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A week from tonight!

Considering military service is not mandatory, how does barring people who want to serve from doing so make our nation safer? I’m an Army vet and I’m ashamed of this decision.

I feel the same way about Valentine’s Day as I did about the inauguration: “I guess I have to hear about this sh*t all day.”

Did I just happen to casually mention to the attractive woman at the smoothie shop where I’m killing time that I’m a professional comedian and doing a show next door tonight? I don’t know. I might have. Maybe. What? WHAT??

“Did you wake up this morning and choose violence?” Not exactly…

Tonight!! www.clearwatercomedyclub.com/event-detail...

At Cafe Hey this morning ME: I’d like a Cafe Gulf of Americano, please. S. Cheong Choi: Do you want that black or…? ME: No, I want it red, white and blue! S. Cheong Choi: … Oh, what a jolly time to be alive!

What’s nice is getting positive feedback from a booker BEFORE a gig.

Remember when renaming French Fries as “Freedom Fries” was the dumbest thing we thought we’d ever see?

Panera Bread has an automated kiosk for ordering and they send you a text when it’s time to come pick up your food. At no point did I come close to interacting with a human being. Nice of the kiosk to give me the option of leaving a 20% tip though, I guess.

Don’t give up hope. There are more of “us” than there are of “them”. (5/5)

Except it illustrates that us regular, everyday people, who have differences and nothing to gain from seeing each other struggle, are still out here and not hesitating to help each other. (4/5)

Wow. What an enthralling, big, fat nothingburger of a story, right? Yep. (3/5)

I speak no Spanish and went up to a lady who spoke no English and through pointing and hand gestures, I was able to ask her for a cup of detergent. She gladly gave it to me and politely refused my offer of a dollar, which is what it would have cost me at the vending machine. (2/5)

I hope this makes you feel a little better… I just got home from my local West Tampa laundromat, where I had loaded my clothes into a machine, only to find out the vending machine had no soap. Uh oh. (1/5)

If the NFL was rigged, they would have come up with a Super Bowl matchup that wasn’t so unappealing to so many people. Also, neither New York team would be as bad as they both are.

Tickets on sale now! www.clearwatercomedyclub.com/event-detail...

If you’ve never pulled over to stop and write down a joke you just thought of, I’m going to assume you’re not committed to being a comedian.

I’m not sure they have big enough, or enough at all, tables in there for this task…

Somewhere along the way, “keep your nose to the grindstone” turned into “F those people”.

I believe that the reason things are the way they are is because people from my generation (the tail end of the boomers) glorified a perverted sense of ambition and not being satisfied with “enough”. Gluttonous excess and greed weren’t sins to avoid, they were character traits to emulate.

Saturday night, a bunch of comedians in Orlando that I’ve never even met are going to criticize my efforts to not die alone. Whhyyy?? (Because: comedy) www.eventbrite.com/e/swipe-left...

Wednesday’s tragic midair collision should have inspired national mourning. It inspired Trump to blame and criticize Buttigieg Obama, Biden, the mentally ill, amputees and dwarves. This is America’s “leader”.

Trump takes a stand and officially condemns mid-air collisions. They’re NOT good. It doesn’t matter what you learned in college; they are NOT good!

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I didn’t think it would happen, but I just found out late last night that “Stop Freaking Out” will be part of the 2025 Tampa International Fringe Festival! It will be my seventh Fringe/Whinge show. More info like dates, times, ticket info and what the show even is will be coming soon.

Tonight, we ruin tomorrow. www.facebook.com/share/19SUhP...

7:30. $5

“If only there was a way to know what that sign says…”

Of course Trump demands an apology after being asked to show mercy.

I think this is the best flyer I’ve ever been on. It looks like it’s for a movie (SPOILER: it’s not a movie)

Thursday night in Clearwater (I won’t be wearing that sweater)…

It was a Nazi salute. I guess you could put peanut butter and jelly on two pieces of bread and say you were trying to make egg salad, but it doesn’t change what you actually did.

Movies in the 80s taught me that villains and bullies are just something to be defeated in order to bring the story to a satisfying conclusion.

Try and guess who’s a late addition to this show tonight, for which there are tickets still available. Go ahead. Try. thecommodore.fourthwalltickets.com/shows/wigs-a...

Ladies and gentlemen, WE HAVE RETURNED!!! tampanewsforce.com

Once again, I’m doing some stand-up in the nicest alley you’ve ever seen this Friday! www.tampasdowntown.com/events/copy-...

Me, just asking for someone to respond, “ok boomer”…

Somebody might look at this and ask, “how do those people manage to be civil with one another in such close quarters?” I don’t know. How do the actors who play characters in movies manage to be civil with one another when they’re not performing from a script for a story they’re being paid to tell?

RIP President Carter and thank you for your service.