Thursday, 4 August 2011

An introduction

Hey People,
    Most of you reading this will probably already know me, but for the ones who just come across this, let me intorduce myself.  I'm Chris Roberts.  I live in Toronto.  I was born in Sault Ste Marie.  I moved to the village of Wingham when I was 5.  Then later moved to London Ontario when i was 16, to gain somewhat of an IQ.
    London is my true home town.  It's where all my best friends live!  I'll try to introduce them all, as I plan on talking about the A LOT.  First there's Isaac.  Isaac and I met in general math, my first week upon arriving in London.  He was a punk, and I was a jock.  But through our love of Seinfeld we made a long lasting friendship.  Now there's Dave.  Dave and I have been friends since my senior year of high school.  He had graduated, but I got to know him through his younger brother mark (Wait!  I'll get to Mark in a second).  Dave and I didn't seem to have a lot in common, but after a few thousand beers (and everyone else getting girlfrends) we're the best of friends today.  Okay... Mark.  Mark and I met in high school.  We had a 2 week debate on the question "is it easy to get away with murder?"  I was against the idea, but he figured if we had no relation to the victim we could get away it.  Zack!  Zack lives in Sarnia now with his Girlfriend Lindsey.  We don't see each other a lot, but we try to go out for coffee as often as we can.  Zack is famous for trying insane things, like jumping over a car.   Then their are the girls.  There's Trish, Carly, Katie, Katie, Katie (there's like 18 Katies), Erin, Sue (Dave and Marks mom), Andrea (the Newbie), Sarah (who I like to call the wizard), and Natalie.  Some other boys include Morgan (an ex roommate of mine), Ben, Nelson, Reid, Willy, Bob, Jesse, Nevin, Gatten, Logan, Matty, and Steve (Mark and Daves dad).  These are the names I'll most likely mention if a story is based in London.  I think of them a lot.  They're my home away from home, while I hang out here in Toronto and try my hand at Stand up Comedy.
    YEP!  A stand up comic.  When I was 25 I had absolutely nothing going on with my life, so I decided to pack up and move to Toronto to take classes at Second City.  I wanted to be a sketch performer, and a writer.  I took a few classes at Second City and really enjoyed it, so I decided to enroll at Humber College for their "Comedy Writing and Performance" program.  It was there where I found out I wasn't much of an actor.  I did get some laughs doing stand up, though.  So for the 2 years at the college I went out every night and performed, sometimes in front of nobody.  I've been out of Humber for a year now, and I'm still getting some laughs, and having a blast. So you can still see me at random bars building my act, around the city.  I live with two goofs Paul and James.  I have some decent friends like Guy, Lance, Morgan, Dianna, David Matt Cline, and Braeden.  All of them do stand up, and you'll hear about them to.  Oh! My Dad and Step mom live in Oshawa.  I'll probably mention them throughout as well.
    There!  You made it through the dry introduction read.  Next to follow will be memories and opinions that keep circling around my head.  Some are new thoughts and others have been there for a while.  I hope some of you enjoy this.  If not, i know I will.  I've already enjoyed writing this!!

2 comments:

  1. Looking forward to reading the blog, dude. You rock.

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  2. If this blog doesn't reference 11th Century Spain, I am not interested!!!!!

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