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Ed Murray

General Info

  • TV Shows

    I've appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Hawking where I performed with my 12-piece indie-rock, celtic, alt-ringtone band, "Johnny Buttcheeks and the Cheeksters."

    The show airs hourly in Ghana ...

    ... on a sundial.

  • Website

    thirdevolution.blogspot.com

  • Bio

    My writing has been featured in the NYT’s Bestseller ’The 4-Hour Workweek’, McSweeney’s, 23/6, whitehouse.org, Yankee Pot Roast, Black20, and Jest Magazine.

    Third Place in the 2008 New York Undergound Comedy Festival’s Emerging Comics Contest.

    Winner of 2006 $10K Sal’s Comedy Hole Laugh-Off. I blew the money in a month ... what? It a great month.

    You can hear me on Sirius Radio’s "The Maxim Channel" every now and then.


  • Members

Blurbs

About me:

I write comedy. I perform comedy. I produce comedy. I spin gingham.

comedy free williamsburg
every wednesday
hosted by ed murray and john knefel

Every Wednesday. Show @ 8pm.

@ Sound Fix Lounge
110 Bedford Ave/N 11th
(L to Bedford, 3 Blocks North or G to Nassau)

comedy free williamsburg NYEve 2008 Thingie @ SOUND FIX

NEW YEAR'S EVE NO COVER, GREAT SHOW, CHEAP DRINKS, 8PM

.. FEATURING
TED ALEXANDRO (comedy central presents)
SEAN PATTON (montreal comedy festival)
HANNIBAL BURESS (late late show w/craig ferguson)
ROB CANTRELL (last comic standing, marijuana-logues)
JOHN KNEFEL (huffington post, 23/6)

.. Hosted by Me (I'll abstain from the parenthetical credit ...)
w/Mo Diggs (the apiary)

Go to: Third Evolution or ..subscribe.. to it in my blog section.I'm on myspace to reconnect with the high school buddies such as the heavyweight captain of the wrestling team who sat on my face and forced me to sing, in it's entirety, the ballad 'You Are Not Alone' from Into the Woods.

Who I'd like to meet:

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Hometown: Michigan, New York
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Zodiac Sign: Aries
  • Education: Grad / professional school
  • Occupation: Personal Hostility Coach

Interests

  • Music

    Yes.

  • Movies

    Yes.

  • Books

    Lolita. Crime and Punishment. Brave New World/Revisited. Wonder Boys. Jim the Boy. The Corrections. Strange Ritual. White Noise. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (fuck off, there's no such thing as 'too clever' ... look beyond a review every now and then.) The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Trust Us We're Experts. Toxic Sludge is Good For You. The Power of Myth. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. A People's History of the United States. A Course in Miracles. The Art of Dreaming. Man and His Symbols. LOTR. Skinny Legs and All. I Killed. Love in the Time of Cholera. Mr. Happy. A Wrinkle in Time. Agent of Evolution. Love All the People (LISTEN TO BILL HICKS.)
    Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman explains America in a few hundred pages; read it and survive the upcoming Cognitive Plague.

  • Heroes

    I hate the label "Heroes" so let's call them "Appreciated Influences."

    Bill Hicks. Nabokov. Coltrane. Sarah Kane. Joseph Campbell. Brecht. Lady Day. George A. Romero. Miles Davis. Judee Sill. Dr. Seuss. DMB. Twyla Tharp. Richard Pryor. Myles Horton. Rashaan Roland Kirk. Sarah Vaughan. Hallucinogenics. Ralph Nader. George Antheil. R. Crumb. Nellie McKay. Lenny Bruce. Harold Ramis. Eric Dolphy. Michael Moore. Lorne Michaels. Vonnegut. Immortal Technique. Feist. The State. David Lynch. Bo Schembechler. Ella. Tom Waits. Mr. Show. Graphomania. Meredith Monk. Wolverine. Wolverines. Carlos Casataneda. Cigarettes ... Fucking Cigarettes ... Tom Robbins. Stephen King. Laura Nyro. George Grosz. Bill Murray. Eminem. David Byrne. Tracy Letts. George Carlin. My Shrink. Emily.
    Anyone who isn't afraid to seek Truth.
    Anyone who isn't afraid to face Truth.
    Anyone who isn't afraid to speak Truth.
    Anyone who isn't afraid to drag bullshitters face-first through their own bullshit.
    LIVING COMICS I DIG: Doug Stanhope, Chris Rock, Rick Overton, Eddie Izzard, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Lewis Black, Paul Mooney, Bonnie McFarlane, Jessica Kirson, Joe DeRosa, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Robert Schimmel, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Larry David, Dave Attell, Drew Hastings, Jim Gaffigan, Joe DeVito, Eddie Murphy (1981-1989 RIP), Jim Norton, Tom McCaffrey, Kurt Metzger, Pat Dixon, Joe Rogan, Maria Bamford, Eric Andre, Tom Rhodes, Eddie Brill, Ted Alexandro.

    A DEAD COMIC I DIG WHO I WISH WERE A LIVING COMIC I DIG: Mitch Hedberg.....

    COMICS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT: Tim Warner, Mike Drucker, Alex Grubard, Jesse Popp, Jon Clarke, Yannis Pappas, John Knefel, Becky Ciletti, Sue Ball, John F. O'Donnell, Mike Dobbins, Maddog Mattern, Chris Laker, Sean Patton, Dan Goodman, Mark Normand, Bob Bell, Billy the Kid, SIM.

Schools

  • New York University

    • New York,New York
    • Graduated: 2003
    • Degree: Master's Degree
    2001 to 2003

  • University Of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    • Ann Arbor,Michigan
    • Graduated: 1998
    • Student status: Alumni
    1998 to 2001

  • Lansing Community College

    • Lansing,Michigan
    • Graduated: N/A
    • Student status: Alumni
    1995 to 1998

  • Kalamazoo College

    • Kalamazoo,Michigan
    • Graduated: N/A
    • Student status: Alumni
    1994 to 1995

  • Holt Senior High School

    • Holt,Michigan
    • Graduated: 1994
    • Student status: Alumni
    1992 to 1994

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