Comedy is my tool of choice to destigmatize mental illness

Hello Friends! The pre-sale for my new album is now live! PLEASE purchase this thing on iTunes (let’s get me to #1 on the comedy chart) or Bandcamp! I’ve worked very hard on this! It would be nice to make a little bit of scratch! Support your boy!

I’m so excited to finally release this album. I recorded it quite a while back and have been sitting on it because I was working on my “I’M ON LITHIUM” solo show and wasn’t ready to develop a new stand up act. But now is the time for “Live at The Cobra Club” to shine!

The album contains material about my struggles with bipolar 1 disorder in the most honest and funniest way I can possibly present it. I’m proud of this material. It uses comedy to destigmatize mental illness. That’s something that I pride myself on trying my best to do. The album also contains political material because of course it does lol.

I’ve been performing and producing a weekly comedy show at Cobra Club called “Live From Outer Space” since 2013. That’s wild. At this point, it’s the longest running show in all of Brooklyn. Not an easy thing to accomplish. I love performing there. It’s a stage that I feel completely comfortable on. I feel like I can do stand up exactly how I want to. It’s my creative anchor in NYC, and I’m grateful for it. I’m also grateful to have gotten to record this album there.

Again, PLEASE buy this thing. I know you can just stream it eventually, but if you can afford to, actually buy it. There has to be a shift back to supporting artists’ albums. I’ve been a DIY comedian for close to 25 years. It’s YOUR support that keeps me going.

I want to give an extra special thanks to Daniel Louis Vezza for recording and mixing the album. He did an amazing job, and this project wouldn’t exist without him.

I hope everybody has a positive 2026 full of light and love, even amidst the fascistic nonsense sweeping though our nation. Fuck ICE.

Love,

JFOD

P.S.

The wide release is January 23rd. That’s when it becomes available on the evil streaming services. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, SPOTIFY!

Here’s the deal with Spotify: They exploit and devalue the hell out of all the musicians and comedians and whoever else uses the platform. The payout per stream is between $0.003 - $0.005. That’s insane. Also, artist who have less than 1,000 streams on a track get $0. Also, Spotify allows for ICE recruitment ads on the platform, saying that it doesn’t violate their advertising policy. Also, Daniel Ek, the head of Spotify, invested $700 million in an AI weapons company called Helsing. So he’s a war profiteer super villain. Yeah, Spotify is particularly fucked up!