I was actually against making this poster at first. Then I realized, I’m not Chinese, I wouldn’t be offended at all. So I went with it. Nick Brown is an interesting character and pulling from this joke was a no-brainer. It was the most visual one I could come up with. You’ve got to come to the open mic to get a chance to see what this joke is all about. And the other reason you may want to come: This may be my very last performance in Savannah EVER!

the costuming was stolen from Gene Yang’s stereotypically Chinese caricature Chin-Kee, from the book American Born Chinese. Yang is an important voice in the Asian-American comics community, and I just had to take his lead with the costume.

Next comedy show! February 10th, ya’ll!

Over break, Josh and I got to catch Louis CK’s latest special, Hilarious. We were absolutely thrilled and it’s definitely as good as his last special, Chewed Up. He’s our favorite stand-up comedian and we can’t get enough of him. Even when he put on his FX show, “Louie”, we had to catch every episode and not only love the stand-up portions, but also the darkly humorous sketches.

I’ve gone through a bunch of the regular comedians and have drawn them all. I’m holding off on drawing some of the newbies because I’m not sure how regularly they will be coming. I don’t want to draw a comedian who won’t show up when he or she is featured on the flier. So here’s my cop out, drawing the other regulars hangin’ out with the fat sack of shit who should suck a bag of dicks, Louis CK. Click to view it larger! The show starts at 8PM, Thursday January 13th.

Ahh, another open mic at the Sentient Bean. As fun as it is to perform in other venues, I always feel at home when I’m at my favorite coffee shop. Thanks to all who came out on Monday night for the Night of Stand Up, hosted by my pal Chris Davison. I just killed, had a blast, and now we’ve found another place in Savannah that is great for comedy (and we found out how to set the stage in a great way, too!).

This month is a rarity for my posters. I’ve drawn myself! I’ve held out long enough, and now I’m done a self-portrait and a joke of my own. I do impressions of Christopher Walken and Gilbert Gottfried at one point, and sometimes I get huge laughs. And I felt so compelled to do the poster in the style of theme-park caricature portraits. It turned out to look like a Three Stooges poster. Now, I’ve been able to impersonate Walken since I started doing comedy. Everyone has a version of him in them. But Gilbert Gottfried was a much more interesting discovery. Whenever I’m drawing, and I’m not listening to music or a podcast, I start to talk to myself. Many times, in different voices. During the Christmas break in 2008, I was drawing and being a crazy person, and Gilbert Gottfried started talking to me. I was working way into the night at my parents’ house, and as I had to stop myself from yelling in that voice. But I was going crazy with this discovery! I HAD to keep going with the voice, tinkering it out in detail. I’d jump onto YouTube and found his clips and jokes to tell in his voice. By the time I had perfected it, my parents were in my room telling me to go to bed. And as I laid there in the dark (with the sun just about to rise), I knew I had to debut it at the next comedy show.

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