A Year of Bitterness!

You know how much Your Old Pal Foz likes to write about all of our friends who tell jokes at Cole’s.  That I typically write about the lady comics, and more frequently write about lady comics who are Ladies’ Lady comics "reveals much," as they say at the psychiatric conference.  Obviously, I have a sick fascination with women who tell hilarious jokes. 

But I also have a sick fascination with certain chaps who tell jokes, and one of those is a tiny and bitter little gnome (sorry, but that’s the most flattering phrase I could think of) named Peter-john Byrnes.  Pete recently invited me to play on his fabulously depressing podcast, This Week in Despair. It was fun.  I am told that since listening to the conversation we had with James Fritz that day the Mayans have cheered up a good deal.  We might make it to 2013 after all!

Anyway, today is a day of some importance to the world of People Who Prefer Laughing to Rectal Prolapse.  For the past fifty-one weeks Pete has been writing and performing a totally new four-minute set for Cole’s each week.  He has never repeated a joke.  That’s pretty impressive.  If you don’t think that’s pretty impressive, try a little rectal prolapse. 

Here is where you can see much of Pete's great work.

So, if you like funny women or bitter gnomes join us tonight at 9:00 for FtH followed by Cole’s Inter-Gender Comedy Open Mic at Cole’s. 

Congratulations, Pete!  The best part is that almost all of these one-off jokes were funny.  Can you start repeating some now?

I didn’t want to find a picture to illustrate Rectal Prolapse, so here is an Angler Fish, which, I understand, is a pretty good illustration of the concept of rectal prolapse.  It's also not a bad approximation of the feel of a typical Pete Byrnes set at Cole's.

PS:  If you ever forget the term rectal prolapse and need to write it in a blog or something, try Googling the phrase “anus turned inside out.”  It works OK.