Hello February!  I did my show at the Comedy Store over the weekend.  It was a packed house in the Belly Room on Friday night, everyone was ready to laugh and laugh, they did.  The English guy from Mad Men, that hung himself (on the show) was in the audience, so was some guy who Read More …

Happy New Year! 2014 looks like it’s gonna be a great one!  How do I know? Because I already have shows booked!  I’m thrilled!  You should be too.  Friday night is a good comedy night, so the last friday of the month I will be performing LIVE at The World Famous Comedy Store.  Read all Read More …

As posted on Facebook today: “Today marks my 21st anniversary as a “professional” comedian. November 26th, 1992 was my first ever comedy show with ComedySportz Kansas City, known today as ComedyCity. It was Thanksgiving that day. Dinner was done. We were settling in to a family game of Trivial Pursuit, maybe a movie later, when I Read More …

Friday, September 27th, 2013 I’m assuming I’ve lost my audience at this point, because of infrequent posting of my progress.  I must say that I cooled my heels on the whole blog posting, because of a tiny seed of doubt planted by both inner and outer voices.  But as I mentioned earlier, I’m not going Read More …

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 I had a meltdown.  Simple terms.  I did a new open mic in Koreatown in the another fabulous, huge back room, two Sundays ago.  I sucked tremendous ass.  The next morning I got interesting news about a comedy event I’m attending That made me spin out of control to the point Read More …

Friday, July 19th, 2013 Open mics are just that. OPEN. Open to failure, open to technical difficulties, open to damaging the sound system and set pieces, open to drunken ‘nunchucking’. The first lessons I learned about being on stage, was: 1) Project. Your own voice is enough.  2) Cover mistakes and move on.  Unless you’re Read More …

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 The lifelong butchering of my last name could be one of the reasons I gravitate towards comedy.    Because after the F-A-R it’s open season on how many different ways you can utterly fuck up saying a simple name. (FAR-nun). Well, let’s see, theirs: Faran, Farlan, Farland, Farman, Farmhand(once on a Read More …

Saturday, July 13th, 2013 This was my birthday week.  I didn’t bust my ass to do shows. I will still get 5 in before end of Sunday.  Getting off work at eight, home at nine and rolling into a single open-mic at ten seems to be the pattern for now.  I also let a little Read More …

Saturday, July 6th, 2013 Sal’s and Hollywood Hotel I got my first blog compliments from  one friend, on the same day that another friend remarked how time consuming my blog must be, suggesting that maybe it takes away from time better spent writing jokes. Heh.  Admittedly I won’t be posting everyday like I have been, Read More …

Friday, July 5th, 2013, Hollywood Hotel and Sabora y Cultura, Hollywood, LA, CA Show #1 Hollywood Hotel New host. Same bartender.  The host  was Phil, who looks similar to the actor who played Non in Superman II.  The jokes are coming along.  I always take away something from each experience and this show would have Read More …