@SweepTheLeg your story about getting the poster signed by Jim Gaffigan helped to remind me, I am stalling again. In February of 2010 I did 3 minutes at an open mic. (well less than 3, but it felt like an hour.) I did well enough, I was invited to come back and do 5-10 min on one of the off nights, (Wen, Thur.) later that month. I put it off a couple of times, and then when I was ready to slam it one Thursday, they didn't have a spot. Then life happened, and the owner Tommy, ( super cool dude), said he would just leave it open-ended, if they had a spot, I could do it when I was ready. Well I have been thinking I'm close to ready, so about 2 months ago I sent a message to a comic who is an inspirational person, (kind, caring, generous man.) Louie Anderson. I had just watched a recent bit of his in which he talks about getting old, comedy still improving, but eyes going the other way. The field in which you can send a message to Louie from his web page put everything in caps. This is how the exchange went.
Hi Louie, My name is Eric and I have just turned 50. I live in the S.F. Bay Area and was invited to do 5 minuets of stand up at Tommy T's in PLEASANTON CA. about 3 years ago. I am going to do it, bomb or kill, I can't stand not to. I just wanted to tell you, that you have been an INSPIRATION to me. Oh, and if you were not aware, your "contact louie" SOFTWARE here insist that i yell at you? I understand, the hearing goes right after the eyes, - looking forward to that. 
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Congrats Eric!! I'm proud of you! Let me know how it goes!
Peace, Love &
Happiness
Louie
Yea, sorta warm and fuzzy. :mrgreen:
@MissChaos, I too fell most of my favorites have been mentioned, but not all. I would add Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, and I also think, Louis Black, and Ron White are very funny, and there are others. OK I guess I have a lot of favorites, which sorta fucks up the whole idea of favorites hu.
And I am so very thrilled you took the time to check out Tim Minchin. You can't ever really expect someone to check out your un-solicited gift comic. a lot of times you might not be in the mood right then, and you forget to go back to it. Or with Minchin, if it is his early stuff when he used to wear a lot of eye make up, some ppl are put off by that and they never get past it. But hearing you dig him is so cool. I'll leave you with this, - it took me like 6 months to be able to follow this song word for word from start to finish. I never had so much trouble with anything Emiem. (try it and let me know if it is just me or what.)
