Barry Friedman

Barry Friedman was born in Brooklyn but began performing in Oklahoma. He has been working on the comedy circuit for over ten years. His comedy is a cross between Woody Allen and Paul Reiser – the style of Allen, the sound of Reiser. He covers children, marriage, weight loss, gambling, music, politics, sex and divorce. He even answers the question of how women get off their bras without first removing their shirts.

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Funny You Should Mention It Funny You Should Mention It captures Barry Friedman’s humor in its purest form—straight from the heart. Marked by an indelible imprint of wit, imagination, and humanism borne from standing in the spotlight of countless stages across the hemisphere, his essays unearth the funny side of every situation. More than just a road-savvy stand-up comedian’s musings on working from Atlantic City to the Bahamas, Barry has enigmatically managed to pen life’s most pungent, rewarding, and irreverent moments with surprising tenderness and intimacy. Richly autobiographical, his private thoughts reveal the subtle realignment of reality through the eyes of a comedian. As at home on stage as in front of a typewriter, Barry’s logically illogical perceptions remain fresh, funny, and full of twists. This collection of essays pulls no punches as it repeatedly strikes every funny bone with outrageous accuracy! Road Comic Vegas casinos, Bahamian beaches, seedy bars, tattooed, pierced, and dangerous women, unrequited love, unrequited death, cutthroat competition, stolen jokes - Barry Friedman has seen it all and lived to tell the tale. Road Comic is Barry's no-holds-barred account of life on the comedy circuit. This book is about the comedians whose pictures are on placards outside the Holiday Inn registration desk, and whose acts are more memorable than their names. And first and foremost, it's the story of Barry Friedman, who began doing comedy in the Elks Lodges and topless bars of Oklahoma and worked his way up to being one of the top comics on the circuit. This is the unvarnished, unadulterated, story of not just one top comic, but all the rising comics who don't have their own sitcom. But hey - if Barry had his own sitcom, he wouldn't have written this book. "For a guy who doesn't use props, Barry sure is funny. So is his book. He makes me laugh." - Carrot Top "Barry is one of the finest performers in the country today. Buckle up - you're going on a great ride of adventure." - Brian Heffron, The Comedy Zone "Barry Friedman is as funny in this book as he is while performing onstage at our clubs. This is the good stuff." - Kevin Kearney Catch, A Rising Star Comedy Clubs