After five years of working on the book on and off, rigorous rewrites, edits and scrubbing for typos, #Travesty, my eleventh book of humor, is almost ready! It clocks in at a respectable 204 pages and it’s going to retail at $19.99. Above, you’ll see the gorgeous wraparound cover with art by Mark McElligott and fonts William Dyson II. I’m really excited about this book. I’ve put a lot of myself into this book. I can’t wait to share it with all of you, but not yet. It’ll be ready this fall from Doubt It Publishing!
This was an episode I looked forward to taping for a very long time. I saw Heather’s standup back in September (see below) and, from talking to her on and off, knew she’d be a lot of fun in the studio. She’s a natural comedienne, she’s funny, off-the-cuff and incredibly clever. After two co-host hopefuls dropped out, I tapped Brian Bogucki at the last minute and it turned out that he had a Buffalo Comedy connection! Six degrees of Buffalo, indeed. We all had a great rapport right off the bat before the cameras started rolling. Some shows are painful to watch afterwards and this wasn’t one of them. I thought the pacing was great, the jokes were organic and the conversation just flowed. I wish every comic was this ‘on’ when they came on. There’s a lot more coming down the pike, too. In the mean time though, see for yourself:
Thanks to Heather, Brian, and of course producer Richard Wicka for allowing all this insanity in his home every single month. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! #BigWordsVideo will return in roughly two weeks with Rochester director Charlie Simmons!
Comedienne Heather Stack is self-assured, conversational, and yes, really funny on stage. Since she was originally booked for #BigWordsVideo back in October of 2015, I met her out at her open mic at The Tudor Lounge the month before to shoot some footage. What follows is her opening set as well as a bonus bumper clip between other comics. As Heather (and Tyrone Maclin) have explained to me, one of the host’s duties while running an open mic for other comics is not to run too long. It was fortunate that Heather got a good opening set in before an evening of other great comics. See for yourself:
big words i know by heart 
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