No. I don't know if I could pull it off, because I don't have any improv experience. My videos are heavily scripted. I do want to try my hand at standup comedy, but that won't be in character.
You occasionally have special effects and quite sophisticated editing. Is it all self-financed?
I've been self-employed since 2003, and one of my gigs is video production and animation for a major phone company. If you've been to a concert and seen videos promoting music-related phone features on monitors along the concourse, I might have produced them. I've gotten pretty good at Adobe After Effects, which certainly comes in handy for Edward Current the comedian.
For running this website I have had a lot of hate mail including one person who seems to think that a flying squirrel will one day murder me. Given the nature of what you do, do you get some bizarre emails? Any funny ones?
I don't know if this counts, but in a recent video I brought up alternative 9/11 conspiracy theories, and that got kind of interesting. There's a little bit of paranoia there. I learned that the more moderate "Truthers" (the ones who merely believe that the Twin Towers were brought down by explosives) think that the more radical ones (those who believe the jets were fake and/or remote-controlled) are crazy. Who'd have thought? The moderate ones think the radical ones are "agents provocateur" who are hired by the conspiring agencies to make the whole movement look crazy. It's crazy.
Aside from that, I don't get a lot of bizarre stuff. Typically it's just: "I'll pray for you," "Why are you so hateful," "You'll find out about Hell someday." Christians tend to be pretty polite, even if they're angered. Atheists -- the ones who don't get the joke -- can be extremely rude and abusive. I've gotten numerous (not serious) death threats from atheists, but maybe just one or two creepy messages from Christians. ("You *will* stop making your videos very soon, trust me.")
Looking from outside it often seems like the USA is a loony bin. Is it?
No, it's a bin with a diverse mixture of people. The loonies are only the ones you hear the loudest. Actually, I take that back. It's kind of a loony bin.
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