In a few weeks people will be able to climb up the spiral staircase of Cake Spy Shop and come face to face with some of my newest puppets. My new friends include the creatures that frighten and/or fascinate me. There will be clowns, birds, teddy bears and children. You should stop by and make friends with them.

Opening Reception and Friendship Party:

Jan 13th 5-8
CakeSpy Shop
415 E Pine Street

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

So far this is what I have on the books:

SUN-The Beauty Bar Comedy Show!
231 E. 14th st between 2nd and 3rd ave
Sunday 9/19 8:30 pm

WED-The Castlebraid Comedy Festival!

http://castlebraidcomedyfestival.tumblr.com/

Wednesday 9/22 8pm

THU-Comedy as a Second Language!
ar Kabin Bar & Lounge!
92 2nd Ave (btw 5th/6th Sts) 9pm

The above are my booked shows but joketelling seems to randomly happen to me when I am in New York and I also understand that there is a clown festival going on. The possibilities for adventure are limitless.

I will keep you posted.

This will be the third year in a row that something wonderful will happen to Portland this spring. There will be a festival that will take over the Hawthorne street and over a hundred talented people will mingle and perform. It is something special. Some of the comics are nationally known, others nobody has heard of, but all of them are awesome. This festival has a special place in my heart, not only because it is where I was able to work up the courage to ask my wife to marry me last year but because it is an awkward circus of dreams that celebrates the thing that I feel I was made to do. I am looking forward to the great performances and the fellowshipping with people I don’t get to see enough of. I am glad to be part of this. If you have the ability to make it to Portland this is something you should do. If you happen to attend, find me, high fives and hugs will be on me.

for more details:

The Week of Fun on Facebook

The Stranger Suggests (updated daily during the festival)

We all come from different backgrounds and have different holiday traditions. I would like to share something from my culture that I recite every Christmas Eve and let you all know that you will all be in my thoughts tonight.

Oh One in red, oh sainted One,

as you sit upon your icy throne atop the world with your book of judgement open before you,
may you find our names amongst the pages of the righteous and not amongst the pages of the wicked.

Oh One in red, oh bearded One,

as you descend upon us through the cold night air in your chariot drawn by horned beasts with your satchel full of wondrous devices made by the tiny hands of strange and crooked angels,
may you give us the gift of your blessings and not the gift of brimstone, the mark of damnation.

Oh One in red, oh mirthful One,

as you walk through the places of fire and into our homes and stand above our sleeping forms, having dined upon our feeble offerings of milk and sugared cakes,
may you leave our heads uncrushed and our bones unbroken and our bodies unmolested.

Amen

I sincerely hope you all have a great day tomorrow and that we all survive the night.

Happy Holidays

The Holidays are upon us and I wish everyone well. Please enjoy this christmas card made by artist and animator Mark Allendar AKA Pastey Boy. It is my honor to be the voice of the Christmas tree and I hope it fills you with Christmas spirit.

Seattle’s Annex Theatre is one of my favorite places to perform. When they asked me to take part in Not Pants!, a story telling showcase with a story of its’ own, I was delighted.

I will be telling true stories of my youthful misadventures on the Friday the 13th and Friday the 20th that may or may not involve witchcraft, my deflowering and the KGB. Each show will have a handful of some of Seattle’s finest performers. Please consider attending and supporting live performance.

The month of November has brought me some unique performance opportunities and I would like to share them with you, because you are special to me.

Thursday the  5th – I will be opening for celebrated christian musicians/feel gooders, God’s Pottery at Chop Suey

Friday the 6th- I will be performing in the best variety show/drinking game/prize give-away set in the golden age of tv this city has to offer, Get Loweded at the Rebar.

Friday the 13th- I will be telling Mormon ghost stories as part of the storytelling extravaganza, Not Pants at the Annex theatre

Monday the 16th- I will be hosting the much loved showcase of human tragedy/triumph that is the open mic at the Seattle Comedy Underground

Friday the 20th- I will be back at the Annex Theatre for the final show of Not Pants!

Please check out my calendar for more details and updates.

Please consider supporting live performance and attending one of these shows, attend all five and I will make you a present.

xoxo,

Emmett Montgomery