The season is upon us. My favorite of pagan holidays, Halloween, is just around the corner. And like other holidays that offer a lot of commercialism, but little substance (I’ll leave you to fill in that blank), Halloween comes with its own traditions, especially if you live in or near Salt Lake City. I think […]
Category: comedy
Dueling Cheese and The Riff’s Radio Hour
Dueling Cheese. Sounds like what you’d get if KC and the Sunshine Band opened for the Captain and Tennille at a fondue supper club. On bellbottom jean night. In Cincinnati. With Tony Bennett as a special guest. Although that’d be friggin’ awesome (BTW, if even part of that ever happens, I’m all in), that’s not […]
A Comedy of Errors
As some of you may know, recently I’ve embarked upon a grand experiment in radio with a new comedy/writing partner named Tony Oros, who (among other things) writes the blog The Cover Dog, True Tales of Entertaining the Planet. Tony and I have tested out our bantering “he said/she said” comedy schtick on the radio a […]
My Brush With Playboy
Few people know that way, way back in the day I was asked to pose for Playboy. Um, well. Sort of… When I was in my early 20’s doing standup comedy, a talent scout for Playboy magazine came by the Comedy Store one evening and after a show asked some of the female comics if […]
Mother Bloggers Tackles the Big Questions and Mommy Guilt
Have you had the big talk with your kids yet? And no, I’m not talking about getting them to explain to you how the PS-3 you already own can be used in place of an expensive DVR-blueray player. (Although if you haven’t had that discussion yet, you should. It can save you hundreds of dollars.) […]
Being Cynical Never Felt So Good
Cynical. The word itself sounds so…clinical. Like it’s a quantifiable form of behavior, even though there’s no specific unit of measurement for it. You can’t say, for example, “Wow, that person is so cynically overweight, her cynicism must be all the way up to 300 lbs. She needs to cut back on Fox News or […]
Stick Families on Cars Really Do Exist! (Honest!)
A while back I wrote a hysterical (if I do say so myself) post about people who put those crazy family decals on the back of their cars. You know the ones — stick families that adorn the ass-end of the family truckster depicting everyone who shares your DNA, from Grandma to that weird uncle […]
How to Write an Award Winning Speech
The other day I did a radio interview by phone about all the Toastmasters competitions I’ve done in the last year. Everything was going swimmingly until the interviewer said, “I think what our listeners really want to know is how to write an award winning speech.” I sat there dumbfounded and thought, Come on, does […]
Mommy Bloggers on FirstRun.tv
Remember a while back when I told you I was auditioning for TV show about mommy bloggers? My news came to you by way of a blog post I wrote called My Run at FirstRun.tv, and included that video of my son, Quinn, juggling knives over my head. (That was actually part of my audition.) […]
Toastmasters International Speech Contest (Here I Come!)
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be flying to Orlando to finally participate in the semi-finals for the 2012 Toastmasters International Speech Contest. I started this journey back in March when I won the Toastmasters International Speech Contest at the club level in Park City, Utah, then the Area level (Salt Lake), then Division (upper half of Utah), […]