http://bit.ly/c6ptD
Enjoy. Please.
[Note: this is a slightly shorter version of the same video from before]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Screw you -- I'm busy and tired
I decided I might NOT transcribe and post the two sets I performed last week. If I had the videos, no problem. But typing all that sh*t feels like WORK. When I get rich and famous, I'll HIRE somebody to transcribe it all. :)
What I can offer you instead is a video of the complete set I did last night at Bunjo's Comedy Club in Dublin, Ca. Not my BEST set, but fun, anyway.
What I can offer you instead is a video of the complete set I did last night at Bunjo's Comedy Club in Dublin, Ca. Not my BEST set, but fun, anyway.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Remiss
I've been remiss in not posting this week. I have to transcribe and post the sets from Tommy's on Monday and Bunjo's on Friday. I'm taking tomorrow night off, so maybe I'll get them done then. I'm mad at myself for not bringing fresh batteries for the camera Monday & starting the video too early Friday, so I have only the first *few* minutes of my set. [sigh] On each occasion, though, I recorded the audio, so at least I can copy down the words for you when I get a chance, gentle reader.
I joined MySpace Comedy today, something I've been consciously avoiding. MySpace has become the "crazy uncle" of social networking sites. Too many teens, tweens, and crazies. But I need the presence, so I did it (MySpace.com/richorwell). I mostly use Facebook (Facebook.com/rich.orwell) and Twitter (Twitter.com/rhetorich).
If you want it, you can make a bid on the domain name "sitonmyfacebook.com" Best of luck.
I also joined a few more SIGs (Special Interest Groups) at Mensa, so I need to read all *those* daily email digests. I've got 100 digests from my 2 Yahoo pun groups to read, too.
On the comedy gig front, I've booked open mic nights and new talent showcases in the next few weeks at 3 clubs outside my "comfort zone" of Tommy T's and Bunjo's: a second appearance at Rooster's in Sunnyvale, and first appearances at Paddy's Coffee House in Union City and the Wharf Room at Castagnola's restaurant in San Francisco. It will be a good learning experience to work at different clubs, each with its own audience mix.
I've decided to change the flavor of my sets to more "biographical" and less "current news & politics". This will require a good deal of writing, but I have until Friday to work on it.
I joined MySpace Comedy today, something I've been consciously avoiding. MySpace has become the "crazy uncle" of social networking sites. Too many teens, tweens, and crazies. But I need the presence, so I did it (MySpace.com/richorwell). I mostly use Facebook (Facebook.com/rich.orwell) and Twitter (Twitter.com/rhetorich).
If you want it, you can make a bid on the domain name "sitonmyfacebook.com" Best of luck.
I also joined a few more SIGs (Special Interest Groups) at Mensa, so I need to read all *those* daily email digests. I've got 100 digests from my 2 Yahoo pun groups to read, too.
On the comedy gig front, I've booked open mic nights and new talent showcases in the next few weeks at 3 clubs outside my "comfort zone" of Tommy T's and Bunjo's: a second appearance at Rooster's in Sunnyvale, and first appearances at Paddy's Coffee House in Union City and the Wharf Room at Castagnola's restaurant in San Francisco. It will be a good learning experience to work at different clubs, each with its own audience mix.
I've decided to change the flavor of my sets to more "biographical" and less "current news & politics". This will require a good deal of writing, but I have until Friday to work on it.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Brief Throught
I'll post more about last night's set at Tommy T's tomorrow. But this is what I put on Facebook last night:
Tonight at Tommy T's, I was the one who sucked most of the ones who sucked least. Which is to say: of the 30 comics who performed, the audience got to vote for a favorite among the "top 8" chosen by management. While I got the least votes of those 8, at least I got to be in the group. As her father's character said to Jodie Foster in the movie "Contact", "Small moves, Ellie, small moves."
Tonight at Tommy T's, I was the one who sucked most of the ones who sucked least. Which is to say: of the 30 comics who performed, the audience got to vote for a favorite among the "top 8" chosen by management. While I got the least votes of those 8, at least I got to be in the group. As her father's character said to Jodie Foster in the movie "Contact", "Small moves, Ellie, small moves."
Healthy, defined
Maryann, Wife Charming, after the several times it takes to walk all the dogs, is feeling a little "down" physically. So I took her blood pressure and blood sugar. Pressure was a tad high, but the sugar was 99 -- which is to say, perfect.
On those rare occasions I take a non-diabetic's blood sugar, it always amazes me that it comes up plus-or-minus a point or two of 100.
Hurray for the human body. Go pancreas!
On those rare occasions I take a non-diabetic's blood sugar, it always amazes me that it comes up plus-or-minus a point or two of 100.
Hurray for the human body. Go pancreas!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Lately
I've been entering the text of the several hundred jokes I wrote into a database, complete with keywords to find them & string them together into comedy routines.
This is tedious, mind-numbing work.
I have A.D.D. I don't do "tedious." I don't do "mind-numbing."
What I *do* is find distractions to take me away from getting the work done.
Squirrel!
This is tedious, mind-numbing work.
I have A.D.D. I don't do "tedious." I don't do "mind-numbing."
What I *do* is find distractions to take me away from getting the work done.
Squirrel!
Rhetoric Dept Grad Speech -- the Joke
I love to share this story with rhetoricians.
I graduated with honors in Rhetoric in 1993 from the University of California, Berkeley, and won the competition to be the opening speaker at graduation. The competition consisted of delivering our (5 minute) speeches to the department chair and some faculty members.
When the Chair told me I had won, he also told me I would have to delete a joke from the speech I had written. Censorship at Berkeley? Amazing.
I was given a choice: tell the joke and lose my honors status or not.
Here's the joke:
"Because there's no 'pre-law' major at Berkeley, many future lawyers here study Rhetoric. It is a rare opportunity for those of us who do not intend to become lawyers to observe the lawyer in its larval stage, before it pupates as a pupil at law school and emerges as a full-fledged, adult, blood-sucking parasite."
The Chair said, "The PARENTS of those future lawyers will be in the audience." I replied, "They'll understand that something is either actionable or not. They may even like it. It will roll off them like water from a duck's back." At that point the Chair reiterated his "don't tell it or else" position.
So I didn't tell it.
BTW, in the tradition of oral presentation, the department gives each graduating student the opportunity to give a 30-second statement when his or her name is called. It's a lot of fun to watch.
I graduated with honors in Rhetoric in 1993 from the University of California, Berkeley, and won the competition to be the opening speaker at graduation. The competition consisted of delivering our (5 minute) speeches to the department chair and some faculty members.
When the Chair told me I had won, he also told me I would have to delete a joke from the speech I had written. Censorship at Berkeley? Amazing.
I was given a choice: tell the joke and lose my honors status or not.
Here's the joke:
"Because there's no 'pre-law' major at Berkeley, many future lawyers here study Rhetoric. It is a rare opportunity for those of us who do not intend to become lawyers to observe the lawyer in its larval stage, before it pupates as a pupil at law school and emerges as a full-fledged, adult, blood-sucking parasite."
The Chair said, "The PARENTS of those future lawyers will be in the audience." I replied, "They'll understand that something is either actionable or not. They may even like it. It will roll off them like water from a duck's back." At that point the Chair reiterated his "don't tell it or else" position.
So I didn't tell it.
BTW, in the tradition of oral presentation, the department gives each graduating student the opportunity to give a 30-second statement when his or her name is called. It's a lot of fun to watch.
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