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Joe DeRosa

Headlining Gotham Comedy Club - NYC - Halloween Night and November 1st - 5 Shows!!!

About Me

Mind your Got-Damn business.

My Interests



I'd like to meet:

All types 'a muh-fuggahs.

Music:

Frank Zappa, Bad Religion, Kool Kieth (Ultramagnetic MC's), Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom), Public Enemy, EPMD, Pixies, Spoon, Pearl Jam, Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Metallica, Jawbreaker, Violent Society, Jerky Boys, Steve Martin, System of a Down, Woody Allen, Dean Martin, Coheed and Cambria, Compton's Most Wanted, Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think), They Might Be Giants, Daft Punk, Eminem, Genesis, Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), KingGod, Primus, Smile, Wally, and Rush.

Movies:

Glengarry Glenn Ross, Casino, Heat, Copland, Goodfellas, Hanna and Her Sisters, Manhatten, Anything Else, Small Time Crooks, The 'Burbs, Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars (All six), Indiana Jones, The Dark Crystal, Easy Money, Superman I and II, Back to School, The Odd Couple, The Front Page, Stir Crazy, Young Frankenstein, History of the World prt. 1, The Exorcist, Heist, Spartan, Hoffa, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Made, Swingers, Creepshow, A Nightmare on Elm St., The Rat Pack, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Jackass: The Movie, Old School, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, The Untouchables, Baby Snakes, 200 Motels, Grumpy Old Men, Juice, Throw Momma From the Train, My Blue Heaven, Office Space, Misery, Who's Harry Crumb?, Austin Powers,The Big Lebowski, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Tales From the Crypt: Demon Night, The Fly (Golblum version), Kingpin, Bill Cosby: Himself, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, Winchell, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Back to the Future I and II, Malcolm X, The Spanish Prisoner, Loverboy, Enter the Dragon, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and Splash.

Television:

The Twilight Zone, The Jack Benny Show, Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, The Honeymooners, All in the Family, The Dick Cavett Show, Carnivale, Tales from the Crypt, Futurama, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Food Network, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Books:

The Future of an Illusion, The Frank Zappa Companion, Airtight Willie and Me, American Psycho. I've also read about half, or at least a portion, of each of these books: The Art of War, Tao Te Ching, Johnny Got His Gun, The Hobbit, Skeleton Crew, His Way, The Godfather, Naked Luch, On the Road, Hoffa by Hoffa, Live from New York, The Village, Crazy from the Heat (just the story about David Lee Roth fucking two strippers on top of their night's earnings...amazing!), Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop, Totem and Taboo, Dino (the first 5 pages only), Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, and Star Wars: Tales from Mos Eisley (the Greedo story rules!)

Heroes:

My Dad (in life), Frank Zappa (in art).

My Blog

10 things that will ALWAYS make me laugh

1 - Burt Reynolds' laugh circa 1978 2 - Shemp from the Three Stooges when he gets slapped in the face and his hair falls in his eyes 3 - Seeing somebody puke 4 - The movie "Kingpin" 5 - This joke: "A ...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:33:00 PST

How to be a Hippie Activist

In this day and age activists, especially hippie activists, are all the rage.  You know the type:  avid Phish-listening, PETA-flyering, conspiracy-theorizing, soy-eaters.  And if youre...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I'm not a "my-spacey-kinda-guy"

In recent months I've come to notice that while my friends' my space profiles have flourished, gaining vast attention and interest from all types of people, mine putters along slowly, playing the...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"List of Hate" by Joe De Rosa

1) Weddings 2) Hooters (the restaurant, not actual boobs) 3) Big families who vacation together 4) The phrase "It must be nice" (ewe... you jealous asshole) 5) Celebrity magazines (Us Weekly, Peop...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Article from Time Out

(This piece was originally published in a Pennsylvania entertainment magazine called Time Out) "Local Comedian Heads to the Big Time" by Timothy J. Raub, [email protected] ...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"How to Write Your Own Phil Collins Song" by Joe De Rosa

(This piece was originally published in a New York magazine called "The Comical") I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Phil Collins, the master and commander of adult contemporary rock has ann...
Posted by Joe DeRosa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST