Aug 05 2008
About
Good evening! This is your host Michael (Mike) Ock, and I’d like to thank you all for stopping by . I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but let me first tell you a little story. Way back when I was a young whipper snapper, and had more than half a face, I used to be a pretty funny guy. I was voted most likely to get punched out for making smart ass comments. Hey, I can’t help it if my Gluteus Maximus has an above average IQ. Some might have even said I was the class clown, hey I didn’t mind what they called me. At least all the hot chicks let me hang out with them, cause I made’m laugh.
On fire with a passion for Steve Martin’s humor and his amazing first movie “The Jerk,” there were times when I thought I might want to follow him and become a comedian. It was probably fear, or the unwillingness to eat dogfood until I made it big, but life went on without me, and without my dreams of being a comedian.
Then one day I woke up dead, dead to the life that had abandoned me. But I had a new hero, Jon Stewart, someone whose sense of humor matched mine and ignited my imagination. I did some brainstorming. Basically all I need to do for that these days is look in a mirror. So I thought to myself, in this new after-life that I’m currently enjoying, there is nothing I would rather do than work on “The Daily Show.” Hey, when you only have half a brain, you can come with some pretty kooky ideas.
And so everyone needs to start somewhere, if I’m to perfect the craft of creating fake news, then like all endeavours, I have to practice. Maybe I should go work for Fox News to get some additional practice? Who knows where this will go? Maybe someone will catch wind of my half-baked writing and offer me a gig at “The Onion” and then it will be on to “The Daily Show.” I just hope that it happens sooner than later, becuase I’m not getting any fresher here, and you won’t want to get a whiff of me if this takes too long.
