Emmett Montgomery

Seattle Komedy Documentary
Fri 10/15-Sun 10/17
9:30 Film, Q&A after
Central Cinema
1411 21 Avenue Seattle WA 98122

http://www.central-cinema.com/

This is from the first annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival afterparty at the house of festival founder Andy Wood. The brilliant and drunk James Adomian is doing an impression of the brilliant and eccentric Brody Stevens. I have no idea what I am doing in the background, most likely I am being drunk and brilliant and eccentric or at least two of those things.

During my first trip to New York in 2007, I was asked by the people I was staying with if I wanted to be part of a music video. We went to a church in Brooklyn and spent the next couple hours shooting this single shot “organic” video. I make my appearance at 2:39. It was an interesting experience.

Dear life,

Ever since I found stand-up comedy, I have felt that it was the thing that I was meant to do. Over the past six years I have been able to tell jokes on both sides of the country, perform in and produce some amazing shows and meet some amazing people. Telling jokes has made me a better writer and a more prolific artist and opened a creative door in my head that I couldn’t close if I wanted to. It is time to focus on that full time.
I have found myself in the terrible cycle of not being able to do all the amazing things I want to do because I have to work too much and working too much because I wasn’t making money from being awesome.
I had to choose from the two lives I was living and I made more the more reckless and romantic choice.
I came to the decision that the world will always have somebody to coordinate large scale pizza delivery but there are not enough puppets or poop jokes inside of it.
October 1st was my last day at my very supportive grown-up job and now armed with a pocketful of dreams and a very supportive wife, I attempt to pursue the thing I feel I am supposed to do, living off the creative talents the universe has cursed me with.
Please join me at the Seattle Comedy Underground on October 12th as I celebrate my 6th year comedy “birthday” and the beginning of this new chapter in my life. If you can’t make it I understand but don’t worry my calendar is becoming full and awesome and we will have many opportunities for sharing.
In the meantime, I would appreciate if you examined your lives for any holes that could be filled with joketelling, puppets or amazing facial hair and consider me as the person to plug them.

xoxo,

Emmett Montgomery