Any Night Live!

This week's plug is also my latest addition to the Fosterical Library!

EIGHT SHORT PLAYS THAT SCIENTIFICALLY DISPROVE THE EXISTENCE OF LOVE

Don't let the title tighten your jaw... or maybe, let it!

Get it! Read it! Prove me wrong!

In 2002 I wrote a short play entitled Anonymous, that was performed by Santa Cruz Actors' Theater, as part of their annual Eight Tens At Eight short play festival.

I'd written full-length comic plays before, but it was the first time I'd ever seen what one might call my "stand-up" comedy before an audience – not performed badly by myself in a failed stand-up routine, but by others with way better stage legs – and actually get the laughs that I thought the material deserved!

The experience opened a flood gate. I was about to move to Los Angeles, and delayed myself with a fury of new writing. A small tsunami of sketch comedy flowed, most of it hurried and crappy, but some pieces worth putting aside to incubate.

Anonymous went on to further success, becoming the basis for an experimental film by director/photographer Patrick V. Brown. The film starred myself, and actress Layne Littlepage, who weeks earlier had read it while standing in line with me at an art exhibit in Carmel, and laughed herself to tears. We nearly upstaged the art. She knew Patrick, and thus, the ball was set rolling.

So here at long last, is the cream of that 2002 crop of frenzied funny, now honed by years of over-thoughtful revision – usually during bouts of distraction between larger projects.

WHAT ARE MY OTHER COMEDY CHOPS, YOU ASK?

Well, I made up for years of bad stand-up by winning the Aristocrats Joke Contest, sponsored by ThinkFilm and the producers of the documentary The Aristocrats, starring over 100 top comedians whom must all now grudgingly accept me among their ranks anyway. My winning entry is a special feature on the DVD.

To get back to the book... I've made it as inexpensive as the publisher will allow, for the sake of theatrical groups with low-to-no budgets. It's available in e-book format for those who just want to drop their Kindles or Nooks with a belly-laugh.

You can just read it in paperback too, but dropping a paperback book isn't nearly as epic.

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