MISCHIEF WITH A MICROPHONE

Word-of-mouth and most reviews were great: Out of the 3,000+ shows taking place at the festival jD's was one of the choices to see.

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Review:

https://www.chortle.co.uk/review/2022/08/13/51451/im_with_stupid

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In 2023, jD performed a revised version of the show at a more intimate venue.

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-POSTER PIC TO COME-

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​​Due to demand and size of audiences he moved the show to a room in a restaurant that could hold 150 people, often filled beyond capacity, many times with jD performing for 90 minutes and staying for a 30 minute Q & A (Most wanted the show to go longer, but due to restaurant obligations it could not).

 

Several venues asked jD to perform in 2024 & 2025 but he was unable to due to other commitments. 

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jD's hour-long performance ((as mentioned many times two hours in 2023), was a mixture of "normal" stand-up with humoris storytelling., jD reflected on his life:

 

Growing up in two very different worlds. One a lower-middle class neighborhood North NJ with his Mom and three sisters, the only boy among women and girls and their female friends.  The other with his dad in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Not only a poor neighborhood but considered one of the most dangerous in the USA. It was run by an Irish gang called "The Westies." Much older than jD, they befriended, treated him like a little brother. jD, along with The Westies did things like... (We'll save these stories for the stand-up shows)​.

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jD's Hell's Kitchen mates and NJ friends could never know of each other and never meet. Because...

 

jD talks how he got out of a life that lead most to prison, death, and two to witness protection, and how he went to Hollywood with $1,200 cash, no contacts and succeeded in, what he learned to be a cut-throat business in many ways like Hell's Kitchen was, in a place called Hollywood.

 

Without dishing gossip, jD gives inside and insightful stories, many that aren't public knowledge, about Hollywood and it's inner working.

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Being the writer of the original screenplay on spec for "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and how it went from concept to release in a little over a year.

 

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 adaptation 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, to perform stand-up. After almost five years of fear, jD overcame it (sort of) and started doing stand-up.

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