The Man Behind the Show
About Blurt Snodgrass
Inventor, writer, and the world's least qualified stand-up comedian. Based in Boise, Idaho.
Blurt Snodgrass is not funny. He knows this. That is the whole point.
He is an inventor working out of a workshop in Boise, Idaho, where he keeps a print farm, a gravity generator, and exactly zero cell phones. He came to writing late, and to comedy even later — by way of a six-card self-help system called the Expander, an AI comedian named Danny Rosenberg, and a deeply confusing support chat with HeyGen.
His books connect at the edges. Characters from one story appear in another. The Expander cards show up in comedy clubs, Alaska bunkhouses, and jacket pockets. A force field made of Love Gratitude Joy Inspiration moves through all of it, whether the characters know it or not.
Blurt writes short. He writes honest. He writes like a man who has decided that the attempt itself is enough — that you don't have to be good at something to do it with your whole heart.
He is attempting fun. That is the show.
Quick Facts
- Based in Boise, Idaho (sometimes McCall)
- Operates a print farm in his workshop
- Has a gravity generator. Does not have a cell phone.
- Built a live comedy show using HeyGen Avatar IV
- Received three contradictory emails from the same support agent
- Named his pen name after the sound he makes when he has an idea
- Pen name: Blurt Snodgrass. That's Burt with an L.
"I am not funny. I know this. I am attempting fun. The attempt is the fun."— Blurt Snodgrass, How To Be Funny When You're Not
The Universe Blurt Built
The Expander
Six cards. A weekly appointment. Index cards with pictures on them. A system so simple it should not work. It works.
Danny Rosenberg
The comedian who performs the Expander material live. Appears in Sparks and Tremors, Chapter 21. Built in HeyGen by Blurt.
The Force Field
Love. Gratitude. Joy. Inspiration. It reaches Dutch Harbor, Bristol Bay, a crab boat bunkhouse, and a comedy club in Portland three years ago.