This video is of Gregg Rogell during his performance on Comedy Central Presents. This video was filmed at the Hudson Theater in New York City. Rogell has appeared on The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Nanny. He has had his own half hour special on Comedy Central, and was a featured performer in the movie The Aristocrats. He is also a regular performer at New York City's Comedy Cellar. He was born on February 18, 1967 in Long Island, New York. He has toured, opening for Dolly Parton, Wynonna Judd, and Dave Chappelle, and has appeared with Bob Hope and Bill Cosby on several NBC specials. About a year after his first performance doing standup, Rogell won "The funniest person in Long Island" contest, the WKGR South Florida Laugh Off. Two years later, he had appeared on "Evening at the Improv," "E! Stand Up Sit Down with Robert Klein," "Caroline's Comedy Hour," "The MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour," "VH1 Stand Up Spotlight," "Two Drink Minimum," "Comic Strip Live," and several others. Rogell has not produced any of his own CDs, however he is featured in “The Aristocrats” soundtrack. Barker’s comedy covers topics such as technology, religion, politics, the economy and terrorism. In this video, Rogell talks about cell phones and the irritation caused by cell phone plans such as roaming charges and “anytime minutes”. Then he goes on to talk about anthrax and terrorism. The point of this piece is to make the audience think about how ridiculous it is for some people to be so paranoid about terrorist attacks. In another bit, he mentions hearing a man from North Dakota on the news saying “It could happen here” to which he remembers thinking “No it can’t”. In this video he makes light of the fact that cell phones are believed to have the capability of causing brain tumors while anthrax only killed five people. This is meant to open people’s eyes to the fact that there are several things in the world around us that can cause us harm and that to be paranoid about possible terrorist attacks doesn’t do us any good. The audience would most likely be slightly offended by this comparison of something as seemingly benign as their beloved cell phones to something as deadly and frightening as anthrax and terrorist attacks. But later, they will likely come to the realization that they may be just as likely to develop a brain tumor from using their cell phones as they are to experience a terrorist attack, both being quite low.
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