#comedy bar

Hi everyone, i don’t really post about myself on here anymore but I thought I would because this gd blog has become like a scrapbook for myself over the past like, 6 or 8 years or something ridiculous like that!! My name is Sam and I do comedy. In that photo I’m backstage at one of my very own shows. The show is all about positive comedy because I’m always trying to be positive.

My day job is writing. I write for film and TV, but lately my main gig has been writing Descriptive Video for TV shows and movies (for blind people!)

I love dogs and cats EQUALLY. I love Kate McKinnon and also every single female comedian with a couple of male exceptions. 

Fresh straight from the bed: comedy bar!

In that dream... I found employment at a bar and restaurant joint (of all places, considering my somewhat antisocial nature) with someone I had known for a time (we're not actually friends. Just an acquaintance. I thought of him as too "high-falutin" or "high-brow" for me, but he was all right). Eventually, I became his business partner. He handled most of the affairs and transactions while I supervised the upkeep of the bar and the kitchen. When I suggested to him that we needed to "renovate" our establishment into a comedy bar, he said it was a "good idea". So I started to create posters, signages and advertisements around the restaurant. I even made huge and bold paper cut-out letters and pasted them on the wall of our dirty kitchen: JOB INTERVIEW OF STAND-UP COMEDIANS (MAY 18-24) [I even checked the calendar at the kitchen door before posting the date]. The kitchen actually was adjacent to the office. In one of the restaurant's vacant daytime hours (it opens during the evening), I dropped by, lagging my own laptop. I sat down at one of the unused tables and turned on the lappy. I decided to post an online advertisement calling for a stand-up comedian. But first I had to discuss it with my boss, who was also online at that time (by the way, I was weirded out by the chat application's "prediction/dictionary on" feature. Kumbaga, parang yung sa cellphone pag nagta-type ka. Oddly, I didn't get to turn it off). This is the "excerpt" of our chat: Him: anong main requirement sa applicant? Me: kahit ndi college grad, basta mgaling magpatawa. Him: ok gud Me: pero kung deboto siyang mag-anak, ok din Him: Debotong mag-anak?!? Him: population control tayo :)) I didn't get what he meant at first. But later on I realized my mistake (even in that dream, I'm still absent-minded) Me: i mean, kung deboto pa rin siyang mag-aral! Kung hindi college grad, pero gusto pa rin ipagpatuloy studies niya... Him: un! Un pala wat u mean :)) But I figured, we've found what we were looking for. Hahaha. XD

Originally posted: May 13, 2011 8:07:49 am on Facebook Notes

Saturday night and another great line-up of comedy, this time at the Comedy Bar on the Danforth, near Victoria Park. It was nearly a full house for the second night of the brand new Danforth Comedy Festival and I was thrilled to be introduced to headliner Nathan Macintosh who blew the roof off the place! First off, MC Azfar Ali (below) warmed up the already pumped crowd, spritzing with several…

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Tomorrow night at Toronto’s Comedy Bar 9PM I have the pleasure of hosting for the incredible Josh Gondelman. Get your ticket now because they WILL sell out. 

Josh Gondelman is a comedian and writer on HBO'S Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His talent for smushing words together earned him work writing for Fuse TV's Funny Or Die Presents: Billy On The Street, and then got him his position as Web Producer for Season 1 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he wrote and managed digital content for The Daily Show alum's HBO show.

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