January 2012
4 posts
David Bowie in Rolling Stone
This is my favorite part of the article on David Bowie in Rolling Stone.
“…..customs officers detained Bowie at the Russian-Polish border in April 1976, and seized a collection of Nazi memorabilia. When an assistant later criticized him for his interest, Bowie grew infuriated. “Fuck you,” he said. “I changed the world! Kiss my arse” - then he broke down and...
What I Would Have Said About Eddie Brill on NPR
**I wrote this last night but was shy about publishing it. But I feel good about it today. Please forgive any grammar or spelling errors. I’m not the best editor. ** - Jen Kirkman
I was supposed to talk to the Larry Mantle show on NPR this week. They wanted to talk to me about the recent “scandal” with Eddie Brill – the comedian and booker for The Late Show with David Letterman. I...
August 2011
1 post
Shows This Week! Stories! Stand-up!
Hey everyone! Wanted to let you know about some shows I’m doing this week. If you live in Los Angeles, I more than HIGHLY recommend “Story Worthy Live!”
Thursday, August 11th @ 7:30pm
“Story Worthy” Live! The show where comedians tell stories, get interviewed and it turns into a podcast for your enjoyment later! I’ll be talking about my 8th grade heartbreak...
June 2011
1 post
This Week with Jen Kirkman! (6/19 - 6/26)
***This is a copy of my weekly email I send out. To get on my email list - send a message with the word ‘subscribe’ in the subject heading to jenkirkman.show.updates at gmail.com**********
Hello everyone! Forgive me for being lazy with my promised every Sunday updates - I know - who really gives a shit? But I’m working on some stuff that takes away from doing live shows a...
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
3 posts
February 2011
2 posts
You People Are Like Wrangling Ants
I get tons of Tweets saying “I didn’t know you were in my city! I missed the show!” I’ve had an email list for YEARS that you MUST join. I send updates EVERY SUNDAY and you’ll always know in advance where I’ll be. SO DO IT. Write “subscribe” send to jenkirkman.show.updates at gmail.com
OR
JOIN MY FACEBOOK “LIKE” PAGE and look in...
"It's Who You Know"
Maybe this will be helpful - maybe it won’t. Maybe it will just resonate with people who have received emails like this. I hope I don’t come off sounding like a jerk - I can’t control how you take this, but I’ll try to be compassionate in this blog.
I know that show business is hard to break in to. But I want anyone who isn’t in it - who wants in, to understand...
January 2011
17 posts
US WEAK-LY
Thanks to my Twitter pal @mesorandy for posting this.
You know, I am outraged that Elton and his partner have a kid - but only because Elton is 62 and should give his kid a chance in hell of actually having a living father around but he IS quite wealthy so at least his kid won’t be burdened with his elderly dad’s hospice bill once he gets out of college.
Anyway - Arkansas has ANOTHER...
Jen Kirkman performing in NYC SAT JAN 15th!
If you guys want to come see me FOR FREE perform in NYC - this Saturday night, Jan 15th on the John Oliver Stand-Up Show (being taped for Comedy Central) go to www.theblacklistnyc.com/johnoliver select “Show 2” & in pull down box put my name as a reference. Pass this on!!
Good Morning. Peace Be With You.
These are the nuts that come out when innocent people die. They plan to protest the funerals of the kids killed in Arizona.
Honestly, must WE ALL get to have free speech? (Pithy question. Please, you don’t have to answer.)
Here’s a copy of their press release:
Westboro Baptist Church(WBC Chronicles — Since 1955) 3701 S.W. 12th St. Topeka, Ks. 66604 785-273-0325 ...
Jen K. enthusiasts in NYC! I'm There Jan 15th!
I AM REPOSTING THIS MYSELF! I’m Performing For Free & On TV in NYC Next Weekend. Come!
I will be performing on the late show, Saturday January 15th, 2011 on a live TV taping (for Comedy Central) of John Oliver’s New York Stand-up Special. He’s the host.
All you have to do to get FREE TICKETS is go to this website and then do what I say:
http://www.theblacklistnyc.com/johnoliver
...
Generality Two
Great post Snappy! Great story too. Inspiring.
I hope everyone is ready Snappy Kyle’s blogs. He’s a good dude with a conservative bent. We - I won’t even say disagree. We just have very clear ideas of our own.
Anyway - moving on thought I’d address something I saw on TV tonight re: the handouts that we’ve all been tricked into seeing SS and healthcare as: I just...
I'm Performing For Free & On TV in NYC Next...
I will be performing on the late show, Saturday January 15th, 2011 on a live TV taping (for Comedy Central) of John Oliver’s New York Stand-up Special. He’s the host.
All you have to do to get FREE TICKETS is go to this website and then do what I say:
http://www.theblacklistnyc.com/johnoliver
Click on “any show” but then in the drop down list indicate that the performer...
Generality
This is for my blog friend Snappy Kyle and other Republican friends of mine.
I do not generalize re: Republicans. Or I do but I’m generalizing about Boehner and those in lock step with his ideals.
The people that voted the new crop of R’s in to the house felt that they were doing so because they want America’s economy running again because Obama ruined it.
I do agree that...
In The First Day
GOP vows to undo what little of a healthcare plan we have (WITH NO PLAN OF THEIR OWN that isn’t just a giveaway to insurance companies)…they vow to roll state aid back to pre-stimulus levels cutting programs like EDUCATION, MEDICAID and TRANSPORTATION. They also vow to block environmental reform.
YOU voted for these people because you are fooled into thinking they are for your best...
Hypocrite Watch. Episode #1
WASHINGTON — Two House Republicans have cast votes as members of the 112th Congress, but were not sworn in on Wednesday, a violation of the Constitution on the same day that the GOP had the document read from the podium.
The Republicans, incumbent Pete Sessions of Texas and freshman Mike Fitzpatrick, missed the swearing in because they were at a fundraiser in the Capitol Visitors Center....
HEY DOUBTERS, I TOLD YOU! (re: John Edwards...
I FUCKING CALLED IT. I said when Elizabeth died a few weeks ago…how long until John Edwards proposes to Rielle? I thought it would take less than 2 months. I WAS RIGHT. Boo to all of you who said my comment was in poor taste. Blame the man in poor taste. Not the semi-intuitive messenger. (me)
...
They Don't Really Care About Us - Inmate Style →
Holy shit. Moved to tears on this one. This is way more epic than when these guys did “Thriller.” I know I’m a year late on finding this video. THAT many people dancing in exact time in slow motion…incredible!
Dancing will save all of our souls! (Except Natalie Portman’s soul - hers will be punished for her terrible ballet technique in Black Swan. Phooey.)
Be good...
Vampire News
I know you kids like that Twilight stuff so I thought I’d stay relevant and re-post some vampire news.
After retreating from the Washington fray after getting a new heart pump in July, former vice president Dick Cheney is resuming something of his normal routine: hunting, socializing, and headlining events for Republican politicians. His doctors say the new heart pump, which assists his...
Sherri Shepherd Engaged
My favorite line from the press release re: Sherri Shepherd’s engagement. “in the middle of a dish of Sherri’s favorite but forbidden M&M’s (she is diabetic), was a tiny little box,” the statement says. (Honey, although it appears I’m trying to kill you, I’m really asking you to spend the rest of your life with me. If you eat one of those candies,...
Thanks!
Hey - leading off this thanks is thanks to Snappy Kyle for the reblog of my meat post.
I wish had made more specific that I know not much of hunting and people who personally hunt to get their meat. My personal vegetarianism (worst album title) is to not participate in the meat industry - the fast food joints that deforest, the conditions the animals are in at slaughterhouses (not so much for...
Meatheads
Some of the comments in this article bum me out. I hate this macho attitude towards meat. And I hate this attitude that singers and other artists should shut up and not be political or socio-political. I’m sorry but most people I know who perform, it goes hand in hand with a deep compassion and need to serve. Especially people who earn so much - they want to give back. I don’t see...
I'm In That 60%! Everyone Should Participate in...
NEW YORK: Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.
President Barack Obama last month signed into law a two-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for millions of Americans, including the wealthiest, in a compromise with Republicans.
Republicans, who this week take control of the...
December 2010
22 posts
Watch“How To Build a Fire with Ron Kirkman”.
STEP 4 - How to light the fire.
Watch“How To Build a Fire with Ron Kirkman”.
STEP 3 - Proper placement of logs
Watch“How To Build a Fire with Ron Kirkman”.
STEP 2 - Starter Sticks
WatchIt’s my dad’s 72nd birthday today - and one of his favorite things to do is build himself a fire at my sister’s house. In honor of him I will post a series of videos I made - he starts acting really weird - as he explains “How To Build a Fire with Ron Kirkman”.
STEP 1 - Proper clothes & proper newspaper placement.
Shit MY Dad Says
“He said he was gonna post them today. When is that guy from Kiki Books* gonna release that UFO stuff?” - Ron Kirkman
* That’s what he thinks Wiki Leaks is called
WatchThe first snowfall of the blizzard - live (from three hours ago) from Stow, Massachusetts.
Don't Ask Don't Get Married
My husband just wrote this on his Twitter and to that I say, “Here, here!” (It’s not “hear, hear”, right?)
@neilmahoney “Fuck yeah DADT! Now you can fight and die for a country that doesn’t recognize your right to love one another. #touchofgrey #peedonparade”
I saw Obama do his press conference today. He’s so wrong I want to jump inside my...
Watch
WatchI know you cool kids & grown-ups don’t believe in Santa. “How can he fly all over the world in one night with reindeer” blah blah and all your logical arguments. But he appeared at the “Kirkman Christmas” party tonight. AND I GOT IT ON VIDEO right before he left. So - proof is in the pudding - which is this video. Sorry, doubters. Can’t disprove this.
WatchI know you cool kids & grown-ups don’t believe in Santa. “How can he fly all over the world in one night with reindeer” blah blah and all your logical arguments. But he appeared at the “Kirkman Christmas” party tonight. AND I GOT IT ON VIDEO right before he left. So - proof is in the pudding - which is this video. Sorry, doubters. Can’t disprove this.
You're the only joke Obama administration
Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke died yesterday and his last words before going into a 21-hour surgery that did not save his life were, “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”
Obama admin officials downplayed his statements simply dismissing them as a “joke.”
Peace. What a joke.
Why don’t you give back that Nobel Peace Prize Obama?
Here’s what...
Ow!
I don’t want to imagine this. It’s mean!
THANK YOU "ANONYMOUS"
A Twitter friend - or I guess ‘fan’ - did a really nice thing for me and six strangers. He chooses to remain anonymous. He’s never met me in person. He came to see a show of mine but we didn’t meet. He knows I’m trying to fill the house at my comedy album taping (this Saturday night 12/11 at 10pm at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles) and he noticed that some fans of mine...
SIX FREE TICKETS TO MY COMEDY ALBUM TAPING
I HAVE SIX FREE TICKETS to my comedy album taping Sat Dec 11th at 10pm at UCB Los Angeles. A wonderful ‘fan’ and Twitter friend has PURCHASED FOR YOU GUYS 6 tickets. This person wrote me & said he saw a lot of broke people saying they couldn’t come. He wants you to be there & me to have you there! Please contact me on my Facebook like page...
Bernie Sanders Takes on Obama!! YES!
Here is a reprint from a letter from Senator Bernie Sanders (Ind- Vermont)
President Obama is right about one thing — Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage. We have a $13.8 trillion national debt, a collapsing middle class and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country. With all this in mind, Republicans in Congress say they will block tax cuts to...