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hey everyone

I know it has been a while since i posted anything.  To be honest I have been knee deep in performing at festivals for the last three weeks.

Winnipeg was first and very successful for me and the shows I did.  In both cases I wasn’t just the performer on them but also the producer behind the scenes.  The first is the live taping of Anything Goes for Sirius XM.  Almost 180 people crammed into the theatre to watch great sets by Jon Dore Kenny Robinson, George Westerholm, Ryan McMahon and Paul Rabliauskas.  It was also the return of Kathleen Mcgee as one of the hosts of the show and she was the funniest she had ever been on the show.

Many don’t realize that Dave and I do not make any money on our radio show that we do it due to our love of standup and the art form.  So to have so many people come up to us and tell us how much they enjoyed the taping or a few who were fans of the show was great.

That combined with the sellout crowd that Kenny Robinson and I had for our Rank N Vile show was just a double home run.  This proved that the model works..people want to see our kind of depraved acts in a nice venue fora  paying crowd.  If you are interested in booking the show just contact me through the website.

Also listen to CBC Radio One for the Debaters as our eps will be airing sooner then later.  Dave and I argued “if pot becomes legal then the government would be the best dealer.”  I voted pro that statement and never believed a word i said and that is what is great about the debaters. You just have to argue not believe it

Sudbury was just a quick trip back to the city I was married in.  Sold out dirty show with Aaron Berg and a cast of others.  We kicked the fuck out of the town and was on a plane 14hrs later back to the tdot.  Not much to report but I will be back in the fall with Kenny Robinson.

Halifax went smoother then I expected.  Two tv galas went very well for me and now we just have to wait for the shows to come out to prove to everyone in this business that I dont have to be muzzled to be funny.  I can do clean comedy and still be edgy I just dont want to do that live.  I still like saying the words that can get me into trouble live and that is why people still want to see live entertainment.  The first gala went very well for me and here is a link to an article where i was quoted

http://metronews.ca/news/halifax/647190/in-pictures-halifax-getting-its-laugh-on-for-comedy-fest/

MR D: Season 2 of Mr D starts filming in july and there is still no word if I am going back. I had a great time and if it doesn’t happen no hard feelings its just business.  Gerry gave me the role without an audition and that is not normal in my business so I appreciated that big time.  Same goes to Ron James who came on my Xm show and then gave me a role in a sketch on his show.  That is the difference between actors and comics …comics never forget.  So please if you get a chance tune in to both shows and support Canadian comedy.

Finally on to the summer…for most it is the quietest time of year but for me it is time to hit the open mikes and get some new material running through my veins.  So tired of the same monkey dance i have been doing to get ready for the DVD recording which I dont think I am going to release.  Yes you heard me correctly…. maybe I am my own worse enemy but the audience is not that great for it and I made a big mistake filming it where i did.  I am happy with the performance but not the reaction

You want to see it and tell me what you think email me and maybe i will send you a free copy

Goodnight Fuckfaces

Every time after I do a DVD I say to my wife never again.  I cant find blood from this stone anymore.  Then time does something very funny like it always does… that stuff I did two years ago wasnt that good and i know i can do better.

So here we are two months away from me recording my fourth DVD.  It would have happened in September but a vasectomy gone horribly wrong pushed me back by at least six months.  Then incorporating that into the act and dropping my other closer took precedent.

For all three of my past DVD’s I have been 24 hours before laying it down saying “this is not ready …I should have waited another six months”  The reality is nothing will ever be done… when it comes to stories or jokes they always get better but no one wants to see a DVD of better stuff they have already watched.  So now I am old enough to not try and get the monkey off my back but just feed it so it sits still for awhile.

For two months leading up to recording I start to listen to music that inspires me and keeps me focused.  I find that when i listen to music that matters it gives me energy and the drive to stay the course and do material that i want to do.  It is a careful balance sometimes to make sure you dont go to far down the rabbit whole too early in the show.

London March 23rd will be the record date for the DVD.  I have not had a lot of luck in that town to be honest.  From the assault video of the glass from 08 to my last visit where a heckler stops the show asking me about my cancer (clip coming soon) and almost halting the show.

The venue is perfect for filming with great site lines and nice big stage.

Lets just hope it goes well. In the last six months it has not been a good ride and I can feel the monkey kicking me in the neck.

Lots going over the next six months.  You may have noticed my tour page is back online and loaded with dates.

CURSED DVD:

I am currently trying to arrange a dvd recording in London Ontario for March as part of my rank and vile tour with Kenny Robinson.  I recently played there and it is a great venue for filming and I am hoping for a good turnout for my new hour of material that has taken shape over the last 2 years.  I still seem to be able to piss some people off with my comedy although with age I am trying to just be me and less of the so called monster.

Halifax Comedy Festival:

I am now able to confirm that I will be filming two galas for television at the Halifax festival.  April 23-27 I will be there doing various shows.  Halifax has been a good comedy town for me over the years and I look forward to doing what I do in a TV clean environment.

Winnipeg Comedy Festival:

I will also be recording live episodes of my SiriusXM show Anything Goes at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.  I am really looking forward to this as we will be able to bring the joy and awkwardness of the studio into the live environment.  It has been two years since I was there doing the festival and there is word I will be doing some standup as well.  I will post all the dates on the page as I get them.

Well the end of another year and on paper lots happened but the things you are the most proud of will never be known.

Another year of the XM show with over 50 EPS to download on iTunes for your enjoyment.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/anything-goes-on-xm/id418794165

January 7th is the season opener of the Mr D show that i joined for season 2.  The first eps is a big one with special guest star russell peters plus the little angry french teacher (moi).  Keep watching and I hope you enjoy it.  It was a great summer not to have to worry about paying the rent for the first time in years.

Tons of other stuff but if you ask me, what I am the most proud of?  It will always return to my standup.  That is not to discount the other stuff.  I just use a different measuring stick for that vs my standup.

Two years ago something happened in my life which was pretty fucking heavy and it has taken me two long years to put it into the act.  This is not easy stuff to digest and it now represents the last ten minutes of my act.  Two years of taking it …rearranging it…. stripping it down…tightening it up…. punching it up.  The bombing time and time again to try and figure out the beats and the major points.  Sure I can write a TV clean joke that works but means nothing to me. That is paying the rent for me..I get that but for me it is the feeling I get when you put the stuff down that matters…that you have worked hard for.

Many comics do this and for some it seems they just did it for the first time when in fact it has sat in the back of their brain for a long time.  It may seem like a small thing to you but it sure wasnt for me.

I am still trying to record my fourth dvd which was put off due to my vasectomy problems.  Looking at Feb 2013 to lay that down.

Also look for me to return to towns I have not been to in a long long time.  One in particular is Vancouver for the first time in years since being banned from a club where I sold the most merch ever.  Kenny Robinson and I will be bringing Rank And Vile Dirty Tour there in March.

no this is not a picture a crime scene this is the venue we played to a packed house in northern Ontario.  See it ain’t all theaters and soft seaters ..sometimes you have to play the venues where they film silence of the lambs in the basement.

It was another time where after the show you have to say to yourself why is there not crowds like this everywhere.  Both Kenny and I did almost an hour each and killed it.  They enjoyed it and filled their stomachs with booze and dirty thoughts.  How can you have a better xmas then that.

Yeah merry fucking xmas everyone.

I am currently in Kirkland Lake.  It took eight hours to get here through snow and rain.  I have not traveled this far and this long by car since the 90’s.  So I am hoping this audience is appreciative of what we went through to get up here.

It has been a long time since I have had really strong feelings about a show.  One where I know that when you read it you will be like “come on …you are embellishing shit…you changed it to make it look worse”

I wish

I know young comics sometimes read this blog so please stop reading now if you still live in the land of chocolate and love comedy.  Stay in the light ..stay in your happy place

London November 23rd Late Show

This was was going to be my return to a club that I have not played in over four years.  Past owners treated me like a douchbag and felt it was acceptable i was assaulted in their club so i said as long as they owned the club I am not going back.

The comedy club was taken over by new owners so I said sign me up.  I started in London 20 years ago and it is a good comedy town so i wanted to go back.  Other comics had told me the club was nice and that I would like it.  The staff cares about comedy and wants it to work.  Great let me get in there before they die inside, or see the same cheer-leading comic three times celebrate their anniversary at different times of the year.

Friday late show is a terrible show for the most part…this is old territory if you read my blob.  People are tired or pre drunk before the show and just leads to hammer fights for me.

On Thursday and the early Friday show I was a comedy god killing it.  I could do no wrong.  The staff are telling me how great I am and that they had never seen anything like this before blah blah blah.  Now the late show has a smaller crowd but still 90 people which is not bad considering the state of comedy in canada.  So i dig my heels in which you have to do and just get through it.  I am doing like maybe a six of seven out of ten and I have noticed this guy in the front has not laughed once at all during the show.  At one point during an awkward place at around 15 minutes i said to the crowd do you want me to sing KUMBAYA MY LORD is that what you want?

Cut to 25 minutes later I am still doing about the same and I am doing a new bit where I bring up the fact I am not a lucky guy and say “in the last five years i have fought cancer, diabetes, two of my children have had open heart surgery” then I do another chunk in the same bit.  During a moment between bits the guy who has not laughed once during the show yells out

“what kind of cancer did you have” and you can feel the whole show stop on a dime.  Now please understand if this guy was liking the show and was curious about it then i would have just told him and moved on.  I knew he was saying this to fuck the show up.  No one is that socially retarded to do that so I know what he is doing it.

We go back and forth and I make fun of him and then I tell the people in the crowd about my cancer and it gets really quiet and awkward.  I release some of the tension by going after the guy and blaming him but he still keeps it up and feels justified about asking the question.

Then he says ” I didn’t appreciate you bringing up cancer”

Bingo I was right all along…. I knew it..I knew his intentions all along and I am glad I did what I did instead of leaving it alone

Ahh the old I didn’t appreciate something so I am going to make sure the comic knows how I FEEL.

I then lay into him with the standard “he is not everyone in the crowd” cliche and scream some more.  Then it goes quiet and I stare at the audience for a good ten seconds.  You could hear a pin drop…I wait for the right moment and I yell out

KUMBAYA MY LORD…… KUMBAYA

applause break

and scene.

I do another ten minutes and kill..why do i kill cause of the charity of the situation ..I just fought the bad man who tried to hurt me after i had cancer.  The crowd ate it up after that.  I want this guy to come to all of my shows and yell cancer three minutes in.  After the show people tell me it was the greatest thing they ever saw.  One woman grabs my hand and says to me “I have skin cancer too”.  Another girl is a little teary eyed and just says to me “that was … so … moving”.  In the back of my head I am thinking i have to get divorced so i can take advantage of all this charity sad pussy i can get.

I just walk on stage say cancer show my arm and bow. Cue suckjobs

this isnt what I wanted …..

ps: I have it all on tape

So my site is back online and I am now able to update it more often.  For the last year I have been having issues and that has been the reason there has been very few updates.  Things have been very busy, so here is what has happened over the last few months.

I have been doing a lot of tv and other things then standup.  I love standup but I also love to pay the rent and feed the three life forces called children.  Most think that since you came and saw me rock it in front of 14 people i must be rich….sorry to burst that bubble but daddy has to put on the dress and makeup sometimes to get that dollar.

MR D CBC Television Starts Jan 7th 2013:

Over the summer I was in Halifax filming eps  of the second season of Gerry Dee’s TV show.  I play a new character on the show and I cannot say much about it but I am just happy to be involved with such a big talented cast.  I met some new people and just kept to myself for the most part.  Joining a show that is already a success can be a bit hard as everyone already knows each other and are like a family but Gerry went out of his way to make sure I was taken care of.  I appreciate that.  I am in a total of 4-5 eps and lets hope I don’t get cut out of any.

Ron James Show CBC Television Fall 2012:

I filmed an episode of  Ron’s show this last summer.  I wish I could say it was amazing but we filmed out doors on the hottest day with three layers of wool on.  At the end of the day i looked like Chumlee from pawn stars.  The sketch I filmed also had Sean Cullen and Cliff Saunders and look forward to it coming out. I have met Ron a few times over the 20 years doing standup in this country.  I really got to talk to him when he came on my XM radio show and it turned into one of our best interviews.  Make sure you check it out on iTunes (link down below).

The Debaters CBC Radio Winter 2013:

I recently recorded another episode of the hit radio show in beautiful downtown Toronto.  The topic this time was: Did society peak in 1980?  I said no and comedian/Match Game host Darrin Rose said “Oh yes we did”.  I am not allowed to say if I won or lost but if I lost I hope they install metal detectors on season two of your little game show Mr Rose.

Anything Goes XM Radio Laugh Attack 160

Our little radio show that could is still going strong.  We now have over 70 episodes for download on iTunes and we appreciate the listeners.  In the last few months we have had great interviews with some of the bigger names in this thing we called show.  Check it out it is free cunts.  We just dont refund your time.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/anything-goes-on-xm/id418794165

Standup Comedy 2013?

And finally the main reason most of you are here is due to my addiction.  I recently did some touring with a batch of new material that is being shaped into my new standup special.  I did another feature week in toronto and Glen Sumi came out and reviewed the show on twitter and here is what he said:

“Highly recommended.  Stretches (maybe fists?) limits of good/bad taste. But it all works.   At times looks like he’s going to stroke out. Then he’ll whisper menacingly. But the tension & interest never lets up.  He channels anger at various injustices (revisionist history abt the dead) or moronic pop figures (Jersey Shore, Biebs) into perfect rants and has a terrific way of getting us on the side of his most offensive material. Wouldn’t want him on PTA, but fk is he funny.”

There will be lots more touring at the beginning of the year and hopefully a major overhaul of the website.  Kenny Robinson and I are still going strong with the dirtiest standup tour Canada has seen since Maclean and Maclean. All dates on now posted on the tour dates section.

I am also being followed for a feature doc about my standup and show biz life.  In some ways I am being more truthful then I ever was and it will probably piss some people off…but what can I do?  My motto has always been “The truth will set you free or it will be a tight noose around you neck”