I founded the Heavy Hitters of Comedy in an effort to help comedians promote themselves to industry professionals and comedy clubs as well as the fans of comedy. Over the years, I’ve helped create websites for such experienced talent as John Ratzenberger, Bryan Callen, Greg Fitzsimmons, Orny Adams and Jimmy Shubert just to name a few. The experience has been extremely enlightening, as I’ve learned that people often have a hard time understanding how effective technology can be. Our goal is to create online applications that comedians, comedy clubs and industry professionals can utilize through emerging technologies and the Internet thus helping comedy professionals stay up to date and in front of technology changes.

The Heavy Hitters of Comedy offers the online tools that give comedians the ability to provide information regarding their professional comedy careers. Our Comic Profiles give the comedian a place on the Internet to provide comedy specific information like biography’s, links to community websites, videos, high resolution headshots, interview questionnaires, twitter feeds and event posts.

November is also an exciting month for our members, as we will be releasing the Comedian Career Tracker tool, which is an innovative way for a comedian to keep track of their career as well as market themselves to industry professionals. The tool provides the resources to record and share data such as performances, audience statistics, fan ratings, experience level, industry specific data and all other aspects of a comedians’ career. We believe this is currently the best way to track and monitor our comedians’ success.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The Heavy Hitters of Comedy’s will continuously invent and create new applications to make technology work for the comedy community as well as continuously enhance its current applications. If there is something you would like us to focus on such as web design or web promo kits, please let us know as are here to help you succeed.

Sincerely,
Mike Casentini
President
Heavy Hitters of Comedy

HH Update

We’ve got some good news. We are now offering all Comedy Columns and Heavy Hitting News for ALL unregistered users. Now, you can get your comedy fix without having to log in. We are also introducing the ability to share, email and re-post options for all columns and news.

We also would like to let you know that registering is as free as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, CNN, etc. The difference is we are a smaller company working hard to promote comedy in the best light. Our goal is not to intrude on your life, but rather provide information that is useful and enjoyable. That is our goal.

So, if you are a comedian, you should register and begin leveraging our online tools that we will be using to promote you in the future.

If you are a Comedy Club, you should register and begin leveraging our online tools that will help you understand about future talent as well as promote your shows.

If you are an Industry Professional, you should register and begin leveraging our online tools to find out about talent you never knew existed, and find out how well they are doing in the game. You can also promote your talent to comedy clubs more effectively and on a 24-7 time clock.

If you are a Fan of comedy, you should register and vote for your favorite comedians, leave comments, and find out about future events regarding your favorite comedians.

If you have any questions, please give us a call or you can Ask us a question online.

Jon Stewart doing Glen Beck

Fox Television’s, Glen Beck, went home sick the other day with an appendicitis. Opening up the door for Jon Stewart of the Daily Show, to do what is being considered by the Left Wingers as the best Glen Beck comedy spoof to date. In what felt like an impromptu moment, Jon devoted over 8 minutes of the show duplicating the body language and Moniker of Glen Beck, in an almost eerie way. Simply funny.

Thank you for joining our website. We are currently in BETA mode. Many of our website features and services are still being debug. We appreciate everyone’s patience during this time. We hope to have all of the kinks worked out by December 18th, 2009.

WHAT’S NEW

The page that you are currently on is YOUR PROFILE page, the landing page after log in. This page, features a variety of information and over time will become completely configurable. You will notice, next to your avatar image near the top of the page, that there are several links under “Your Account” and “Available Tools.” These links allow you to add or modify content. By default, when you join, you are automatically enrolled as a Fan Member, which we offer for FREE and that has limited features and access. Upgrading your membership is FREE until January 1st, 2010. Each membership has its own set of tools. Please select the membership level that best suits you.

Below is a list of New features that are now working:

• Premier Fans, Comedians, Comedy Clubs and Industry Professionals can now post events.
• Comedians can provide their career data, which will remain private until you authorize others to view it.
• Comic Profiles now offer comedian Twitter feeds.
• All memberships can “Suggest a News Story” or “Ask a Question.”
• Comedian members can now manage their 3 high resolution head shots.

HERE’S WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON

Web-based Email, Favorites, Becoming a Fan, Comedian Career Tracker, Contributor Forms, Media Uploads, Comic Profile Calendar, Fan Rating System.

Global Warming

I just watched a very disturbing television show about Global Warming.  Everybody knows that the polar ice caps are melting but most people don’t know what that has to do with Global Warming and you and me.  You see the ice caps are white.  White reflects light which, in turn, reflects heat.  The ocean is a dark blue.  That means it absorbs light which, in turn, absorbs heat.  As the ice caps melt, more and more ocean is exposed to the sun.  This increases the temperature of the water which melts the ice faster and faster.  That is NOT the disturbing part.

As the temperature of the ocean increases, the frequency and intensity of hurricanes also increases.  We all know about the hurricane season we had a few years ago.  People are still scattered all over the country because of the devastation of Katrina.  Schools are overcrowded with children left homeless.  Communities are flooded (pun intended) with the burden of finding homes and economic stability due to the population boom of the refugees.  It has affected all of us.  Now think about this.

As the temperature in the Atlantic Ocean increases, hurricanes will make it farther and farther up the Eastern Seaboard, in some cases making it all the way to New York city.  The same storm surge that hit New Orleans would raise the water level approximately 20 feet in NYC.  It would wipe out the city. 20 million New Yorkers would be left with no where to go but West.  Hopefully now, you can begin to see the implications.

20 MILLION NEW YORKERS!!  Forced to come here, next to where YOU live.  They’ll be your neighbors, your co-workers, your baby sitters and cab drivers.  They’ll be at your grocery store, your favorite restaurants, your SPORTS BAR for Christ’s sake!!

My ears bleed just at the thought of having to listen to those annoying tirades about the Yankees and about how great the restaurants and museums are in New York.  To have to hear that, “New York is the greatest city in the world!” even though it smells like shit.  That hair spray and chest hair.  That accent!!  Oh God the accent!!

We must act now!  This would be a catastrophe of Biblical proportions.  Write your congressman.  Sign a petition.  Go buy a fucking hybrid!  Do whatever you have to do to prevent this terrible tragedy from coming to fruition.  The clock is ticking.