Welcome to my Buzznet page. It is most intriguing, is it not?

Visit my personal website at www.paulollinger.com for my whole comedy bio, audio/video clips and more. Unfortunately there is no porn there. Sorry.

But here's the deal: I spent two years and eighty-thousand dollars on an Ivy League MBA to prepare myself for a career in stand-up comedy. As the fourth dumbest person in my class*, I'm not sure how to calculate the ROI of that investment, but I'm pretty sure it's negative

I recently left my totally cush sales gig at Yahoo! to pursue a comedy career. What the hell was I thinking?

I'm now the house MC at the Improv comedy club in Brea, CA, but I also appear regularly at the Improvs in Irvine, CA and Ontario, CA. By the way, these clubs aren't anywhere near Hollywood, as I was told by my agent prior to my move.

In my spare time, I troll the Internet for pictures of my ex-girlfriends, re-read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, or watch re-runs of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County on MTV. I'm pretty much in love with LC.

As such, my life is extraordinarily glamorous.

*names of the other three available upon request

comedy, animal rights, hamburgers

Wilco, Emmylou Harris, Lloyd Cole, Lucinda Williams, Deathcab For Cutie, Belle and Sebastian, Warren Zevon. But for some reason I can't get Kelly Clarkson out of my head.

The Godfathers, Trainspotting, Fargo, and similarly uplifiting fare.

The Office (BBC), Arrested Development, all things HBO. Oh yeah, and Laguna Beach, The Real OC.

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman has me on a non-fiction/current events binge. But my previously romantic self was obsessed w/Fitzgerald....because he was a fly white boy who knew how to kick it w/flappers an shiznit.