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Dan Robertson

Vending Machines have more personality that I do...

About Me

www.FunnyDan.comI am a: Stand up Comic, Improviser, Digital Animator, Violinist, Jack of all trades, Master of None, Hacker, Software Pirate, Techie, Trekkie, Star Woid, Freelance Mercenary, Technocrat. I carry a small butane soldering iron up my sleeve like a Derringer.

My Interests

Primates, Robots, Irresistible Forces, Immovable Objects.

I'd like to meet:

Koko; the sign language Gorilla.

Music:

Vivaldi, Gershwin, Tom Lehrer, Philip Glass, Basil Poledouris, Danny Elfman, Combustible Edison, The Stones, Bach, and a whole bunch of Movie Scores

Movies:

Planet of the Apes 3 "Escape from the Planet of the Apes", The Big Lebowski, TRON, Repo-Man, Back to School, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, ROBOCOP, Bladerunner, Koyannasquatsi, The Good The Bad The Ugly. 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Jerk, Over the Top, Roadhouse, Stargate, The Day The earth stool still, The Forbidden planet, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Time Machine.

Television:

Quincy, Knight Rider, Automan, Airwolf, The Wizard, MST3K, The Mighty Boosh

Books:

The Great big book of Coffee tables, A brief History of Time, Everything penned by Philip K Dick(PDK), Issac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan.

Heroes:

Everyone who had the courage to think for themselves and always question the nature of reality.

My Blog

OH GOD I AM IN MOVIE HELL!

Hi there everyone!I am supposed to be a film director.I am also supposed to be a stand-up comedian.I am supposed to be funny as wellHow about I write something (I think) is funny about how awful and u...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:33:00 PST

My dinner with Johnny Five:

A lot of people are asking me about the Johnny 5 photo. As a person who is starting out in the 12th circle of hell we call "Showbiz." I don't like to name drop much. Here's what I remember about my en...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Fri, 16 May 2008 05:31:00 PST

My-Space : Shark Jumper

I'm not sure if you've noticed kids, Myspace has jumped the shark already:This is kind-of bad news for performers who like to reach out to new fans:I think this is mostly to do with the anti-spam cont...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:17:00 PST

Wii-tarded

I’ve always held the suspicion in my mind that people who stood in line to buy Nintendo Wii are retarded short bus riders.. Today my suspicion was verified;     ...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:02:00 PST

Totally Radical Politicians!

The Politicians are on MySpace now.Oh glee.John McCain magically appeared in the 'cool new videos'way to go Myspace-Tom, way to not sell out to the man.When was the last time a politician produced a v...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:17:00 PST

Dan Robertson COMEDY SCHOOL!!!!

Welcome to the Dan Robertson School of Comedy;~Hi there!Are you an actor/actress  who's just not breaking into Hollywood as quickly as you hoped?Did you spend your last few hundred dollars on tho...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:34:00 PST

Gay bashing a talking car?

To whom it may concern.I recently recieved a lot of hate mail as result of the knight rider impression I did in one of my Robot Actors Guild video clips. Due to (I suppose) the gay inuendos supplied b...
Posted by Dan Robertson on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST