New funny!

Nu-Metal Band Namez

A quickie, not super-polished, but fun-ish.

Civil War Baby!

Check out the new post over at the "fun" blog:

Unsung Heroes of the Civil War

Come Get Your Rock On

At Troy Sterling's Air Guitar Madness!

I will be dressed as a wizard.

What if I Was Making an Awesome Video In a Butthole?

My buddy Marc Kennedy (the guy in the sweater) made this video. Watch it! Spread it around! Love him!

Joe Stanton: The October 4 Stand-Up Show

Come see it. I'll try to post a video of it if I can get someone to film it. If not, well, it'll be quirky. Work from there.

Things That Are Exciting

1. The mustache I had for a few minutes on Saturday:



You'll note that I didn't wear it in public, but shaved it off immediately. Can you imagine playing a ComedySportz for Kidzzz show (or being alive and a member of society) in that thing?

2. The fact that, after a three-week hiatus, I'll be back playing Deep in the Blue Season 2 with The Durham Three.

3. The list of five "must read science fiction books" I'm compiling for Monica. It currently only has one set member: Gateway, by Frederick Pohl.

4. Comedy. I'm working on more stand up, I have a few other peripheral projects floating around, and I'll be playing in the D.S.I. CageMatch Dual Duel on September 13:



You should be there. John Loftin and I are playing together in Extraordinary Rendition. We previewed our show last night and it went really well.

Joe Stanton: The Stand-Up Show

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Last night I did stand-up for the first time. I thought it went pretty well: I used fortune cookies and I had a list of jokes with "THESE ARE MY JOKES" written on the back. This is a picture of me looking at a Martha Stewart holiday magazine* with her dressed as a "Glampire" on the cover. I didn't do a proper "joke" about it, I just wanted to show it to the audience. I spent seven bucks on that bit, and it actually worked out kind of well.

It was, firstly and foremost-ly, great fun, and I can't wait to do it again.

*A Halloween issue, thank god, and not Christmas.

Dan Savage Thinks I'm Gay

I wrote a letter into Savage Love and Dan Savage printed it! I unfortunately didn't feel the need to clarify that I'm not gay*, so he assumed I was (the letter was about the Larry Craig brouhaha). Other than that, he gave a typically hilarious and incisive answer to my question.

Read it here (I'm CASH).
*I swear!

Come see my shows,

please.

Aug. 25, 9:30 PM: Match Game

Sept. 6, 8:00 PM: Stand Up

Sept. 8, 5:00 and 7:30 PM: Comedy Sportzzz

Sept. 13, 8:00 PM: Cage Match Dual Duel, performing with John Loftin in the two-man sextravaganza that is Extraordinary Rendition.

Sept. 22, 7:30 PM: Comedy Sportzzz

I will also be doing some performing during 24Live in the last weekend in September, but I don't know in which shows. I know that the Harold team I am on will be debuting, so that's cool.

Can You Do A Crazy CIA Agent Voice?

Watch this video, by Carrboro expatriate and funny man Nick Faber:

Joe Stanton: The Show

If you can, come see me perform on the following days:

-July 19, 8:00 PM: My team, 1,2,3, Ingestion, will be playing during the improv jam.

-July 21, 9:30 PM:

I am hosting, as Phil Mitchum.

-August 4, 5:00 PM:

I won't be mad if you grown-ups don't come to this one.

-August 18, 7:30 PM: Regular ComedySportz.

I Mean, I Know That I've Always Wanted to Stab Austin

You guys should check out this short by my friend and co-worker Nick Faber, a funny guy. I'm going to guess that most of you have already seen it, but hey.