I got some spam the other day that exhorted me to “Drive Your Wife Crazy in Bed!” It was for a sex potion of some kind. I don’t need that to drive Shelley crazy in bed. All I need to do is snore or turn the pages of my magazine too loudly.
No. I’m announcing my very own comedy treat of the month club. On a brand-new platform!
Substack.
At the beginning of our Year of Quarantine for 365 days from Mid-March 2020 to Mid-March 2021, I posted a joke or a funny sketch on Facebook. It started with a dick joke: “I understand I’m not supposed to touch my face. Where are we on the penis?” Remember those days?
After some people commented that these “bits” cheered them up, and they looked forward to my daily posts, I couldn’t stop. I felt obligated. Nurses and doctors, grocery workers and delivery people were literally risking their lives on the front lines of this pandemic. I thought, as an otherwise “non-essential,” maybe this could be my contribution to the war effort. I would never be drafted as a combat soldier, but I could be some version of the USO. I could try to boost morale on the home front. And as it turned out, in my long career as a standup comedian and sitcom writer, this was the most disciplined writing I had ever done.
Now, I’m moving that discipline to Substack.
On Substack, I’ll be able to air some shit out: Relationship bits, comedy pieces, show business stories, political satire, short stories, and sometimes just straight standup on whatever topic strikes me funny that month. Find out why Rick Dees hates me, why I don’t keep a baseball bat under my bed, how I got to write jokes for the President of the United States, and more. And you can enjoy them in either written and/or audio form. Kind of like an ongoing “comedy special.” One you can tune into and out of at your leisure.
So, subscribe here now for your monthly doctor-recommended serving of “Bits & Pieces” by me, Steve Skrovan, delivered directly by email. It’s only once a month, so it won’t jam up your inbox.
And it’s free!
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