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In March I got to perform at a splendid event in NY, put together by Kelly Carlin and Tony Hendra to honor the memory of George Carlin. It was a huge thing for me, a moment of odd, personal closure. It was a beautiful and touching evening. I was thrilled to have been a part of it. And here, attached, is the part of it that I was.

A few months ago I performed TRUE ROMANCE at Alan Olifson’s Word Play at the FAKE GALLERY in Hollywood.

I suspect this piece, in a new incarnation, will wind up being the final track on my next CD, recording this fall for winter release.

A few months ago, I had the tremendous honor of being asked to perform at the New York Public Library’s tribute to George Carlin.  The evening was extraordinary and now the video is up on line.  I urge you to watch the whole thing.

Click to see the NYPL Live Tribute to George Carlin hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, the video is available HERE

In case you want to skip ahead to particular segments or performers, here’s a quick rundown (I’ve done recommendations in orange of a few of my favorite segments from the show if you’re looking to hit the high points):

Paul Holdengraber opens the show

5:10 or so Whoopi takes the stage

8:00 Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara take the stage and they bring Ben and Amy up a bit later at about 17:30

23:34 Lewis Lapham takes the stage and reads an extraordinary essay about George  (WATCH THIS SEGMENT)

30:11 Whoopi brings up the very funny Kevin Smith

41:15 Kevin brings me up (If you jump right to my segment, stick with it until Whoopi comes back to the stage, ’cause she does a really sweet callback to my story)

51:00 Whoopi Brings Kelly Carlin and Tony Hendra to the stage.  Kelly talks about her father’s love of words and then they read from BRAIN DROPPINGS

57:50 Kelly leaves Tony to speak about George and to plug his book and talk about the process of writing it

1:00:33 Patrick Carlin takes the stage and talks about the sense of his brother’s presence, their relationship and the like and to read from the book

1:07:40 Kelly takes the stage to read a wonderful story of life as George’s Daughter (WATCH THIS SEGMENT)

1:16:50 Floyd Abrams takes the stage to speak about the first amendment, George Carlin’s effect on the law and the dangers of censorship

1:34:30 Kelly introduces Louis CK who does an incredible set that is less funny than he has been asked to make it and much better than it would have been had he complied.  (WATCH THIS SEGMENT)

In December I was thrilled to perform in Wendy Hammers’ (Jersey Girl Productions) holiday-themed Tasty Words show.

I closed the show with two pieces.  Each has its own clip below.

The first is, I believe, my first ever video recording of Xenophobia and The Jewish Druid.  That alone is worth the price of admission to this blog post.  No?

SEGMENT ONE

SEGMENT TWO

In December of ‘08 I went to the Sit ‘n’ Spin Christmas show.  Barbara Romen and Paul Provenza introduced me to the producers and brought be to the after-show party and opened the door to performance with the Sit ‘n’ Spin crowd at the Comedy Central Stage.  I’ve done the show several times now and was very pleased, this year, to be part of the Christmas show my own self.  Here’s the piece I did for your viewing pleasure.  Spencer Green of the Huffington Post described the piece as “Bob Newhart meets Bill Hicks.” I couldn’t be happier about that.

I wrote a piece last week to do at the MOTH.  The assigned topic was “Disguises.”  Because of the way MOTH shows are structured, I didn’t get to perform that night.  I worked the piece a bit more and had the opportunity to do it last night at John Fugelsang’s Comedy Nation show.  Here’s that performance.

A couple of weeks ago I read my story “Arc” at Sit n Spin at the Comedy Central Stage.  This is the piece where I talk about immortality, Dustin Hoffdog, the matted mutt who never died and my brief and encouraging interaction with George Carlin.  Kelly Carlin-McCall, George’s daughter also read a story that night and her story was also about her father.  That gave my reading an extra sort of resonance for me, a connection to Kelly’s piece.  It felt a little bit like it made up for the time years ago when I offended Kitty Bruce.

Here’s the performance:

Here’s video of the first public presentation of the new piece.  Story Salon, last week.

This is the first video recording ever made of Much Better, Thank You.  A whole different performance of this piece shows up as the last track on the CD TRUE ENOUGH, available now from Amazon.com.

We, the imaginary staff and the make-believe offices of Dylan Brody are working as hard and as fast as we can to get the show digitized, titled and uploaded.  Here’s Segment #2.  Following a brief transitional segment, Mr. Brody gets right down to work telling the story of THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST MUGGING.