Sean Flannery

Full Schedule for Chicago Just for Laughs

Sean Flannery — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:57:58 +0000

Happy to be performing with some of my favorite comics this week:

Tuesday	Double Threat: Sean Flannery and Mike Stanley / 8:30 PM / Stage 773 opening for Pete Holmes / 10:30 PM / UP Comedy Club
Thursday	opening for Pete Holmes / 8:00 PM / UP Comedy Club
Friday	Daily Motion Comedy Showcase / 7:00 PM / Stage 773 The Blackout Diaries / 11:30 PM / Stage 773 (tix)
Friday	You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes / 7:00 PM / Stage 773 A Tight 60 with Team Coco / 8:30 PM / Stage 773 The Blackout Diaries / 11:30 PM / Stage 773 (tix)

Blackout Diaries Partnering with Malort

Sean Flannery — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:22:53 +0000

Some people call it the worst shot in the world. I call it: a perfect corporate sponsor.

The Blackout Diaries is very excited to announce that we are partnering with Jeppson’s Malort –America’s most honest shot– for all 2013 shows.

Malort is a unique taste- some where between tequila and an alley fight. And it is Chicago-strong: 100% owned and operated in Chicago, by Chicago, for Chicago alcoholics (the only Chicagoans that matter).

But don’t take my word for it, come to The Blackout Diaries in 2013 and taste Malort for yourself! Jeppson’s will be giving away free tastes of their product and the audience members with the most unique description of that taste –or the best slogan for Malort– will win merchandise and, who knows, maybe even more tastes!

The Blackout Diaries: a comedy show where there are no stupid questions

Jeppson’s Malort official site: jeppsonsmalort.com

Malort twitter feed: twitter.com/JeppsonsMalort

(their twitter feed is pretty hilarious)

New Years Resolution?- Tell More Drinking Stories!

Sean Flannery — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:25:09 +0000

The Blackout Diaries is now weekly!

Very excited to announce that The Blackout Diaries is going to move to a weekly schedule in 2013. Not only that, but we are partenering with one of the city’s finest comedy venues, and the very place where The Blackout Diaries debuted: The Lincoln Lodge. Like all great drunks, The Blackout Diaries has decided that the beer tastes best back home.

The Blackout Diaries will be,

every Saturday / 8 PM / $10

The Lincoln Lodge

4008 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60618

(first show is Saturday Jan 5th)

Many special enhancements to the show are planned, so check back often for additional details and tickets.

Tough Questions

Sean Flannery — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:04:53 +0000

I might start posting some microblogs to my site; stories and jokes that are too long for twitter, but perhaps funny enough to stick around. We will see…

I remember being in a symbolic logic class in college and the professor was explaining Leibniz’s Law (“∀F(Fx ↔ Fy) → x=y.“) and the ontological implications of it, when a dude in a Phish shirt just yelled from the back “What if I’m just a brain in a jar, man!”.

I then let out a laugh that I am pretty sure, even if you went back to Aristotle, was the loudest laugh ever issued in a philosophy class. It is possibly the loudest laugh of my life. My Vesuvius.

Never Been to Paris Re-launching with Belushi

Sean Flannery — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Excited to announce that

1) my one man show “Never Been to Paris” is returning from its summer break at The Comedy Bar Thursday October 18th

–and–

2) Jim Belushi is opening the show that night.

As some of you may have read, Belushi is partnering with The Comedy Bar.

“Never Been to Paris” will be the launch night of the partnership and Belushi will open my show with his own near-death story. After the show, at midnight, there will be live music from Rob Stone and the C-Notes, also with Belushi.

Tickets are expected to sellout so if you are intersted in attending, please purchase in advance:
http://www.fanfueled.com/Event/Details/4139-relaunch-weekend-never-been-to-paris-sean-flannery-10pm

(after opening night, show starts at 8 PM each Thursday, not 10 PM)

Many years ago, I walked off a roof, broke my back in three places and my heel in several more. My friends found me in a nearby
lawn, and if they had said,

“Flannery, one day you’re going to write a comedy show about this and the guy from ‘RED HEAT’ is gonna open for it”.

I’d have said: “you raise that damn roof ten more feet and I’ll do it again, pal!!”.

(FYI: RED HEAT is my favorite buddy movie of all time)

Mail Bag

Sean Flannery — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:17:20 +0000

After Saturday’s The Blackout Diaries a fan of the show emailed this photo (each show has $2 Blatz). His email:

1) Here’s the ad I was telling you about. It’s pretty excellent.

2) Also, my girlfriend had the best description of the show. Before the last guy went up, she turns to me and says, “It’s like a reverse AA meeting.”

They are correct of course. There will never be a better description of the show than, “it’s like a reverse AA meeting.”

Cleveland / Akron date announced for Never Been to Paris

Sean Flannery — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:14:27 +0000

North East Ohio Date announced

Excited to announce a NE Ohio date for my one man show, “Never Been to Paris”:

Saturday Nov 17th @ Musica

9 PM / $10

ages: all ages but under 21 must pay a $2 surcharge

51 East Market Street

Akron, OH 44308

Once online sales are available, I will share the link.

If you’re in the area, I think this show will be a lot of fun.

Normally, I’m performing this show in some
far off city, where I’ve only killed myself by accident a mere 1 or 2 times. It will be good to go back to the source.

Plus, I’ve heard great things about the venue.

Launching Blackout Diaries as a Podcast

Sean Flannery — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:31:36 +0000

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be launching my Blackout Diaries show as a podcast soon. The show will be a mix of stories from our live show, monolouges recorded in studio, letters, drinking facts and more. I believe the show will be funny.

Look for the first episode later this month, at www.blackoutdiaries.info

More importantly, for now, I am looking for funny drinking stories to share on the show. As you might know, our live show is a collection of stories from professional comedians plus ‘regular’ people (cops, teachers, house wives, etc). It’s a very fun environment for sharing stories that may or may not have been fun at the time.

If you have stories you’d like to share, please email me at sean@worldsdumbestman.com

The live show as been a critic’s pick in The Chicago Reader, Timeout Chicago, Chicago Red Eye, Onion AV Club and more. So this isn’t just some jack ass looking to disguise drinking stories as art. …OK it is.

Tune in later this month.

BarClaims

Sean Flannery — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:55:43 +0000

I have a new twitter feed you can follow: twitter.com/barclaims

It’s sort of a re-packaging of my ungoogleable project, which documents how I attempt to argue at bars, in the modern world of fact checkers and smart phones (you can read more about ungoogleable, and my thoughts on phones at bars, here).

It might make you laugh.

And we should update it often. I say ‘we’ because I plan to give the password to my drinking buddies, as they are usually better at remembering my claims.

Moments in Public Transportation

Sean Flannery — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:31:35 +0000

Several days after September 11th, I was on the Red Line in Chicago. An overweight man left his car via the emergency exit and entered ours. He walked down the aisles of the train attentively, like he was on patrol.

Two tan men were speaking in a foreign tongue. The overweight man stopped at their seats,

“What do we have here?”, he demanded.

He was dressed in shorts and a huge tee shirt that said “Let Freedom Ring!”; above it, a bald eagle was flying with liberty bells in each talon. He wore an enormous hat that read, “The Price of Freedom is Not Free”, with eagles flying in every direction.

The tan men did not answer. They stared at each other a little puzzled; a little scared.

“I will ask again: what do we have here?”

The two men were visibly Mexican. Tan, bushy mustaches; dressed in Mexican soccer jerseys. They spoke clear, unambiguous Spanish.

“Let’s try it a different way: do I need to be concerned about anything here?”

The Mexicans got up and left.

As they were exiting the train, the American raised his hands, as if to make an announcement: “PASSENGERS, do not panic- I have handled this situation”.

He then walked through to the next car, to continue his patrol.

It was in that moment, that I realized: the rest of the world needs to take note.

America is now alert. We are now vigilant.

And we know nothing about world geography.