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TMI: Daily-Week 20 (Aug. 3, 2020)

8/10/2020

August is off to a good start, if you consider 20 weeks in quarantine, insane unemployment and wack-a-do government policy good. But I had a number of jokes make it into the webcasts this week. Getting the last day of video was weird. It wouldn't let me download Friday's show, saying it wasn't available. So, I took a screen cap and recorded the audio with a wire from the speaker to the audio app.

Anyway, you can watch TMI: Daily on Facebook, weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time) or catch it as a podcast. Enjoy!

TMI: Daily-Week 19 (Jul 27, 2020)

8/2/2020

July is winding down and for no good reason, it's August. Nineteen weeks is a lot of weeks. It was a decent week, starting off slow, even getting passed over on one day, and then suddenly, bam, 3 jokes in one day. Still frustrating to have set-ups used, but not the actual joke. It's been a busy week on other fronts, so, getting to watch the show live has been impossible. 9PM is not an optimal time for me on the east coast.

Anyway, you can watch TMI: Daily on Facebook, weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time) or catch it as a podcast. Enjoy!

TMI: Daily-Week 18 (Jul 20, 2020)

7/25/2020

Eighteen weeks is a lot of weeks. It was an okay week, I got several jokes in, but I noticed a lot of my premises were used, verbatim, but a totally different punchline was written. It's rough doing joke writing remotely and 3 time zones away. There's no comparing notes, not riffing, no back and forth, just a blind submission and a hope for the best. I get rewrites I do, and when the logic of my punchline is maintain, I'm counting it as mine, like the Trump/convention/school bit. My punchline was comparing the cancelled convention to wondering if they'll just hold the convention at a public school, since we keep hearing how safe they are. The logic was maintained, so it's mine. My punchline to the vote to oust Confederate statues out of Congress's lobby was "to make room for more lobbyists," which took the joke in a different (and I hope, unexpected) direction. Instead it got turned into the present punchline, which now that I check, is closer in tone and logic to the punchline I submitted the previous day, for a similar joke about the same vote.

That's what I'm seeing, the punchlines are getting longer and more convoluted and preachy and singularity more anti-Trump. Which, as I learned from my days at Newsbusted, is going to kill the comedy. It's a bit frustrating, so I'm glad I get to hash it out here.

Anyway, you can watch TMI: Daily on Facebook, weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time) or catch it as a podcast. Enjoy!

Barely Home Companion: Season Finale! (7/7/01)

7/21/2020

From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell "prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things...

It was the season finale so I decided to go all in and do a parody of season finales. Right off the bat, it was a tough sell, GK wasn't much of a TV guy, and that's what I was selling. I have vague recollections of using it for Style Without Substance. Which came first? I don't recall and I didn't make a note of it. It has a Style feel to it, using the whole cast, the silliness, the meta aspect. Obviously, it wasn't PHC enough, 'cause it didn't get picked.

Season Finale! 7/7/01

TMI: Daily-Week 17 (Jul 13, 2020)

7/19/2020

I had a pretty good week on TMI: Daily, even with missing a day (I didn't submit for Friday's show). I hope you enjoy! Want to see more? You can find TMI: Hollywood on their Facebook page! Check it out! Now in prime time, starting the webcast at 6pm Hollywood time! And they're posting it all as a podcast on Apple and elsewhere, so show us some bud-love!

Barely Home Companion: St. Paul Weight Loss Program (7/7/01)

7/15/2020

From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell "prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things...

The 2000-01 season was finishing up and this was my last shot before the summer. I had done weight-loss parodies before and I think the idea just grew around the phrase "cramming food into my pie hole." I don't know what I was thinking. It's kinda rude, there were a number of typos and I should have had the woman say at the end, "Wait, what?" Don't even know if "Wait, what?" was a thing back then. It's one of those (now) comedy clams that people throw in everywhere, but I really like it, because it comes with a sense of befuddlement. Anyways, they didn't take it, so here it is...

St. Paul Weight Loss Program

TMI: Daily-Week 16 (Jul 06, 2020)

7/11/2020

It was a slower week on TMI: Daily, in addition to being a short week because of the July 4th holiday, with no show on Monday. But it's strong stuff, and they used some of my set-ups, but not the punchlines, so close but no COVID. I hope you enjoy! Want to see more? You can find TMI: Hollywood on their Facebook page! Check it out! Now in prime time, starting the webcast at 6pm Hollywood time! And they're posting it all as a podcast on Apple and elsewhere, so show us some bud-love.!

Halloween in July Sale!

7/9/2020

It's #HalloweenInJuly! Ok, not a thing, but my book "Halloweenies" is #free! on #Kindle this week! Beat the #Halloween rush and get your copy today! Halloweenies, the story of a kid’s quest for the perfect costume and everything that gets in his way! Here's the link: Halloweenies

And since #ChristmasInJuly is a thing, let's do this, too! We need a little #Christmas! Nick Flebber's first adventure, "Lost Claus" is now on sale for 99 cents on #Kindle! Leaping Yule logs! Santa's missing! Now what? Find out in "Lost Claus!"

Barely Home Companion: What are ya, Stupid? (6/2001)

7/9/2020

From 1999 to 2004-ish, I was one of the contributing writers for Garrison Keillor's renowned radio show "A Prairie Companion." I learned a lot of things there, mostly how to spell "prairie." It was a solid gig and I'm proud of my work there. But, like any other job, there were...things...

Here's one of those bits I had forgotten about. The show's season was winding down and I was pretty much putting every pet peeve of mine into a sketch. It didn't get picked, and I can't argue the point. It's a weird, angry little bit...

What are ya, Stupid?

A Face for Podcast: TMI: Daily

7/8/2020

Well, the gang at TMI: Hollywood and their quarantine creation, TMI: Daily have turned their FB live stream into a podcast! Now you can listen to my contributions to the show instead of looking at them! Just head on over to TMI:Daily Podcast!

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