Sacramento Comedy Festival

I was in the Sacramento Comedy Festival this weekend.

I entered at the start of the year, just after getting back from San Francisco Sketchfest, and I was pretty excited when I heard that I was in, and then much less excited when I heard that it was going to be a contest.

My experience with contests so far is that they're code for 'bringer show.' In other words, if you want to win, you're going to pack the audience with as many friends, co-workers, and family members as you can so they will vote for you, and just happen to buy tickets and a minimum of two drinks from the club while they're there.

And then I got there, and everything about the shows was terrific. The Sacramento Comedy Spot is a cool club with a better location than any club in LA, with great staff, who picked a lineup of comics that was both diverse in style and not awful to watch. To my further surprise, the contest was decided by somewhat anonymous judges. I'm sure this system has its own set of problems, but whatever they may be, they're different from the trap I thought I was walking into, and it seemed fair and square to me.

The clip found at the top is from my set in the semi-finals, where I was knocked out of the contest. It was my favorite part of the set because it's relatively new and they were so into it.

So my thanks to the Comedy Spot for having me and my fellow comics for being funny and the crowds that showed up and were bigger than maybe anywhere I've ever performed. I look forward to seeing all of you again.

Unacceptable, Part 6

This week, over at The Higgs Weldon, a lot of really solid typing. Some of it looks like:

“I’m not trying to be difficult, but this is unacceptable!” I called out, apparently to no one.

I pulled off my night vision goggles and sat down on a crate. If Vanessa had been murdered, captured, or sent home early, this mission would become a lot more difficult for me.

Yep, spies, secret agents, lots of references, read it right away!

Don't just shuffle your papers around, mail them in to SUBMIT today. Trust me, I read the submissions that come in, and they. are. dreadful. Send us something good and you know what we'll do? We'll print it!

Unacceptable, Part 5

This week on The Higgs Weldon, I prove the old adage, "do something four times, get sponsored because you're a huge success."

This week’s installment is made possible through the generous sponsorship of some of The Higgs Weldon’s corporate partners. We want to assure you that although these corporations make wonderful products that we ourselves use constantly, they have no influence over the editorial content of this website or any of its regular features.

“I’m not trying to be difficult, but this is unacceptable,” I said to Albert, via the magic of Cisco TelePresence™.

Read, love, and then thoughtfully consider some of our wonderful sponsors today.

SUBMIT your own writing to The Higgs Weldon by Thursday.

Comedy this weekend and you. And me.

Check out all the comedy things this weekend! I'm doing something for Crapshoot! at Tomorrow! Saturday at midnight, and then on Sunday it's the September Hike Mic: Abandoned Zoo edition!

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To the Residents of Via Verde Villas Court Terrace Estates

Speaking of The Higgs Weldon this week, I helped out Ms. Weldon herself with a piece while we were in the American city of San Francisco performing stand-up comedy.

Look, we all know the sign out front says “no” pets, but I knew what I was getting into as the owner of seven (7) dogs before moving in here, and once you have seven, who can say no to three (3) more?

Check out the rest of the letter To the Residents of Via Verde Villas Court Terrace Estates.