“The whole concept could have gone extinct in 1942, in 1983, in 1999, and in 2008, but it didn’t. It’s still here, and it’s better than ever.”

Preview of my upcoming show at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY.

As a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, [Ruben] studied the biophysical properties of potential new malaria drugs — while writing humour columns, performing at storytelling shows and comedy clubs and entertaining wedding guests as a fake rabbi.

Article on the American Association for the Advancement of Science website about a science comedy show I headlined before the March for Science.

The Mortified Podcast features a science report I wrote in ninth grade about trying to change places with my guinea pig.  Listen on iTunes (click on Episode 89) or Soundcloud.

My Story Slam-winning story about my inability to select Christmas gifts, played on The Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast.

Interview with Study Soup on alternative biology careers.

Piece about the September 2016 Mortified show in Baltimore.

The Mortified Podcast features a manifesto of self-pity I wrote in tenth grade when I didn’t have a date for Homecoming.  Listen on iTunes (click on Episode 72) or Soundcloud.

Write-up of a comedy show I headlined at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (see page 3).

Interview for Science Writing Radio podcast.

Interview on Maryland Morning with Tom Hall about an upcoming Mortified show I’m producing and performing in.

Article on Pavlov Pinball about my upcoming book.

Then there was Adam Ruben. One of Mortified DC’s producers, it seems teenage Adam fancied himself a young Charles Bukowski, writing poems with opening lines like “To have sex with a mountain” and “Up and left, and up and right, and right and wrong.” He even wrote a poem made up entirely of punctuation marks, claiming in earnest that it was “about fish.”

But despite this extensive resume, Ruben isn’t Comedy Central-famous, which makes the series of stories about his worst stand-up gigs feel more authentic than romanticized.