MATT KIRSHEN
	Hello, I'm Matt and I've been a stand-up comedian since the tail end of 2001. It's all been going quite well. This August I took my second solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe. It also went quite well. You may have also seen me on Last Comic Standing on NBC or Paramount or some other channel in your home country. Or on the World Stands Up, which put out my half hour special a few months ago. Or on E4's Rudetube, which starts this Nov. Or on a few TV things. Or heard me on the radio.
	Matt Kirshen "I Guess We'll Never Know" CD Wee, pint-sized, impish... here at Stand Up! Records, we prefer to think of Matt Kirshen as our delightful "pocket comedian." Sure, if he had been born American, he could just slap "Li'l" in front of his name, become a rapper, and wait for the cash to start flowing, but, as a British Jew, Kirshen has done the next best thing: become absurdly funny! Kirshen is already known to many American audiences as a contender on the TV show "Last Comic Standing" and to those in the UK as an attention-grabbing young performer at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Now, though, he's sure to be best known for his first CD, "I Guess We'll Never Know," on which he's accessible, silly, a little blue, and nowhere near mean-spirited. In fact, with his charming accent and a voice that smiles through the stereo, audiences can't help but grin and go along as Kirshen opens with the pedophilia jokes in this live performance recorded in Minneapolis, MN. Staying well away from the political, with the possible exception of an exceedingly well-phrased response to those who insist that "evolution is only a theory," Kirshen shines with his tangled tales of drug-laced hummus, autographing gun magazines, and speculation on just how gratifying it would be if his corpse could help just one medical student sleep with a goth girl. Far from a liability, Kirshen's age should absolutely thrill comedy aficionados -- it only means that we're in for decades of entertainment from this charming lilliputian madman.
1. Welcome to My Face 2. Cow Kissing 3. Happy Little Plague Boy 4. Medicine 5. Nuts 6. Magic and Hope 7. Texts 8. Unicorn Mentors 9. Abstinence 10. Drivers 11. Flirting 12. Sunnyvale 13. The Ketchup Story 14. Dating 15. Politeness