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Comedian Jim Mendrinos

About Me

Comedian, producer, writer of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing." Visit me at: www.jim-mendrinos.com
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My Interests

All things comedy / Sports.

I'd like to meet:

Comedians / TV & Film Industry / Writers / Comedy Fans - - - - - I usually have tons of comps or discounts to stand-up shows all over the country -- either ones I'm on or ones I'm producing for TV / Net broadcast -- if you want to know when and where they are, just add me as a friend, and I'll be sure to send out a notice whenever tix are available.

Music:

Too wide a spectrum to imagine. Raised on 6o's & 70's rock like the Beatles, Stones, Who, Floyd & Led Zep. Discovered the power of the Clash, Ramones, Pistols, & Buzzcocks as a teenager. I mellow out to classic soul -- absolutely nothing is as wonderful as a Sam Cooke song, but lately classic Jazz is what I listen to. Miles, Coltrane, Parker, Diz. The vocalists are wonderful as well -- Ella, Frank, Louis Prima.If only I had an extra life to just discover more music.

Movies:

The greatest movie of all time, for me, is Chaplin's "City Lights." I also love any Groucho flick, anything with Mel Brooks -- especially the origonal producers, and anything Woddy did in the 70's.However for pure childhood joy, no film will ever impact me as much as Star Wars.

Television:

Classic sitcoms, Hommicide, Dragnet & the new generation of animation, esp. Drawn Together.

Books:

Too many to pick just one. However the book that started my love of books was "The Heart of Darkness" by Conrad. A wonderful tale.

Heroes:

Chaplin, Groucho & the great comics of the 30's, 40's & 50's. As for people I knew, I still mourn Kinison.

My Blog

50 Albums -- 2 & 1

Sorry this got cut off.   2  The Carnegie Hall Concert..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   "The most influential album to me was The Carnegie Hall con...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:51:00 PST

50 Greatest Comedy Albums -- Part 1 (50 - 27)

THE 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL COMEDY ALBUMS   Long before comedy central, before HBO, or even before the first comic did a spot on the Steve Allen Show, there were the comedy albums.    For ...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:07:00 PST

The History of Comedy Part 2 (26 - 1)

THE 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL COMEDY ALBUMS  (Part 2)   26  Hello Dummy  Don Rickles   Hello Dummy is so politically incorrect, its refreshing. And its all crowd work. - Dave Attell   ...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:59:00 PST

Bill Hicks

Okay, this was one of the more popular ones on 2DM, so here it is:   THE HISTORY OF COMEDY   Remembering Bill Hicks   Written By Jim Mendrinos          &nb...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:31:00 PST

The History of Comedy

Ok, so some people have asked me where they could find some of those old 2 Drink Minimum articles I wrote on the History of Comedy, so I fugured (after the 10th e-mail) I'd post them here. Here's the ...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:51:00 PST