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...

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Making Sense of A Rambler

Eddie Hearn, the head of Matchroom Boxing and one of the leading boxing promoters in the world, said recently that as you get older, you care less and less about what others think.  When you have accomplished some things and can leave a legacy of sorts, you don’t worry about who you piss off or annoy, because...

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Do You Hear That? Wait…

I do have two websites.  Still.  One of them I still pay the web designer for even though I haven’t looked at it in a few months. The website I speak of is the one that’s for the radio show, The Stand-Up Sit Down.  I am still two episodes short of completing the 2020 calendar year, but I don’t seem...

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Everything 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...

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When 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...

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