Here’s the transcript of the health care monologue I wrote for my talk show: 6th Century BC Ayurvedic medicine is first used. We were there. 4th Century BC Hippocrates wrote…

In the most boneheaded move of all time, HasanMinhaj.com and I just missed our flight. It truly is a remarkable achievement, given that we stayed up all night to ensure…

How stupid am I? This is a followup to a previous blog post entitled How Smart Am I? in which I “discovered” I’m an 8/10, giving myself a rating based…

Just in case you missed it or are having a hard time finding anything but a local FOX News broadcast that shows only part of it (kudos to ijoke.tv for…

As hot as I think Sarah Palin is (as noted by my previous Facebook status and new standup line: “I used to be against drilling in Alaska but that Sarah…

So, Lehman Bros. went under. Scary times. You know what’s even scarier? The fact that somebody as intelligent as I used to think it was “Lehman’s Terms,” not “layman’s terms.”…

I was in NY this past wknd and the weather turned out to be better than predicted. The one thing you can count on is that weathermen will be wrong….

You always hear about “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But oftentimes those are hard to actually find, like specific examples of media bias. Here’s a good e.g., analyzed by The…

Thanks to my aunt for sending me this great, short Q&A with George Carlin. Very concise answers on what being a comedian is all about. Seinfeld talked about 4 levels…

Interesting stuff: Russell Crowe may play Bill Hicks in an upcoming film. The latter is a comedy legend to comics but unfortunately is not as well-known as he should be….

Thank you to all of the NetIP members for enjoying our show on Sunday night! My co-host, the lovely Melanie Kannokada, and I had a great time. I’d write more…

On Chris Matthews’ show, I caught some of the one-liners from the Democratic National Convention… and our neighbors (Andy & Jen (& Grover)) who had my roommate and me over…

Hats off to my fellow comic Azhar Usman for landing his movie on Apple Trailers!

Joe Biden it is. One of the advantages of being a night owl. You heard it here… 400th, probably. Still working on turning FI.com into your definitive news source.

I often am asked by young comics (of which I am still one) whether they should go into standup full-time. Surprisingly, I usually tell them to become doctors instead. This…

My friend, Eric Campbell, whose wedding I just MCd this month in Chicago as both friend and fellow comic, forwarded to the groomsmen, et al, the review his sister wrote…

An old friend of my Dad’s (Charles Ong) sent this to us actually quite a while back. I went to post it over two years ago but I guess I…

Just felt my 2nd earthquake out here in Southern California… First one was last year at about 1:15 am when both my roommate and I ran out in the main…