward this juggling act performed by Chris Bliss today. I must say its amazing. Check it out.

Chris dropped out after his third year of college (dean’s list at Northwestern) to become a professional juggler. After becoming the best damn juggler ever, he became a standup comic - and is actually pretty funny.

Grizzly Man Comments

I recently watched the documentary Grizzly Man, which was great. At first i wasn’t sure how pysched i’d be to watch an entire movie that’s all about a guy hanging out in a National Park with bears. But from the moment it began i was mesmerized. This guy is a total nut-job [...]