I'm NOT a number!!!

Well, folks we’re winding down the summer and planning on ending it with a bang…

This Friday night at 9pm, I’m in Redfield, NY at The Reservoir Inn with Tom Myers, Ron Bender and Eric Kirkland…

Thursday, August 27th at 930pm I’ll be appearing at Chet Wild’s Comedy Showcase at The Comedy Club in Webster, NY… A comedy extravaganza of 15 comics including the return of Mike “The Pickle” Dambra to the Rochester comedy scene… Welcome home, Mike!!!

Then Saturday, August 29th at 9pm, I’ll be in North Rose, NY at Waypoint with Mike Burns and Cal Verduchi…

These shows promise to be a great time and outstanding lead-in for the Steve “The Nuclear Guy” Expecting Criticality @ Anytime DVD Bash… Sunday, September 6th 730pm at The Comedy Club in Webster, NY…

We’ll be producing my first full length DVD… We’re planning on a three-camera shoot, with plenty of audience reaction shots… So come on out and be a part of it… With Host Dan Maslyn plus Special Guests Tizo Maduro and Tim Shea… This show is sure to be a Nuclear Holocaust of Laughter…

I know my recent posts have been nothing more than a regurgitating of my upcoming calendar… I admit the grind of the road had stifled some of my creative juices for coming up with anything new… Instead the times I might have had to write I was content to mindlessly surf the Internet…

But I’m learning to take inspiration from where ever I can find it…

Yesterday, I got some… Though not necessarily positive inspiration, I will say considering the source, it’s not surprising it’s of the negative variety… There’s just always going to be people who just take themselves a little too seriously… Luckily, for the rest of the world… God created comedians to make fun of these miserable bags of wind…

But for now I’ll digress to set the stage for you…

When first discussing a date for my DVD Bash, I picked September 6th since it was to be the day after my 35th High School Reunion… Many of my high school classmates would be returning to the Rochester area for the Labor Day Holiday Weekend to attend the reunion and hopefully the DVD Bash as well…

Creating an event on Classmates.com I began promoting the show right along side the upcoming reunion… I also sent emails to those classmates I had an active email address for…

A few weeks ago, while touring the Midwest… I received a mass email from the reunion organizers that due to poor response the reunion had been cancelled… At the time I postulated that since it was our 35th reunion maybe too many of us were already dead… Some I think have never learned to live…

A few days ago another mass email arrived stating that some classmates were organizing an un-official reunion for the same night Saturday, September 5th at a local establishment in Greece, NY… Great!!! I replied I would plan on attending, also forwarding to all recipients a reminder about my DVD Bash the following day…

This included an email address specifically set up for classmates to connect with each other… Per the email contained below explaining that to me…

“Please do not send any more such emails to this address. It was not set up to provide support for your side line, it was designed so classmates had a central place to maintain connection with.“

John C.

Well, as I stated earlier God created comedians to make fun of miserable bags of wind who have never learned to live… So let me remind you, John that… One, I am/was a classmate… Two, I was making a connection… Three, sideline is one word… Sister Mary Miserable must have missed your knuckles with her ruler the day we learned to spell that word… Three, it’s not a sideline… It’s how I make my living… I’ve been on tour all over the country… While you’ve been in Rochester obviously feeling bitter and rotten…

I’m not a doctor… I’m not the President, so I don’t play one on TV… But they say laughter is the best medicine and personally you sound like someone who could use a good laugh…

I spent more than 20 years working at a career I came to despise… Until finally realizing I could waste a whole lifetime trying to be what I thought was expected of me, but I’d never be free…

A new sense of freedom came banging on my door that day… From deep down inside me… From somewhere in my past… A dream reached out and grabbed my completely and I knew what meant… I was happy to find out, even though late… I wasn’t just a number…

Life is bright in front, now… The dark is behind… Livin’ for the now that’s between the bridges and the signs… There’s still a long way to go… But while others dream and wish… This everything I officially need to know… Am I happy??? You bet I am!!!

When was the last time you saw a smile??? There’s a scream on every silent face wanting to be free… I bring a smile to those faces each and every day!!!

So don’t tell me what I do is wrong… Don’t preach ‘cuz you don’t know… ‘Cuz I was left without a chance such a short time ago… And anything is better than being battered and bruised…

So revel in your Catholic guilt… It won’t buy you heaven while making your life a hell…

God has given me my dream and told me to follow Him where the ice is so thin… So I’m not slowing down… ‘Cuz every second counts…

Have a great day… Every one of mine are wonderful, I wish the same for everybody!!! It’s never too late to learn to live and even miserable bags of wind need love, too…

Love,
Steve

Road Blog

Ok, I’m going to try and get this written… It’s late and my eyes aren’t working too well… But I’ll try… I don’t even have a title for it yet and that’s usually what comes to me first…

Did the first night of an almost two week run of shows across the Midwest last night… After a 10and a half hour drive across western NY and the province of Ontario…I made it to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan… It’s funny what kind of things pop into your mind while you’re alone in the car for all that time…

Things came popping in and then out of my mouth while I was on stage that and it felt like damn that’s the way it’s supposed to happen… Luckily I was carrying a pen and paper… And quickly wrote them down when I got off stage…

I’m glad I’m not Amish… I spent ten and a half hours in the car to get here yesterday… I certainly don’t want to have to ever spend ten and a half hours in a buggy staring at a horse’s ass the whole way…

Yes, that’s the same thing my ex-wife said about being in the car with me…

Did the second show of this run tonight in Sault Ste. Marie… I’m pretty far north… Saw lots of signs that said, “Bridge may be icy.” No, shit!!! We know the roads are icy this far north in the wintertime… Despite the warnings of the global warming alarmists… I’m convinced they put those signs up to warn drivers about the chance of ice up here the rest of the year!!!

Okay, I’m not going to tell you all my new jokes… Come see a show!!!

Friday night is a travel night and I’m looking forward to my stop in Green Bay to see my sister in-law… My wife just visited last month… We’ll teach her to skip the family picnic again!!!

Well, I’m sitting on her front porch locked out of the house… She’s still at work… It’s raining but it’s a covered porch and comfortable… I’ll give her some shit about later… She was my favorite sister in-law after all…

Saturday night I’ll be in Milwaukee for two shows and I’m looking forward to meeting some other Natarelli’s… Contacted on facebook by someone with the same last name, we can’t figure out if we’re related… I don’t think so… But they are coming to the early show Saturday night… That’s kind of cool…

I’m working with a comic who grew up in Milwaukee, but who lives in Las Vegas now… Kathleen Dunbar… Very funny lady and she’s also picked us up another show for Sunday evening in southern Wisconsin with a comic friend of hers who books a room there… He asked her if she could bring a feature and I just happen to be open… Got to like it when that happens!!!

Still waiting to hear if I will get a spot on the Monday Zanies Showcase in Chicago…

Next Wednesday and Thursday I’ll be at Bogey’s in Cleveland for the Pro/Am night Wednesday and a guest spot Thursday… Couldn’t drive home through Cleveland without a stop there… If all goes well, it’ll mean real work there…

There are two up coming local shows in August… Friday the 21st at The Reservoir Inn in Redfield with Tom Myers, Ron Bender (both coming up from the Baltimore area) and Eric Kirkland coming in from Ohio… And Saturday the 29th at Waypoint Fine Food and Dining in North Rose with Syracuse’s own Mike Burns and New Jersey’s Cal Verduchi…

The summer will be wrapped up with a bang Labor Day weekend… I won’t be attending the second show at Jericho Joe’s Roadhouse in Chateaugay, NY… But I’ve booked them a kick ass show with Feature Mike “Mack” McKenna and Headliner Rick Carino, both from Connecticut… They are bringing along Sean Moran to act as MC and a bunch of their friends for the show…

I had hoped to be attending my 35th HS Reunion the following day, but that’s been cancelled… I hope it doesn’t mean too many of us are already dead…

Sunday September 6th I’ll be taping my first full length DVD “Expecting Criticality at Anytime” at The Comedy Club in Webster, NY… With MC Dan Maslyn, Ralph Teeta had originally been planning on being a part of this show, but a schedule change finds him replaced by Tizo Maduro and one other comic to fill in time and invite many friends before I headline the show.
The following Sunday I’ll be hosting a benefit for AIDS Rochester at The Comedy Club with Headliner and Bette Midler impersonator Donna Maxon, Cher impersonator Steven Andrade and Samantha Vega as Tina Turner… A good cause and a really interesting and fun evening it should be…

Sitting back reading this though I am left feeling I could have just posted my calendar…

Sorry it’s not more creative… Needless to say we’ve been busy… This years LUAU was another great success and Eileen and I have just celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary… Taking advantage of a cancellation that weekend we took in the Bob Nelson show at The Comedy Club… Reliving what turned out to be our first date at the old Comix Café… It was a night of good, hard and clean belly laughs… Bob is truly an amazing performer.

It was great to see family and friends turn out for the LUAU especially some of the smiling faces I’ve missed from the R. E. Ginna Nuclear power plant… Mary and Sean visiting from NYC and another sister in-law visiting from California…

Thanks to everyone who showed up to help make it a success…A special kudos to Ralph Tetta for his marathon man driving prowess to make it back into town on time to get him and his family out to the party… You can check his blog for that story…

Okay, my battery is almost dead as I still sit on the front porch apparently stealing a wireless signal from somewhere… So I better get this posted…

See ya!!!