I’ve been performing stand up comedy for two decades. I get all the stage time I need. But I realize not everyone has such an outlet. And, yet, humans are such complicated, emotional creatures. They have so much to express! That’s why I’ve always been fascinated with vanity plates and bumper stickers. And I’ve always …
Awesome science cookies in a series of posts to a food blog by a biological anthropologist. Aren’t all anthropologists biological? I’m a biological comedian. Ooh, she also has Space Invaders!
Science Comedian Brian Malow presents Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet An evening of science humor 8pm, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Rooster T. Feather’s Comedy Club 157 W. El Camino Real Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (408) 736-0921
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a feature story on me today (the print version actually appears in the Datebook section, Sunday, January 11, 2009): Making Science Funny: Brian Malow It’s written by Nick Thomas, who we love! Last year, Nick did a Q&A with me for Nature: Helium Walks Into a Bar In addition to …
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This weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle should be running a story about me in conjunction with next week’s shows at the SF Punch Line Comedy Club (Tues, Jan.13) and Rooster T. Feathers (Wed, Jan.14), in Sunnyvale. See Upcoming Shows for details. A Chronicle photographer, Paul Chinn, met me over at the new California Academy of …
Thanksgiving in Atlanta. My sister served up a picture-perfect slice of apple pie for Tara. Mine looked like a transporter accident: It was still delicious, of course. The replicator just needs a little tweaking, is all.
My mother used to tell me to “stand up straight.” It was one of her favorite things to say: “Stand up straight!” Many other people, I have discovered, also grew up hearing that phrase. It’s nearly universal. As if mothers were programmed to say it. In fact, I believe mothers have been telling their children …
A montage of some of my science comedy routines, taken mostly from two events at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences (in 2006 and 2007). A couple clips from my 2008 performance appear earlier in this blog (on cell phones and Karma) and more are coming soon.
Once, when I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad, “Why is the sky blue?” A pretty reasonable question for a little ten-year-old scientist. But he wasn’t in the mood. He said, “Go ask your mother.” And I thought: Great, she knows. I turned from my dad, and headed toward the kitchen, knowing …
I’m a Jew from Texas – a relatively rare breed, we can’t even propagate in the wild. So, before my migration to Northern California – which is counter to the eastward migratory pattern characteristic of my kind – a migration which, over time, deposits us in the Sunshine State like calcium carbonate on a stalagmite …