Ongoing Series — 2025 / 2026
One year. Every open mic, road gig, late-night drive, awkward post-show conversation, and real moment in between. Documented as it happens — no script, no retrospective polish.
Comedy is mostly invisible. The audience sees the set. They don't see the 40-minute drive to a Tuesday open mic where four people are eating nachos. They don't see the notebook, the half-formed bit, the version that almost worked.
A Year in the Life of a Comic is a document of all of it. The material, the process, the road, and the strange specific reality of trying to be funny for a living.
New dispatches, clips, and journal entries go up weekly. Follow along — or subscribe and let it come to you.
Dispatches from the Road
A year-long document of stand-up life seemed like a good idea in November. In January, standing in the parking lot of a Tuesday open mic, I had some new thoughts about that decision.
Read the DispatchIt's exactly what it sounds like. The mic was taped to a salsa jar. The bit worked anyway, which is somehow more confusing.
Watch the ClipNot the panic — everyone knows about the panic. The part that comes after, where you're still in the room and you have to decide what to do with your face for the next four minutes.
Read the DispatchThree months in, something clicked. Here's the set, and here's what was happening in the notebook for the six weeks before it.
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