Saturday, April 15, 2006

Janet Panic - songstress extraordinaire


Janet Panic




4/14/2006 3:55 PM

Richard lett is the funniest person .

And that is a period.. He is the only comic my " hate stand up comedy" friends will go check out. Not for the touchy or faint of heart.. So be warned...be egoless and enjoy!!

He is Not only a comic , playwrite and director... the song we wrote together " I miss my sweet embrace" won a 15000 video grant..

the gospel according to judas

The recent discovery of scrolls in Egypt, covering Judas' place in history, brings out the question of his willing particiaption in the whole story of Easter. This has always interested me, as sometimes I feel like Judas within the comedy community. How dull a story it would be if not for Judas' betrayal. If he'd lied to the Romans... "ah Jesus, yeah, he's at the Denny's..."

Leave them to run around like Lenny on "Law and Order", showing pictures of Christ to clerks and bartenders. "He's blond and blue eyed - riding a donkey. You should be able to spot him."

Without no judas - no forgiveness - no resurrection - no hidden easter eggs. ANd where did that come from? Did they go to the tomb, roll back the stone and say "His body's gone!" And then some one said "Did you look under the couch?"

Friday, April 14, 2006

tara lett


Went and saw my neice tara lett, performing her new songs with her new band at the pic pub last night. she rocked the place, and i was a very proud uncle!!

Thursday, April 13, 2006

brilliant show

CRASH and Burn went great on Tuesday. Great audience, Established a great rapore with them of the top, and really, even when I deliberately crashed and burned, they loved me. All the new comics did well, and a few look promising (Jill Bennett - one of Ardell's protege) Jy Harris had been on me all day to put him up, so I finally did, but he always adds to the show. Sam Easton headlined and did a solid job. Next week I have Gram Clark and Squatch, so I'm looking forward to it.

My neice Tara is performing at the pic pub tonight. She's front a band with her new songs, so I think I'll check it out.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Crash and Burn


these are pictures of where john lennon was shot. as you can see thry're still cleaning up the mess!
Tonight is my first night of Crash and Burn, the stand-up show at YukYUks. The idea is to have four amateurs doing five, and four pros doing five new (never performed before) minutes. As host I'm not required to do all new stuff, but I will bring some new ideas, as well as spritz with the audience. I wanna talk about Easter and religion, trying to talk about Judas as the world's most influential antagonist. I'm thinking about going along the lines of what not to say in polite company, sex, religion and politics. And being stand-up comedians are definitely not in polite company(!)I will feel free to talk about these things. Should be fun, shows at 8:30 pm

Monday, April 10, 2006

giving up on comedy couch

there's a local message "bored" where vancouver comics post things. i attempted to have a reasonable discussion about something, but all these whipper snappers can do is attack me for my bad ass reputation. they are caught somewhere between "he's too dirty" to "he's not that dirty - I am". it is tiring to try to explain comedy to comedians. what a bunch of humourless whiners. and the guy hosting it, is a jounalist who just avoids the point of my postings to pick at a word here, or some segue. its like a jehovah's witness approach to theology, making it say what ever you want. anyway, everytime i post something, the amount of reads on the page go way up. so why am i supporting this thing? as a professional, award winning writer, everything i write is worth money, so why bother giving it away to support these things. i have my own blog here and on myspace to promote so look for my thoughts here or on funny4money on myspace.com

easter is coming