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Performing in Romania – Part 1
Earlier this year, I stepped off a plane for my shows in Bucharest, Romania, more excited than I’d been in years. Not only because the 6 year old behind me had been using my headrest for football...
View ArticleEpisode 3 – Teo from Romania
Following up the previous blog post, we have an interview with Teo, owner of the 99 Club in Bucharest and one of the founding fathers of Romanian stand-up. Enjoy!
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Performing in Romania – Part 2
Rain poured down from the gray skies of Bucharest. I pulled my coat closer and stepped on the train, wondering what I might find at my family’s ancestral home in Transylvania. Okay, I just wanted to...
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Performing in Romania – Part 3: Swearing and trying to leave
Part 2 ended at a train station, where I waited in a line of 10 people for 30 minutes and missed my train while the ticket salesperson entered each transaction in several communist-looking registries...
View ArticleEgypt moves to arrest its Jon Stewart
The government of Mohamed Morsi is moving to arrest one of its prominent critics – Bassem Youssef, a former doctor and now television personality who models his show after the Daily Show, which you may...
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Staying Hungary
Sometimes when I am working in Europe, I get the chance to perform someplace where people don’t speak English. It’s better than it sounds. English is a close second to Love as the universal language,...
View ArticleAgitating for housing, not against tech, is the solution to San Francisco’s...
Housing prices in San Francisco are insane, and it’s become a large problem. Yet the root cause is that San Francisco is great, and one of the side effects is that people want to move there. As...
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