Mitch Fatel

How can we laugh as the world slides into chaos? Actually laughter is the only thing that gets us through chaos. No matter how bad life is going the ability to laugh at something is what keeps one from going off the deep end. Maybe that explains why every time my Dad looked at me when I was a kid he would start laughing...  

What punchline have you longed to find a joke for but never quite managed? For the last three years now I've been obsessed trying to write a joke about tan lines. Girls go to terrible lengths to avoid getting tan lines but I've always thought they were sexy. To me it's a very clear-cut way to see exactly the parts you're not supposed to be seeing. I've spent hours upon hours trying to make this premise work and the best I could write was "To me it's the very clear cut way to see exactly the parts you're not supposed to be seeing" Not only did this not get a laugh, the audience was actually very creeped out by me.

If you could call a moratorium on one over-used stand-up premise, what would it be? Tan lines.

Bill Hicks or Bill Cosby? Hicks - but only because I slept with him when I was a comedy groupie.

Does your mother approve of your career choice? That bitch, don't get me started. Recently told me she was proud of me and I was like, well I don't need that now, I needed it when I was a waiter making $300 a week trying to be a stand up. Now that I'm successful and making $350 a week she suddenly loves me.

What's the one subject that you've never been able to make a joke about? Abortion... but... I'm proud to say I just recently completed my first hysterical joke about that, so stay tuned: I will be doing it in Sydney. God, it's good.

If your comedy was a musical genre, what would it be? More of an Artist then a genere. I would say I am Prince back when he was cool. I'm short, sexual and my jokes are my dance moves. Plus he had sex with Apollonia and I masturbated to her.

Of what comedian would you most like to hear about the mysterious, asteroid-collision-related disappearance? I actually like and appreciate all comedians for the fact that... Dane Cook.

Complete: Two men walk into a bar... And Dane Cook steals their jokes.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Dane Cook.

What's the funniest thing about Sydney? Haven't been there yet, but what I'm getting paid is pretty funny... I must really want a trip to Australia is all I'm sayin'.

In 30 words or less, explain what your show is about and why everyone should go and see it. My show is about girls. Who doesn't love girls?