1% better- one year from now, I will be 37x better at getting 1% better.
5 year old hide and seek"We introduced our baby to the concept of peek-a-boo first, and he loved it! So we thought hide and seek would be a fun game to play once we felt our baby boy was smart enough"
acorns brainstorm bitsPassive aggressive cactus doesn't want you to feed it; it wants you to live with the irreconcilable guilt of letting a cactus die. There's no recovering from that
actions vs intentions quiche"I made you this quiche; let's make up already" "you fucker. You want me to eat a symbol of your anger and make up?" "well not anymore.."
addicted to carrots crowd bitThen offer people carrots one by one and insist we bite the carrot at the same time. Go through the whole audience until we all bite the carrot at the same time — create this massive carrot sound.
ADHD side quests main questsNow getting chicken is a side quest. Stop at the grocery on the way home. The main quest, the goal keeping you going throughout the day is going to sleep
ADHD-and-Mental-Health- The mental health material almost never tips into pathos; it stays in comedy because David always finds the structural absurdity (ADHD = herpes; bipolar diagnosis timing = bin Laden hunt)
ai epstein files unethicalI want to train an AI model on the esteem files and create the most unethical AI model of them all and then maybe we won't feel so bad using Chai ChiPT.
AI vs making babiesAnd they're not even asking as much of their children. We want our kids to give our lives meaning. They just want programs that can crunch numbers.
AI-and-Tech-Comedy- **MDCalc as a source of material** is almost entirely untapped; there's a whole world of "medical professional comedy" audience that David is uniquely positioned to perform for
anne frank pornstar nameI've always been in the camp that says Jews should have fun with the fact that the holocaust happened
Area rugA rug that you put in an area as opposed to a rug that you put nowhere.
Bartender spit- going down on the street — public innuendo
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Best-IdeasThis might be the most important strategic note in the vault: David has a skill set no other comedian has. The question is structural integration, not material quality.
Bike vasectomyMy sperm is going to die in transit because it just doesn’t care for surge pricing
body countIf you told me that I could sleep with someone and they wouldn't be allowed to sleep with anyone else even after we broke up? I'd do that.
breakdancers L train condomIf I start enjoying breakdancing, I want you to drink some red bull and throw me off a cliff, and don't give me any red bull so I can't save myself and fly
californians are everywhere1 in 8 Americans Is Californian; I go out and see maybe 64 people on a good day out, so I 8 Californians a day. That's crazy; they're everywhere.
Cereal monogamyI’m a cereal monogamist. I’ve been in relationship after relationship with different cereals
Characters- **Real people as characters**: Everett, people at shows, rabbis — David is comfortable making real people in his life into comic characters
chasidish gloryhole-> which means that sometimes, you can do 3 holy acts at once, charitable acts of oily sex.
chatgpt accused of using it- I record every thing you said and think as hard as I can about what you want me to say so you don't get mad at me for saying the wrong thing.
cheating facebook post vague subtweetWhat do you do when you catch your friends cheating? Do you tell people you know? Believe it or not, I can keep a secret. But I wasn't sure I should. So instead of telling the people involved, I just post on Facebook: "I just caught some of my friends cheating… what do I do?" So all my friends are like: who's cheating? Is it my spouse?
chess dating apps elo ratingI also think dating apps should do bullet matches, 1 minute each. 1 minute for the guy to prove he's not a serial killer and 1 minute for the girl to prove that she's real.
circus pole dancers feel no painI recently moved to LA where they're giving us circus runaways a run for our money, quite literally. I can't afford to live there, and afford a good circus education, unless you count old loose tooth McKinney and his free show under the Santa Monica pier
Circus-and-Physical-Comedy- The show feedback across multiple notes consistently says: lean into the physical. It's the unique offering.
comedian origin story batman jokerBut a comedian's origin story is far from the point. All of us are tortured not by a single incident but, at the minimum, by our parents and the shitty job they did
compliments for men call him the man"Listen man, we've decided to vote you in as the man. Here's a cool hat, and what you say goes, even if you decided god doesn't hate homos, we'll support you"
condom subscription amazon optimistI recently purchased a subscription for condoms from Amazon that sends me 36 condoms a month. I'm not sure what's more unrealistic. The idea that I'll fuck 36 times in a month, or that I'll wear a condom even once
crowd work reject myself before anyone else canSometimes you'll hear about a school teacher sleeping with one of her students and I gotta be honest — what that teacher is doing is wrong. She is essentially ruining the curve for the rest of the class.
Dating-Apps-and-Tech- David the tech worker writing jokes about tech dating products = built-in credibility and irony
day 17 transcript unavailable**Caption:** day 17 / 365 of sharing a new joke every day. 2 today to make up for the ice out yesterday. This joke is more of a NYC joke for the time being. LMK if you hate this one! (or if you love it)
Dr strangeI recently found out that Doctor Strange isn’t a gynecologist.
EucalyptusOr to a human, like a giant menthol cigarette
Female Run Club—> maybe a bit about how I saw my friends in a run club photo, I looked up the run club, and it was a ladies run club and obviously I’m not gonna go (and another punch
Finger licking goodif you eat pussy and you don't lick your fingers? what is wrong with you. I hope you're fingers fall off
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florida jewish homeland miami beach- "Florida man arrested for allegedly throwing a live alligator into Wendy's drive-thru window" — I want this one to be Jewish. We could use the street cred
former virgin bad at sex renovationWhich brings me to my next point, toys help, and I'm not saying that because you need them, but you think your contractor is gonna take the hardest route to completion
frats and trump"I think Nikolai vodka is sufficient for the guests, but my homies get Tito's"
friend zone quicksandLike it's not I mean it can't be quick if I could fall into Quicksand and then Google how to get out of Quicksand and have enough time to figure it out.
Future-and-Sci-Fi-Bits- This is a **full show concept** — the runsheet suggests it's been performed as a standalone show
Germany swastika drawing in second gradeIn Germany they will put you in prison if you draw a swastika. Well in second grade I drew a lot of them because I had this really thick textbook and the only images were of the Nazis. Baller suits, a lot easier [to draw].
getting a dog instagram celebrity ROII want to get a dog, but I don't know if it's worth the risk. Like what are the odds my dog becomes an Instagram celebrity and gives me a return on my investment?
going down on the street-> Everyone likes to assume I fucked Lorimer st, but I can’t do that because metropolitan is right there
going to therapy announcement pityDo you think if you tell people that you're on your way to therapy, they'll be mean to you because you're in therapy and figure you'll just take care of it there? Or be nice to you because they know you're in therapy?
Goosebumps-> this is why in duck duck goose: the goose chases you. It’s the cocaine
hair loss finasteride EDIt turns out they're not depositories and so I've been taking finasteride and one of the side effects of finasteride is is ED and it's okay because at least now I have an excuse
homeowners- Uber quiet mode — transportation/city life
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INDEX- All source notes live in `Apple Notes/` folder and are linked using `Note Name` format
INDEX- Sex and Dating.md, I'm a beginner comedian.md, I'm a guy.md did not exist in vault
is my chest hair pubes?I feel like people look at me and wonder if I slept with a witch who cursed me. Or if I got an STD that contributes to hair growth. Or if I put romaine on my nuts
Jewish mechanic- Yeshiva vs Software Engineering — Jewish career expectations
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Jewish-Identity- **Rabbinical authority as comedy nemesis**: the set-up is always losing the argument but winning the bit
johnny bravo jacked lives with momIsn't it interesting that Johnny Bravo sort of modeled today's bachelor? Jacked as fuck, rizzed to the teeth, can literally swing his hips like Elvis, but still lives with his mom?
juggling school no balls hands modelCuz it's only cool if I'm really juggling something but if I juggle without juggling balls and I just do like this I look like a hands model that's trying to become a magician you know?
looking at a butt and having a realization10. Is this the conversation you've actually had, the one you want to have, or the one you know will never happen? The audience doesn't need to know — but you do, because it changes how you perform the snap back. "Damn, nice ass" after a fantasy reconciliation is devastating. After a real one it's just funny.
Louder sexI’d rather hear you call your partner a dirty little slut than battle my moral imperative to keep you alive
made in china tag adoptionI've been finding made in China tags on everything I own. Sometimes I get nervous that I'm just gonna find a made in China tag on myself. I kind of knew I was adopted; I just didn't think I was Asian
men women dating raining men droughtFor me, and I imagine other men… when it rains it pours, and when it doesn't there's a drought. Like recently, I made a lot of progress healing from a breakup, and now I'm ready for hot Davey summer. I don't like juggling women, but I do like juggling. I recently ended a fwb situation-ship. I thought a lot about it and wanted to be honest. But like, I ended things in part because I felt like I had options, for a week.
mother in law in lawThat’s not even a stereotype that’s just a statistic that I learned from a mathematician who is Jewish?
my penis doesn't workI'd date a comic but my penis doesn't work right now and I don't need everyone to know that
N word passBut I though that was really kind of him so I said “you can say kike if you wan’t”
neo nazis new and improvedLike Eva Brown was bored in the bunker and decided to go "Punch buggy" — and that's why Hitler killed himself
nyc ferry pirate ship captain pensionThink about it, NYC ferry jobs have pensions that activate after 25 years. "I've spent 25 years at sea in New York. I've seen things you WOULDN'T believe. Rats with wings that could swim. Escaped monkeys from the Prospect Park zoo, found on small islands in middle of the Hudson. How did they get there?" All in an accent
off the derech masturbation heathenSee we learned a lot about what it meant to be a good Jew. To keep the sabbath, to avoid eating most intelligent animals, to use God as an excuse to get our children to do the dishes. But I don't do any of that. And I love masturbation. Sorry God. So I'm a total heathen by their standards. And it's hard not to think about how when I boof it with a lady, they're winning.
One-Liners- Subway Sunday 2-9-25 - strip club / Super Bowl, all-boys school Skype romance
photographic memoryI don't understand why some people get mad at a man for staring at a woman's butt. Maybe he just doesn't have photographic memory.
picture audience nakedThey say if you want to be less nervous on stage picture the audience naked I'm picturing everybody naked and now that you know that you're the ones who are uncomfortable
pimple date left sideI have this huge pimple and for a moment I was kind of like crashing out about it today I was like what do I do like put a cold compresses on like toothpaste like googling like what to do about a pimple everyone just says suck it up and don't like confidence beats a pimple but I'm not a very confident person like I kind of hope she shows up on a date with a bigger pimple and just in case that's not going to happen here's what my strategy is I'm going to see her on my left side and the entire day I'm just going to be like this like I'm going to rest on my cheek like I'm falling in love with her because I probably will I don't even I barely know what she looks like so I I know god owes me one so I hope it's an act goes well
portal bathroom gloryhole new york LA wholesomePortals everywhere. In the bathroom like a gloryhole. But also it doesn't have to just be weird sex stuff, it can also be a wholesome moment with someone when you take one of those poops where you also cry
post nut clarity refractorySay that as a man after you have sex you have post nut clarity but I have an incredibly short refractory period so I go back immediately to make a
public restroom pee aimI think some guys say "you look like pee sitting down" to call a man feminine as an insult. But I think a way better insult would be, you look like you can't aim your pee.
Recurring-ThemesThis is the David Mendelovits comic persona in six words: optimistic about outcomes, anxious about deserving them. It explains the condom stockpile, the kegels, the sex books, the Jewish school escape — all preparation for a goodness he hasn't quite let himself receive yet.
Ryan gosling & ana de armasI wanna date ana de armas because that's as close as I'll get to the clout a woman has when she dates a football player
Self-Deprecation-and-Insecurity- **His insecurities are the audience's insecurities**: the chest hair, the height, the awkwardness with women — these are universal enough to land, specific enough to be his
Set-Lists-and-Show-Notes- Feedback from coaches/peers consistently says the same thing: integrate the circus skills, tighten the long bits, the physical stuff is the difference-maker
sex dreams accountantWe're looking to rekindle the relationship and then I wake up feeling like I didn't sleep at all.
sex ed and pornhubanother part of the article talks about maintaining pelvic health and they say that vaginal weights can help the strength of your pelvic floor and this is embarassing but I have a weak pelvic floor. So I went and got some vaginal weights...
sex when older deathbedI want to have sex on my deathbed because it would be so lovely to make everything weird for my family that's there saying goodbye to me.
Sex-and-Dating- **Mom as audience member**: mom approving of his sex life recurs across multiple bits — sweet, weird, very him
spellcheck and autocorrectcraziest thing about that joke is I actually spelt it right on the first try, making me feel like that joke was hack
SpidersDog missing a leg? Also good?
Spite condomOne time this Oman I was seeing told me to cum inside her and I didn’t because I know that’s exactly what my dad would want
Stand up openingsAnd that sort of guide me thinking about like what I want to give you as a reflection For my special and I think it’s actually this I think it’s actually just gonna be me talking about other people specials that’s what I’m gonna do before my special. I’m just gonna talk to tell you about my favorite special to say turn off the special and then I can go watch the dice man comes who wants a little actually make you laugh.
taking a bullet"nono, shoot THIS guy, and I'll just in front of the bullet. win-win"
timeshare polyamorousI She insisted insisted on being polyamoris. on not being a **** And her response was you don't have to be there.
tinder wishing well coin fountain love of your lifeBut it's different. Could you imagine tossing a coin into a fountain and the love of your life popped out as a result? I'd be pretty skeptical. But if I'm on tinder, then that means someone like me is on there. So if I'm in a fountain, maybe the love of my life is too.
treating your body like a temple**Caption:** Day 65 / 365 - debating in my head the feasibility of pausing the challenge. Probably won’t do it but things are tough enough right now that it would make sense to lock in on work and earn a few extra bucks to feel like I’m in a safe enough place to afford the time to get on stage every day. But also, if I ever go all in on comedy, I probably will run into this exact feeling. Wrote something stupid and quick and here we are
Virgin Joseph"yeah that's mary. she's cool. every life is a miracle"
virginity story mostly exposition climax without buildupIt would be much shorter otherwise. I've been learning screenwriting and if there is anything I've learned, it's that climax without buildup is just a random tragedy. And not that my first time was a total tragedy. I mean, at least I had a good time.
waymo ghostsI just pretended I was watching TV in the front seat while you smell or not see her
wet dreamsAnd once I knew that, you realized I wasn’t narcoleptic
Why I can't get hardIt’s very feminine. It’s very feminine of my dick. It’s ironic that the most feminine part about me is this.
Women with cats- She Comes First — thematic (relationships, men trying to figure it out)
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women with cats zyrtec allergicSo we broke up, but because I had issues with commitment and the words "I love you". Turns out the cat had nothing to do with it
Wrestling- Apple Notes/Wrestling in high school
stage-ready