REVERE — Comedy came instinctively to Jennifer Zigrino when she was a kid.

“I was the overweight chubby girl. My only defense was to make people laugh,” she said. “People tend not to pick on you if you can make them laugh.”

The now 25-year-old recently won a Community Auditions comedy competition and a chance to perform at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York.

“It’s great. I’m really excited about it,” she said about her win.

Zigrino started performing comedy when she was a teenager and started to take it seriously when she was in her early 20s.

“I always like making people laugh so it was sort of a natural progression for me,” she said.

She took a comedy class when she was a teenager and her first performance was the at the completion of the class and her teacher made her the headliner.

“I guess my teacher really liked me,” she said modestly.

Her first performance was certainly a memorable one.

“It went great. However, my dad’s friend’s wife got really drunk and started heckling everyone else. She eventually got kicked out,” she joked.

The young comedian described her comedy as “observational story telling.”

“I tell stories about my life and the funny things that happen to me,” she said.

While a date hasn’t been set yet for her Gotham Comedy Club debut, she is still excited about the opportunity.

“It’s a great comedy. There have been so many famous people that have performed there,” she said.

She also feels this is the right step for her comedy career.

“I think this is the right direction for breaking into New York. All you need is for one person to see you and everything can change,” she said.

Zigrino would eventually like to move to Los Angeles and be doing sketch comedy as well as starring in some independent films.

“Saturday Night Live is the ultimate dream,” she said.

When she is not performing, she works as Boston Freedom Trail tour guide and sells her own line of jewelry.

“I do a little bit of everything,” she said.

Zigrino moved to Revere after her parents divorce and credits the city for being an inspiration.

“Revere gives me endless material,” she joked.

“I truly believe that there are a lot of people who need to go to jail,” said Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles. “But I think that there is way more people that need their ass whopped.”

Nephew Tommy, who is most known for his role on the syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, closes his stand-up comedy act with Tommy’s Ass Whipping Factory—his first client is Bishop Eddie Long.

Tommy describes his character on the morning show as “fun” and “loveable,” but on stage he will show you a different personality. “The guy you see doing stand-up is a 44-year-old man saying here’s how I feel about life…straight from the hip,” he said.

Tommy’s stand-up comedy special, “Just My Thoughts,” will be available on DVD and digital download July 26. By filming the show in Motor City Casino in Detroit, Tommy is following in the footsteps of great comedians before him such as actor/comedian Robin Williams.

His uncle Steve Harvey has also been instrumental in Tommy’s career. The name Nephew Tommy, which is now recognized by many, was derived from his relation to Harvey.

Tommy has been on the morning show with Harvey for 10 years and he has also toured with him across the country; but now Tommy is taking big strides and venturing out on his own. “I went out with Steve so many times and I was doing 20 minutes in front of him and I just had so much more to offer,” he explained.

Four years ago Tommy began doing stand-up comedy at small improv clubs with capacities between 200 and 350 people. He would do multiple shows on the weekends and come to the radio station on Mondays with a strained voice. Now, he sells out venues that hold thousands of people and only does one show per city.

“I was killing myself,” Tommy reflects. “But that’s what you have to do; you gotta go pay your dues.”

Although Tommy has achieved great success thus far, he has not forgotten his humble beginnings. He received his undergraduate degree in theater arts from Texas A&M University and says that for him, stand-up came second and theater was always first.

His career in stand-up began as the result of a friend encouraging him to enter an amateur comedy competition in his hometown. He won the competition, began performing more frequently and soon thereafter was asked to be the opening act for Luther Vandross. His first performance with Vandross was in Rochester, NY.

“All I can remember is after getting off stage and I have tears running down my face,” he recalls. “[I was] like ‘Wow I just opened up for Luther Vandross.’”

After touring with Vandross for three years in the United States and Europe, Tommy received a phone call from his uncle’s manager asking him to be on the Steve Harvey Morning Show for a week. Vandross’ tour, which was only supposed to be on hiatus for six months, never restarted.

“God gave me a job before I ever knew I needed a job,” said Tommy.

Currently, Tommy is proactive in securing his next move. He is already working on his second stand-up project titled “Life after 40,” which will be shot in October.

“After 40 things start happening,” he explained. “Like you can’t see good anymore, you can’t hear good anymore, you can’t remember shit no more. I’m doing a show on…how I’m going to kick 40s’ butt and make it work for me.”

It seems as if Tommy is already doing just that. Earlier this month he hosted the Essence Music Festival for the second consecutive year. That, along with the popularity of his stand-up shows, is evidence that he is definitely winning in the fight against his age.

“I’m just getting started and I got a long way to go,” he said. “Get on the ride ‘cause I’ma take you somewhere.”

Northeastern University’s chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity held their eighth annual comedy night featuring Kevin Hart on Sunday.

Previous guests have included big names such as Seth Meyers and Bob Saget, and there was no shortage of laughter as this comedian of television and movies took the stage.

Kevin Hart visited Northeastern as part of his “Laugh at My Pain” Comedy Tour in which he shared stories about his past and puts a humorous spin on some of the less fortunate events in his life.

Comedians Will “Spank” Horton and Na’im Lynn opened for Hart and were more than able to sufficiently warm up the crowd for an evening of knee-slapping and laughter. The subject of jokes ranged from day-to-day activities to mature content, but nonetheless catered to the university crowd. If the audience was ever silent, its attention was rapt in the comedians who proved to be able story-tellers and hilarious personalities.

The show was the fruit of hard work for Tyler Dillman, Major Events Coordinator for Xi-Beta, who spent months organizing and planning the night. Kappa Sigma was the first Greek organization on campus to hold a major campus-wide event after the school’s student government opened up funding options to Greeks.

Thanks to the event’s co-hosts, the Resident Student Association and Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority, the 1,000-seat Blackman Auditorium was sold out.

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It’s not a comedy. Comedian Dane Cook’s half brother and former manager was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling millions while working for Cook, 38.

Darryl McCauley, 45, pleaded guilty to 27 counts of larceny over $250, three counts of forgery, embezzlement and other charges. At one point, McCauley wrote out a check for $3 million to himself from Cook’s account.

McCauley served as Cook’s business manager from the early 1990s until December 2008. He began siphoning Cook’s funds into his personal accounts beginning in 2004.

McCauley and Cook had the same mother, Donna Cook, who died in 2006. McCauley was fully involved on the business side in Cook’s career from the start, selling merchandise at shows and managing his e-mail list and website.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement after the sentencing, “For several years, Mr. McCauley abused his position as a family member to gain Mr. Cook’s trust, and stole millions of dollars for his own personal gain. We hope that today’s sentence will act as a deterrent, and our office will continue to investigate and prosecute these cases.”

In addition, the former corrections officer must serve another 10 years of probation after his release from jail. He must also make restitution to Cook.

A genre in pop culture that has not been heard from in some time: The Stoner Comedy.

Though a few attempts have been made to rival the classic for our generation, one movie stands up to be called “The modern day Cheech and Chong.” I’m speaking of course about the movie “Half-Baked.” It has been over a decade since the movie’s release, but still it remains a staple in the recreational smoker’s movie repertoire. A major contributing reason for the movie’s cult-like success is due, in large part, to Mr. Jim Breuer.

His upcoming book “I’m Not High (But I Do Have a Lot of Crazy Stories About Life As A Goat Boy, A Dad, And A Spiritual Warrior)” will hit shelves on Tuesday. Blast had the pleasure of talking with this resin-soaked legend about this new endeavor and life as an author, comedian, Goat Boy, dad, and spiritual warrior.

BLAST: What are you feeling as you wait for the official release of your first book? Excitement?

JIM BREUER: You know what, I’m excited, but I don’t really know what to expect. I try not to get my hopes up. It’s like when I was doing Half-Baked. I thought that was going to be the greatest stoner character ever. Thought it would open up the doors for big blockbuster movies. But I haven’t been in a movie since!

BLAST: You’ve got to be a little anxious.

JB: Well, the thing is, I can live with the fact if it doesn’t do well because I wrote it. So I’m alright with it. I love the content. I’ll know I did a good job if I see someone with a copy of it at the airport, reading it in the terminal, like “This is really good!€

BLAST: How did you find the whole writing process? Since they were your stories, did you just find yourself flying through the pages?

JB: It was Emotionally draining. The whole. Freakin. Book. I hand wrote it. No computer or typewriter. Every single story in the book I have an emotional tie to. Whether it be sad, happy, funny, whatever. So by the time I was done, I was exhausted.

BLAST: You say there are sad stories too. Where these personal stories about family, or yourself?

JB: Yeah about family members that died. My brother, A really close friend of mine who passed away as well. There are a couple stories in there about some deep moments with Chappelle. Kind of shows some other sides of him.

BLAST: How did you go about editing the book?

JB: I actually just kind of gave out some copies I had my sister make to some close friends, and asked them to tell me what they thought. Once they read it, they all were pretty positive and told me “I loved this part€ or “This was my favorite section€. Then I knew I was really on to something.

BLAST: Getting away from the book for a second, are you still on tour right now?

JB: I am. This tour goes until December, then I start a little book signing tour. Then next year I really want to push the book with a decent length storytelling tour. Then I’d like to go back to radio full-time.

BLAST: How have you noticed your stand-up act change over the years as you mature.

JB: It’s changed a lot. I am constantly trying to keep the happy medium, though. That being changing the content and subject matter, but not changing the style of the delivery. I probably crush, now, more than I ever have before in my sets.

Jim Breuer is currently touring Midwest comedy clubs and will be making his way up the east coast, and appearing in some New York and New Jersey late November. “I’m Not High (But I Do Have a Lot of Crazy Stories about Life as a Goat Boy, A Dad, And a Spiritual Warrior)” will be available on Tuesday.

Comedian Greg Giraldo, best known for his colorful additions to celebrity roasts, has died.

Giraldo had been in a coma for five days until Wednesday, when his family removed him from life support, TMZ reported.

TMZ reported that Giraldo overdosed on prescription drugs in New Brunswick, N.J. A friend called the overdose “accidental.”

Giraldo, 44, had also been a judge on “Last Comic Standing.”

When we hear the words “school teacher,” comedian doesn’t usually come to mind.  Dan Crohn, however, is the fifth grade teacher-turned-comedian you wish you had. 

"Kids rule, adults are serious and boring.  They say the classroom is a stage as well.  It’s unpredictable, just like doing standup," said Crohn.

Some people may consider Crohn’s performances to be vulgar and certainly not suitable for a young audience.  And today’s technology makes it easy for anyone to look him up on the internet; even Crohn’s fifth graders could gain access to his performances on YouTube.

"Vulgar, wow, that’s such an adult word. It’s hard to spell,” Crohn joked. “ You know what else is hard to spell, my last name; making it hard for my internet savvy students to find me." Touche, Mr. Crohn.

To his delight, some of Crohn’s students are already showing signs of a future in comedy.  "I see their ability to be funny without trying. Children have an amazing sense of comedic timing which they don’t even realize," he said.

Crohn was born in California, but his family moved to New York shortly thereafter.  When he was just five years old his parents packed him up again and moved to Boston.  Said Crohn, "My parents made me … you really don’t have a say in such matters."

Looking back at what he was like in the fifth grade, Crohn called himself a "popular loser."  "It was the year before we started getting grades, so I think it went pretty well.”

While he was growing up, Crohn’s father owned a record store; the majority of the old albums were live stand up performances. 

Although Crohn has wanted to become a comedian "since birth", he discovered his influences while going through his father’s albums.

"I say it was Henny Youngman [who influenced him to become a comedian], but it was really Steve Martin’s Wild And Crazy Guy which made me want to do stand up," he said.

Crohn didn’t begin doing comedy until April 2004; his first show was at Dick Doherty’s Comedy Vault.  "I had always wanted to be a comedian but forgot about [it] while I was in college,” said Crohn.

He gets his inspiration for the theme of his shows from his family and friends.  Crohn says his live performances contain "Fast jokes. I don’t want you to catch your breath."

In 2007, Crohn produced and hosted the Punk Rock Stand Up Show.  "It was basically just a showcase of talented comics and local punk bands in rock clubs. The highlight was a show featuring comic Doug Stanhope." 

The Punk Rock Stand Up Show took place in several different venues around Boston including The Reel Bar, O’Brien’s, Great Scott and The Abbey.  The Punk Rock Stand Up Show ended in 2008 after about 20 shows.

When asked what he does when he’s not teaching or doing comedy, Crohn said, "I am always doing these two things…always."

Crohn has shared the stage with many acts including Pauly Shore, Jim Breuer, Jim Norton, and Pablo Francisco.  He has even appeared in an episode of "Quiet Desperation,” a reality sitcom that features comedians, musicians and performers from the Boston area.  Recently, Crohn was a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival.

It’s been almost 6 years since Crohn began his career as a comedian and he is quickly gaining momentum in Boston.  To check him out for yourself, head to Nick’s Comedy Stop on March 12 and 13.

Comedian/actor Bob Rubin appears as a mafioso named Gorgeous George in “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.”

Without giving away too much, we can say that good ole George gets the crap embarrassed out of him by the brothers in the flick.

We saw the movie, but it doesn’t officially realize until October 30, so take some time to get to know Rubin.

BLAST: So Bob, tell us a little about yourself. I see a mix of film, tv, writing and comedy in your background.

BOB RUBIN: Everyone knows that as a baby, I was abandoned in the woods and raised at the end of a stick by a pack of wild corndogs. After years of
battling condiment addiction, I pulled myself together, started stand up and in only 26 years I made it to an obscure, cult hit status.

That’s 26 years of maximun R&B (rambles and babbles). The rest of the story is at Rubetime.com.

BLAST: What is your role in “Boondock Saints II?”

BR: I play Gorgeous George, a pivitol character in the storyline of “BDSll,” and another awsomely memorable character created by Troy Duffy.

BLAST: Tell us about “Gorgeous George” — what went into that character?

BR: To prepare for the role, I spent a week watching “The Sound of Music” over and over. When that didn’t work, I conjured up the spirit of Otto Preminger who told me to fatten up on Chubby Chug Bacon Beer.

BLAST: How did you get involved in Boondock Saints II?

BR: I was walking down the midway at a carnival when Troy hit me in the head with a sledge hammer on his backswing during a try at the
strength skill game, ring the bell. I was in a coma for a week. When I came to I was okay, except I lost all my 4′s, which screwed up a lot of my phone numbers and some uncashed checks I had. Anyhow, Troy felt so bad he put me in his movie.

BLAST: Any plans to come to Boston?

BR: Oh hell yes. I love Boston. Great town and it’s been way too long since I’ve been there. Don’t know when, but I’ll see ya there soon.

Enjoy the movie, it kicks ass.

Catch Bob Rubin in “The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” in theaters October 30.

LAS VEGAS — There are a few lures to the Palace Station Hotel & Casino, located just far enough from the Las Vegas Strip that you have to pay for a cab.

I mean, it’s dank, old, a little sketchy, and has more cigarettes going at once than a high-stakes bingo parlor. But the railroad-themed casino features $5 table games, including craps. That’s good. The cowboy bar has good service — bartender Chris was very friendly. Oh, and you can tell people you stayed at the same casino that O.J. Simpson got arrested at for that sports memorabilia robbery. It also hosts fun UFC parties. Vegas has a distinct lack of sports bars.

One thing in particular really made the Palace Station worth the trip: The Bonkerz Comedy Club. That’s where I met comedian Chris Edgerly.

Edgerly headlined a show one night, doing a routine of impersonations and funny observational bits. While his name might not be familiar yet, his work probably is. He was Nick Diamond on “Celebrity Deathmatch,” and he has voiced an unbelievable amount of video games including Alpha Protocol, G.I. Joe, Godfather II, Ninja Blade, Lord of the Rings Conquest, Mass Effect, Halo 3, Kingdom Hearts II, Final Fantasy XII, SWAT 4, Yakuza (with Eliza Dushku) and several dozen more.

He currently provides the voice talent for Peter Potamus on the Adult Swim animated series “Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.”

Here are some questions and answers with Edgerly:

BLAST: How did you get your start in comedy? Why comedy?

Chris Edgerly: I was in college, October of ’90. A buddy told me about a group of comedians who did stand-up once a month at this local pizza place in the basement downstairs. I met with them that night, and the next night I was onstage in front of a packed house. It was exhilarating. I had been doing some acting as a drama minor at the university (UGA) but nothing could quite match the thrill of doing your own material in front of an audience.

BLAST: You’ve done a lot of voice acting “" what do you like about that side of entertainment?

CE: Two things about voice acting rule: One, you don’t have to worry about how you look or how old you are. It is egalitarian “" if you can do the job (and have a good agent that believes in you), you’ll get work. Two, it’s constantly changing, so you never get bored. I audition five days a week, and the scripts are incredibly varied, from video games with aliens and zombies, to commercials involving friendly announcer-type voices, to voice-matching a-list actors for movies to animation involving just about any kind of character you could imagine. This week I’m doing ADR (automated dialogue replacement) work to provide the English voice for a character in a Japanese anime series. It’s a constant challenge to my imagination to see what I can do with a script.

Blast: Comedy or acting, which would you rather be doing?

CE: Impossible to choose. On the one hand, it’s more fulfilling to perform in front of a live audience, especially when you write the material and have ultimate creative control over how it’s delivered. On the other hand, getting to read someone else’s words and interpret them can be a treat, not to mention some of the famous people I’ve gotten to work with over the past few years. And it pays a hell of a lot better, and I can sleep in my own bed and don’t have to be on the road half the year.

Blast: How often do you come out to Vegas to perform? Any plans for an East Coast (Boston?) jaunt?

CE: Haven’t done Vegas often. I don’t like to leave L.A. if i can help it since work never stops in the voice-over world. It would have to take a very special occasion to come to the East Coast, but if things click with the Men’s Club Comedy Tour (the current project I’ve been doing with my three buddies), anything could happen.

Blast: How would you classify your comedic style? I’m sorry to ask this cliche, but who are your influences?

CE: I don’t know how I would classify my style. Above all, I try to be entertaining without insulting the intelligence of the audience. I have a few voices, some wry observations, some longer, more monologist type bits sprinkled in there as well. I like to gently subvert the audience’s expectations of where a bit will go. Above all, it is about giving the audience a good time that stays with them afterward. I’ve been inspired by so many comedians in my life: Cosby and Pryor and Carlin and Rich Little as a kid, Jim Carrey (his physical comedy more than anything), Dennis Miller’s incredible way with words, Bill Maher’s ease with commentary, even Johnny Carson’s way with an audience “" the way he could take them anywhere he wanted to go, even when a joke didn’t work. How he could take them by the hand and lead them back whenever he chose. Contemporary comics “" Patton Oswalt (a great wordsmith and imagist), Dave Attell (gets you to love lechery), Todd Barry (nobody does wry like him) and Chris Rock (back in ’96, his HBO special “Bring the Pain” was the best I’d ever seen from a stand-up and still is, in my opinion.)

Blast: What does a comedian do when he’s not on stage? Are you always “on” or do you have people/friends that you can just be off/yourself around?

CE: When I’m not onstage I get up at the crack of 10 a.m., go to my agency and record my auditions, come home and surf the web for fun and ideas, get lunch, exercise, work on the act or anything creative I have on the docket for a little while, etc., spend time with my girlfriend, catch my favorite shows on TV, you name it.

Unexciting and yet highly pleasurable, because my life is my own. My schedule my own. It took years to get to that point but I’m enjoying the hell out of it. That’s probably why you wouldn’t suspect I was a comic if you met me away from a club. I’m not “on” very often . When I’m around my actor and comedian friends, sure. We’re all “on” in one way or another because we understand how we all think and the jokes come fast and furious. But otherwise I’ve been described by my “civilian” friends as laid back, philosophical and “" gasp “" mature. The opposite of the insecure kid that started years ago, thinking he had to make everyone laugh to prove to himself that he could do it as a career. You know, pretty textbook stuff.

Standup comedy, like science, is so full of technical terms and necessary context that it really can only be covered correctly by a specialist. It’s a beat, when reported on properly, or else you get questions from hometown papers and even big-time television programs striving for new comedy insights asking things like, “Gosh, don’t you get nervous up there?” People usually, somehow, manage to ask that twice. Then they’ll ask a clean comic if they ever get in trouble for saying something “too edgy,” and someone with the most hacky jokes how he manages to come up with this stuff!? It’s rarely pretty.

Denver Post ‚ journalist John Wenzel covers comedy. It’s his beat.‚ So he’s not completely the worst at it. He also has pretty good taste in comedy, and in the course of his reporting, he’s even stumbled upon something worthy of a book, Mock Stars. ‚ The book talks about a do-it-yourself trend in comedy that,‚ over the last ten years or so, has led to a “hipster-leaning offshoot” where standup, sketch, videos and everything else you can think of in comedy have become more independent from the practical constraints and indirect artistic limitations of mainstream venues. (Let’s not call it a “movement” until it all moves away from traditional comedy clubs entirely, which may or may not ever happen.)‚ 

Wenzel traces the similarities between indie music and indie comedy. And like a band you’ve never heard of, he thinks you really need to check this out. This comedy is for anyone “who finds most mainstream comedy boring, irrelevant, insulting, or worse-soul destroying,” Wenzel writes. Or for those who have “grown numb to the litany of ways white people are not like black people.”

Stylistically, indie comedy leans toward the absurdist, painfully self-aware or cynical as well as comedy that “challenges the audience to come to it, rather than offering safer, low-calorie humor.” Wenzel writes how there was a time after the “Ëœ80s comedy boom when, for many people, the idea of going to a comedy club, with its cheap laughs, expensive covers and often racist or sexist undertones, was one of the least cool things you could do. That’s a sentiment and a caricature, or stereotype really, of comedy that persists today-somehow simultaneously with the equally untrue notion that all comedy is “cutting edge,” saying what no one else will. For the reader who either thought that most comedy stinks because it’s lame or that the stuff he or she has seen is the best and all that’s out there, this book will be an eye-opener.

Indie comedy is more likely to appear in your local rock club than comedy club, Wenzel writes, though it can really happen anywhere. And don’t confuse indie with underground. Indie comedy exists off some people’s radar, but it’s become more often something parallel to the mainstream. Oh yeah, and the most important shibboleth and shared sentiment of indie comedy, according to Wenzel: It’s for people who like Mr. Show.

Wenzel’s depiction of the development seems at its strongest not when he claims music and comedy go well together on the same bill-which is entirely true with strong, disaster-avoiding caveats (daytime shows with bands who differ ideologically from the comedians are hard!)-or even when he shows how this independent comedy had its roots in some comedians being fans of certain bands and eventually collaborating. Rather, it’s when he highlights how indie music’s propensity to take chances with its audiences, its sensibilities and the actual infrastructure of indie music, the smelly-yet-backhandedly welcoming clubs, cheap beers, the cynical-yet-open-minded crowds who frequent them, have very often perfectly suited the performers who have come up this way in the last ten years. The book is a series of portraits of those people: David Cross on Mr. Show, his tours around the time of 2001 and the album he released on an indie music label; Patton Oswalt’s “The Comedians of Comedy” tour; and even MTVs Human Giant and Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, which Wenzel holds up as that sensibility of indie comedy-developed at a handful of amazing self-produced comedy shows in LA, Boston, San Francisco and New York-continuing to show up on national television.

Dane Cook, of playoff baseball commercial fame, (he said Seattle was for real) will release his latest album, a live recording from Madison Square Garden, early next month.

“Dane Cook is undoubtedly one of the hottest comedians around and he is coming back to Comedy Central Records with a vengeance,” the company said in a statement. “His latest CD/DVD is Dane Cook ‘Rough Around the Edges – Live From Madison Square Garden.’”

The full-length album comes with the DVD-video portion shot in front of a live crowd of fans in New York. Cook is coming off two platinum-hit comedy albums “Retaliation” and “Harmful if Swallowed.”

Cook combines physical comedy with plays on words and George Carlin-esque observation comedy. “Dane Cook’s unique brand of stand-up comedy and accessible guy-next-door attitude have galvanized audiences of all ages,” said Comedy Central. “Named a “comedian phenom and icon” by Entertainment Weekly, Cook has maintained his reputation as one of today’s most prolific stand-up comedians while simultaneously distinguishing himself as a charismatic and versatile actor.”

Cook has made several film appearances also, including the hilarious cook in “Waiting” and a part in the failed “Employee of the Month” with Jessica Simpson. His latest role puts him in the lead of “Good Luck Chuck.”

Cook also signed a deal with HBO last year, continuing his “young Carlin” parallels.

“Rough around the Edges” hits stores November 13.