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Peter Radomski

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About Me


I have been performing stand-up comedy since April of 2004.
I was recently voted Best Stand-Up Comedian in the annual Best Of Montreal reader's poll in the Montreal Mirror , the city's definitive alternative arts and entertainment news weekly.
You can read an interview with me in that issue here. (you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page).
I am the regular host of Drop The Gloves Tuesdays, Montreal's PREMIER open-mic. It takes place at Grumpy's Bar every Tuesday Night. This show is in fact, Montreal's only TRUE open-mic, open to poetry, spoken-word, comedy, music, and God-only-knows who or what else might show up.
My comedy style has been described as conversational, honest, alternative, intelligent, and fearless. And funny. Actually, it's been described as damn hilarious.
I am NOT hip. I am not MTV, I am not ghetto, I'm not "with it." In fact, I'm so un-hip that I'm...actually, I am hip, but only in a grandparents kind of way.
This does not mean, however, that your grandparents would think I was the cat's pajamas. Your great-grandparents, however, would think I was the cat's meow.
I am a founding partner of the Comedy OFF The Main series, Montreal's first (and only!) weekly alternative comedy lounge.
I auditioned for the Just For Laughs Festival in February of 2006, and again in January of 2007. I will be performing in the festival in July of this year (2007).
I'm a second-generation stand-up (sort-of): My father used to tell jokes at open-mics in East Germany to get free beer.
I'm fluent in three languages: Deutsch, English & Francais. I didn't speak English or French until I was 5. I studied Russian, but I forgot most of it. I'm not sure why I mentioned that last part. It's not really anything to brag about, is it?
I may very well be the only Canadian on MySpace that HAS NOT added David Suzuki to his list of friends, even though I agree with most of what he says.
My brother is Montreal's 2nd best cartoonist, at least, according to the readers of the Montreal Mirror. You can see his work here .
I like using the following words: ambivalent, exasperated, forthcoming, nomenclature, stratification and verisimilitude. I also say "Frig Wrigley" quite a bit (more to follow...)
I hate when people say "anyways" in lieu of "anyway", and people who use "a" when they should use "an". I also cringe when I hear people using "the" (pronounced "thuh") in lieu of "the" (pronounced "thee").
I dislike updating my bio.

My Interests

Animal Rights, Antiques, Art Deco, Assisting Tourists, Cavorting About Town With My Brother Theodore , Chess, Dogs, Hosting At Grumpy's , Laughter, Libraries, Marx Brothers Anecdotes, Monopoly & Risk (the board games), Museums, Schadenfreude, Vaudeville.

I'd like to meet:

Swayne's Rats And Cats

Music:


Harry Nilsson, Louis Armstrong, Bob Crosby & The Bobcats, Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael, Elvis Costello, Derek & The Dominos, Dress Whites, Gerswhin, Procol Harum, Ryan Shearing, The United Steel Workers of Montreal.

Movies:

I like a good number of motion pictures, including some of the "talkies".

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 MST3K. Besides that, nothing that is currently on the air.

Books:

Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Death Of A Salesman, The Desiderata, How To Talk Dirty And Influence People, Johnny Got His Gun, The Oxford English Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Seeing And Believing, The Waste Makers

I Also Read: The Backs Of Cereal Boxes, Bus Schedules, Coupons, Fortune Cookies, Jazz Album Liner Notes, Obituaries, Owner's Manuals (especially those that begin with "Congratulations on purchasing..."), Plaques On Old Buildings, Posologies, Street Signs, Too Much Into What People Say

Favourite authors: Joseph Campbell, Chomsky, Stanley Coren, Heller, de Maupassant, Nabokov, Vance Packard, Early Palahniuk, S.J. Perelman, Postman, H. A. & Margaret Rey, Donald J. Sobol, H.G. Wells

Heroes:

Johannes J. Marianne, Josef, Theodore, George Perakis, Pius Radomski, Arrow, Scot Arrington, George Bailey, The Great Calvero, Eugene Gibbons, Jefferson Smith, Melissa Willey

My Blog

My blog begins...and ends.

I had been working on about 15 entries simultaneously for this blog. My goal was to post a semi-regular column, offering a sample of my written humour. None of these works will be posted. It was point...
Posted by Peter Radomski on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:12:00 PST