Science Comedian

My Bizarros

May 4th, 2009

My friend Dan Piraro is the mas­ter­mind (and mas­ter hand) behind the car­toon Bizarro.

And, even draw­ing a daily car­toon – 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year – and being a most active ani­mal rights activist, he some­how finds time to make a daily blog post.  And his blog is hilar­i­ous.  He’s a very enter­tain­ing writer, he includes a lot of car­toons, and he delights in the play­ful use of hyper­links.  Click on every link – it’s always good for a bonus laugh.

Dan and I have col­lab­o­rated on a hand­ful of car­toons.  Basi­cally, I send him an idea every once in a while and, if he likes it, he plays with it, draws it, makes it a Bizarro cartoon.

Go check out his blog – and here are my favorite col­lab­o­ra­tions with genius Dan Piraro:

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Bizarro Comedy Show – Two Funny Heads (Piraro & Malow)

August 19th, 2008

On 9/11 this year I’ll be per­form­ing at the leg­endary Pur­ple Onion with my friend, the leg­endary Bizarro car­toon­ist Dan Piraro:  The Bizarro Com­edy Show: Two Funny Heads.

Says Dan about me: “This guy is a long­time friend and a total pro. He’ll show me up, big time. I should actu­ally be open­ing for him but it’s my show so tough monkeys.”

Actu­ally, Dan is incred­i­bly funny and inven­tive on stage, and the most pro­lific artist I know. He pub­lishes a new car­toon EVERY DAY!  That’s seven new jokes a week, plus he draws them by hand in pen, scans them into the com­puter, and col­ors them himself.

We pre­vi­ously did a 10-state, 20-city, 30-show tour of polit­i­cal com­edy (“Bizarro’s Politi-Comedy-a-Go-Go”) dur­ing the ill-fated last pres­i­den­tial elec­tion sea­son, along with pals Michael Capoz­zola and Jeff Kreisler.  We had hoped to play a small part in unseat­ing the incum­bent, but, alas, failed.

How­ever, this time, we are so cer­tain to see a regime change that we don’t even feel the need to do polit­i­cal humor, per se.  Although you can always count on Dan to have some bit­ing com­men­tary on the state of the union.  This time, at the Onion.

Tick­ets for the Sept. 11 Pur­ple Onion show can be pur­chased here.