My mom swears I was conceived
backstage at a Tijuana donkey show,
I grew up in Fresno,
my arms are skinny and my ribs show,
I once sleepwalked to the foot of my bed and peed
on a poster of the solar system,
and I can do crazy things with your wallet
and a bucket of lard.
Website
scotchwichmann.com
Influences
Bobcat Goldwaithe,
Robin Williams,
Richard Pryor,
John Belushi,
John Candy,
Crispin Glover,
Andy Kaufman,
Christopher Walken,
Steve Martin,
Chevy Chase,
Kurtis Matthews,
André Breton,
Woody Allen,
performance artist John White,
Rudolf Schwarzkogler,
Bas Jan Ader,
Joseph Beuys,
Deleuze and Guattari,
Bukowski,
André Breton,
Marcel Duchamp
Scotch's Interests
General
Freaks, celebrities, my insane boss, inbreeding, hypochondria, criminals, UFOs, all things spazzy, schizophrenia, performance art, crunchy electronica, the pitiful decline of the hairy straight white man, and making you laugh until beer sprays out your nose.
Music
AC/DC,
Aphex Twin,
Beastie Boys,
Björk,
Blevin Blectum,
Bob Dylan,
Camille,
Carpenters,
Cibo Matto,
Cut Chemist,
David Bowie,
Depeche Mode,
DJ Shadow,
Echo and The Bunnymen,
Édith Piaf,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Elvis Costello,
Erasure,
Fleetwood Mac,
Franz Ferdinand,
Hall and Oates,
Hole,
Jane Siberry,
John Coltrane,
Kansas,
Kate Bush,
King Tubby,
Kraftwerk,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Reed,
Louis Armstrong,
Matmos,
Metallica,
Miles Davis,
Muse,
New Order,
OMD,
Pink Floyd,
Primus,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
REO Speedwagon,
Rush,
Sarah Vaughn,
Sigue Sigue Sputnik,
Squarepusher,
Steely Dan,
Supertramp,
Suzanne Vega,
The Avalanches,
The Beatles,
The Chemical Brothers,
The Clash,
The Cure,
The Eagles,
The Orb,
The Psychedelic Furs,
The Rolling Stones,
The Smiths,
The Violent Femmes,
The White Stripes,
Thelonious Monk,
They Might Be Giants,
Tina Turner,
Underworld,
U2,
Virgil Shaw,
Ween,
Wobbly
Movies
16 Candles,
2001,
Blade Runner,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,
Chinatown,
Buffalo 66,
Deliverance,
The Clockwork Orange,
Aphex Twin's Rubber Johnny,
The Conversation,
The Maltese Falcon,
The Godfather,
Coming Apart,
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back,
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan,
Taxi Driver,
Barfly,
Trainspotting,
The Shining,
Silence of the Lambs,
Brazil,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
12 Monkeys,
Naked Lunch,
Lost Highway,
Eraserhead,
Gummo,
Julien Donkey-Boy,
Scorpio Rising,
Meshes of the Afternoon,
Un chien andalou,
Le Gros et le maigre,
Fargo,
Barton Fink,
Be Kind Rewind,
The Big Lebowski,
Pulp Fiction,
Silence of the Lambs,
Sex, Lies and Videotape,
The Princess Bride,
Breakfast Club,
Ishtar (there's a wardrobe of love in my eyes...),
Alien,
Heat,
Uncle Buck,
Spies Like Us,
National Lampoon's Vacation,
Hudson Hawk
Television
Saturday Night Live,
Arrested Development,
Twin Peaks,
The X-Files,
Star Trek (with Shatner),
David Letterman,
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
60 Minutes,
Miami Vice,
Black Belt Theater,
Greatest American Hero,
M*A*S*H,
In Search Of,
That's Incredible,
Dallas,
Deadwood,
Project Runway (innnn or you're aaahout),
Dexter
Books
Mort à crédit (Céline),
Hollywood (Bukowski),
You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (Bukowski),
What Work Is (Levine),
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess),
Light in August (Faulkner),
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien),
Lolita (Nabakov),
Finnegans Wake (Joyce),
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey),
The World According to Garp (Irving),
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway),
Heart of Darkness (Conrad),
Hamlet (Shakespeare),
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison (Abbott),
The Shining (King),
Hannibal (Harris),
The Ninja (Lustbader),
The Surrealist Manifesto,
The Bible
SCOTCH WICHMANN
is a rising stand-up comedian who's zany work has been
described as "eating, snorting, and freebasing...then reaching for the turkey baster"
by the SF Chronicle. With hilariously real, raw, and spazzy takes on everything from bosses with mullets to
kooky psychiatrists, he's appeared on stages like New York City's famous
Gotham Comedy Club
and can be seen cutting his chops weekly at
San Francisco's underground
Comedy Clubhouse—voted
the hottest comedy club in SF by Yelp and AOL!
Scotch got his start as a writer and performance artist with his live works appearing
at the L.A. Performing Arts Center, MOCA, LACE, HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica Museum
of Art, DA Gallery, the Claremont Graduate School, and the University of California.
A former protégé of 1970s L.A. performance art cult figure John White,
Scotch co-founded L.A.'s improv Kung Fu Theatre and Fisheye Mongrel groups
in the mid-90s and he works increasingly in film and TV—he played an
overgrown sex baby in the indie OUTER SUNSET (2007), and literally
folded himself into a killer's suitcase for the late-night TV
commercial HACKSAW that received high marks from SHOOT Magazine.
Following a two-year stint as a radio announcer for 1340 KKAM in Fresno,
California, Scotch moved to San Francisco's untamed Tenderloin district where
he helped attract a swarm of press from CNN, NBC, FOX, NPR,
Maxim,
the Washington Post,
and the New York Times as the junkie spokesman for cracked-out coffee
company Meth Coffee.
I'd Like to Meet: God, Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, David Letterman, Crispin Glover, Christopher Walken, John Belushi, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, John Candy, John C. Reilly, Marcel Duchamp, Marie Antoinette, Fidel Castro, Houdini, André Breton, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a smarty pants literary agent with big balls
Thanks Scotchman. It's funny that's the first time I think I've ever skirted a stage personae, just as far as dropping my delivery speed WAAAY down. It was strangely fun and it seemed to work with them.
Hey, man. I just wanted to thank you for being the 1st one who said they'd stay for me when I showed up late. :-) It made others follow suit. You're the best.
Wow! You are so cool! I look like Donna Reed on here! Hope you are performing allll the time. You are special, unique and HI-sterical! Strike a pose! Live the dream! See you soon! xo Joanie
Thanks for making me look like a freakshow on the bus. I read the comments you left me while I was on the most silent bus ride I've ever been on in my whole life and I was cracking up. I love your interpretation of Gingerballs. You rule. True story.
SCOTCH WICHMANN
is a rising stand-up comedian who's zany work has been
described as "eating, snorting, and freebasing...then reaching for the turkey baster"
by the SF Chronicle. With hilariously real, raw, and spazzy takes on everything from bosses with mullets to
kooky psychiatrists, he's appeared on stages like New York City's famous
Gotham Comedy Club
and can be seen cutting his chops weekly at
San Francisco's underground
