Terry Jones Vs. Pittsburgh Media (Everyone especially artist MUST READ)

Hello #TEAMTERRY it's Terry Jones coming back at you once again, this time I'm ready for war. That's right, I'm disgusted with the media, especially in Pittsburgh PA. Recently you may have seen a very sad blog written by my friend and fellow Comic, Aaron Kleiber. It spoke about how The City Paper did not mention Comedy in their new "BEST OF" issue. Now they had categories such as "Best places to take a dump," or "Best Bartender." HAHAHAHA man Comedy is a JOKE in this city, nothing ironic about that, more like annoying! I mean what do the Entertainers of Pittsburgh, and other small major cities have to do to get some love!?

Bartenders and places to buy smokes get more love than us? When I first started doing stand-up, I used to say Pittsburgh doesn't support comedy, Pittsburgh doesn't support it's entertainers. Now that I'm older and been doing comedy longer, I realized, how can I blame the people? I mean lets be honest, Pittsburgh doesn't care about entertainment, this is a sports town, a town of violence, a town of party goers, so that's pretty much all the news highlights. They'll highlight a Pittsburgh Steeler wiping his ass, before they highlight a lot of the artist here (Yes imma Steelers fan just proving a point here). How can the people of Pittsburgh take anyone serious, if the media gives the entertainers in it no limelight?

Now I'm not saying do a article or a news story on every single entertainer, but i mean really? Wiz Khalifa doesn't need to rely on the local media, he's national so he'll get local media. So what about all the artist that are good but get absolutely no love because they're not national? They get nothing, so how can THE PEOPLE know who's the who of entertainment in Pittsburgh if the cities media doesn't show respect? Now Granted I have been on the Cover of THE CITY PAPER, and due to that publication, it helped more people take me serious (On the CP cover, Me, Mo Mosuch on the right, and Gab Bonesso in the middle). Hell that article got me out of state road work, it made it easier for people to understand that I am not a joke, but rather I tell them. It was cool, I thought it was awesome, Upcoming Pittsburgh Comedians have never been on the front page of anything here.                                               

Then the next piece of Comedy they wanted to cover was about, "Joke theives in Pittsburgh comedy." HAAHA ARE YOU SERIOUS!? I was told by the interviewer, "My Boss thinks this will be a interesting story." I mean it's bad enough we don't get enough press, and its bad enough people don't know to take us serious. But if that article would of came out, it would of looked like we were high school kids. All it had to be was someone that didin't like someone else could get the City Paper to post rumors instead of fact. We were the last of the local comedians to be covered by the City Paper, it's sad.

It's so bad that a lot of artist, are pushing themselves to high stress levels, by making there own media outlets. Jenesis Magazine, Reppghhiphop.com, Pghcomedy.blogspot.com, I mean that's hard work. My Friend Chayse Love has a website www.Chasemebaby.com, its a website owned by a artist for artist to be spotlighted. I know that this is stressful on all these people, because as a artist you have to also get your work done. Aaron Kleiber has tons of shows, but he finds time to update the blog with almost every single Pittsburgh comedy show possible. He even puts details into show's he's not even on, yet has to find time to promote himself and perform at shows.

It's sad for Artist, how are we suppose to get out there? Ive been getting my name out there, I've opened up for many people, performed many places. And Pittsburgh still doesn't know who I am, funny thing is BET gave more more love than Pittsburgh. How backwards is that? I made a Spoof video on my youtube that became a hit, and BET's, CENTRIC TV showed love and posted the video on their website. Yet when I came out with my DVD, I asked to get pres and got played by various papers and websites. I remember one website advertised about black strippers coming into town at the Irish Center, but forgot to post a ad for my DVD? I still moved many units of DVD's, but for those that walk in the store and see the DVD. How can they take me serious if there is no help from the media?

The only website in Pittsburgh that showed love for my video was, www.RepPGHHIPHOP.com, and any of my fellow artist blogs. But yet BET(A NATIONAL CHANNEL/COMPANY) can see my talent, but the media in my city can't? Hell I was on a Philly Website, I got a NYC website showing love, but to each there own. This is  a city that only had one Black radio station, a historical station. Say what you want about them not showing love to local artist as well, but it helped with Black national comedian that would come into town. It's no longer here at all, so now it's hard for the Black Community to find out what Black artist are in town. Because of this, what had to happen? A bunch of artist came together and got College radio stations. It was the only way people could get radio play, and that's ridiculous! There is a radio show here that won't let comedians on it, because they don't wanna be showed up by actual funny people? Hey that's just the word on the street, that the radio show doesn't want actual funny people on it. I don't know how true that is, but that's pathetic if it's true, suicide should be in order.


The ego of everyone in small major cities wanting to be Hollywood, is usually why things like this happen. Artist everywhere, not just here, I know the Cleveland's, and the Baltimore's, and the Minnesota's deal with this too. Artist should be more humble, but still no excuse for not highlighting the people who are on top of their game. Artist it's time for us to stop blaming the people for not coming out, but rather the media outlets. In other cities the News give highlights to National comedians that come into town to help advertise for weekends. But not here, I'm done blaming the people for  the disrespect of my art and others. Yeah there will be assholes, but the media outlets don't show enough love to give people a reason to take us serious. Lets make a stand and fight for ourselves, it's time to come together, UNITED WE STAND OR DIVIDED WE..........don't get any spotlight from the surrounding media we need. Keep on trucking, Terry Jones signing out #TEAMTERRY, I love you all.

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My feelings on The Charlie Murphy getting Booed Video

Ok TeamTerry so hopefully you watch this clip, so i don't have to explain the story, but for those that can't watch it. Charlie Murphy got booed off stage at Grambling State University, by over 500 People. He Walked off stage without finishing his performance, but before he did, he gave the money back, said F**k You to the audience and kept on going. Now A lot of people are saying and feel what he did was unprofessional, now from the audience, consumer, and fan view it looks that way, now for my view as a comic. First of all the clip that we see is only 3:00 minutes, meaning he had to have been on stage for a while before anything went down, second of all the person taping probably felt it was gonna get bad and started taping. Now think about something we only see the part when they show him "being disrespectful", but they don't show what the crowd may have done to him.

Now hear me out, I am not a fan of Charlie Murphy, his brother is one of my biggest comedy influences though. Charlie is a good story teller, not a Stand-Up Comic. Now Cosby is a story teller, but does it on a level none of us will ever understand to be on. Now I don't feel Charlie Murphy is a REAL stand up comedian, but he's still a stand-up comic none the less. So I don't find anything funny on this except for him being bad-ass enough to lash back out. Granted its not the crowds fault they didn't get the material, it's our job to make a connection, and if we can't, it's just another loss.

Now let me explain from my personal experiences, we do have boiling points as Comedians. Usually if i have hecklers I can deal with it, I usually deal with it by making hecklers look stupid. But sometimes its not hecklers, sometimes you have a bad set/bad day, and the crowd is just not feeling you. I remember I did a show in Ohio, and had to feature and for 30 minutes no one laughed, I still got paid, but I dealt with it. I have seen fellow comics get booed, and that's always ugly. I have also seen people meltdown completely, those are usually the inexperienced performers. Occasionally you'll have your comedy vets meltdown, which is scary as hell.

Remember when Michael Richards snapped and had a meltdown? Well he's not really a comedian he's a guy who got famous and then decided to do stand up, just like Charlie Murphy. And when pushed he lashed out, whether he said a racist remark or just yelled, he was the bad guy. Yet at the same time, no one looked at the fact these guys heckled him and pushed him to the limit.  Stand up is the hardest and purest form of art or entertainment around. You take something, you create it, make it your own, and you share it to the world, and it's either hit or miss.This journey for me has been the most difficult, but understand this struggle teaches me too be strong and also teaches me how to handle situations like this. I have done shows where people didn't speak English, college students were being rude, hecklers were racist, and even crowds that didn't laugh at all.

It happens we(Comedians) have bad days, but sadly to audience members, we have a first impression to leave on people. On weekends when I'm booked as a opener, i have 6 shows average at a comedy club. I can do the same set with give or take different things in my set, and not all six shows will be the same, overall I'm gonna kill. But there are gonna be shows where I'm off and people will remember me as the dude who was just "ight." Charlie isn't the best by no means, but I will tell you this, I'm not a fan, but i still respect him. He's a fellow Stand-up, and imma have to also defend this situation.

Being we only see 3:00 minutes of the video, I don't know what all happened, but its obvious they wasn't feeling him. He is famous, so off his name alone I know he got cheers and people were excited to see him. But the crowd wasn't feeling him, some colleges make you perform pretty clean, maybe he wasn't dirty enough. Which is apparent from what he says via Twitter, so I feel his pain as a comic. You go on stage and its just YOU Vs. THE WORLD, and you gotta build to get Scott Pilgrim powers **Badum Ching** (boooooo tomato hits my face). He knew he did bad, and felt hurt, so he gave back the $22,000 dollar check.

Did he handle it right? No, it was wrong and unprofessional, but when these things happen to you as a comic, you can't help but fight back. It's funny, when people corner a animal, and it attacks and hurts the people that cornered it. You ever notice the animal is considered the threat, and the people are victims? The true victim is the animal, not the ones that cornered it, or invaded its territory, they were malicious. How do you point fingers at a mountain lion, for attacking a man on a mountain? Keyword in mountain lion is mountain dumb ass, Charlie Murphy got paid and flown in to perform.

It didn't go well and the crowd lashed out, he could of walked away, and kept the schools money, but he didn't. He gave it back, and walked off, so what he said F**k you. Look if you don't like a show get up and walk out, Ive seen people do that before, but people rather be assholes. He was at work, people didn't feel him and we move on to the next show, I'm not gonna sit here and clown him, i laugh at him lashing back at the audience more than anything.Good for him, because people think they can destroy others and get away with it. We live in a world, like i said in my last paragraph, where people are quick to scream victim, but the real victim is the bad guy.

How can you bash us and our art form, and have the nerve to be offended when we snap back? Go mess with a rattle snake and see if you don't get bit, its not a smart thing, and you're not a victim. I remember once someone threw a donut at Bill burr at a corporate show, and when Philly booed him, I'm talking thousands of people. And he lashed out and it was considered disrespectful on his part. How bout this, how bout I come to your job, and talk about how terrible you are at it. I'll forget your human, I'll forget you might be having a bad day, I'll even forget you are servicing to help me out. Before your stupid insecure self wants to make others feel down because you cry yourself to sleep, think before you do stuff.

You're funnier than Charlie Murphy? Really? But you don't do stand up comedy? How about you try 10 comedy shows, 10, without anyone you know in the crowd, and perform. I bet that you will find out QUICK, how hard it is to be a stand up comic. And maybe only then will you learn through the Hell, pain, and struggle, that this is the hardest form of entertainment or art on Earth. We go through Hell hoping with our thoughts and gift hoping you can get a piece of Heaven. Like I said it wasn't handled the best, but when the emotions of you being backed in a corner pop up you never know what someone or something will do to defend itself.


They will crucify him and spread him getting booed as a joke, because people like train wrecks, because it makes them feel like they're winning, Well guess what you're still a loser. And if any of you don't like this post "F**K YOU" **Drops Mic** HAHAH Just kidding I need you people and your money (Boooooooo). I hope this insight gives you a better understanding, I refuse too see this man crucified, and Grambling State University be treated like Victims.

My Greatest Comedic Experience Ever, Seeing Bill Cosby Live!

Greetings TEAMTERRY, how are you? Well as you know I recently released a video on my B-day called "Jello Puddin" I took on the form of one of the best ever. That's right I became Bill Cosby and paid homage to The King. I saw Cosby was coming to town, and got so excited!!!!! But I didn't didn't think I would be able to go, my b-day soon came up and my parents offered tickets as a gift. I didn't want to burden them with getting me tickets, I thought it was going to sell out. So I denied the offer, but I felt like my heart broke when I said no. A few years ago George Carlin came to Heinz Hall, another living Legend. And at the time I was starting to get steam and a buzz on my stand up, and had a few shows. I remember my parents offering tickets, but I said I'm booked so NEXT TIME.


So I went on with my shows and my life, thinking "George Carlin will live forever." And shortly after that, George Carlin died, my heart was devastated. Then with comics like, Greg Giraldo, and  Robert Schimmel dying, I just kept wondering how much longer does Cosby have left? Too me the three Original Kings Of Comedy are Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Bill Cosby. I felt like I was gonna regret not seeing Bill Cosby this time, and I felt sad. So I wake up Saturday and my parents make me choose my seats for the show. They didn't want to miss this living piece of black history, who made it possible for me. And I got seats close as hell, if you never seen Heinz Hall it's a huge theater that holds Symphonies. It felt like this was Fate to go see Cosby, I asked 9 people to go with me, getting turned down one by one. And those people were busy so it's all good, but in my mind I'm like this is THE BILL COSBY.


Not Just any comedian, but the man who was Richard Pryor's hero and biggest comedic influence. For Gods sake they have the same voice pitch delivery ( jazz rhythm delivery), Dr. Cosby made it possible so black comedians like myself can even perform mainstream. When Bill Cosby became the biggest comedian in mainstream, they started to take the NEGRO from the front of Black Comedians names. No longer was it Negro Comedian Dick Gregory, it was just Dick Gregory. He single handedly  mad people think that blacks could be funny without knowing what race the comic was. Now I hear folks say That Cosby did comedy for whites as a Black man, but this is not true. Pryor said what he wanted, Cosby told stories in his own way.

So with that being said, I turned into a little kid, as a young black comedian this is the biggest thing ever for me. I done worked with people I grew up sneaking to watch on TV, people i grew up wanting to be like, comedic influences. But this topped all of that, its not "Dr. Huxtable", it wasn't "Fat Albert and the Gang", it wasn't "Picture pages", it was the art of stand up that I couldn't wait to see. As I'm driving to the show I can't believe I'm going to see him, this is on my bucket list of life and comedy. I'm Driving and i feel like imma cry in excitement, and I park and head in by myself to see Bill Cosby.

I walk in and see how huge Heinz Hall is, and its amazing that all those seats are gonna fill up. I saw teenagers with parents, I saw young and old, Black and White, I saw everyone of many types. The Crowd size was tremendous, the fact that this man could draw so many people of all ages and color as a black man, was surreal. I sit down and can't wait  to finally see the man, jazz music plays until the seats fill up, and it was one of the best comedy show atmospheres I've ever been in. It was odd being a audience member haha, but I went this is goal. The Lights dim down, announcements are made, and here comes THE LEGEND BILL COSBY!

And man, the whole theater filled up with cheers, so many people clapping, and cheering. I stood up too my feet and gave the man the applause that he deserved. Without him there would be no Terry Jones or TeamTerry, and he starts to perform. Now understand Bill Cosby doesn't use openers, so the tone that is set fro the show is BILL COSBY. This man did 3 hours of Material, 3 HOURS!!! I know Dave Chappelle and Dane Cook have the Records, yeah yeah, but understand for 3 Hours Bill Cosby used stories. It wasn't a ton of Improvised fillers, he did Improv some things, but for 3 hours he killed.

It was the greatest Live show I have ever seen, I was blessed to see the man himself. Not many Living legends that paved the way still alive. And I would advise if you ever get a chance to see a living legend live, do it, and don't think that there is a NEXT TIME, because there may not be. SALUTE to the Legend Bill Cosby, thank you Mr. Cosby for making this all possible.

Mark Millar's Superior Issue #1 Review!!!!!

Ok, ok, you can pick up that I'm one of the only comic geeks that like Mark Millar, yeah so what? Well Mark Millar again writing on the Icon Imprint/Marvel, starts to write something great again. Now lately everything has been very violent and vulgar and pushing the boundaries. But this time Millar promises us a more of a for everyone styled comic-book, we all know he loves superman, right? He Exploits the fact that a lot of us say that, Superman is too perfect, and not relatable, unless you're a illegal alien. I was more into guys like PRIME (ULTRAFORCE) or  CAPTAIN MARVEL (SHAZAAM not Kazaam you asshole) because they were kids/teens who could transform into Superman styled characters. Well Mark Millar has been writing comics in the style of, how could it be possible for these things to happen in our real time.So he takes and gives us Superman and Shazaam Mixed.

Superior is about a young boy who has MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and has went from being a great athlete to being battered and handicap. We start by seeing a Superhero on the big screen, and two best friends watching it. Simon and his Best friend Chris are enjoying the movie, after the movie ends Chris speaks on how Superior is too Perfect, but Simon doesn't agree, he thinks he's the best superhero ever. While outside the theater some kids tease Simon for having MS, but his friend Chris takes up for him. His Hot Comic book Drawn mom later comes to help him too, but he thinks about how much his friend is a great person. It makes him think about what he can't do or be anymore, but as he goes to sleep a special character greets him. And our friend Scott Pooni is granted a wish that will change his life forever, he becomes THE SUPERIOR. This is a series I'm very excited about, especially because of how the story is written, and the art by Leinil Francis Yu is beautiful. I would give this series so far a 9.5/10 its amazing, I'm excited to know what is going to happen. It's a nice start to a series, it reminds me of what we'd love to wish for, if we were granted powers (Comic Geeks at least).

KICK-ASS 2 Issue #1 REVIEW!!!!

          The moment we all been waiting for, the 2nd series to Kick-Ass!!! Now with the success of the first comic book series in Millarsworld, Icon/Marvel comics. Kick-Ass came into the comic book scene with a statement! Mark Millar gave us the concept of what if (yeah as usual Millar lol) someone who loved heroes and comics so much decided to become a superhero. With the success of it being a rare printed comic book in this day and age was amazing! With art done by the Great John Romita Jr. (Spider-man, Daredevil, and son of Legendary comic artist Romita Sr.) and the writing of Mark Millar. It became a instant hit, after being adapted to a movie it brought popularity into the series,well written movie that had a gross revenue of  96,117,224. This was a movie that kept up with The best hero movies of all time, from Batman to Spider-man, So Series two issue #1 finally came out.

          If you haven't read Series one or seen the movie, do that before getting into this.We start off with Mindy (Hit-Girl) training Kick-Ass heavy in the Gym. We all know Kick-ass couldn't fight worth a damn in series 1, but now he's training to become a real KICK-ASS (Badum Ching). We also learn in this issue that Kick-Ass wants to start or join a real Superhero faction. We also pick up on the fact that there are now more heroes and villains walking around, since Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl Defeated a Crime-Lord. And with Red Mist being the main super villain now since we left off series 1, it's gonna get interesting. Hit-girl is now being forced into living a regular life, and Kick-Ass tells us events of the future as he's telling the opening story! The Writing is Millars Best in a while, because Nemesis is just a shocker, but awesome none the less. Kick-Ass has great Writing, and it feels like a Movie now, and this excites me for this series as much as BATMAN AND ROBIN. I give  KICK-ASS Issue #1 a 10/10, Its F**KING AMAZING!!!! A MUST READ! And this series will get you guys excited into wanting for issue after issue. Its Better than Series 1 so far, and that was Bad-ASS, KICK-ASS (Badum Ching).

MARK MILLAR'S NEMESIS ISSUE #3 Review

Well As You Read my Issue #2 Review which if you notice, I don't really give in depth to ruin the storyline for you, or try to make you have my view. I just give my opinion, time after time I read or watch Reviews on a Comic or a Comic series, and if they hate the series, they bash you with why they hate it. Never do they just say their opinion and let you choose to go read it, so here we go( Heath Ledger Joker Voice). So We Last Left off with Nemesis getting captured by every form of law and soldier possible in America, and now we go to him in Prison, as a press conference states that they now have him under custody and under control, and stating that his henchmen are not smart enough to do any damage. This  statement is true if...................It wasn't all part of the Plan(Heath Ledger Joker Voice). Nemesis shows them that he can't be contained and breaks out of Prison, with one of the most Bad-Ass Fights in a comic book ever, he fights 100 guys! And the surprise he has in store for the great Chief Inspector Blake Morrow can't hold him. This was a big pick up and excited me for Issue #4 and shows how much power that Nemesis has. I Give Issue #3 a 9/10. This is a Must Read Series, some will like it, some feel Mark Millar is Overrated, I Personally feel he's pretty damn genius.