Many, many people seem to be interested in the notion of “being” a professional comedian. Not the performance so much (beyond, “Don’t you get nervous?”), but inquiring about the practice of all the processes that go into winding up onstage at the end of most every day. And when it's “Cruise Ship” Comedian...even more so.

Sometimes it’s fun to answer those questions, and I often do. Sometimes, I just want to get back to a podcast that I’m listening to. In those cases, when my airplane seatmate asks, “So what do YOU do?”, responding "IRS Auditor” usually drops a quick curtain on the conversation.

In truth, like most people, I like to “talk” about myself. (I put talk in quotes (“talk”) because it’s really that I’d rather “tell” or “write” about myself than actually speak to humans one-on-one or in small groups. But that’s an issue for another day...or therapy).

Given that circumstance, and my long held, oft-procrastinated, goal of blogging on a semi regular basis, it seems that a situation where readers of this blog (are there any?) can ask questions about the life of a cruise ship comedian; and I, a cruise ship comedian, will attempt to answer them in as honest, humorous and engaging way as I’m able.

Sometimes the answers may be short. “Do you live on the ship??”

Others may be more involved. “Do you enjoy living on the ship?”

But, I’ll try to knock out several a week, have some fun and maybe build some traffic on the site.

So the world is yours, ask away. I’ll answer anything as it pertains to being a comedian in general and a cruise ship comedian in particular. Well...almost. I’m not an idiot, contrary to the opinions of more than one in-law.

There probably are a few questions that I won’t answer (or I’ll just lie about). Like, “How much money do you make?” (Actually, you’d likely be surprised by how often I am actually asked that in person.) I usually just say, “Not as much as American Express would like”. But for the blog, I’d probably try to be more imaginative, answering, “More than I made when I was a paperboy, but less than I did at Goldman-Sachs”. You still don’t have an answer, but that’s OK because it’s really none of your business and now you are fondly remembering that bygone time when paperboys were ambitious kids instead of well...let’s just say “adults with cars that have trouble passing inspection”.

I’m telling you right now, I’m not going to flat out, beat up on my primary benefactor, Fiesta Cruise Lines. They are good to me and I’ll return the courtesy. That said, it’s not always wine and roses and you’ll get the flavor of that too.

So ask away! I’m about the easiest person to get in touch with. If you found this post, then you already have at least two or three ways to get a question to me. Get busy and use one. If the entries are slow in coming in, I might prime the pump and make up the first question or two. I won’t be the first one to make up fake cruise ship questions online…

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