The Surly Girl Open Mic's Halloween show one of my favorite nights of the year. It occurs on the Wednesday closest to Halloween and features most of the open mic regulars in costume, usually performing a set specially tailored to that costume.
Last night I dressed up as, and subsequently performed as, J. Dunham Medicine Hat The Magnificent who is a Ventriloquist/Magician/Hypnotist.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Comedifans - Episode 003
The Comedifans introduce their first guest, Jeff Burgstrom! Sumukh, Golak, and Jeff discuss The Big Ten, The Browns, Burgstrom's unique sports obsession/talent, brawls, and the unsettling uncertainty of the upcoming WNBA season.
Don't miss an episode! Go to comedifans.podbean.com to subscribe and listen to all our past episodes.
Don't miss an episode! Go to comedifans.podbean.com to subscribe and listen to all our past episodes.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Comedifans - Episode 002
This week Sumukh and Golak talk about Golak's love for Colt McCoy (and if it's justified), The Bengals, The Buckeyes, and what Sumukh accomplished last weekend along with what he found out he'll never be able to do.
New episodes every Tuesday. Check out comedifans.podbean.com for more info.
New episodes every Tuesday. Check out comedifans.podbean.com for more info.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Comedifans - Episode 001
Sumukh and Golak have started a new sports humor podcast. Mostly sports, mostly dick jokes and pop culture references. New episodes will be released every week on Tuesday and posted here for your enjoyment!
For more info on the podcast, previous episodes and info on Subscribing to it (iTunes, RSS, etc.) check out the comedifans.podbean.com.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Are You Ready for Some FATball?
I’m a week away from running my fourth half marathon. My goal out of running half marathons is to continue to gradually improve my time via training, but one thing has me ultimately concerned about how I will perform next week: football season.
My training hasn’t been as good as it could be in general. It’s been a pretty busy time of the year at my day job and I’ve lined up a lot of comedy shows so far this fall. I’m not complaining about the busy lifestyle at all as I like it, but that leaves the remaining open time to exercising among other things. Unfortunately, exercise has instead been dominated by both Buckeyes and Browns football.
My interest in running comes out of two reasons. First, I have a desire to at least try to remain in shape and healthy or have the same body type that I’ve had for my entire life. Second, running is an outlet for me that allows me to free myself from my mind and perhaps fill whatever void I may feel on a given day.
In the same way, watching football can fill a similar void. It frees my mind as I’m around friends and enjoying the camaraderie involved in cheering for my team. However, all the decisions involved in watching football are the exact opposite of what needs to be done in order to train properly for a half marathon.
Here’s an account of my day last Sunday: have a few beers with Golak and a couple of our other friends, watch the Browns lose horribly to the Titans over the course of those beers, go to a comedy meeting where there happens to be beer also, return to my home where Golak and I order King’s (if you don’t know what that is, think Cane’s but the tenders are even bigger and completely covered in whatever sauce you picked to the point that the plastic bag it came in is also filled with said sauce).
I should let you know that my biggest vice and void filler is terrible, terrible junk food. When we took a trip to Windsor, I announced my excitement about how I would be getting a dozen donuts on Saturday morning of the trip. Strip club? Who cares?! Gambling? Whatever. Dozen Donuts? I was up at 7:30 A.M. walking from the hotel to Tim Horton’s to bring everyone this stuff.
So, it’s not as if I feel guilty about what comes along with football season. I certainly love every minute of it as I shave a month here and there off my life. Yet, as I try to continue to progress in something I care about in running, I’m easily going backwards in how I approach it.
I’m in shape enough to successfully do this half marathon, but it remains to be seen how well my time will be and if I’ll actually improve. If not, I can only blame myself and how much I’m willing to allow my entire weekend to be destroyed by football and all that it entails.
Recently, Golak and I were talking about our desire to just get fat and the difficulty maintaining our already unimpressive body types. It feels like soon we will make a pact to just give up after we get married to our respective wives, which will just be sad for them.
Look forward to “The Sumukh and Golak Attack” looking something like this in 15 years:
My training hasn’t been as good as it could be in general. It’s been a pretty busy time of the year at my day job and I’ve lined up a lot of comedy shows so far this fall. I’m not complaining about the busy lifestyle at all as I like it, but that leaves the remaining open time to exercising among other things. Unfortunately, exercise has instead been dominated by both Buckeyes and Browns football.
My interest in running comes out of two reasons. First, I have a desire to at least try to remain in shape and healthy or have the same body type that I’ve had for my entire life. Second, running is an outlet for me that allows me to free myself from my mind and perhaps fill whatever void I may feel on a given day.
In the same way, watching football can fill a similar void. It frees my mind as I’m around friends and enjoying the camaraderie involved in cheering for my team. However, all the decisions involved in watching football are the exact opposite of what needs to be done in order to train properly for a half marathon.
Here’s an account of my day last Sunday: have a few beers with Golak and a couple of our other friends, watch the Browns lose horribly to the Titans over the course of those beers, go to a comedy meeting where there happens to be beer also, return to my home where Golak and I order King’s (if you don’t know what that is, think Cane’s but the tenders are even bigger and completely covered in whatever sauce you picked to the point that the plastic bag it came in is also filled with said sauce).
I should let you know that my biggest vice and void filler is terrible, terrible junk food. When we took a trip to Windsor, I announced my excitement about how I would be getting a dozen donuts on Saturday morning of the trip. Strip club? Who cares?! Gambling? Whatever. Dozen Donuts? I was up at 7:30 A.M. walking from the hotel to Tim Horton’s to bring everyone this stuff.
So, it’s not as if I feel guilty about what comes along with football season. I certainly love every minute of it as I shave a month here and there off my life. Yet, as I try to continue to progress in something I care about in running, I’m easily going backwards in how I approach it.
I’m in shape enough to successfully do this half marathon, but it remains to be seen how well my time will be and if I’ll actually improve. If not, I can only blame myself and how much I’m willing to allow my entire weekend to be destroyed by football and all that it entails.
Recently, Golak and I were talking about our desire to just get fat and the difficulty maintaining our already unimpressive body types. It feels like soon we will make a pact to just give up after we get married to our respective wives, which will just be sad for them.
Look forward to “The Sumukh and Golak Attack” looking something like this in 15 years:
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
What's Up Columbus gets censored!
Check out this clip from the September Edition of What's Up Columbus with Justin Golak. WUC is being censored!
Come out to October's WUC on October 6th at 10:00PM at Kafe Kerouac.
Come out to October's WUC on October 6th at 10:00PM at Kafe Kerouac.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
I'll Be Dreamin', Dreamin'!
I love dreams. As of late, I've had a couple dreams that were far too accurate in the way that I express myself.
I had a dream where I was arguing with somebody about my mother's cooking. I would actually do this. If you don't like my mother's cooking, there is something wrong with you. First of all, if I offered you my mother's cooking, it's because you're a friend, and I'm not saying that you have to like it, but there is absolutely no way that you can't appreciate it as being high quality Indian food.
A couple hours ago, I had a dream that I was listening to an episode of “The Bill and Dan Show.” It's likely because earlier today, I listened to an episode of “The Bill and Dan Show” featuring our friend, Anthony O'Connell. I encourage you to listen to this episode as it got me laughing very hard throughout what was a busy work day for me (also, check out all the other episodes with their great guests). Anyway, on the episode of “Bill and Dan” in my dream, the guys were talking with Patton Oswalt. Patton Oswalt isn't exactly a regular guest on the show, so this isn't the accurate portion of the dream. At one point in the conversation, they started talking about Ira Glass, the host of NPR's “This American Life,” and in one of the voices he's known to do in his stand-up, Patton Oswalt's response to what Ira Glass does was, “I prefer things in color!”Frankly, I found this quite hilarious in my dream, then woke up and began laughing at it as well. It felt like Jerry Seinfeld and the flaming globes of Sigmund! I must have had this type of weird dream because of what I ate yesterday. (Hint: it was a lot of vegetables. Double hint: listen to the O'Connell episode of “Bill and Dan” and this will be even funnier.)
Now, for “Dreams.” To this day, it still makes me laugh that this song was John Kerry's campaign song when running for president:
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