Pooch Videos

(2010) Pooch's signature, fan-favorite "Phones" bit at the Scottsbluff Country Club in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. This clip got me an audition in New York City for Last Comic Standing 7.
(TRT- 2:51)

"Phones" 2010 - Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 021310

(2008) Some Gangster Comedy at The iconic Hollywood Improv.

Pooch Live at The Hollywood Improv:
Full Show (TRT - 10:50)

Best of Pooch Live at The Hollywood Improv
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(2007) This is a clip of when I did some ganster PR and got myself booked on the CBS (KPIX-TV) Saturday Morning News in San Francisco. I was selected to perform in the 2007 San Francisco International Comedy Competition and so I promoted my coming home to the Bay Area and performing for the first time since leaving in 1994. I guess it was a slow news day.

Pooch Live on CBS Saturday Morning News in San Francisco

(2007) Here's the demo show that got me into the $25,000 32nd Annual San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition. It was at the Ice House in Pasadena.

Pooch Live at The Ice House Annex

(1993) I hope the sound of this next show clip can be heard well enough, because in my first year of stand-up comedy -- and, to make matters worse, in my first competition -- an earthquake hit the Morgan Hill and Gilroy, CA, area (where this show took place). The timing could not have been more perfect as it hit right when I was praying prior to going onstage. To me, staying in the moment and making light of the now (a/k/a freestyling) is the purest form of comedy and the type I love to do the most. This clip is from 1993, at the Bay Area's Hot 93.3 FM radio station "Exposure" competition. Humbly speaking, I won it ($75) and I think it was solely because of this one freestyle line. This was way before I took on the Gangster Comedy game, but hopefully you'll be able to hear that I've been representing for the man upstairs since day one.

(1999) This video is Classic Gangster Pooch! It goes to illustrate my point when I say that everything I do is gangster. I used to be a full-time video game journalist for Gamers' Republic Magazine (now defunct) and would get to go on all-expenses-paid trips and outings. (I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, I'm just saying that I did it, it happened and I had a great time.) Anyway...This footage was shot by a PR guy back in 1999 (October 8-10) at a PR event weekend up at Snug Harbor, CA, (near Sacramento) for a fishing video game for the PlayStation One. I can't say who made the game, but I can say that it had never been played by anyone outside of the company. As you will see, the game came bundled with this really intuitive, kind of cool, vibrating fishing reel. Enjoy.

Oh, one side note, in the back, in the red shirt is a really cool guy named Sam Kennedy. He's a good old friend of mine who's still a video game journalist with 1UP.com, check him out sometime.