Ellen Degeneres is just an awesome comedian. I loved her way before she hit the mainstream…. I loved her stand up comedy on HBO. Big funny.
And she still rocks. Likable. Funny. Smart. Clean. Awesome comedian.
Her website is cool too. : )

I got a note from a lawyer and a minister who are writing about the hurricanes that hit Lousiana and Mississippi. Turns out that they are as intersted as I am with humor in difficult (or even impossible times.)
Check out this exerpt:

Amongst all this, people have kept their sense of humor. It is a [...]

Magic Unlimited with Ellis & Webster
Roll’em roll’em roll’em…
Penguin Magic are currently holding a contest to see if they can find the world’s fastest coin roller.
If you think you can do a coin roll more than 40 times in one minute, you’re in for a chance and Penguin will fly you to Las Vegas to do [...]

One of my mentors was Orville Meyer. As a young magician in Nebraska, he had to WORK to learn tricks. He traded tricks with others by mail, did his best to figure tricks out for himself, and worked hard to meet other magicians travelling through Nebraska. Magic secrets for Orville were treasures [...]

Well, not exactly. I was recently in the audience at the Comedy Works to see a a few Colorado comedians. It was an excellent show.
I had a huge “ah ha” moment when watching the opening comic. I learned from him that sometimes the set up can get a bigger reaction [...]

Yet I love magic. Good magic is more about good magicians than good tricks…. Read this excerpt from a great post by Steve Pellegrino:
“If you do the Linking Rings, you are doing what 90% of all the other magicians are doing - in the audience’s eyes. Once you take the rings out, people [...]

Amber Fry was the mistres of Scott Peterson, the man who murdered his wife and son.
So guess who is America’s newest motivational speaker? Yup, that same Amber Fry.
I’m almost sure that my job as a motivational speaker is safe.
Thanks to Bradon Staggs [...]

Newsweek has a really interesting article about comedian Lenny Bruce by Brian Braiker:
“If a comic gets onstage and tells his audience “I am not a comedian,” he’d better say something important—or really damn funny. Lenny Bruce—the hepcat who took his act from L.A. strip clubs to Carnegie Hall, redefining stand-up in the process—did both. Now, [...]

Just saw a young comedian named Josh Blue. He bills himself as the man who puts the cerebral in Cerebral Palsy. He headlined Denver Colorado’s comedy club, the Comedy Works and did an excellent job.
He is practically the poster child for self-depreciating humor. I bet 90% of his jokes were [...]

This is cool. Funny motivational speaker (and pal) Joseph Mitchelli is writing a book about Starbucks….
…. free coffee - and a free book- if you have a story about Starbucks.
Go here: www.starbucksstories.com
Joseph is a good guy… this book will ROCK!