Luggage Tuesdays

Carl and Mike Vote for the 2026 Razzies

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:49:00 +0000

Here's just the voting part:

The Greatles did perform at the 2026 San Francisco Sketchfest

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:54:00 +0000

forgot to plug it.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 2024 Philly Sketchfest (May 31st, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 23 May 2024 00:34:00 +0000

Luggage Tuesdays' Mike Spiegelman (pictured, right) and Halloween Kills' Colin Mahan (left) are The Greatles aka The Great Difficulties aka The Great Disappointments. They perform at the 15th Philly Sketchfest on May 31st, 2024 10pm at the with Tom Hannigan. Tickets.

MacGuffin Stage at the Adrienne Theater

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 2024 21st Annual San Francisco Sketchfest (February 4, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 01:54:00 +0000

Sunday, February 4th 2024 5:15 PM. $25. All Ages. Buy Tickets Now

A Taste of SF Sketchfest: With Babe Motel, The Great Disappointments, Lady Reboots and Robber Barons: The Sherman Act, Hosted by Virginia Jones

The Great Difficulties aka The Greatles (Colin Mahan and Luggage Tuesdays' Mike Spiegelman)

The Greatles in The Last Satire

The Year: 19Foreventy.

The time: The future.

The pitch: The world has lost its sense of humor. And only one man along with another man can unchain comedy and bring back zings to the world (Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman of The Great Difficulties aka The Great Disappointments aka The Greatles in case it wasn’t clear). Also, in the future, everyone hates everyone else. And humanity is controlled by a pander-iffic bore-poration that profits off of stifle-shushing and other phrases we make up TBD. Words! Anyway, something along these lines. It’ll be fast-paced. The Greatles in The Last Satire. In the land without laughs, the one-lined man is king!

Sunday February 4, 2024 5:15pm - 6:45pm PST
Marsh Studio 1062 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

This will be Colin and Mike's first sketch comedy performance at the Marsh in twenty years!

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 2023 20th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest (February 5, 2023)

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:41:00 +0000

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the first SF Sketchfest with original performers

Sunday February 5, 2023, 8pm

Please Leave The Bronx and The Great Difficulties

Hosted by Matt O'Brien

PianoFight Mainstage 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Original SF Sketchfest sketch group Please Leave The Bronx return to the stage, along with OG's Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman, aka The Great Difficulties. Hosted by Matt O'Brien. ($25, All Ages)

Purchase tickets here.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 20th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest. Update: Postponed until February 5, 2023

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:44:00 +0000

Update: 2022 dates cancelled. Festival to resume in 2023.

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the first SF Sketchfest with original performers

~~Sunday January 23, 2022 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST~~

Sunday February 5, 2023

Please Leave The Bronx and The Great Difficulties

Hosted by Matt O'Brien

PianoFight Mainstage 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Original SF Sketchfest sketch group Please Leave The Bronx return to the stage, along with OG's Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman, aka The Great Difficulties. Hosted by Matt O'Brien. ($25, All Ages)

Purchase tickets here.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 19th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:36:00 +0000

God, I miss that hat.

Mike Spiegelman (of Luggage Tuesdays) and Colin Mahan return to the San Francisco Sketchfest on Saturday, January 26, 2020, at 10 pm at PianoFight. As The Great Difficulties, they will perform with JFLE (Jerome & Jesse LE), Winslow, and Jon Raymond Fisher. Purchase tickets here.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 18th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:03:00 +0000

Mike Spiegelman (of Luggage Tuesdays) and Colin Mahan return to the San Francisco Sketchfest on Friday, January 25, 2019, at 10 pm at PianoFight. As The Great Difficulties, they will perform with Please Leave The Bronx, Butt, and Hayley Benham-Archdeacon. Purchase tickets here.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman performs at the 17th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:10:00 +0000

Mike Spiegelman (of Luggage Tuesdays) and Colin Mahan return to the San Francisco Sketchfest on Sunday, January 28, 2018, at 7pm at PianoFight. As The Great Difficulties, they will perform with Charles, Hot Raw Fire, and Josef Anolin. Purchase tickets here.

Listen to them now, from an August 2017 performance:

Shameless Plug: I have a podcast

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:28:00 +0000

It's called Let's Watch a Full-Length Movie on YouTube.

Available as LWAFLMOYT on iTunes or Mutiny Radio.

Also airs live Sundays 2-4pm PST on MutinyRadio.fm.

Here's the theme songs written by Carl:

[Updated August, 2019]

Cartoon: Sam The Magician and Lucy

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:10:00 +0000

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman Performs at the 16th Annual SF Sketchfest

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:31:00 +0000

Mike Spiegelman (of Luggage Tuesdays) and Colin Mahan return to the San Francisco Sketchfest on Friday, January 20th at 11pm. As The Great Difficulties, they will perform with Charles, Sentimental Lady, and Austin Wolf-Sothern. Purchase tickets here.

A Hipster Walks Into a Bar Joke

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:00:00 +0000

A hipster walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Would you care for our drinks menu?" and the hipster says, "No thanks. I've already read it on Scribd."

Movie Pitches

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:58:00 +0000

Spy thriller where Average Joe Tennis Pro Kevin "Clutch" Peterson accidentally mistakes a top secret can of Pringles chips for his canister of tennis balls.

Romance set at the DMV. Young lovers meet cute, fall in love, and break up while waiting in line at the DMV.

Movie parody of movie parodies called "Not Another Normal Movie."

Hack List 2016

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:03:00 +0000

There will be no Hack List for the year 2016.

A Hipster Walks Into a Bar Joke. A Man Walks Into a Hipster Bar Joke.

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 05:24:00 +0000

A hipster walks into a bar. Bartender says, "What'll it be?" The hipster looks up from his phone and says, "I just told you on your app."

A man walks into a hipster bar. Bartender ignores him.

Hack List December 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 06:21:00 +0000

Here's what's hacky during December 2015. Posted June 2016.

A DVD menu themed pinball machine.
A Monopoly themed Monopoly board game.
A Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope themed wedding followed by a Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones separation.
Desperate to be liked by the birthday boy, I bake him a birthday cake and frost it with birthday cake flavored icing.

Hack List November 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:59:00 +0000

Here's what's hacky during November 2015. Posted June 2016.

Using your Snapchat avatar as your Twitter avatar.
Farting in a phone booth.
Passing off a Bennett Cerf antidote as your own.

Hack List October 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:33:00 +0000

Here's what's hacky during October 2015. Posted June 2016.

Coming home from the t-shirt store with a Ramones album by mistake.
Staying through the end credits of a Marvel movie just to find out who was Best Boy.
Savoring the irony of Weird Science existing in an alternative universe where creating women through computers is considered normal.

Hack List September 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:53:00 +0000

Here's what's hacky during September 2015. Posted June 2016.

Discovering the obscene hand motions of Doc Brown's kids, Jules and Verne Brown, at the end of Back to the Future III.
Discovering Jules Verne is also an author who wrote books, too!
The last Hack List.

Ode to San Francisco on 4/20

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 16:42:00 +0000

(Graphic courtesy of Harvest)

Wednesday
Hippie Hill
All will be
Tokin'.

April 20th.

Show up at
Hippie Hill.
It's a
Tradition!

Smoke among
Hundreds of kids
Outside
Waiting for 4:20.

Shameless Plug: Mike Spiegelman Performs at SF Sketchfest 2016

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:45:00 +0000

On Saturday, January 23, 2016, as part of the 15th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest, Luggage Tuesdays' own Mike Spiegelman performs with Colin Mahan as The Great Difficulties in The Greatest Difficulty on Earth! Tickets are still available.

Spiegelman has received some press this year for the festival:

SF Sketchfest Bits You Don’t Want to Miss
Rally! by Eventbrite

Bombardier; The Great Difficulties; Mike Breen
UNION SQUARE Jan. 23, 8 PM – 10 PM PianoFight (144 Taylor)
This PianoFight showcase features UCB LA troupe Bombardier and Brooklyn one-man-show Mike Breen. But what we’re really excited about is The Great Difficulties, comprised of Colin Mahan and Mike Spiegelman of founding Sketchfest performing troupe, The Fresh Robots. Expect mind-blowing meta-cultural commentary, ‘80s action movie impressions, and a lot of words. So many words.

For Local Comics, SF Sketchfest Is More a Vision Board Than a Jackpot
KQED by Keli Dailey

For an anecdote about unexpected magic between locals and out-of-towners at Sketchfest, consider Mike Spiegelman. He talked with me as he readied to take a worn wooden stage for his Tuesday showcase at Oakland’s Layover. In the rear of this narrow bar, a cluster of comics were sharing gossip on pillow-strewn banquettes. (Spiegelman would later introduce them as: “Probably the finest comedians who could make it on time.”)

I ask for his biggest Sketchfest memory. No, not the time he was in the newspaper as part of the inaugural Sketchfest in 2002, back when when it was exclusively Bay Area entertainers. “I (was) in the paper…but I had no money. I really couldn’t pay rent,” he says.

The highlight was the time Sketchfest co-founder Cole Stratton needed a last-minute stand-in for a live reading of “Shakes the Clown,” so Spiegelman joined a famous ensemble with Bobcat Goldthwait, Kevin Pollack, Julie Brown, and others for a rendition of the 1992 cult movie.

“I got to perform for so many Shakes fans.”

Spiegelman’s now entering his eighth Sketchfest of the 15 there have been, this time with a sketch group called the Great Difficulties. Making new comedy connections for work opportunities is great, he notes. But Spiegelman concentrates his praise on organizers for their dedication to making comics’ experiences special over all.
“You get to meet your comedy heroes.”

Garlic Jokes

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:34:00 +0000

A man walks into a produce store. He looks for an employee but doesn't find anyone. Desperately, he approaches a pile of garlic. "Do you work here?" he asks the pile. The garlic bulbs respond, "No, we're cloves." The man says, "But your sign says you're open."

How to make garlic toast: lift your flute and recall garlic's many accomplishments.
— Mike Spiegelman (@Spiegelmania) March 2, 2015

How to roast garlic:
Rent a hall, invite guests to dinner honoring garlic, hire band, hire comedians, approach dias, face audience, lift champagne flute, and then profanely mock garlic's accomplishments.

Did You Hear About The Restaurant on The Moon? Jokes

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:11:00 +0000

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?
Yes, it has great food but no atmosphere.

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?
Yes, Zagat says it has "great food" but "no atmosphere."

Related: "Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?" joke explained to children.

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?
You did? Where did you hear aobut it, at your job at NASA?

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? Seems pleasant, but has a dark side.

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? Great food but lousy delivery.

Related: Yelp Reviews for The Restaurant on the Moon

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? Can't miss it, right next to the sign, "LAST FOOD BEFORE MARS."

Yelp Reviews for The Restaurant On The Moon

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spiegelman) — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:52:00 +0000

The Restaurant On The Moon

3.5 star rating 394 reviews
Rating details $$ Diners

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The Restaurant on The Moon
Sea of Tranquility Port #1, Sea of Traquility, The Moon
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Phone number: (800) GR8-FOOD
Business website nasa.gov/seaoftranquilityport1/restaurantonthemoon

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Jeff S.
San Francisco, CA
314 friends, 671 reviews, Elite '15
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1 check-in
"Great food but no atmosphere."
Comment from Oscar B. of The Restaurant On The Moon
Business Owner
"Thank you so much for your review. It pains me to say this, but the joke is on you, Jeff. We have atmosphere courtesy of our oxygen tanks and gravitation monitors. If you were as observant in real life as you are snarky online, Jeff, you would had noticed them upon descent."

Wendy E.
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"I heard The Restaurant On The Moon has great food but no atmosphere."
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"Sounds like conjecture based on hearsay. I've contacted Yelp about removing this and other 'reviews.' When you're ready to review our actual restaurant, Tina, I'll have a complimentary cup of coffee drink waiting for you."

Harris J.
Miami, FL
45 friends, 6 reviews
3.5 star rating
"Great food but no atmosphere."
Comment from Oscar B. of The Restaurant On The Moon
Business Owner
"Thanks for your review slash joke. If we had a nickel for every time we heard that joke, we'd close shop and retire on Phobos. At least we can both agree with the set-up, Harris: we do have great food."