I'll be performing at the LA Comedy Festival on

Information/Tickets:

Oct 27th, 2007 8:00 PM
Oct 30th, 2007 8:00 PM

Also performing:

Rebecca Addelman
Cocoa Brown
Dante ( From Last Comic Standing )
Mark Gonzalez
Nick Hoff
Jay London ( From Last Comic Standing )
Joe Wilson

http://www.lacomedyfest.com/index.html

This one will be a lot of fun!!!

Mark

www.markgonzalezcomedy.com

Now register her so all us San Diego comics can make it into the finals!

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I know I know, contests suck! But please click the link anyways to sign on and register for me!

I entered an online Comedy Competition. PLEASE click on this link and

http://www.famecast.com/contest/stage50.php?stage_id=6&artist_id=1139

A few months back I went to an open call audition for the Las Vegas Comedy Festival held at the Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip. Coincidentally on that same day a friend of mine was out visiting from New York and was on a bus trip around LA where they show you all the stars homes and famous LA landmarks. During his trip the bus he was on passed by the Laugh Factory. He looked out the windo and yelled  to  his wife  "Hey look It's Mark Gonzalez!" He then proceeded, along with everyone else on the bus, to snap pictures of me. After everyone was done snapping pictures someone asked him. "Who's Mark Gonzalez?"

Now there are people all over the country who have pictures of me in front of the Laugh Factory. All wondering the same thing, "Who's Mark Gonzalez?"

The other night I went out and did a charity fundraiser comedy show in Temecula. These charity/corporate shows can be a real test for a comic because you never know what you are walking into. Sometimes there's a great crowd ready to laugh, and other times you have to compete with the 4 year old who decided that right in front of you would be a great place to start into a break dancing routine.

But this show was different for me because at the end of the comedy show I was asked to help out with the charity auction and my job description went from Mark the Comic to Mark the auctioneer. I guess it went OK because I managed to sell everything for all sorts of crazy money and everyone was happy. The thing that struck me as odd was that one of the items in the auction was a set of baby kittens!?! OK, maybe I don't travel in the same social circle as the people who attend these types of charity event, but when did this become OK? When did the responsibility of taking on the care of another living creature become something you decide to do at the end of an evening of comedy and drinking? Perhaps it was my amazing stage presence and my uncanny ability to sell anything, but some lucky soul walked away with these adorable beauties for only $150. Apparently someone out there didn't know that you can get cats for "FREE" in front of pretty much any grocery store across the country on almost any given Saturday. Damn me and my amazing salesmanship (the bidders never saw it coming).

I'm only posting this because Robert Night, another great comic, was at this event and got to witness with astonishment my amazing auctioneering abilities. Perhaps with practice all aspiring comics out there will someday be able to accomplish the same feat that I did! My comedy career has reached another height: Mark Gonzalez, Cat Auctioneer!