HUMOROUS-PHILOSOPHY (AKA) STAND-UP COMEDY

In 2023 jD perfermed a revised version of the show.

 

He was asked back in 2024 & 2025 and said "No.'

 

"Before I went in 2023 I heard the festival was a great venue to highlight yet known comedians and give people in Scotland (and those who traveled to that absolutely beautiful and majestic country), a chance to see A-list comedians at a great price. When I performed in 2023 something felt wrong. I spoke with veteran, some having gone there for 10 years, performers and those who worked for the venues and eating establishments. They said 'The festival had become a money grab for venue owners and the festival brass to make as much money as they could from the performers and the audiences without a care for either." I went back in 2023 thinking, perhaps, because 2023 was shortly after covid the venues/brass has panicked and made a mistake. Nope. Fook em was their attitude toward the performers and audience.- and mine towards those who took advantage of them." - jD

 

In spite of my Pub not wanting me to say this publicly she knows I speak my truth. Which often gets me in trouble. As Bugs Bunny would say, "Cool!" Okay, he might not say 'Cool!'" He'd say, 'What's. up, Doc?'  Which in Bugs speak means: "Cool." "I don't care what you think of me because, 'People like the truth as much as they like poetry. And people fucking hate poetry.' "- The movie "Vice. "Written & directed by Adam McKay.

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I like poetry. 

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Okay, I like great poetry. Few & far between. Just like the truth.

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Ok, Pub, I'm done about this. For now.

 

In this hour-long performance, (sometimes almost two hours in 2023), jD reflected on his life and diverse career in a humous manner, which included him telling never told stories of how he grew up in Hell's Kitchen, considered one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in all the USA in the 1980's, run by an Irish gang called "The Westies," who jD became friends with and...

 

Growing up in North NJ with his Mom and three sisters and all that goes with being the only boy among women and girls and their femal freinds. 

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Being the writer of the original screenplay for "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and how it went from concept to release in a littleover a year. All the inside stories of how a movie gets made and almost doesn't.

 

The many projects and money he was offered and turned down because jD has this strange belief that he will only work on things he's passionate about.

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How he lost a vast amount of the money he made (I didn't "lose." it. I know exactly where it all went and I have no regrets- okay I have some regrets of what I did with it).

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The daptation of L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth," his relationship with John Travolta and Kelly Preston and many of their famous friends, and how he was threaten by The Church of Scientology unless he... And he do not.

 

His relationship with Stan Lee (But not a "tell all." But there are stories that are not public knowledge that jD feels Stan would not but upset at all if he told them).​

 

As well as his friendships or association Neil Armstrong, Sir Sean Connery, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson (not going into what I know), Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, George Lucas, Frank Darabont, Dave Chappelle, Marlon Brando, and others, including Robin Williams, who was one of the key people who convinced jD, after almost five years of trying to, to pursue stand-up comedy.

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jD did not and will not dish dirt. But he has and will tell inside stories that people find interesting, entertaining and funny.

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jD talks about people he either worked with, or became friends or friendly with, or spent time with (When he does bring up someone he has only had brief encounters with jD makes this clear. He realizes, and was uncomfortable, dropping names. But all of us on his team pointed out he has to in order for the stories to make sense. Otherwise, no one knows who and in some ways what he's talking about and the stories are not as interesting or funny).

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Too often people in Hollywood act as if they know someone because they saw them across the street. Or waved to them in their car. Or had a brief encounter.  Example of many:

 

jD had a someone tell him that he and his wife had dinner with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at The Ivy. Knowing this person said things untrue, jD wanted a laugh so he called a friend who worked at The Ivy. After giving a description, jD's friend said"Yes, that guy  and his wife had dinner with Brad Pitt & Angelina Joie- if you consider the person you know and his wife at one table, and Brad and Angelina at another table in a different area of the restaurant."

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Welcome to Hollywood, folks!

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