Wanderlust

So allow me to have a comedy nerd moment: In the middle of working on my 3rd feature length script, I've been doing some sketch writing and discovered a new love/hate for improv. 

Anyways... as always, when I watch a movie, I study/dissect it as a screenwriter. Except recently when I watched "Wanderlust" written by Ken Marino (Wet Hot American Summer). I guess since I didn't expect much out of it, I decided to study it as a sketch writer/improv student just to see what I could come up with. 

I was impressed. Every. Scene. Was. A sketch. And all the sketches (or plots - A plot, B plot, C plot) came together and intertwined like a Harold. Wow. Mind blown. And I actually enjoyed this sleeper comedy.

If you're familiar with improv and the Harold as popularized by Del Close, you get what I'm saying. They even had somewhat of a group game. See video...

Even if you have no idea what I'm talking about but like comedies. Check it out. It's no Anchorman or Old School. But I do think you'll be pleasantly surprised and entertained. And one more video of my favorite scene to entice you...

The MixTape

In between my new ventures in writing and performing live comedy, I have been trying to keep up with my first passion: writing stories and creating weird characters and situations. Hope you're enjoying "Chastity".

Still, comedy is taking most of my time, efforts, and attention. And in no way is that a complaint. I love what I'm doing, I'm loving the new funny people I've grown close to, and where my life is going right now... and have found a deeper love in getting a chance to become some of my own comedic characters along with being weird characters other talented writer-friends of mine have created. 

For the second time in two weeks, I'll get a chance to perform sketch comedy, again. This time with my Nerd Alert crew and our sibling counterparts, the hilarious army known as Absolute Uncertainty. All produced by our wise mentors, The Pushers. Can't wait!

Nerd Alert!

As testimony to convince myself that I haven't been bullshitting on my writing, here's some art from a new sketch comedy and improv troupe I was recruited into, Nerd Alert! Dec. 2 we opened for our friends, Absolute Uncertainty. All of us have in some way been trained or associated with The Pushers Sketch Comedy and Improv troupe or with The Muse Writers Center out of Norfolk, VA. Our show, with a hefty load of inappropriateness and undeniable talent, was a true success...

New Year, New Comedy Adventures

I've taken a lot of last year off from writing to focus more on developing my comedic performance. Aside from sketch writing, I've worked on finding character and motive through improv. And not to sound arrogant, but I feel I have a good footing so far, so early that this may be a breakout year for me. It will also help me write better, more engaging characters and story. I'll keep the laughs coming... after all, it's part of my resolution...

First World Problems 4

First World Problems 4 - watch more funny videos     

Frank Martin

This weekend I had the honor and pleasure of performing with local comedians in a big ass sketch show. We performed sketches written by most of the actors, including myself. Here is our review from Old Dominion University's student newspaper. It appears one of the sketch characters I created was a success...

The Great Big Sketch Show

Posted on 11 October 2012. Tags: Comedy, Pushers, Sketch

The Great Big Sketch Show performed by the students of the Muse Writers Center filled the seats at the Night of the Iguana on Saturday. The students of the 101, 202, and 303 classes prepared over two hours of sketch comedy that portrayed scenes with characters that ranged from sorority girls to rednecks.
A dozen sketch comedians rotated in groups of 2-5 acting out different scenarios. The highlight act of the night was when a character named Frank Martin came onto the stage to do a singing sketch to the beat of Michael Bublé’s “Fever”. The character Martin claimed he had a sex-filled night with a lovely lady, and then all of a sudden he spots her in the audience. He pulls the lucky lady, Lauren, from the crowd up on stage to sing her a song she inspired him to write. The first verse proceeds as normal until the chorus starts and you realize what Martin is actually singing about. “You give me herpes,” sings Martin, as the poor contestant covers her face in shame and laughter.
The show had various characters that appeared in several sketches. The “that’s what she said” guy was placed in many situations where the term “that’s what she said” is deemed inappropriate. It chronicled his life from buying subs, to his father’s colonoscopy, then on to his father’ death.
The show was packed full of sexual innuendos. Many acts dealt with the topics of first dates and being turned on by different types of characters. In the opening sketch, Jane wanted to teach Tarzan to have sex “in the interest of learning”. The masturbation olympics was a sketch played out to be a sports event with live coverage. The three gentlemen dressed in robes and boxers that stepped behind a waist high sheet to compete in the “shoot out”.
During the intermission, members of the Muse Writing Center went around asking for donations to help pay for the classes of those can not. T-shirts and panties were also sold to raise money for the comedy sketch classes.
The show brought laughter to those who paid the $5 cover charge. The closer the sketch was to being rated R the more laughs it received. This comedy community is performing their next show on Oct. 24 at the Funny Bone. It will be a Halloween show, which the Pushers will star in. The Pushers acted as mentors for the students in the 101, 202 and 303 classes.
By: Megan Jefferson
Editor In Chief

Raise the Curtains...

The poster to my very first live performance. You've seen my YouTube sketches, you've read some of my sick nonsense, but now I'm taking my comedy to the stage! This summer, along with attending a seminar by comedy guru Steve Kaplan, I studied under my local comedy heroes, The Pushers. I'll being performing sketches that I wrote, along with sketches other fellow comedy writers wrote...