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And here are some preview videos:

Word up,

DeWitt

A commission for the patron of the arts, Sandy Marshal with him and his brother on patrol in Hoth.

Tammy as the Virgin Mary. Gizmo as the baby.

Check out www.usrighthere.com for more webisodes of their talk show and here for the 12 Shiny Nickels website. I’ll be performing this Saturday with host Mike Bridenstein and it’s going to be off the chain.

Now the most retarded (in a good way) talk show ever:

Hey all,

To quote the stoner in who writes shit for The Onion, “It’s been awhile since I rapped at ya..”

Things have been going great in LA. I landed an agent, got taped by NBC for Carson Daly, and moved into a guest house with my fiance.  I also landed several really cool, dorky commissions. The first is pictured above, which is Fred Mowery who commissioned me to put him into the movie The Thing.

Next, a fellow comedian, Jamie Buell hired me to paint his entire imrpov group as a Dungeons and Dragons characters raiding a monster’s lair. This kind of stuff is right up my alley.

Also, I’ll be doing some work for Twelve Shiny Nickels soon so stay tuned for some more sci-fi related geekery.

Sincerley,

Mr. Butt

Another one of my old Finger Men comics. Click to enlarge!

This video absolutely nails how crazy homemade commercials for privately owned businesses are in Chicago. While Big Dog pushes it to the extreme for comedic effect and satire this is not too far off the mark.  In LA for example there is a dude who pretends to have his grandfather haul beds around on his aching back for extra savings.  These guys are very funny and hooked me up with a 30 minute stand up slot while they were visiting LA. Not a bad way to treat a dude.

Things have been going pretty awesome in LA. Tammy landed a paid internship at Fuse TV in their program development department. I’m super pumped for her. On my end, I have a showcase this Friday at 11pm for NBC. It could very well lead to me performing stand up on late night television so definitely come on out and laugh! Check out more details at Twelve Shiny Nickels or A Special Thing. I’m pretty excited about it and feeling great.

Food.

French fries. I really wish that both pizza places and taco dumps could somehow offer french fries as part of a combo. Sometimes I wanna feel exotic and get the nachos bel grande with chicken instead of beef, ,but it would be super awesome if I could scoop up a cube of sour cream covered chicken with a god damn french fry. It’s only natural. Let’s make this happen. This is my perfect drive through meal:

Slice of thin crust pizza.

French Fries.

3 bites of cheeseburger.

Milkshake that turns into soda when you get halfway through. (That way you aren’t thirsty)

2 teriyaki chicken wings.

Pillsbury orange roll.

Can that be a meal, please?

Game Over.

In illustration news, I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for commission work, keep ‘em coming, folks! Email me, dewidiot@gmail.com. Below is my most recent project, Sandy Marshall was really happy with the last one I did for him so he hired me for another one of him and his brother. His brother is an actual soldier so they wanted to be in the Marines from the kick ass classic, Aliens. Word up and enjoy (click to enlarge):

The next one was back to my retarded basics. Comic friends of mine dressed as the niche of dorkiness that they love the most. This one was a joy. My good friend, Sandy Marshall, wanted to be in the world of the 1980 science fiction TV series, “V”.  This was the request, or in the illustration business, what we call a “treatment” :

“A dude dressed in the kick ass V uniforms but a counter agent, killing the reptiles.”

I call it “V for Vengeance”

Hell yes.

Also, I have some really cool gigs coming up. I’m at 12 Shiny Nickles this Friday, the 13th!!ooooooh as well as next Friday the 20th. Definitely, definitely come out and cheer me on for Feb 20th. It’s 11pm at the Gardner stages at Sunset and Gardner. It’s $10, free beer and I’m not fucking around when I say this is the best line up of comics in LA. Dan Bialek and Mark Teich, who run the show are kick ass comics and a really cool dudes. This show is something special. Plus, if you’re a Chicago Comedy fan, John Roy will be there and he’s been all over television in the last couple of years.

Teen Wolf...

Tammy and I were watching Teen Wolf the other day and in one scene where MJF is playing basketball, it really looks like he’s putting down a cup of coffee to get in the team huddle. That made us think, how fucking awful would it be to give basketball players nothing but hot coffee on the sidelines? Can you imagine something worse? Not only would the packets of equal and shit all stick to your finger cause they’re sweaty, but imagine how that hot ass coffee would slosh around while you run and dribble a ball. I think we might make a sketch out of it. I will look great in basketball clothes.

Keep your finger crossed for me. Some cool things I can’t go into detail about are happening. Also, it’s 75 degrees.

She liked that idea but I think the unzippered brain, inspired by a Garbage Pail Kid Card wasn’t really capturing the feminine mystique so, with her direction, it evolved into this:

There…now that’s more like it. Anyway, any comics or show producers out there, I work cheap, fast and  high quality so send me an email (dewidiot@gmail.com) and get it while the getting’s good! Seriously, you know that a good poster or picture for your website is worth the cash. Contact me.

Now onto more retarded fare…

This past weekend I performed at what has to easily be the worst gig I have ever done. My roommate Tony who is a Bartender/Personal Trainer/Actor/Director/Screenwriter and religious Mario Kart player invited me to perform at his company’s holiday party. I admit that I was a little hesitant at first. When I asked if people would even pay attention during the middle of a party he responded, “Dude, everyone is real fuckin’ chill and cool. Don’t worry, they’re good people and plus I’m gonna introduce you so don’t even worry. If anyone gives you any shit I’ll be like, “Hey this is my boy! Y’all need to shut the fuck up!”

That pretty much diverted my fears. Also, Tony planned on dressing like “Miami Vice” for the party. Not a character from the show, but more sort of the general feel of the idea of  “Miami Vice”. Now I could relax. Because if a drunk bartender wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a Mafia hat can’t command the respect of 200 shit-faced waiters, who can?

When we arrived at the party the manager running it had no idea I was doing stand up there. I worry about losing my sense of irony now that I live in LA. Like the pod people. It’s bliss when it takes you over. I sleep until 11 or noon and then get up and draw things. It’s hard to keep that cynical edge. But Tony helps. The party started at 9pm but we didn’t know when I was going to perform. We found out that I was supposed to go on at 10:00 or 10:30 then it was 11:20, finally I was called to perform at 11:35. They put my set in between rounds of Karaoke and the staff raffle with no stage or lights and a Karaoke mic with effects on it. In the middle of a crowded restaurant. Drunk girls trying to get to the bathroom had to walk directly in front of and past me and EVERY TIME they would high five me or lean on my shoulder and say, “Hey, you’re really funny.” all slurred in the middle of my set and it would echo across the room from the Karaoke mic and then everyone would go “Wooooooooo!”.

Tony had to introduce me twice because it was hard to penetrate the roaring din of 200 people spread out across a restaurant partying for free with a single amp Karaoke mic. I had a list of credits that was requested by the DJ and the manager so that I seemed like I was someone important. I went over the list with Tony in the car on the way to the party. I read it to him at the party and gave him a written sheet with the credits on it. This is how it was written and should have gone:

He’s performed at Lollapalooza

Been featured main-stage at The Comedy Store

Featured as a “Hot Now” act on the Front Page of Funny or Die

And headlined at The Chicago Apollo

Please give a warm welcome to, Andrew DeWitt! (Yay! Applause)

This is how it came out from Tony’s mouth:

My friend, he’s my roommate, uh…

Headlined Lollapalooza

Headlined the Comedy Shop

Headlined Funny or Die.com

and uh…dude, what else? Oh yeah, Chicago Apollo

Give it up for my boy!

No mention of my name.

Performing to an eye level crowd in front of a Karaoke projection screen paused on the last lyrics of “This Is How We Do It”  with a bunch of strangers waiting to win iPods from their boss is bizarre to say the least. What was even more disconcerting is that they were standing directly in front of me less than 5 feet away. I tried to follow the advice Tony gave me as he handed me the mic without letting anyone know who I was, “Kill this shit, duuude!”

For this performance I was given two drink tickets, a pack of cigarettes and all the spanakopita I could eat.