I’ve got 3 stand up comedy gigs in Southern California this weekend; Thursday night at the House of Blues in Anaheim, Friday at 4th and B in San Diego, and Saturday night at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills.
At first I was thinking about canceling the San Diego show because of everything that’s going on down there with the wild fires, but then I decided a better option would be to go ahead with the show, but then donate all the money to the red cross relief efforts.
This way the show will go on and it will help support a great cause and hopefully bring some fun and happiness to a damaged community.
I love San Diego, and I haven’t been back there in almost a year, so I’ve been really looking forward to this gig.
For some reason I haven’t heard it talked about much in the news, but in response to the San Diego wildfires, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a desperate attempt to polish up their image that was so badly tarnished by their shitty handling of the whole hurricane Katrina disaster decided that the best way to come out of this smelling like roses was to fake a press conference.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/10/27/fema-under-fire-for-faking-news-conference/
No shit.
If you can fucking believe this, they actually were retarded enough to use FEMA employees to pose as reporters and toss underhand, softball questions at a fella named Harvey E. Johnson, the agency’s deputy director.
For shame, you deceptive, incompetent fucks.
Not that it’s surprising that the government can be full of shit, but actually going out of their way to fake a news conference is pretty fucking crazy.
Even the white house came out and condemned it. I guess after they got busted with that whole Jeff Gannon fiasco they’re a little more careful about how they disseminate their propaganda. Now, if you don’t remember Jeff Gannon, he was the fake reporter for a fake news agency (Talon news) that was employed as a Bush white house reporter for two years, and got to attend all the press conferences and ask easy questions laced with pro-Bush rhetoric until it was discovered that he was also running a bunch of gay prostitution websites.
Yikes!!
Now he’s a right wing blogger (http://www.jeffgannon.com/) who brags on his website about sitting at the head table at a National Press Club luncheon with Dick Cheney and his wife. Busted for being a closet cocksucker and a fake reporter, and then 2 years later breaking bread with the evil puppet master at a public function.
Straight Gangsta!!
The absolute fucking craziest shit that I saw in regards to the fire though, was hands down this report of Fox News where they speculated that Al Qaeda might have been responsible for the fires. Seriously, it feels like we’re living in a movie more and more every day. People just CAN’T be that stupid really, can they?
It’s all rotting out from under us, folks. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to fix this fucked up world we live in at this point, but I am positive that there’s a whole lot to laugh at.
Come out to see me this weekend, we will drink, we will smoke, and we will laugh while the world flies to pieces around us.
House of Blues Anaheim 11|01
November 1, 2007 9:00pm
House of Blues – Anaheim
1530 South Disneyland Drive
Anaheim , CA
(714) 778-2583
Website: House Of Blues
4th and B San Diego 11|02
November 2, 2007 8:00pm
4th and B San Diego
345 B Street
San Diego , CA
(619) 231-2131
Website: 4th and b
The Canyon Club 11|03
November 3, 2007 8:00am
The Canyon Club
28912 Roadside Drive
Agoura Hills , CA
(818) 879-5016
Website: Canyon Club
The show at the House of Blues was the absolute best comedy show I’ve ever seen, hands down. I’ve seen you once before but your interaction with the crowd this round made the show that much more personal. And fucking hilarious. I cannot believe the pants almost came off.
Can Agoura Hills be better? I’ll be there too.
Last night you said we were living in a comic book world; one big fucking Stan Lee production. So wouldn’t that make sense that our villian started the fires?!
Okay, I’m with you, it’s bullshit. See you Saturday.
Re: Agoura Hills
Where was Joey?! I’d hyped him to the people I went with. Never leave home without him.
Otherwise, great show.
Yeah, by the way, I still want to know why you didn’t take that shot of Jaeger I brought you in Anaheim? Do you not like Jaeger?