Happy Thoughts!!!
or "Sixth Issue"
Greeting (because I am only doing one of them, is why),
I hope that it is Monday because I needed to send this out on Monday and what was I going to say oh yes I hope you are having a nice Monday.
An anonymous person (Lorenzo) told me this week that they (he) have (has) been reading my (JT’s) newsletters and that I need to start putting show-related info at the beginning of the newsletters where people will see it and not at the end where people have maybe lost focus by the time they get to that part. And while that sounds like a radical adjustment, I have some hugely important news this week and so I think I might give their suggestion a try (that’s Lorenzo Giovanni Benedetto Bartolozzi of 3012 Shrine Place Los Angeles, CA 90007).
Which is to say that I am delighted to announce the first-ever HAPPY THOUGHTS COMEDY SHOW, taking place this Saturday, July 3 at 7:00pm in North Hollywood. The show is co-produced and co-created and co-everythinged by me and my good friend/hilarious comedian/TikTok star Karan Menon, whom some of you might remember as my co-winner at the UCLA Gigglefest standup competition in late 2019. I am realizing now that I am apparently destined to do a lot of co-things with him and that is a prospect about which I truly could not be more co-excited.
In keeping with the suggestion of Mr. Bartolozzi (SSN: 358-01-5259), I’ll go ahead and put the ticket link here for those of you who need no further convincing.
Karan is hosting this first show, and the lineup features some of our favorite comedians in the whole entire world, and whose material we know you will absolutely love. Below are the two official posters for HAPPY THOUGHTS. Any other poster you see circulating out there on the web is a fake.
1 of 2:
2 of 2:
It took me very many long grueling hours to make these posters. People (my mom) have told me that they are generally impressed by them and I am only passing that information along because I am usually shit at making posters but I am definitely very proud of these two. Also my mom didn’t actually say that because I didn’t tell her about the show because we are working on boundaries this week* but don’t worry because lots of other people have passed along their lukewarmest compliments also too, in addition.
*year
HAPPY THOUGHTS is taking place at an indoor comedy club called The Comedy Chateau, located at 4615 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood CA. The following are directions to this address from just about anywhere you might be.
From the 101 South (Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Francisco):
Keep left on the 134 East toward Pasadena.
Exit onto Vineland Avenue.
(if you reach Huston Street, you’ve gone too far)
Turn right onto Hortense Street.
Turn right onto Lankershim Boulevard.
Pass through the encampment of homeless people.
The destination is on your right.
From the 5 South (Sacramento, Seattle, Vancouver):
Merge onto the 170 South toward Hollywood.
Exit onto Riverside Drive.
Accidentally veer into the median because you were texting.
(if you cross the median and enter oncoming traffic, you’ve gone too far)
Regain control of your vehicle and assume a steady pace of 60mph in an explicitly marked 25mph zone.
Take a slight right turn onto Lankershim Boulevard.
Stop and give some loose change to the nicer-looking members of the homeless encampment.
The destination is on your right.
From the North Korean State Railway System (Soryong-Dong, Pyongyang, Haeju):
Exit at Kaesong Railway Station.
Merge into South Korea.
(if you are captured and detained by the North Korean People’s Internal Security Forces, you haven’t gone far enough)
Board United Airlines flight 892 out of Incheon International Airport.
Arrive in Burbank 36 hours later, wearing kitschy tourist clothing purchased during refreshing but extended layovers in Denver and San Francisco.
Use promo code “WE’LLPICKYOUUP” at checkout for 15% off a compact or mid-size car rental at the Enterprise Rent-a-Car office on the far side of the airport.
Merge onto the 134 West toward Ventura.
Exit onto Lankershim Boulevard.
Open a joint IRA account with some of the apparent spiritual leaders of the homeless encampment.
The destination is on your right.
Here is a photo of me in my prime. I am the baby and not the grown man.
Here now is already the conclusion of this email, probably because I have been putting so much work into this show that is going to be so awesome. It is likely apparent that I am somewhat reluctant to eschew my usual dry verbal delivery in these emails in favor of an appropriately excited tone over this thing that we have poured blood sweat tears and a Photoshop subscription into and that I keep compulsively hyperlinking whenever I mention it.