Relationship with Women, Friends, Activity Partners

Jan 2005

Manhattan, KS

ImprovOlympic, Second City, Merry Pranksters, SNL, The Committee, et al.

http://profiles.friendster.com/16165584

Kansas State University

improviser, teacher, guru

improv

good improv (not that crap that you do), the Harold, comic books, books, drugs, cartoons, cats, improvisation, performance art, anime

Guru, Truth in Comedy, hagiographies

The Blob (1988), Untouchables, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Public Eye

Ken Nordine, Grateful Dead, the sound of people laughing, paint drying, the solar system

Upright Citizens Brigade, Animaniacs, Daily Show

I willed my skull to the Goodman Theatre so I could play Yorick in Hamlet, or for any other use. The skull was handed over on July 1, 1999

My second cousin was General of the Army/President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

One of the people, along with Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Severn Darden, most responsible for giving popularity and legitimacy to improvisational comedy.

Alumni of mine include Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Andy Dick, Andy Richter, Tim Meadows, and David Koechner.

I appeared as a book publisher in the comic book "Marvels" (starting in issue #2, page 6) published in late 1993/early 1994. Close and illustrator Alex Ross shared a mutual acquaintance, and Close became the only actual actor to pose for Ross, a fan-favorite, award-winning painter.

Co-founded the Improv Olympic in Chicago, IL.

I co-authored (with John Ostrander) a comic book for DC Comics entitled "Wasteland". It ran for 18 issues in 1988-1989 and included several psuedo-autobiographical stories by me.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 109. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 (check it out!)

Each of the members of the Upright Citizens Brigade (Ian Roberts, Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Matt Besser) say I was the major inspiration to their comedy.

Jesus, Crowley, Hitler, me