07/10: Long-awaited stand-up comeback in progress

After a lengthy hiatus to recover from burnout, I'm back in the saddle and ready to blow your brain out. (It's visuals like this one that forced me to tag my site "mature".) I'm currently developing a new one-man comedy show, and I'll be posting scripts, development material, video clips, and over the next few months, a whole album's worth of original studio comedy. This year's goals: a full CD of original studio material by September, and a DVD's worth of live performances even sooner than that. Watch this site for...

• Free time-limited video and audio downloads of recent performances and studio-recorded setpieces. You won't get this stuff on Youtube! (At least, not until they reinstate my account...it's a long story.) Get 'em while you can...once they're pulled from distribution, the only place you'll be able to find those clips and cuts will be on future CD/DVD releases.
• Hey, comics, free material alert: Full working scripts online! Ever wonder how comics develop and rehearse their material? See pieces in development before they're ever performed with the same word-for-word scripts and directions that I rehearse from. Hell, you could learn my jokes before I do! And if you're a comic, feel free to steal away...a good joke rarely suffers from being told by more than one unknown! Just be decent enough to offer your own advice if you do end up using my stuff.
• Call the shots in my show by telling me what you think of my stuff. Use the contact link upper left of every page to write me and tell me what's working and where I'm just jerking. In return for your input, you'll receive credit for your jokes (sorry...I no longer accept cash) and a chance to spin the Wheel of Swag for Cubby Lea branded cash and prizes! (Please be aware that below the "A"-club level, comedy performers rank slightly below mimes on a chart of worst-paid professionals in the entire entertainment world. So don't expect platinum production values on the DVDs, double seams on the t-shirts or tolerable lead levels in the coffee mugs, okay?)

Seriously, I'm good. Jake Johanssen good. Gilbert Gottfried good! Myq Kaplan good!! And you get to earn easy cool points by being able to prove that you thought I sucked months before anyone else you know had even heard of me! I mean, take a close look at this website. Just look at it. If this website...hell, if my whole life isn't the most obfuscated setup line to a joke within three spiral arms on the galactic rim, then tofu isn't a building material.

06/10: Long-awaited stand-up debut falls flat

After an exceptionally well-received recitation performance several months ago, I accepted an offer from a local organization to perform a stand-up routine and I finally debuted my very first 40-minute stand-up set on June 10.

I lasted exactly 20 minutes before receiving a hasty, unscheduled thank-you from the host.

An actual stand-up comic was in attendance that night, and while she reassured me that the set was underappreciated, the fact is that the audience is always the final arbiter. I confess I hadn't counted on them taking such big arbites.

11/09: New e-mail address

Totally fed up with my previous Internet provider, I've switched providers and as a consequence have a new e-mail address. Mail sent to my former address will NOT be received; please use the new address shown on the contact page.

07/08: Contact page fixed

Sorry as hell if you tried to reach me or didn't get a reply from me. Last year I closed my cublea.net mailbox when I realized that my spam/wanted-mail ratio had topped 1000/1 and filters weren't helping matters. I have changed my permanent e-mail address to my provider's account and can now be reached at the address shown here. Sincerest apologies if this has caused any discomfort or inconvenience...I did update the contact page but for some reason the update "reverted".

07/08: Rumor control: not dead yet

Contrary to rumors circulating around the 'net, I'm not dead...just very unproductive.

A few years back I was forced by severe exhaustion to stop work and I'm not sure if or when I'll be able - or interested in - maintaining this website. I'm doing reasonably well given the circumstances (assuming you give a shit), but not to the point of being interested in resuming work on a website for fun or profit.

So are we clear? The rumor is false...I am not dead, except perhaps in certain allegorical contexts. The recent passing of my father may be somewhat related to this rumor. Yes, I did snap a hipbone early in '07 but I'm more or less fully rehabilitated in that regard, and yes I do have a chronic condition which saps my energy, but it is not AIDS, though time will tell whether AIDS might have been preferable.