Tue, 15 May 2012 01:01:13 -0600WeeblySun, 13 May 2012 12:41:34 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/05/unamerican-is-here.htmlToday is May 13th, which means my debut comedy album UNAMERICAN has officially dropped upon the masses!  Starting today, you can purchase the album on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and through the website here.  All the details are over on the MERCH page.  I am SO EXCITED for you all to hear the album after so long, and I really think you will enjoy it.

Also, a reminder that if you buy the album direct through the website via PayPal (account not required), I will send you a FREE EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK that was cut from the final album.  All you have to do is enter your email address at the prompt and it will be sent directly to your email inbox ASAP.  There's no automation involved here--I'm doing everything myself--so it may not be instantaneous delivery, but you'll get it within 24 hours of purchase.

The album is available in both digital and physical formats, so if you're one of those people who still likes to buy their CDs in hard jewel cases, I've got you covered.  To celebrate the release of Unamerican, I am doing a special week of shows here in Knoxville called The Unamerican Release Week Showtacular!  The details for that are located over on the SHOWS page.

Tell your friends: Unamerican is here!  Buy an album, write a review, spread the word!  DIG IT!

(SIDENOTE: I will have a recap of my experience at the 2012 Cape Fear Comedy Festival up sometime this week.)

RF]]>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:52:16 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/04/two-weeks-until-unamerican-drops.htmlThe CDs have arrived in the mail and things are beginning to really pick up in anticipation for the release of Unamerican on May 13th.  I've been in talks with a couple of local print media outlets here in Knoxville, TN for possible press coverage of the album around the time that the album will drop, and I plan to try to get more coverage in both Murfreesboro, TN (where the album was recorded, in order to simultaneously drum up press for Out Front On Main, the venue where I performed the shows that became the album) and even Nashville, where I started doing comedy.  The Nashville comedy scene has opted to help me promote the album thru NashvilleStandUp.com by sponsoring a special CONTEST GIVEAWAY of the album for the week prior to the album's release--so be on the lookout for that in the coming days.

In my last blog post, I mentioned that the album will be available thru multiple physical and digital outlets.  There's a catch, though: while that statement is still true, there's a possibility that the album may not be available thru digital outlets like iTunes or Spotify AT THE TIME THE ALBUM IS RELEASED, because they have a system through which they operate with how they upload music to their databases.  So while you may not be able to purchase Unamerican on iTunes on May 13th, YOU CAN STILL BUY THE ALBUM THAT DAY.  Just thru other means, which brings me to my next point.

I also mentioned in my last blog post that it would mean a lot more to me if you purchased the album from me personally.  I WILL have a PayPal link up on the MERCH page on May 13th, where you will be able to buy the album directly from me in either a digital format sent to your email inbox, a physical album shipped to your address, or a physical SIGNED album shipped to your address (if you're into that sort of thing).  I've been trying to figure out how to persuade people into purchasing the album directly either thru the website or from me in person at shows, and I have come up with the following list below.

REASONS TO PURCHASE UNAMERICAN DIRECTLY FROM ME:
1. You would be directly supporting truly independent, thoughtful, DIY-style stand-up comedy without the involvement of any kind of middlemen, which would make you an awesome person.
2. It helps me more financially, because if you buy the album through iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, etc., they receive a cut of the profits (which goes back to Reason #1).
3. If you purchase the album thru my website, I will send you a FREE EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK that was ultimately cut from the final version of the album and is NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!

So there you have it.  A reason appealing to those with personal integrity, a reason appealing to those with heart, and a reason appealing to those who like free shit.  That should encapsulate pretty much everyone interested in purchasing the album in the first place.

And if you're in the Knoxville area, don't forget to check the SHOWS page for the big CD release week of shows I have planned!

DIG IT.

RF]]>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:22:24 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/04/news-update-unamerican-is-coming.htmlAs I type this, the first pressing of my debut live comedy album, Unamerican, is currently being produced.  The official release date for the album will be May 13th, coinciding with a special joint album recording/release show at Preservation Pub in Knoxville with my friend Sean Riccio, who will be recording his album that night.  However, I am turning the Unamerican release into a big weeklong event!  Check out the SHOWS page for the info on that, as well as a few other shows that I've got on the books for the summer!

The bonus news is that I WILL be getting my copies of Unamerican BEFORE I head to Wilmington, NC next month for the Cape Fear Comedy Festival!  This is excellent timing for me, because it allows me to be able to show up at the festival with something that I can get out to potential new fans from a totally different area of the country (not to mention perhaps putting a few copies into the hands of comics from around the country).  The other great thing about it is that I will be able to give copies to members of the comedy industry, which could end up paying off for me in the long run.  That's a lofty hope, but we'll see what happens.

Anyway, the album will be available in both physical and digital formats on a wide variety of outlets.  As the release date draws near, I will update the MERCH page with information about where you can buy the album and the corresponding links to do so. (PRO TIP: If you buy it directly from me, I get a higher percentage of the proceeds--as in 100% of them--whereas if you buy it from somewhere like iTunes or Amazon, they keep a portion of the money. So if you really want to support true DIY-style independent comedy, I would greatly appreciate it if you purchase it directly from me.  I will have more details on how to do that later as well.)

Start counting down the days, because Unamerican is happening!

DIG IT.

RF]]>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:36:56 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/04/debut-comedy-album-unamerican.htmlThis is not an April Fool's joke, first of all.  I chose this day to announce this because of the comical nature of the day.

I am proud to announce the title of my debut live comedy album: "Unamerican." It will be released on May 13th on all digital music outlets (iTunes, Amazon, etc), and I will hopefully have physical copies to sell by the release date.  I chose this release date because my friend Sean Riccio is recording HIS debut live comedy album that night at Preservation Pub here in Knoxville (for which I will be featuring for him), so we decided to do a joint album recording/album release show to celebrate the whole thing.  If you're in the area, it's a free show, and we'd love to have you.

I set up a new MERCH page on the site, now that I will officially have some merchandise for people to purchase.  As I mentioned, I will have it for sale at various online outlets, but I will also try to have a direct link here on the site for anyone who would rather purchase it directly through me.  That'll be figured out over the next month.

Anyway, if you'd like to look at the kickass cover art (which was done by my very good friend Andie), check it out over on the MERCH page.  I will also have a special bonus surprise sometime later this month that you won't want to miss--a bit of a teaser for the album, if you will.

May 13th!  Mark it, dude!

DIG IT.

RF ]]>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:01:02 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/03/news-update-cape-fear-comedy-festival-2012.htmlBIG NEWS!  I have been selected to perform at the 2nd Annual Cape Fear Comedy Festival in Wilmington, NC on May 2-5!

I am incredibly excited about this opportunity.  In addition, my girlfriend and fellow Knoxville comic, Coor Babylegs (not her real name), as well as a couple of my Tennessee comedy friends--John-Michael Bond from Chattanooga and Gary Fletcher from Nashville--also got in as well.  There are going to be 40 comics from all over the country there, and the festival will be capped off with a special headlining performance from the hilarious Tig Notaro!

This is easily one of the biggest achievements of my comedy career, and I am really looking forward to this.  If you happen to be in the area around then, c'mon out to a show!

DIG IT.

RF ]]>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:14:11 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/02/i-am-putting-out-a-live-comedy-album.htmlI have a joke that I open with whenever I'm performing in front of a particularly small crowd (as in less than 15 people): "You are here on a very special evening, because I am recording tonight's show for a live stand-up comedy album.  It will be entitled Riley Fox, Live In Front Of Fuckin' Nobody.  So you'd be on the album, if you were here."

Whenever I do that joke, I'm always quick to thank the few people who actually DID show up, because it's just a little throwaway bit meant to poke fun at the circumstances of the show as well as a self-referential jab towards the idea of recording a live stand-up comedy album in front of an audience of no more than 14 people.

The first comedy album I ever heard was Lewis Black's Rules Of Enragement. It's by no means his best, but at the time it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.  That was until I was a sophomore in high school, when I listened to Bill Hicks' Rant In E-Minor for the first time.  It's been several years since that night when I put those headphones on and Hicks' voice came through ("I'm here to sing some songs for my mama..."), and I'd venture to say I still haven't laughed as hard as I did then, even to this day.

When I was in high school, that was my drug of choice.  Other kids spent their money on albums by artists whose work was mostly ephemeral--pop stars who became irrelevant before the school year was over, and bands that kept putting out the same song every three months, just with different lyrics.  Or they spent their money on actual drugs.  I spent my money on comedy albums, comedy DVDs, comedy books--anything and everything in the realm of stand-up.  My favorite thing to buy was a comedy album (keep in mind, when I say 'album,' I really just mean CD--I'm not that old).

To me and my young ears, the comedy album represented the ultimate success: to release a recorded live performance of a full set of material in front of a packed audience.  In the most romanticized sense, it's an artistic statement.  In the most practical sense, it's proof you're actually a professional comic.  Musicians can write and record a CD in a home studio in three days.  Comics can't do that.  They have to spend years writing and honing material in front of live audiences.  Even if a comic records it himself or herself, they still have to build it up over a long period of time before hitting that button with the red circle on it.

Ever since the seed was planted in my brain to do stand-up, one of my very specific career goals was (and still is) to put out a professionally-recorded live stand-up comedy album at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.  The reason for that particular venue is because:

1. It was the place where I saw my first live comedy show at 14. (The headliner? George Carlin.)
2. It is historically one of the most well-known live performance venues in the country (and boasts some of the best acoustics as well), and I get sentimental about shit like that--even though I don't care about country music.
3. It is located in the same city where I started performing stand-up.

Well, that goal is still a bit of a long-term pipe dream for me, and I'm nowhere near accomplishing it, but I will soon be taking a huge step towards that goal with this HOLY CRAP OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

I am releasing my DEBUT LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY ALBUM later this year, independently.  The project is still very much in-progress, and some of the details have not been determined yet (title, tracklist, etc), but I am currently shooting for a May release, with a month-long tour across the Southeast to promote the album to follow in July.  The album was recorded at my headlining gigs at Out Front On Main in Murfreesboro, TN last December.  I'm doing everything myself (or with the help of generous friends), so it's going to have a very DIY/indie/borderline-bootleg feel to it--the shows were recorded myself using a Zoom H2 audio recorder from the stage.

It will be available on iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon.com, and whatever other outlets I can get.  I never thought I'd be at the point in my career where I'd be able to say that, but here we are.  Jesus, this is exciting.

Y'know, unless people don't buy it...

DIG IT.

RF ]]>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:59:28 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2012/01/a-declaration-of-independence-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-set-up-my-own-free-open-mic-show.html “My name is Riley, and I’m an independent comedian…”

I moved to Knoxville from Nashville in August 2010.  At the time, I had been performing relentlessly for the last two years multiple times a week, but now that I was moving to a new city, I was unsure of what I would find in terms of opportunities in comedy (mainly because the move was prompted by educational reasons—finishing college—and not reasons specifically related to comedy).  I had already developed a relationship with the local comedy club in Knoxville, so I had my foot in the door there, but it wasn’t enough.  I wanted more.

At the end of my first paid booking as an emcee at this comedy club in the fall of 2010, I approached the owner following the last show of the weekend for feedback on my performance.  At the time, I was a young 21-year-old comic with barely two full years of experience under my belt, and I was eager to get some helpful tips and advice in order to improve myself as a comedian, especially as a recent transplant to a new city.  The owner said, point-blank, “You need to dumb it down.” Instead of a critique, I received a criticism.  I knew it was inevitable in this business that I’d get knocked down a few—several—MANY times, but this was the first one of substantial weight.  This was an actual club owner telling me the same thing other comics would jokingly call out during my sets at open mics (“TOO SMART!”) for months prior.  It obviously wasn’t the answer I was looking for at the end of my first paid weekend as a comedian, and I struggled with it afterwards for a few weeks.

At this time, the only open mic available in this area was the one at this comedy club, which ran every two weeks.  However, I still struggled with the feedback I received from the owner, so I then had a dilemma on my hands: do I continue performing at the comedy club open mic, where I needed to “dumb it down,” and continue that uphill battle of trying to win over essentially dumb audiences?  Or do I just give up comedy altogether because of the lose-lose situation I saw in front of me (either killing in front of dumb audiences with dumb material, or bombing in front of dumb audiences with my “TOO SMART!” material)?

Another factor in this dilemma was that the open mic at this club was a pay-to-play format, which meant that everyone had to pay for a ticket to the show—including performers.  I had conflicting feelings about this rule (I’ll go into this more a little later).  I ultimately decided to keep doing the open mic because I didn’t want to stop performing completely, so I spent the next month or two paying this comedy club to bomb every two weeks.  I had gone from performing 3-4 times a week, to twice a month.  My rate of development barely had a pulse, I was stuck in a rut, and fucking miserable.  The bottoming out occurred when a comic-friend of mine from Nashville called me one night, and I broke down.  He patiently listened to me go off the rails for hours, offered his own response, and he and I spent the entire night talking back-and-forth until he fell asleep on the phone at sunrise. (Adorable.)

The following week, I met a local comic who was starting a new weekly open mic at a theater on the other side of the city.  I was only going onstage once every two weeks, so OF COURSE I wanted to check this place out and get more stagetime.  The first night I went, I had a blast—the audiences were smart, the comics (some of whom I knew from the club open mic and some I hadn’t seen before) were funny, and I really enjoyed myself.  And, best of all, it was free to attend AND to perform!  Rejoice!  I was excited to have a new place to workshop my material with no pressure or consequence regardless of whether I destroyed or tanked.  It was liberating, and I went back every week until the show was ended due to financial disagreements between the venue owner and the comic who organized the show.  However, despite losing that open mic, the comic who organized the show and I became friends and colleagues, and it’s a relationship that I still maintain today and likely would not have if I had not gone to this open mic.

When I began to align myself with this comic, he and I worked together for months trying to get other shows going locally in town.  We weren’t looking to compete with the comedy club, obviously—we just wanted to create more stagetime for local comics to improve themselves, with the idea that they could use the DIY open mics to workshop new material, and then go do the club open mic to showcase that material after it had been polished and perfected.  It wasn’t intended to make enemies, but rather to make a community.  This process of setting up shows began at the beginning of 2011, started to furiously pick up steam in summer 2011 and has progressed thru the present-day.  Even as I write this, there are currently FOUR weekly independent open mic comedy shows, along with one bi-weekly comedy club open mic.  The amount of stagetime has quadrupled itself in a year.  The audiences are growing and showing themselves to be much more savvy (I haven't had "TOO SMART!" yelled at me in over a year).  Comics are getting really good really quick.  Creatively, I am constantly inspired and motivated by the rapid development of many of my peers.  Most importantly, a real comedy community has been established.

However, this burgeoning do-it-yourself comedy scene in Knoxville has sparked periodic debates at times.  Some comics have essentially shunned the local comedy club and instead focused on constantly getting onstage and improving themselves by performing multiple times a week for free.  A handful have attempted to keep one foot in both worlds.  Others have basically pledged loyalty to the comedy club, and absolutely refuse to set foot inside any show outside of the club, choosing instead to pay to perform every two weeks. (Coincidentally, some of these comics tell others that, if they take their comedy seriously, they should get onstage anywhere they can.  Yet, they won’t do it themselves for whatever reason.  So who’s taking their comedy more seriously, exactly?  That’s just a personal aside.)

I stopped doing Knoxville’s comedy club’s pay-to-play open mic in the fall of 2011 primarily because I couldn’t afford it, and also because I didn’t enjoy the experience the last several times I had done it.  I decided to take a temporary break from the club’s open mic with intentions to eventually return, until a situation fell into my lap in November 2011, when a comic-friend in Knoxville gave me info for a venue that was interested in putting on a weekly open mic.  When I met with the owner to pin down a schedule, I tried to avoid putting it on the same day as the club’s open mic, because I didn’t want to step on their toes.  However, the only free night they had WAS the same night as the club’s open mic.

I took a chance and decided to set up the show anyway, knowing full well it wouldn’t be well-received by the club and some of the more club-loyal comics.  And I know from a number of sources that it wasn’t.  However, I wanted to figure out a way to try to create the most benefit, so I made my open mic a CLEAN open mic.  It’s common in most cases that if you want to get booked as an emcee at a comedy club, you usually have to work clean (this is the case at the club in Knoxville).  So, with that in mind, I designed my open mic with the idea that comics can come to my show and work on a clean set for free, which they can then use at the pay-to-play open mic at the local comedy club to showcase for paid work.

My intention for my weekly open mic was and is not to compete with the club’s bi-weekly open mic (because half the time, IT DOESN’T), but to provide an alternative setting for comics to workshop their material with no pressure or consequence regardless of whether they destroy or tank—just like I had had shortly after moving to Knoxville.  I am merely giving other comics another opportunity to get onstage and improve themselves, and foster goodwill among the growing Knoxville comedy community.  The only reason I don’t do the pay-to-play open mic nowadays is because I am busy producing, promoting, and hosting my own weekly show which merely happens to fall on the same night as the club’s (for the record, these are skills I am learning that go beyond what I would have gotten doing the pay-to-play open mic).

In all honesty, my involvement in both worlds—pay-to-play and free—has yielded rewards on both sides, and often those rewards are one in the same.  In both cases, I’ve gotten paid for doing comedy, I’ve gotten to work with some really great comics in the business, and I’ve been able to forge a modestly prominent position within the local comedy community.  I have no complaints.

So, where do I stand on the pay-to-play versus free issue?  Here’s where I stand: in December 2011, I performed my first-ever headlining gigs at the Out Front On Main theater in Murfreesboro, TN.  I did a three-night stand, in which two of the three nights were sold-out and standing-room-only.  At the end of the weekend, I got a return booking to headline again in December 2012.  I did an hour all three nights.  Half of that set was written, developed, and polished over 2010 and the first nine months of 2011 mainly performing every two weeks at Knoxville’s comedy club.  However, the other half of that hour-long set was written, developed, and polished at DIY open mics in Knoxville between September and December 2011.  Three months.  Thirty minutes in a year and nine months versus thirty minutes in THREE MONTHS.  The opening bit, a politically-charged rant running roughly eight minutes about war and the homeless, was put together in roughly TWO WEEKS.  Oh, and I had the greatest sets of my life and plan to release a recording of these headlining shows as a live comedy album later this year.  So, take that for whatever it’s worth.

But honestly, it doesn’t matter between pay-to-play or free.  Neither is really better than the other.  It’s a fucking stupid argument.  In the end, I say if you want to get better, SHUT UP AND GET THE FUCK ONSTAGE.

DIG IT.

RF ]]>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:47:33 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2011/12/the-end-of-a-year.htmlWell, folks, as I always seem to say at the beginning of EVERY post I write in here: I am SO FUCKING AWFUL at updating this thing on a regular basis.  One of my goals for the new year is definitely going to be keeping this updated at least more than once every three months.  Anyway, it's been quite a year for me in my comedy career.  Here are a few of the things I've done this year:

- Finished in 3rd place at the 2nd Annual Rocky Top Comedy Contest in Knoxville, TN
- Performed all across the country in such cities as Paducah, KY; Indianapolis, IN; and Austin, TX
- Opened for such names as Stewart Huff, Gary Gulman, Rory Scovel, and Henry Phillips
- Started my own weekly open mic comedy show in Knoxville
- Made my first $1000+ dollars in comedy within one calendar year
- Headlined my first weekend at Out Front On Main in Murfreesboro, TN

Not too shabby, eh?  The next year is going to be even better.  I already have several gigs booked for 2012 already, including a RETURN HEADLINING ENGAGEMENT at Out Front On Main for December 27-29, 2012.  Check out the SHOWS page for all the info on those upcoming gigs and more as they come up.

The biggest project for me in 2012 is going to be something very special.  I audio-recorded all three shows from my headlining weekend at Out Front On Main in December 2011, and as long as the quality of the recordings are solid, I am planning on doing something with them.  I'm not ready to formally announce it until I am well into the project (although with context clues, you can pretty much figure it out), but hopefully it will be able to happen next year, so be on the lookout for updates about that.

Beyond all of that, I am really looking forward to next year, and I have a feeling it will surpass all of my accomplishments of 2011 by a long shot.  Here's to good times and good laughs.

DIG IT.

RF ]]>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:52:16 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2011/10/the-last-three-months-new-video.htmlOkay, I promise I am going to eventually start updating this shit more often.  Holy Christ, this is embarrassing.  I always keep forgetting to write stuff here in the off-chance that someone is going to come read it.  Anyway, quite a bit has happened in the last three months, so let's get to it!

My last update was written right before I traveled to Texas with the family.  While I was in town, I did a short set at the open mic at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin.  It was a fantastic show.  I had a lot of relatives and friends come out so it was great to be able to perform in front of them.  They all seemed to enjoy themselves.

In August, I performed at the preliminary round for the 2nd Annual Rocky Top Comedy Contest in Knoxville, TN (organized by Matt Ward), and advanced to the finals in October--more on that later.  In early September, I also performed in the finals for the Opportunity Knox competition at SideSplitters. I didn't win, but I have it on good authority that I came pretty damn close, so no complaints from me.  Also in September, I played my first road feature gig in Paducah, KY with Halli Borgfjord.  It was in a cool little independent movie theater right in the heart of downtown Paducah.  Beautiful setup, and the crowds were unfortunately smaller than average--but you wouldn't know it by how enthusiastic they were.  I had a ton of fun out there.

Finally, in October, I performed at the finals of the Rocky Top Comedy Contest and snagged 3rd place!  Not too shabby, considering some of the pros I was going up against.  Cookeville's Monty Mitchell took the runner-up spot, and Mike Haun from Atlanta walked away with the victory.  Both are hilarious gentlemen and worth checking out.  Certainly didn't mind losing to those guys.  I had one of the best sets of my career that night, and although I forgot to bring my video camera, Matt Ward didn't!  So if you head over to the VIDEOS page, you can watch my complete set from that show!

Next month, I will be opening for the awesome Rory Scovel on his Dilated Imagination Tour here in Knoxville at Preservation Pub.  More info on that can be found on the SHOWS page.  I will also be (finally) making my debut in Chattanooga in November at Vaudeville Cafe.  Definitely looking forward to those shows.  Oh, and there's also something happening in December in Murfreesboro.  The official announcement is yet to come, but if you REALLY wanna know then just check out the SHOWS page.

Hopefully that should be a good enough recap as well as a preview of some things to come.  Hopefully I won't wait another three fucking months to write some more shit here.  I really would like to try to turn this blog section into more of exactly that, rather than just occasional "look what I'M doing" updates.  We'll see what happens.

Until next time, DIG IT.

RF ]]>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:20:14 -0600http://www.rileyfoxcomedy.com/1/post/2011/07/jesus-i-am-horrible-about-writing-blog-updates.htmlIt's been long enough since I posted an update here.  Things have been running fairly smoothly.  I've been back in Nashville since early May for the summer, and it's been wonderful getting involved in my home scene again.  I've done many shows locally and on the road with some great names, such as Stewart Huff, Rory Scovel, Gary Gulman, and Henry Phillips (just to name a few).  I've performed around the state, heading to places like Cookeville, Knoxville, and Sevierville at various points (lots of villes, it seems).  And things are continuing to pick up steam.

I recently advanced to the finals of the Opportunity Knox Comedy Competition at SideSplitters in Knoxville.  The finals (which are on September 7th) will have 9 locally-based comics battling it out for $500 and a week of work at the original SideSplitters club in Tampa, Florida.  I am incredibly excited about this opportunity and I look forward to seeing the other comics bring their best (though I obviously hope to bring my bester).

I've got some other cool things coming up on the horizon.  This Sunday I will actually be returning to the real homeland to perform in Texas for the first time.  I'll be in town visiting relatives, but wanted to pick up a set while I was there.  I'm doing the open mic at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin on 7/31.  Yes, it's just the open mic, but I'm still excited about doing a set 16 hours away from home.  I also hope to check out at least one or two local shows in the area.  I may do some reporting on that.

Also, in September I will be featuring for Halli Borgfjord in Paducah, KY.  You can find out more about that show on my SHOWS page.  Definitely looking forward to that.

Finally, to wrap things up, I recently did an interview with James Irwin, a friend of mine who lives in England who dabbles in comedy.  We mainly discussed stand-up--influences, early gigs, cultural differences between American/British comedy--and then ended it with a brief digression into the band Rush.  It was a great talk.  You can read that interview here: Counterparts, A Stand Up Discussion Between American Comic Riley Fox and My British Self.

That's all for now!  I'll try to post another update soon from Texas.

DIG IT.

RF ]]>