i dare you to fall in love

a slideshow from "The Pretty Okay Ho-hum Spectacular On Ice!", 9/26/2004.

last sunday it was a tale of stuntmen. it was a tale of rivals. it was a tale of two daredevils, Terrible Tyrannosaurus Throat, a young wild man who is also a rockstar, and Mad Musco Murphy, a retired veteran, a classic stuntman, a good old boy with charm and a mouth full of bubblegum.

the was hosted by Ossie Davis.


there were stuntmen displaying their abilities.


Mad Musco Murphy had a press conference.


reporter, Phil McDonald was there.


as was a journalist from "high times" magazine.


Tryannosaurus Throat sang his hit song "Stunt Rocker".



"the Greatest Daredevil Ever" award was a tie between Throat and Murphy!
Mad Musco Murphy, "i'm coming out of retirement. tonight, i'm going to JUMP this show!"


But Tryannosaurus Throat also states his bid to jump the show. Throat goes first and crashes and burns, literally. "i didn't make the jump. i lost my hand."

"ohhhhhh!"


Musco Murphy makes the jump! but realizes that what he's always missed, the love of his life, Joyce. Murphy to Throat, "i have everything i need now. and i don't need this award. it belongs to you Tyrannosaurus."


Murphy, "just one thing, Tyrannosaurus. you've taken every dare that comes your way. well here's the most dangerous one you'll ever get."
Throat, "what's that?"

Murphy, "i dare you to fall in love."



*special thanks to tish larue for these pictures.

London N13

The Fox - 413 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13
doors open at 8:15pm, show starts at 9:15pm

wait a second, what's that up there? you silly inner monologue. that's the info on the place and show that we, chad fogland, are booked at while we're in London, England.

that's right. we coming close to the big trip to London, kids. david johnson and i leave on october 7th, arriving at Heathrow at 11am on october 8th. then just 10 hours later i'll be performing my silly little comedy crap on the stage at The Fox. thanks to brett vincent and the fine people at Bound and Gagged Comedy. check out their site and click on comedy clubs. click on the "club listings" and scroll down to october 8th. "Chad Fogland (US)"

pretty snazzy.

if you're in england, or know people in england, come on down or tell them to come on down and check out the plucky little kid from worms, nebraska, usa.

Spot the Wonder Dog

excuse me? you want to know what now? huh ...well,

the very first time i ever got up on stage was in elementary school. i was in the 4th grade. every year there was a talent show and my 4th grade year i decided to do a magic act. i wanted to be a magician. so i worked out some tricks and my mom and i made a top hat out of construction paper and a baseball cap i had. i had a magic wand that was nothing more than a rolled up piece of construction paper. you had to audition for the show and during the audition my performance went smoothly. but the actual show was different. during the show my hat fell apart and all my tricks didn’t work. the crowd laughed and at some point i stopped worrying that my magic act was a disaster and starting enjoying the laughter.

the next year i came up with this dog trainer comedy act. it was basically stand up with a fake dog, which i made out of poster board and coat hangers. his name was Spot, the Wonder Dog. and how i worked was, i came out on stage by myself and introduced myself as not only a student, but a dog trainer, and now i’d like to show you on of my well trained dogs, Spot. then i went off stage and started coming back on stage with a leash in my hand, when the leash went tight and acted as if it jerked me back and that there was a heavy thing on the other end. as if the dog really didn’t want to come on stage. but i drag him on and it is revealed that the dog is this shotty looking poster board fake dog. the audience laughed. i went on to tell some silly dog jokes. i made Spot sit by pulling the leash back and having the dog stand on its own. i had Spot lie down and play dead. i think you get the picture. it was a success. that was the very first comedy act i conceived, wrote, and performed. unfortunately, i didn’t do stand up again until 2000, right after i graduated from college. i forgot what that feeling was until i stepped up on stage at “The Joke Yard” in savannah, georgia. but since then, i’ve never stopped.

may 1988, chad fogland with Spot the Wonder Dog!

perhaps i’ll bring back Spot, the Wonder Dog at our Sunday show, The Pretty Okay Ho-hum Spectacular on Ice!

when they met it was MURDER!

this is my boss, david johnson, a self-made millionaire, he's quite a guy. this is chad fogland, she's gorgeous. my name is max. i take care of the both of them, which isn't easy. because when they met it was MURDER!

actually dave and i met back in high school. we're from the same home town back in nebraska. it was weird, dave was a goody two shoes with good grades and a solid christian upbringing which seem to stifle him socially at times. i was a quiet, artistic no good-nik who would tell his teachers he had to go to the restroom and then go hang out in either the art rooms, the drama room, or the school newspaper room for the next 30 to 40 minutes. i wasn't the true rebel i think i would like to think i was, but i wasn't popular with the in crowd. i was the kid who kind of bridged the gap between the skaters, the drama freaks, the RPG geeks, and art fags. why? i ran with each group all throughout high school, and to be honest, they were all pretty much the same. dave ran with the drama crowd a little bit. but he was in choir and on the honor roll. he was a good student and the administration liked him.

dave was two years behind me; thus, when i was a senior, he was a sophomore. we met that year due to a lot of different things going on. mainly this is what happened. the drama department was going on this week long tour of these little towns here and there in nebraska. it was silly, just a few nursing homes and junior high schools, etc. there were two plays, "quilters" and "this castle needs a good scouring". i designed, painted, and constructed the stage for "quilters" and then at the last minute became apart of the show, developing this character that became known as "the beatnik elf" for "this castle...". dave was the king in the "this castle...".

one night we had to stay over in firth, nebraska. their motto: "it's better to be in firth than second." no lie. we were being put up in a few houses about the small town. the drama department was separated into groups as to not put wild people with other wild people and so on. for some reason dave and i were put in the same house. and that first night somehow we got to talking about comedy and what have you. at one point another student that neither one of us really knew slept walked over to the open barndoor in this laundry room where we were sleeping. dave and i laughed and joked how he was going to kill us and this and that, when all the sudden he jumped and sprung downward, scaring the ba'jesus out of dave and i. later we finally decided to go to sleep. dave was on a cot and i was in a sleeping bag on the floor next to the cot. at one point in the night, i rolled one way and dave rolled the other causing us almost kiss, which threw us back in fright and laughter. looking back on it now i realize how incredibly little girl like we were that night, but it was the start of a grand friendship that has spanned a decade.

since then we have worked on many projects together and have always inspired one another. david johnson is a funny man and my friend.

happy L.A.Y.W.D. day, pat healy!!

today is the day pat healy was born; thus, happy living another year without dying, pat healy!!

karate chopping giant sea creatures

oh man, oh man! last night i went and saw something that was really great! now if you don't know me, then you don't know that i love costumed rock & roll bands. ie: sam the sahme and the pharoahs, man ...or astro-man?, the mummies, the bride of no-no, etc., etc. and i'm sure you don't know that i am very affectionate for monster movies. ie: godzilla, king kong, mothra, etc.

well last night i saw Kaiju Big Battel! it's wrestling meets monster movies. basically it's a soap opera wrestling world where grown men where rubber monster suits and fight each doing high flips and wrestling moves. very entertaining! and so much fun.

Dr. Cube

the big news was that last night Dr. Cube, the main bad guy, kidnapped Silver Potato and then came back and won the Kaiju Big Battel Championship Belt. no one knows what happened to Silver Potato, but i hope he's alright. he's one of the best break dancin' bad ass Kaiju fighter ever.

Los Plantanos

these guys were great. high flipping around and double teaming monster after monster. true luchadores in every way.

and it was awesome to see these guys:
Call Me Kevin

an all round loser. but he's still great.

Kung Fu Chicken Noodle

this guy was only out there for a brief moment of time, but my friend Dave and i loved every second of it. nothing like seeing a soup can karate chop giant sea creatures.

Kaiju Big Battel is super swell.

Fannn'rrific!

as i worked today, i couldn't get the theme song of "hong knog phooey" out of my head. the i started to think about the "danger mouse" theme song and all this made me miss DM and Phooey.


in loving memory...

i wish they were still on the air. if they were, you would for surely hear me proclaim, "Fannn'rrific!"