Holy cow, I am tired.  I just arrived at the hotel in Johnson City, TN.  I think I am either going to crash for a bunch of hours or go to Perkins, get some breakfast and work on some material for my Thursday show at Marquette.  I am very excited for this show.  When I was at Marquette, I was such a madman.  I wrote and produced a show 2 months after putting on a completely different show!  Both almost an hour.  Granted, it was a bit more amatuer, but they were huge successes!  I had a blast and people had fun.  I sort of feel quite a bit of pressure for this next one.  This next one will be my 6th major show at Marquette.  I am really excited for it, though.  It will be interesting because pretty much every one that knew me when I did them has graduated.  I think a lot of the show is being advertised targeting the Studio 013 Refugees audience as they are opening the show.  Then my 4th favorite friend, Conor Sterbenz, is doing some stand up before I go up.  It should be a fun show.  I know it will just be a blast.  Those show really are spoilers because the Marquette crowds are so awesome.  I am excited to do a lot of polished tested material, but even more excited to come up with and use totally new stuff.  I hope the place fills up.  I guess we’ll see.  I hear it is being advertised really well so that is exciting.

It has been a strange week for me as I have received a lot of great news comedy career-wise this week, but I also found out that a friend of mine passed away Saturday.  I really don’t know what to say about it still.  I still feel like it hasn’t hit me.  Cheryl was very close with some of my best friends and I had just talked to her not too long ago.  She was a great person, she will be missed by so many people, and she is definitely in a better place.

    Another late night entry here.  First off, let me apologize to anyone that has signed the old guestbook.  As many of you may have seen, it was destroyed and vandalized by pharmaceutical companies and all their spam junk.  So I invite you to sign my new guest book again… unless you are President Roosevelt or Chuck Norris or someone of that caliber.  (wink, wink)  I don’t even know why I wrote that.  I wrote “wink wink” before even thinking about it and it doesn’t really make any sense.  Oh, well.  Well, I am pleased to announce that I feel I have got quite a batch of fresh material.  This weekend in Chicago hanging out with all my best friends is quite the catalyst for good brainstorming resulting in hilarity!  So if you haven’t seen me in a while… come on out and catch a show.  I will try to be making it out to the Comedy on Broadway hosted by Tony B Miller shows on Thursdays at 9:30 in Milwaukee when I can, but I actually think I am gonna be on the road the next couple of them.  Dangit.  I do love performing there.  It’s also just great to see all my comic buddies.

If any of you are reading this from Chicago, I would like to endorse the Diner Grill.  I am not sure where it is, but if you are intoxicated and really want to feel a sense of accomplishment, go here!  They have an entree called “The Slinger.”  If you can finish and clean your whole plate, you get a certificate (a very official looking certificate, I might add) that you can frame and put up on your wall proving to anyone that comes to your house that you have absolutely no respect for your health or well-being.  It is a big ole plate filled with hash browns, then they put two hamburger patties on it, they have onions on it, then they put two eggs on the burgers, then they dump chili all over the whole thing.  I don’t know how it sounds, but I can tell you that it TASTES delicious!!  I ate mine so fast!  A few of my pals were unable to man it up and finish it.  A big shout out to Mike who put it down, after being pretty much ridiculed for coming so close but not finishing it.  He DID finish it, and then proceded to throw it up right outside the doors of the establishment.  Its funny, his pile of puke looked a lot like my Slinger before I had eaten it.  Anyway, congrats to Mike!  I would like to dish out some shame to both Conor and Gip for NOT completely ruining their insides by eating a whole Slinger.  Conor, you were SOOO very close.  I just don’t understand.  Actually, I began to slowly understand as I was sitting on the toilet for the 5th time this afternoon.

Also, a BIG huge plug and endorsement for George Street Productions!  I needed new headshots in a pinch and they came through and I am very happy with them.  I think my site will be update soon to reflect the new shot.  I have added them to my links page.  If you ever need anything videotaped, professionally edited, photographed, or you want a free copy machine that is not bolted down or kept in a secure area, I recommend them!  Simon says Take a Shit.

    I only put that it is the 17th because it is almost 2 in the morning.  I had a great show tonight at the Lincoln Lodge.  There is a lot of talent down in Chicago.  I must say that I do love performing at the Lincoln Lodge.  It is always fun, and just different enough to stand out.  Thank you to Courtney, Jen, and John for coming out to see me out there.  I could hear you guys laughing throughout the whole set and it made it that much more fun.  So thank YOU guys!!  Loooove!  Alright, I am all packed up and ready for a fun weekend getaway in Chicago.  I will be at the Lincoln Lodge again tomorrow(well, today really) and then Saturday I am at Pressure in Chicago.  Should be fun.

I really need to get new headshots.  If you have seen me lately or have seen my myspace pictures (www.myspace.com/johnnycomic) or anything, you know that I do not look anything like that picture at the top right of this website anymore.  I am working on it!  I really am.  I am hoping to have some new ones done soon.  Anyway, I guess I should leave you with some helpful advice before I head off to bed.  Or at least some words of wisdom.  Oh, I’ve got it.  Don’t see Elizabethtown.  That movie is dumb as shit.  Good night!

I get irritated when I am driving somewhere and I catch every single red light… unless I am driving to church.  Then I seem to be very accepting of my luck with the traffic lights.  Normally I fly through every yellow light I see.  This morning on my way to church, however, I found myself slamming on my brakes and pretty much backing up through traffic just to sit at red lights so that I could minimize my time at church.  That’s pretty pathetic.  I should feel bad, but I think the main reason I always try to be a little late to church is because at the church I go to, before it starts, they tell everyone to “introduce yourself to those around you.”  I just always find that very uncomfortable.  I don’t know these people, they don’t know me.  We believe in the same things, but other than that, we don’t really care to get to know each other.  I try to be a religious and a good nice wholesome Catholic, but it sure is hard to pay attention in church.  This morning, I was in mass, just sitting there, trying super hard to pay attention and pray and stay focused.  No more than 3 minutes later I realize that my mind had wandered and I found myself thinking, “Do the girls on Girls Gone Wild have to sign a release??”  Today was special day of the year where the churches talk about stewardship, which is when they ask for money.  I always have a hard time giving money even though I know I should.  My family tells me that its a sign of faith.  Its a way of saying that you trust that God will take care of you.  Makes sense to me.  So anyway, today I had some cash because I got paid last night so I gave a little something.  I always feel weird.  I feel like I am tipping God.  And if I don’t give a lot, am I implying that I didn’t care much for the “service” lately?  I don’t know.  I will tell you this, though:  My faith was boosted today because I gave some money at church, and afterwards, I went grocery shopping.  The cashier was scanning all my stuff and when I he swiped the milk over the scanner, it didn’t go, “bloop!” like it should, but he was on the phone with a manager or something so he didn’t notice.  I get out to my car, look at the receipt and the milk never got rung up!  I was like, “God, you didn’t have to do that.  Thanks, man!”    I want to thank Jesse at Giggles, as well as Mark Kolo and John Yoder for featuring me at Giggles this weekend.  I featured 3 shows last night at Giggles in Germantown, WI.  It was a blast.  It was myself, Brian Noonan headlining, and my best bud, Tyler Kroll.  It was such a perfect night last night.  I didn’t drive, (thank you, Julia) I got to feature, and just had a blast.  I threw a picture up on the media page.  I have worked with Brian Noonan, I think 4 or 5 times now.  I think we have unintentionally become a comedy duo.

Also, I would like to mention that tamiflu is one of the crappiest things in the world.  I hate it and it doesn’t work at all.  If you are thinking about getting tamiflu, think again!!!  It is sucky and you are wasting your money.  Also, I think the following people are bad people: Nancy Anderson, Patricia Green, and Richard Martinez.  Do not trust these bad people.  Thank you.  Actually, I am just trying to counter-attack the effects these people have had on my guest book.  It is very annoying to find that now people are spamming stand up comics’ websites!!  Do they really think that people looking for cheap medicine are scanning my guest book for suggestions??  Oh, technology…

Well, today was a fantastic day.  First of all, I thought of an awesome movie plot today while I was at work.  Secondly, I got to feature at Giggles in Germantown, which was a treat.  I usually mc there cause it is so close and I can get in there a lot more often if I mc… which is great!  Anyway, it was just cool.  Okay so here is my movie plot, and do NOT steal my idea.  Okay, here it is:  It’s a story of friendship.  There’s a little boy and a little girl and they make a promise together when they are young that if both of them are not married by the time they are 30, they will marry each other.  It’s adorable.  So time goes by, the years pass.  The two grow slowly apart.  They begin to just live separate lives and eventually lose touch for the most part.  They turn 27, they turn 28, they turn 29.  Just before his 30th birthday, the guy reads in the paper that there was a horrible accident and he recognizes the name of the girl in the accident.  It’s her!  He reads on in the article to find out that she survived, but that her face was pretty much ripped off and when they were trying to fix it and give her a new face, her body rejected every type of human skin… except for foreskins!  So the rest of the movie is pretty much about this guy really quickly trying to get married so he doesn’t have to marry this lady with a penis-face.

    There really is nothing more rewarding than realizing that over the last 24 hours, you haven’t moved from your couch.  I think I am going to reward myself for having such a productive day by eating an entire Red Baron deep dish pizza all by myself.  I not only watched probably close to 9 hours of LOST season one, but I also watched a bit of that big football game that was on.  I think it is neat how they have some of the football helmets mic-ed for when they are in a huddle, but I must say I was rather disappointed at what the people with the mic-ed helmets had to say.  I entertained my lonely self by muting the tv and doing my own voice over at the huddle shots.  “Guys, good job on that last play.  Man, that was cool!  Timmy, did you see how far I threw the football.  Man, there was a second right before I got tackled where I thought, ‘Man, it sure would be funny if I just turned around and threw this ball the other way to nobody.’ but then I didn’t.  Ready, break!”   The commercials were kinda funny.  I still like that snickers bald guy commercial more than anything.  I am also curious to see what people thought of the halftime show.  At the risk of being unpopular, I must admit that its not a good sign when halfway through the halftime show, I start flipping channels and stop on another station playing a boring car commercial that I have already seen just because I am that uninterested.  What do I think would make a great halftime show, you ask?!?  Two words: Wayne Brady!

Oh, I would like to personally thank every single person that came to our Gentlemen’s Hour show on Friday night.  What a success!!  Thank so much everyone.   That was a great night.  I apologize to those of you who came that I didn’t get to say hi to afterward.  We had to do a quick clean up and some of you had left before I got out.  Thank you, thank you!  That night was so fun.  It was a great first show for us.  We are looking to have another one probably in a couple of months.  We will keep you all posted for sure.  It was quite the learning experience as well.  I learned that I suck.  “Have you two ever heard of a little place called…………. Chippewa County??”  I was actually a lot more nervous before that show than I had been in a while.  It was such a rush, though.  We cannot wait to get another show out there.  We are brainstorming and writing right now hoping to raise the bar for our shows!

It sure is fun getting drunk, but doing it too many nights in a row sure can be draining.  I got a wee bit drunk after the show with all my friends, then last night went to a surprise party for my friend, Courtney.  Holy cow, was she surprised.  It’s pretty scary when you shout, “SUUURPISE!!!” and then watch your good friend fall down the stairs in shock!  Ha, that didn’t actually happen, thank God, but it was close.  Anyway, congrats, Courtney on your new house and your MBA, honkey!

Well tonight was awesome! I headlined in Poplar Grove, IL at Chubby Rain House of Tunes. It was great. I went up there with Ben Kissel, great Milwaukee comic. It was a lot of fun. I am having a pretty good week, I think its safe to say. I had a succesful headlining show and tomorrow we have our first solo full Gentlemens Hour sketch show. I am pretty excited. Not much else to report. I have just been busy like a bee lately. It is pretty late so I am just going to crash now. I will try to update more detailed soon.