The Official Website of Comedian Christa Weiss

February 12, 2013
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Comics Coming Up Podcast Live from NCCAF!

OMG you guys! The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival was totally awesome! I was also lucky enough to pop into my good friend Matt Kona’s podcast, Comic’s Coming Up for a minute during the show. That minute, might just be the best minute of your life. April Richardson, Shane Smith, Ted Pettingell, Chuck Watkins, Jack Lees and Ryan Darden also have some equally as amazing minutes. Check it here or face a lifetime of regret!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/comics-coming-up/id471679169

January 31, 2013
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North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival!

Omg you guys! I’ll be performing tonight (10pm) and tomorrow night (8pm) in the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival (NCCAF)! I’m super stoked about it! Also, I’m in the airport right now, and since my flight has been delayed I’ve spent a bit more time than I should in the airport bar. Fun Fact: Airport bar beer costs roughly 3x regular beer but it tastes much better because drinking in the most terrible place on Earth makes everything better. Fuck you airport security, you can keep my nail clippers!

See ya tonight!

 

Cheers!
Christa

 

 

 

 

Grab tix here!

September 8, 2012
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New Article Up on UnScene Comedy-Desperate Lies We Tell on Job Interviews

Hey guys!

I’ve got a new article up on UnSceneComedy.com! The economy sucks right now, and we’ll say just about anything to get a job. As a branch of goodwill, I’ve compiled a list of all the desperate lies we tell on job interviews so that maybe, just maybe, we’ll finally get that Dear John letter instead of never being called back the next day like so many alcohol induced bathroom stall hookups. Think of it as an  anti-Monster.com article. I guess I can kiss my prospects at ever having a real job goodbye. Check it!

Desperate Lies We Tell on Job Interviews

 

 

 

Cheers!
Christa

July 11, 2012
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Completely Inaccurate Descriptions of the Books I Read in High School: Another Dumb List Article

Hello friends!

If there is one thing the world needs more of, it’s dumb list articles. As such, I have created THE DUMB LIST ARTICLE TO END ALL DUMB LIST ARTICLES…..or something! I think I might have accidentally made a point in there somewhere as well. I can’t really think of a good place to send this to so instead of having it rot on my harddrive, it will rot on this website. Check it!

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Completely Inaccurate Descriptions of the Books I Read in High School: Another Dumb List Article

I went to kind of a weird high school. It was (for lack of a more eloquent way to describe it) an all girls Catholic school [1], run by militant feminists. If you know anything about Catholicism, you’ll find that due to the fact that people like both fucking [2] and science, the Catholic church is running out of priests and nuns. As a result, by the time I got to my high school, the place was overrun by the only people willing to take such a thankless job for so little pay:

a)  Kids just out of college who didn’t quite know how to teach yet and…
b)  50 year old divorcees who drove ancient VW buses and wore only gaucho pants.

 

The newbie teachers would never last very long. This was because most of them were men in their 20s that we would sexually harass so badly they wouldn’t make it through the year. [3] As a result, the feminist divorcees took most of the control and there was no stopping them.

 

The whole scenario was kind of hilarious but it was easy to get sick of. As a teenager having any kind of ideology, be it feminism or religion, shoved down your throat usually results in either unwavering acceptance or complete defiance. For the most part my high school produced either deeply religious feminists (oxymoron?) or women who were just plain sick of feminism. I was of course the latter.[4]

 

The primary reason for my deep resentment of all that chick stuff was what I had to deal with in English class. I’ve always loved reading and writing, and was excited to be in the advanced classes. I was horrified when I got there. We never did any creative writing or even read any of the classics. I ended up reading books like Catch 22, 1984, In Cold Blood and The One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest all on my own.

 

What I did end up reading where a bunch of books, (some of them notable, some not) that basically ended up being high-brow versions of Lifetime Channel movies….And I use the term read loosely. I tried at first, but my teachers were so biased and the books were so boring that I stopped reading them altogether. When it came time to write a critial anylisis paper, I just repeated my teachers’ opinions right back to them and thus, ended up acing most of those papers. (This is also how I’ve managed to trick all of my friends’ parents into liking me.)

 

The end result was actually not so bad. Due to the fact that I had to write countless papers exploring topics I had an intense disregard for, be it female coming of age stories or Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savoir, I have essenially become a professional bullshit artist.

 

So now, ladies and gentelman, I present to you, the wildly inaccurate list that helped me along on this journey, complete with descriptions of~

 

THE BOOKS I DIDN’T QUITE READ IN HIGH SCHOOL

 

The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
This pilgrim chick bones some priest guy and everyone gets mad. She must be a big fan of high school sports teams because she is always wearing a big red varsity letter. Something about being a witch, maybe.

 

The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Some girl ends up with a baby. They are in Arizona and drive around a lot. Various men take advantage of various ladies. I’m pretty sure I only got through the first six pages of this.

 

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Orphan girl has typically horrible orphan life in Victorian times. She gets with some guy, then almost marries her cousin, then gets back with the first guy. Turns out theres a crazy lady in the attic. I think there is a fire or something. Everyone pretty much ends up miserable.

 

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
This Latina girl is living in the ghetto and it sucks. Everyone gets raped. The girl gets her period.

 

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
A family of pretty white girls are missionaries in the jungle because the main chick’s husband says so. The little one gets bitten by a snake or something. I never finished the Sparknotes so I have no idea how it ends. [5]

 

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
It’s Bible times and a bunch of chicks are getting their periods in the desert. Some dude is banging all of them. Maybe they were really into camping? Yeah. That sounds right.

 

I think what we were supposed to take away from reading these books was that men are all assholes and will probably try to rape you and also, getting your period is supposed to be meaningful for some reason. What I actually took from it was that feminism is stupid and boring and I was smarter than most of my teachers. I also learned that if you are on the right side of sexual harassment, it is both hilarious and awesome.[6]

 

That’s probably over simplifying it, but I guess I never thought of being a chick, a broad or a dame as being a handicap. Believe me, I have plenty of handicaps. Being a chick? Bottom 10. Was I secretly empowered by my annoying feminist English teachers? Maybe, but I never really looked at it that way. I’ve always just done whatever I felt like doing and didn’t really care what anyone thought of it.

 

Yeah, I know, being a chick really sucks sometimes. (The obvious example being all those anti-lady healthcare issues that have become popular as of late.) [7] One way or another though, everyone has some sort of struggle that they have to deal with, either personally or professionally. If you’re not fighting one battle, you’re fighting another. All that matters is that you just keep fighting.[8][9]

 
 
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[1] No we didn’t have those cute little Japanese school girl uniforms and shut up.

[2] Yeah, yeah, except for all that sexual abuse. I get it, but I’m not talking about that right now.

[3] We also used to harass the 19 year old janitor who we nicknamed Sugartits.

[4] As a side note, I’ve never really believed in God either.

[5] The amount of time I spent on Sparknotes in order to write this essay was waaaay longer than any of the time I did that in high school.

[6] Yeah, yeah, sexual harassment is wrong, but Sugartits was asking for it.

[7] I am aware that I am totally oversimplyfing this as well, but again that’s not what I’m talking about right now.

[8] Cue the inspirational music.

[9] One day, I’m going to write an article entirely in footnotes.

June 7, 2012
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OMG-CWFF!

Holy crap, you guys! I’ll be performing in the Chicago Women Funny Festival tonight! If you’re in the Chicago area and would love to see some amazing ladies from all over the nation (and Canada too!) kick some serious comedy ass, now is the time! Do it! Do it now! For the good of the nation (and Canada too!) !

Get tix here! (Then give yourself a high five for being awesome.)

www.chicagowomensfunnyfestival.com

May 23, 2012
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Supper Sanity Club: Always the Bridesmaid Edition

While I’m not quite the marrying type, (I’m more of the doing whatever the hell I feel like type,) I suddenly found myself in charge of my friend’s bachlorette party. In accordance with tradition, I made the beautiful bride a penis cake…then I blogged about it. Then I made a bunch of other food, also shaped like dicks. I’m pretty sure that makes me the best friend, probably ever. SSC: Your Number One Source for Dick-Shaped Food.

Check it!

http://suppersanityclub.blogspot.com