Been at this stand up comedy thing for a bit now and
I have had the opportunity to work with some very talented people!!
Since this whole madness started..
I have won a couple of local comedy contests and the
"Portlands Best Comic" 2008 Portland Phoenix Readers Poll and
"Portlands Best Comic" 2009 Portland Phoenix Readers Poll
I also had the pleasure of opening for Todd Barry and having Louis C.K. shake my hand after a set in Boston
Website
brianbrinegar.com
Influences
mainly alcohol.
but i picked up a mad magazine pretty early in life...
then i found monty python.
that sucked up a pretty good part of my adolescence and made sure that girls wouldnt stick
around too long... (you can only hear the dead parrot sketch soooo many times)
ummm what else?
bill hicks when i am angry or pious.
mitch hedberg, any time.
carlin, of course.
bill cosby,
richard pryor,
john ritter,
jack lemmon,
mark and brian,
bob and doug mackenzie,
SCTV,
early SNL and tina fey...
Chris Farley,
Robin Williams,
Vin Scully, and to a certain extent Rick Monday....
Mark Twain,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Douglas Coupland,
Mel Brooks,
Mel Blanc,
Tarantino,
National Lampoon,
Bill Grindstaff,
Donny Gale,
Aaron Bowman,
Weird Al Yankovic,
Carl Reiner,
Lucille Ball,
Hunter S. Thompson,
Bill Murray,
Gilda Radner,
AB FAB,
Are you being served?
Fawlty Towers,
EVERY INFOMERCIAL FUCKING EVER!!!
Steve Martin,
Adam Carolla,
Bill Waterson-Calvin and Hobbes,
Gary Larson - The Far Side ,
and every single comic i work with now. We are the ones that are out there doing it, I wish you all the best luck in this crazy ass business. First one to comedy central wins... GO!!
TV Shows
WHEEL OF FORTUNE... ecstatic friend of winner.
DONT FORGET YOUR TOOTHBRUSH- Ecstatic Winner-
WHAMMY! The All New Press Your Luck!- REALLY ECSTATIC WINNER!!
brian brinegar's Interests
General
LOTS of things interest me...
sometimes it's a woman,
a book,
a good movie,
a shiny bit of tin,
ya know,
stuff
Books
Anything by Hunter Thompson, Vonnegut and Kerouac...Douglas Coupland is an author that should be read by ANYONE looking at this right now...pick up Generation X and Shampoo Planet...
I am from the Los Angeles area and am now living in New England, Maine specifically. I am looking to meet cool, unpredictable, borderline batshit crazy types and get as many of you to my shows as possible!!
I thrive on insane energy and am pretty sure I am going to kill myself on stage some night. FULL CONTACT PHYSICAL COMEDY is my mantra....
I give ONE HUNDRED FREAKIN' PERCENT of myself every night on stage and then look to whoop it up after!!
ARE YOU IN?!
I host the open mic comedy at Slainte every Thursday. We start about 8-ish and it goes till about 10-ish... If you are a comic and are interested in being a part of it, just come on down! I run the show like an A.A. meeting. I basically just talk until someone else has a burning desire and wants to go next. No list, no order... sometimes I just point at people and ask "you ready?"...
Slainte is at 24 Preble Street. Near Monument Square in Portland...
If you are just wanting to come to a great comedy show...
Fan-fucking-tastic!!!
Have I got a room for you!
Slainte is a great place to see a show. You seriously, never know what might happen.
I humped a couch once, fer instance.
A man performed in a diaper.
And Morpheus HIMSELF proclaimed "THAT SHIT AINT FUNNY!!"
so you see, there really is alot going on down there...
you should check it out for your own self...
and if you do come out to a show, stop by and say hi,
who knows, someday we may become lifelong friends that reminisce together years from now about how we met on my space
and how I puked on your shoes....
most of my friends already have that story,
that's why I need you folks.
Sorry it's taken so long for me to get that disk in the mail, i planned to finally get it out Friday, but then I got news my friend was killed by lightning during that bad storm Friday. I will get it out ASAP, just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten you.
Do I remember Hot Pennies? I still have the scars! I also remember putting a nuclear hot penny on my arm and, unable to bear the pain, launched the penny into the air. It then landed inside your shoe, which was on your foot, which was on the Moon Patrol's gas petal. We could have died that day.
and so it goes...
