I first saw Myq Kaplan on stage at Caroline’s on Broadway. I rarely got to perform there, so like any responsibly struggling comedian, I would pop in on occasion, usually en route to my less coveted spots for the night. It was a Saturday and Myq was on stage for…

Do you suppose the transition from life into death is as unbearably confounding as that of “death” into life? Suddenly we will be thrust into a world where we are practically blind, if not seeing through a blurred fog, and if discomfort should arise, should we feel exhausted, hungry, filthy…

One of the best jokes I ever wrote was about suicide. It wasn’t a “suicide bit,” making light of one of life’s darkest subjects, not some lazily scripted satire of someone I disliked or disagreed with. Too many comedians recycle the punch line: “Just kill yourself,” to follow some hypothetical…

Last week I went to a sports bar on 3rd Avenue with my brothers to watch the hockey, basketball, and baseball games all at once — a true bro-fest that would make my wife shutter, we found a bar that had great outdoor seating with big screen TV’s lining the…

You cannot be truly “anti-racist” — whatever that means — until you are comfortable and honest about your relative hatred for every group, that is including your own. …

Do not take the following as medical advice. This is a theoretical relation of one individual’s experience, and you should consult a physician with all health questions. As a practitioner of holistic medicine — an acupuncturist — some people assumed over the winter that I might be against Maxine —…

Last week, while preparing to leave the office was the first time I was reminded of this experience we were robbed of last year. As I cleaned up and got ready to leave, I could see the beautiful orange sunset reflecting, somehow off of every window in our space. I…

It makes me sad, that for some reason most memories of my father’s true personality — before his “elder decline” — are closer to vague snippets, moments of response or general photographs, as opposed to videos of detailed dialogue and exchange. Maybe it’s because I did too many drugs in…

Recall the snowstorm from this week. How could we forget? If you turn on the news during any severe storm the coverage is equal to O.J. in the white bronco or 9/11 — you’d think coronavirus had been globally eradicated. OK, fine, it was 16 inches in Central Park —…