I was born and raised in the ironically-named town of Hopedale, Massachusetts. I started performing stand-up comedy at the age of 17, three short weeks out of high school. As a performer, I was too young to be any good. As a person, I was socially...Read on
I got mugged about six months ago. The oddest thing about the entire situation, though, was that I wasn't afraid, which is strange because basically I experience my life through two primary emotions: fear and suppressed fear.
I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here -- I'll get it, I'll make it.'
I don't believe in them because it's always the same circumstances, the same type of people, the same situations. It's never a black guy; it's never a Hispanic guy; it's never a physicist from the Netherlands -- it's always some dumb white f**k in the middle of nowhere.
My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney...