Yesterday, I was asked to join a really impressive lineup of talent to tape two segments of Niecy Nash’s “Let’s Talk About Love” at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.  I laughed my face off as we discussed “First Date Do’s and Don’ts“ and answered the question, “You Know It’s Over When…?“.  This hilarious and outrageous group taught me that I haven’t heard it all.

Back Row: Trish Suhr (Clean House), Dante (B.E.T., Last Comic Standing), Niecy Nash (Leave It To Niecy, Clean House, Reno 911!), Alysia Wood (Let’s Talk About Love), Gary “G-Thang” Johnson (Disaster Movie, The Shield, The League)

Front Row: Cedric Yarbrough (Reno 911! The Boondocks, Curb your Enthusiasm), Amy Anderson (Comedy Central, Showtime), Rebekah Kochan (Eating Out, horror movies, InAPPropriate Comedy),  Kerri Kenney (Reno 911!, Role Models, The State)

A huge thanks to everyone for an awesome experience.

I’m kicking it off with PUNK HOUSE, one of my favorite shows to do in LA.  Here’s more info.  Also, trust me, you wanna give yourself a few extra minutes to park and find the venue. No free tix.

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With Memorial Day just around the corner, lots of people have barbecue on their minds, but on TUESDAY, MAY 22nd, we’ve got your recipe for awesome! Take equal parts Melinda Hill, Tom Sibley, Marianne Sierk, Patrick Keane, Alysia Wood, and Dax Jordan; a headliner sized portion of Robert Buscemi, and just enough Dr. David Robinson to host. Add one (1) enthusiastic audience, plenty of drinks and 1/2 priced appetizers, and you’ve got yourself one hell of a comedy show! Oh, and did I mention it’s FREE?!?!
Grab a heapin’ helpin’ of our rad hilarity!
As always, NO COVER, 1/2 priced appetizers & FREE parking
15% off food and drinks with your KCRW Fringe Benefits Card!
9PM – Michael’s Bar & Grill 2825 W. Olive

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This show brings something different to the mix – Burlesque! – which I’m a huge fan of.  It’s a really solid lineup and I have UNLIMITED FREE TIX!  Contact me through this website’s contact form to get on my guest list.

This concept absolutely terrifies the shit out of me but I’ll be improvising a set – no previous jokes allowed  – and it should be fun. I’d encourage you to check out their website and facebook page because this show is fantastic!  It has frequent celebrity drop ins and it DOES sell out so get your tickets now…

Finally, the show below will stream live on the internet so it would be SO delightful to have audience there.  Also, I only have ONE free ticket for the show below… email me through this website before May 30th to get it!

USA

• ALBANY, OR.  990 AM
• AUSTIN, TX 102.7 FM
• DALLAS, TX   1700 AM
• GRAND RAPIDS, MI 1410 AM
• KANSAS CITY   102.5 FM
• NORFOLK, VA  WTAR-AM 850
• PHOENIX, AZ  97.3 FM
• RALEIGH, NC  570 AM
• RIVERSIDE CA.   KFNY 1440
• SANTA ROSA, CA  95.5 FM
• PRESQUE ISLE, ME (P.T.)

Canada

• LONDON, ONT.   1410 AM
• OTTAWA, ONT  CJOT  (P.T.)
• TORONTO CFRB 1010 AM

Don’t live in one of these cities?  No problem, you can always listen to 24/7 Comedy online, on your phone or on iTunes.

This week we welcome special guest co-host comedian Alysia Wood. Listen as we discuss comedy, movies, and lots of other amazing tangents including… a brain is a noodle, genetically Texan, shark infested waters, Louisiana, do we have to be nice to people?, draining all your spinal fluid, on Codine for three weeks, Magnolia, and now there’s mice, Seattle, collecting all the phones, potato soup with rubber chunks, bargain dental work, Louisville, explaining how jokes work, doing meth with a medical background?, Los Angeles, wearing a bulletproof vest, drinking eight glasses of water, Hot for Teacher, making fun of mom, jumping qualities of education, there’s a lot of ellipsis, fat ugly or gay, Lewis and Clark, Jaws, ballet, Verizon suits, love comedy… hate jokes, laughing at the poet, a TSA training video, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, vibrating and punching you in the crotch, dying of lung cancer, spoofing bad 70’s action flicks, Bar-B-Q, a women’s health care provider, Arachnophobia, studying comedy, Botox, Dangerous, ADD, jump scares, riches to rags, racist in the name of Jesus, necessary awkward silence, Draw Something, shady deals, jumping from the balcony, boys picking on girls, a deeper layer of honesty, failing Spanish,do not tell your mother, hitting the Blockbuster, ziplining, Mad Max, come out of the closet or get plastic surgery, planning for debt, a nuclear thunder clap, attempting to move to New York, cocksucker was not on the list, you ruin everything, pity laugh, Cracker Jack modeling, Mitch Hedberg, Netflix, Hopatcong New Jersey, street jokes, you’re just a hooker, Titanic, and I never started it… but I’ll fucking finish it!

“Neurosis is definitely a big piece of the puzzle.”

Plus look for Alysia’s CD “Princess” available on iTunes, Amazon and many other outlets. Just go to http://princesswood.com for links to her album, upcoming tour dates, and that fancy multi-tiered mailing list.

I joined Moshe Kasher, who recently wrote a book, Kasher in the Rye.

Since I can’t seem to go 24 hours without an embarrassing incident, a piece of my lung flew out and landed Moshe’s book.  This lead to me (literally) coughing up the $25 to buy it and you should, too.

Check Moshe out on his book/standup tour.

Towards the end of the show, we were joined by Josh Springer, who invented the Bottoms Up beer delivery system.

If you haven’t seen this, it’s CRAZY (video below).

It was nice to see a fellow Washington community college drop out madly in love with their job and on the way to being a future GAZILLIONAIRE.

It was a super fun morning.  After the show, Moshe and I had lunch with Josh and learned that he has enough stories to fill a book as well.

Thanks to the Bob and Tom show for sharing their listeners me with!

You can hear the entire episode at bobandtom.com!

“Princess is an excellent stand-up comedy CD”

– TheSeriousComedySite

(My favorite… from a listener on Amazon)

“Alysia Wood’s comedic material stems almost entirely from her own disfunction, which – thankfully for us – appears to be bottomless. She fearlessly digs around in the depths of her own psyche and puts it all on display with hilarious results. Her jokes are sharp and merciless – there’s no hidden sentimentality dragging things down. Just good old wicked fun.”

- Andrew

“And lo, a new voice was heard in the darkness”

– Comedy-Reviews.com

“She uses her voice like a lion tamer uses a whip: there are times she’ll crack it sharply in the air to drive a point home or punctuate a punchline. Other times she’ll unspool it in serpentine loops to let it rise and fall to convey cartoonish absurdity.”

– AmericasComedy.com

“brilliant turns of acting… it comes across realistically even without the benefit of seeing her on stage.”

- TheSpitTake.com

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Behind the Scenes Photos

Here’s me with Su – from beginning to end Su did everything on earth to make sure my segment went smoothly – she even reviewed my material online so that when i showed up with questions, she already had the answer! She was on the ball, warm and a delight to talk to about weird/ugly nail polish trends backstage. In more ways than one, Su was a life saver.

This is Margaret Lawson, host of the show. Even with an army of people behind the scenes make the show a well-oiled machine (there were two actors from the color purple, an army of acupuncturists and spa employees, Dr. Cora from Children’s hospital, 4 models and their designer all backstage waiting for their segment) somehow when they say “cut”, Margaret manages it all, making sure you know that this will be fun, she’s so glad you stopped by and then guides you through the segment without any practice or missteps. I don’t know how she does it!

Here, with Margaret and I, is one of my best friends, Virginia, who also graciously stepped in as my event coordinator for the media blitz and CD release.  I couldn’t have done any of it without Virginia.

I’ve known Virginia since before I started comedy (and you should never work with your best friends but we pulled it off primarily due to her ability to ignore me when I was on 3 hours of sleep for days on end and acting like a jerk). Throughout the media blitz, Virginia was my driver, hair dresser, cook, therapist, publicist, punching bag (have you ever tried to talk some sense into a crazy person?) and all around “handler”. She even opened her home for the makeup artist, helped me pick out outfits, bought my mailing envelopes for people that couldn’t attend, woke me up and put me to bed.

That doesn’t include all of the time and effort she put into the release parties themselves.

She also worked with the venues to make sure the logistics were perfect, with LaughStub to make sure the box office would run smoothly, bought and set up all of the decorations, managed staff at the venues, created awesome gift bags on a nonexistent budget (complete with Jiffy Lube coupons and Get Out of Jail Free cards!), awesome playlists for preshow/parties, put me in a tiara and made sure I had time to be a gracious host at the after parties… making sure I had a few minutes to talk to everyone that showed up like Max, Shelley and Sun!

Most of these photos are by Gerry Collen and Randy Sparks, two awesome photographers that contributed their talent to the night.

Virginia also made sure I jumped in the photo booth with another one of my best friends, Katrin, who I barely got to talk to all night!

Since she’s been doing this for fun for years, I’m really excited to see where her OFFICIAL career as an event coordinator takes her – she’s already an amazing force to be reckoned with (did I mention she was a mom and a student during this, too?).

There are more photos on my FB group page here.

My cousin, Travis, was awesome enough to get a Facebook ad!

A huge thank you to Virginia Bacon, Stand up! Records, Julie Seabaugh of BTN PR, Duncan the makeup artist, my family, friends, podcasters, Woodstalkers, comedians (Nigel Larson, Eric Hurst, Jen Seaman), Ian Rans who made the awesome posters, the KISS FM staff and listeners, NWCZ radio, New Day on KING 5, Photographers Randy Sparks and Gerry Collen, Weekly Volcano, Tacoma New Tribune, LaughStub and the CD reviewers for making my CD release an amazing experience.

I’m sure I am forgetting a ton of people… just know that I love you all!

Princess is available for preorder on amazon (and itunes, but amazon is cheaper and sells physical copies).

Soon you can also buy signed copies for $15 through this site which includes the HIDDEN TRACK of me having an ADD-related brain seizure for 6 or 7 minutes while audience tries desperately to refocus me.

I’m gearing up for the CD release shows in Tacoma on Monday at Stonegate and Seattle at Jewelbox Tuesday.  I’ll be hanging out at the after parties, too!  You can also reserve a signed copy of the CD for another $10 with your tickets there.

A huge thanks to the local media that has been so supportive – especially KISS 106.1 FM, The Stranger, A New Day NW on KING 5 (NBC), Weekly Volcano and of course, NWCZ Radio. Look for interviews with them on Monday and Tuesday…

My appearance on A New Day Northwest (wanna be in the live studio audience? Details here) will air Tuesday, 3/20 at 11 AM.

I hope to see you there and appreciate your support in making everything happen!

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