Wayyyyyyyyy More Than 50 Shades Of Grey
Things have certainly changed from the days when I first entered the comedy scene. Some changes over the past ten years have been for the better, some haven’t, and some I don’t think anybody ever saw coming. I doubt that the newer crop of performers now respect or understand the groundwork that was laid...
Read MoreUncommon Common Denominators
Johnny Mathis sings it best when he says it’s the most wonderful time of the year. But for many people, it’s anything but, myself included. The holiday season does not evoke many positive memories from adulthood. Christmases of recent memory saw me homeless and living at The Salvation Army, being...
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 MoreThe Canelo Plan
When someone is successful and does their job on only the biggest stages, in the most important and meaningful of events, you tend to take notice. Especially if that person is professional boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. He is a professional boxer, having plied his trade for ten years as a professional. He...
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