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TMI: Daily-Week 27 (Sep. 21, 2020)

9/26/2020

It was a pretty good week for me. Again, a bunch of jokes, but re-worded punchlines. When I use the phrase "body count-wise" it wasn't on accident, yet it gets re-worded into a much longer, less clever sentence. Or use a sledge hammer on the RBG line. But, it's nice to vent my frustrations about current events and have an outlet for my snark.

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

TMI: Daily-Week 26 (Sep. 14, 2020)

9/21/2020

The show returned to its normal format, opening jokes and discussion panel. I got in a number of jokes, but with asterisks. The set-ups are mine and the intent of the punch lines, but they were tinkered with. Like the "disgruntled employee" jokes. I wrote, "Boy, this administration sure generates a lot of disgruntled employees." They choose to go with the "gruntled employee" trope. Or the PR aid. My set-up and my punchline mentioned paper towels, so I'm making claim to that joke. A couple of the punchlines got longer; if I put an either/or joke and they extended it to a run of three, (which granted, is the rule of comedy) or a few "really, really well"s after my line ended. It is what it is, so to speak.

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

TMI: Daily-Week 25 (Sep. 7, 2020)

9/14/2020

Had to battle a format change and a new host, as the full TMI: Daily took a break last week and just went forward with the monologue, now christened TMI Daily Wrap Up. I got a couple of re-worked jokes in, but the new guy tried really hard to make it his own. The Oscar joke was edited...the set up was mind, the long winded punch-line wasn't, but the "#OscarsSoWoke" button was mine, so I adjusted it.

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

TMI: Daily-Week 24 (Aug. 31, 2020)

9/7/2020

Another slow week for me, only a few jokes were used. Plus, I forgot to post it after I edited it! I should note that it was a short week (no show Friday), but disappointing. I thought I had a couple of sharp lines but they did get used. Oh well, off to Twitter with them, then!

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

TMI: Daily-Week 23 (Aug. 24, 2020)

8/29/2020

Another slow week for me, only a few jokes were used. To be fair, I wasn't on my game much this week; it was really hard to get my comedy mojo going. I guess 23 weeks of this is wearing me down. I got a couple of decent lines created, but they didn't get used, so I just tweeted them out instead.

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

TMI: Daily-Week 22 (Aug. 17, 2020)

8/24/2020

As August drags on, TMI pulls a personnel switch with a new anchor for the show's opening. Not that I'm knocking myself out trying to write to the anchor's rhythms. Tough week for me, only a few jokes were used. And those re-written. Here's the thing, when I write the joke about Death Valley having it's hottest day ever, I wrote the punch line saying that it was also the "DRYEST" heat ever. I thought that was the joke. But they turned into the standard "but it was a dry heat" line. Oh, well.

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

Sketchy Tales-Still a Barber After all These Years

8/22/2020

This post may spin out into another series of posts, but in the mean time, let me share what happened to me last week...

I got a haircut! There's slightly more to it than that. I went to the hair salon and they brought me in to the available barber, an older gentleman who looked like he's been around enough scalps to handle himself. There was some initial chit-chat about the pandemic, wearing the mask, social distancing. The usual laments about the area stores not being able to open yet and how hard it is for them. Then he adds, "Yeah, somebody oughta smash Cuomo's head with a baseball bat." I got kinda quiet after that. He, however, was on a roll. "Trump's gotta send in the troops to straighten stuff out!" "How can a bartender be a senator?" (I responded, "Well, they say anyone can be president, so I guess anyone can be a senator." I should also note here, she's not a senator, but a Congresswoman.). "The cops' hands are tied! How can the people tie the cops' hands like that?" (They're the people, I didn't respond). "You know how she got to be senator?" (back to her) "She's got all that money." ("Oh," I do respond, "she's one of those rich bartenders...") I mean, I'm not going to argue with the guy. He's cutting my hair! He's got scissors! He's got a razor! I can't even simply nod (did I mention he's cutting my hair?), so I just kept saying "Uh-huh. Uh-huh." He finished up, I paid the inflated price of the haircut and gave him a decent tip for having to work during a pandemic. But I remember thinking, "This should be a skit!" Then I remembered I wrote that skit, like 30 years ago! It was apolitical, but getting a haircut from an angry barber was the premise!

The skit was preformed by the Staten Island comedy group, "Generation Sketch" back in the 90's. They recorded it for the local public access channel. I had uploaded a number of my sketches on Youtube, but I realized as I started to think about this post that I never uploaded the barber sketch! So I had to pull out my VHS tape (google it) and run it through my digital converter and here we are!

I present for the first time in a generation:

Generation Sketch: Still a Barber After All These Years

TMI: Daily-Week 21 (Aug. 10, 2020)

8/16/2020

It's the dog days of August and we're all barking mad. I had a number of jokes make it into the webcasts this week. Jokes were all over the place this week, some days one, some days three. I really don't how many others are submitting and I am creating this in a vacuum, but it a way to dispense some pent-up energy in this unsettled times.

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

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!

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