As I said previously, I spent a good bit of time figuring out what Kenyans found funny and realizing it wasn’t me. You can read more about that in previous posts. So I had to put together a new set and, just as importantly, find a new style. For example, I wrote a joke about how …
Comics here, by and large, don’t know the name “Jerry Seinfied” (but maybe it sounds familiar). You can imagine, then, that greats like Brian Regan and Mitch Hedberg don’t ring any bell at all. Most have heard of Chris Rock and Steve Harvey, some of Russell Peters. But, in essence, they describe these comics as …
As I’ve already gotten to share with some of you, the new set I wrote for a Kenyan audience went well; and I look forward to telling the story of how it all aired on [inter]national television! In the meantime, though, I still want to document the process of getting together that set — in …
I have been working with a Nairobi comedian to get a set together. As we go through the hour-long tape I have, we are slowly discovering that absolutely none of it translates to a Kenyan audience. The conversations we have are fascinating, and involve comments like, “That would work if you relate it to …
A few tax tips. Actually just one really bad tax tip.
I still plan to update my blog regularly, but, now that we’re on the back end of our journey, I’m spending more time plotting my return to comedy in America, working on a one-man show and standup comedy bits. Like this gem (excerpt only): In the early morning of January 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons …
I really miss this right now: There’s something special about hearing people laugh involuntary at something that didn’t exist until you made it. It’s one of the best feelings in world. Sometimes people laugh so hard they apologize for not being able to stop. It’s the most senseless apology ever: ”I’m sorry for …