Otter Blog

Big News! I might just be in your neighborhood! If you live in Oz!

Before I get to my big news, let me just give a shout out to my sister, Edie Murphy, who placed 2nd in the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest yesterday! She totally rocked it.

And very quickly, and I'll go into details soon. I'm going to Australia for three months beginning in August. I fly into Sydney and will be definitely traveling to Melbourne for a bit. I bought the ticket. My lease is up! And I thought I'd get a little traveling done, since my web business is doing so great. Over 12,000 unique visitors on the days leading up to Mother's Day this year!

Travel tips (and comedy club leads, too) WELCOME!

Funny Stuff and Funny Otters! It's a trend people! Ask Geico's Gecko!

If you're one of the totally cool people who get what I'm doing on this site and blog, you're most likely one of my friends or we should meet sometime when I visit your country. (Shout out to my pals in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, Whooop, whoop!) Sometimes people ask me why I this site is called Inspirational Otter, and the answer is BECAUSE! Otters are cool and cute, and I'm cool and cute and isn't that inspirational? Maybe not quite, the reality is so much more complicated and simple in that the words just roll together. Besides otters are the LATEST and GREATEST THANG. It's gonna be bigger than the chihuahua. Mark my words. I enter this latest commercial from the biggest insurance company around as evidence:



If you've never seen the original video it's parodying, I posted it a million years ago on my otters are cute page. I'm a visionary. I'm ahead of my time. I'm trying to blog more. The video is pretty cute don't you think? That gecko is kinda funny, but inspirational gecko just doesn't roll.

Happy upcoming April 15th Tax Day! Ideas for Tax Deductions

Tax Day. April 15th. It's like Christmas time in that you'll be broke by the time the day passes -or- if you're young you're looking forward to the shiny, new, bike--a return.

Disclaimer: This couldn't possibly be construed as actual tax advice. So don't do it. Also, I have no money so your lawyer will most likely advice you that I am "judgment proof." I really ought to consider a life in white collar crime, but I don't have the education for it.

Comedy 90210 Every Thursday in Beverly Hills at 8PM. Come visit!

Kiva

I really dig what they do. I totally recommend them.

Low carb dieting and dating ...

PS I've noticed that when I started eating the low-carb Atkins bars and crap that my rapid weight loss STOPPED! Has the same thing happened to you? Did you restart the induction phase or just stop eating the bars? Feel free to comment.

Ladies and gentleman, my sister, Edie Murphy!

Check out Edie's blog
Edie's only been playing guitar for three months, but she rocks it. And now without further ado, put you hands together, and give a warm, Otter Blog, welcome for my special guest, Edie!

Clip of Me Hosting Comedy 90210

This week's Comedy 90210 show features amazing Comedy Central Comedians and more: Jimmy Shubert, Jimmy Dore, Tom Clark, Brett Gilbert, Murray Valeriano, Steve Benaquist, Mike Phirman plus me, Christy Murphy, & Stamie Karakasidas.

Happy Inauguration Day!

If you're looking for ways to celebrate today, why not supporting your local USO? If you're in Los Angeles or you're in the military flying through LAX give us at the Bob Hope USO a visit!

Happy Birthday Day to Me!

It's official, I'm 37 years old and Comedy 90210, our Beverly Hills Comedy Show, is a hit! My co-producer Stamie Karakasidis and I had an awesome time. We both had great sets with tons of funny guests including Comedy Central comedians Maria Bamford, Chip Pope and Brett Gilbert and other really funny comics such as the King of TV Paul Goebel, Dave Mishevitz, Larry Vasseos, Vance Sanders, Robert Yasumuro, April Robertson. I hope I'm not leaving anyone out. My sister Edie brought the world's most delicious cake. It rocked!

Only watch if you are so bored, bored at work, way, way bored.

My New Year's Resolution is to Vlog more and be interesting. Practice makes perfect. I have the worst cold in the world. I think I'm allergic to tissues. For some reason I keep saying video log instead of video blog. Maybe, in my mind, I think I'm Captain Kirk or something. So I keep saying Video Log like it's Stardate log. If I just say VLOG, it sounds kind of reptilian. Even though this particular vlog is not the greatest, I think the banjo music gives it a certain flair. Banjo music makes everything seem less depressing--except maybe that rape scene in Deliverence.