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Ben Verbeck

Buffalo's most loathed stand-up comedian

About Me

If you haven't done it yet, please look in my older blogs for my pictures of smoking pot everyday in 2004. It's one of my greatest accomplishments. Not the smoking weed part, but having something to show for a year of fucking up every single day.I haven't been doing this very long, but it's falling into place, slowly but surely. It takes years and anyone that thinks they could do it overnight, be my guest. I should have started when I was 15 instead of eating microwaved food and playing video games. Things are much better ten years later now that I'm eating healthy and spending time on Myspace.I'd like to finish this off with something funny but all I can think of are things I've seen Borat say. Be thankful you aren't a comedian, bit stealer.

My Interests

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Member Since: 12/19/2005
Influences: Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, Dave Chappelle, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Simpsons, The State, George W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Punx, hash, Rasta Rant, the Buffalo Bills, pornstores, my mom, the dounboun, hippies, action figures, Phillip K. Dick, J.D. Salinger, Tom Robbins - modern master of language and humor, Terrence McKenna, Franz Kafka, Jack Herer, Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Pinchbeck, Harry Potter - especially Dobby you courageous little house-elf, the Wizard, sex, bikes, tofu, Nintendo DS, myspace, bongs, The Beatles, 80's wrestling, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, U.S. Acres, spelling bees, Medeski Martin and Wood, Gorillaz, Radiohead, Sublime, Beastie Boys, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Walter Carlos, Battles, Madlib, Thelonius Monk, Can, Mos Def, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Squarepusher, Tool, Dave Perkins, Steve-O, BUDERFLI, Jenni Verbeck-the funniest girl I've ever known, B-Bot, Darth Coconuts, ErinLee Newbery, Sentachu, Dave Knox, Phish, the Mercyhurst days, good tattoos, food, Pink Floyd, my yen, Abusing the Word, Trystero, Corpus Dei, Sonorous Gale, A-Time, M-Waste, Kylesa, Baroness, Dillinger Four, Sleep, Smash Brothers Melee, fancy beers - especially Dogfishhead and Southern Tier, people that sit on their ass and don't do shit with themselves, (someone's gotta take up their slack,) 80's movies, Naturalism, Mysticism, seeing through it all....hope.
Sounds Like: A sea lion eating an octopus. ((_fulfillment_)) Turning over in your sleep. ((_blinding darkness_)) Porcupine sex. ((_no passion just purpose_)) Buffalo New York. ((_no purpose just passion_)) Roots of a tree. ((_eternal growth_))
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My Blog

Economic Stimulus = Increase of Debt

600 bucks just for filing your taxes? Sounds like a good idea right? Think it over. This will not be free money, this money is loaned to the American government at interest from the Federal Reserve...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:01:00 PST

Past Weekends Performances Plus...

Last weekend was great. I went out to show off some comedy chops in the beautiful upstate New York cities of Rochester and Watertown, had some laughs, few drinks, fun times were had by all.Well almos...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:28:00 PST

Going to School in Your Underpants

In this day and age, it's difficult to think that the thoughts we have are truly our own. With so many great, (and no so great,) minds of the past and present, it feels egotistical of me to think tha...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:29:00 PST

Random Stuff

This is a jumbled list of things that I have thought or done over the past few monthsI'd like to state first and foremost that I truly believe that the most important professional wrestling feud of al...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:49:00 PST

October 11th Nietzsches

Hey all, I'm doing a show at Nietzsche's (248 Allen St BFLO 14201) on October 11th. This is my LP recording/benefit show. I'm doing a full forty minutes + to be converted into record and CD forma...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:16:00 PST

4 inches away from certain death

I woke up yesterday feeling pretty good. I had a couple of different jobs lined up. The first one was assisting in a tree removal. I've been working with this tree company for nearly a year now. I...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:54:00 PST

Buffalo News Headline

Bush Compares Iraq to Vietnam...and I think to myself, "Hey, the motherfucker is finally admitting he was wrong!"Nope. He's comparing the two to GAIN support...!?!?!?!?!?!? To say that we left Vietn...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:58:00 PST

2008 Republican National Convention

I didn't really intend to blog about the 2008 GOP convention, I just wanted a subject that people love. The convention will be held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota from September 1...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:28:00 PST

Strange Daze

It's a week and a half later, and Cho Seung-hui is being pushed into the backs of our minds as more news is being made such as the Democrats push to get out of Iraq and hockey playoffs. I can't help ...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:11:00 PST

Best Thrift Store Find EVER!

Erin, Willow and I decided we'd go to the Airport Plaza Goodwill store right off the 33 in Cheektowaga yesterday. Nothing spectacular at first. Then I happened upon a Carolina blue Members Only jack...
Posted by Ben Verbeck on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:28:00 PST