I defer to the Generation X for any and all commentary about Prince, but I do have a story I’d like to share if you have a few minutes to read it. One night at the Hot Broth Comedy Open Mic in Arlington Virginia (probably 2010; let’s go with that), Ahmed Vallejos asked me and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Throwback
THOR!!! the Musical (Evan Valentine)
Here’s a brief history for you all, explaining what the hell it is you just watched (or the still with the big YouTube play button in the middle of it you’re seeing). In 2007, The Champions recorded this as an audio play in Joe Gonzales’ basement somewhere in Montgomery County, MD. The Champions staged “THOR!!!” … Continue reading
The First Ten Years
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the first time I stepped onstage as a stand-up comic. Granted, I had done a couple of what would fit the description of stand-up sets at highly supervised coffeehouse-type open mics in college, but those were just me dicking around in the context of the sketch comedy troupe I was … Continue reading
On David Letterman
I’m well aware that David Letterman did his final show the other night, thereby rending this entry useless to most anybody whose opinion I don’t care about. Did that make sense to you? Whether or not it did, feel free to read on. The comedy community on the internet has been celebrating the career of … Continue reading
From the Ben Irving Archives
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My Problem with “Home Alone”
I dread the day when we hit a collective era when there’ s no longer any movie we ALL saw. Fortunately, most everybody reading this was either eager to drag their parents to see “Home Alone” when it first came out, or is one of those parents who was forced to bring their kid to … Continue reading
Star Wars Rant
I decided impulsively to throw in a VHS I recently picked up of the 1992 still yet-to-be-fucked-with edition of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, or as it was known for pretty much the entire pre-Prequel era, “Star Wars.” For all intents and purposes, this was the same grainy, shitty, quintessentially late-1970s masterpiece that … Continue reading
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