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Mark Day

Ironically, Jerry Garcia died of beard cancer

About Me

Bald scottish stand-up comedian.Lives near San Francisco.If you want to see more of my stuff, go to www.rooftopcomedy.com and search for 'mark day'

My Interests

Stand-up comedy. Suburban living. Smoked pork.

I'd like to meet:

Cheerleaders selling fireworks. The adults responsible for letting cheerleaders sell fireworks as some sort of fund-raising exercise. For they are firework-vending-cheerleader enablers. And for this, they should be thanked.

Music:

The ridgid, Stalinist rhetoric of Judas Priest. The fluid paintbrush abstractions of John Coltrane. Not at the same time, but in very close proximity. Unyeilding opinions and Picasso soundscapes, basically.The look on Miles Davis' face as he prowls the stage, not playing, on the Isle of White DVD. The look ony my face when he does start playing.Led Zeppelin, particularly when engaged in evoking the imminent arrival of Viking raiding parties through the medium of the poncy, blonde-curled shriek of robert plant and the fat riffage of skinny Jimmy Page. Oh Valhalla I, indeed, am cuh-uh-uh-uh-uh-umming!

Movies:

Anything involving Peru, Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog (at the same time). Anything involving "extravision", deep space and green organic matter. Anything involving Martin Sheen going up river.

Television:

Monday Night Football, Reno 911, The Office (yes, both UK and US), LOST, and nothing at all that my TiVo recommends. I'm Alan Partridge. Fast Show.

Books:

Yes, we have some of those.

Heroes:

Eugene Mirman, Billy Connolly, Stewart Lee, Greg Proops, Todd Barry, various Iron Chefs, Wonder Woman, Lemmy from Motorhead, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Homer Simpson from Iron Maiden. Also Will Franken, Bill Hicks, Dylan Moran, Steve Coogan.

My Blog

Mary Van Note & assorted Mark-o-vision stuff....

What can I say about Mary Van Note?  Mary makes videos, and does a lot more stand up than I ever get round to.  I saw Mary last tuesday at an open mike at Annie's.  At no time did she t...
Posted by Mark Day on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:51:00 PST

Because YOU requested it....

Dear gentle reader,Many moon ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, I suggested that if everyone wanted to hear me say certain words in my - ahem - amusing scottish accent then I would do all tho...
Posted by Mark Day on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

Me on Viral with Sunny Gault

Still pretty new video up on YouTube.... see me in lipstick, you know you want to.... And here's ther latest episode of Viral, a show about online video.  I'm in it, fleetingly.... If you check m...
Posted by Mark Day on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:55:00 PST

JETSET show/ new video

For some reason, MySPace won't let me just update my last blog posting (time and date error? huh?) so the main thing is check out and rate my new video.  Read the last posting below this for an u...
Posted by Mark Day on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:07:00 PST

Secrets of FANTASTIC 4 Vs. TRANSFORMERS

So I got a new video up on YouTube.... you know the score by now... please go, check it out, rate it highly, and demand everyone in a ten yard radius does the same.You can check it out here.... it's s...
Posted by Mark Day on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST

Pixelodeon in LA

Don't get too excited.... This is just my short promo for Pixelodeon Festival of online video event in Los Angeles this weekend. I'll be there on Saturday but not performing stand-up... mostly shmooz...
Posted by Mark Day on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:49:00 PST

Bonus video action

Two blog postings in one day? Well, kinda.... I posted another entry earlier, so if you missed that, and you want to see me talk about whether "size matters" check out the posting below this one. Othe...
Posted by Mark Day on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:34:00 PST

The camera never lies....

Hey MySpace....  that thing with the words and stuff?  Like where I'm your performing monkey, if monkeys mainly focused on recitation and funny accents?  It's coming.  Soon.  ...
Posted by Mark Day on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:01:00 PST

On the eighth day God created....

No bonus video this time, I'm afraid... but I'll be filming all the requested words just as soon as I can cram them all into a sentence (or I'll just recite the phone book, if that fails...) probably...
Posted by Mark Day on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:39:00 PST

Real horrorshow, my droogies. Well, kinda.

Well, I'm still on vacation, but not for much longer. In fact, packing commences in about 30 minutes. I hurt all over from what could best be described as a nonsensical "attempt" at surfing (I had t...
Posted by Mark Day on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:11:00 PST