No Desire, No Growth
I guess that I should have seen this coming. How could I expect to put on a decent performance when I halfheartedly decided to only memorize the first four minutes of my ten minute set? Exactly. I shouldn’t have, and it showed. The recording does not lie. I can now see why it took two years for me to bother...
Read MoreEverything Has A Season
If there is one thing you can definitively say about my comedy journey, it’s that I have always been changing. Sometimes I evolve, sometimes I take a step or two back, but I never stay like the others. My material is always changing, as are my outfits and my circumstances. Ah yes, circumstances. No stand-up...
Read MoreWhen Nothing Else Matters
It has almost been 400 blog posts as we come to my ten year anniversary in stand-up comedy. In that time, this blog has amassed a global audience, that as of today, stands at 378 posts, not including this one, with an audience of 16,479 viewing The Stand Up Diaries 48,763 times in over 110 countries. Sure, the...
Read MoreAll Good Things…… Must Come To A Crash Landing
This blog is closing in on ten years with a global reach of 110+ countries amassing well over 40,000 views, as we close in on almost 400 blog posts. Over the years I have always tried to not be like everyone else, and for the most part I have stayed true to myself in that regard. My parents always said that I should...
Read MoreIf Wishes Came True
In the almost ten years of writing this, there have been some recurring themes, expressed in different ways. One of them was to wonder aloud if, and when I would be able to find a woman to date that would support me at a show. Performers of all stripes do better when they know friends, family or a special someone is...
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