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Ned Buratovich wasn’t always a stand-up comic. He started out in life… as a baby.

Fast forward some forty-mumble plus years and meet a man in mid-life… CRISIS. He tried getting a real job and employers laughed at him, he tried to get a real hot girlfriend and women laughed at him, so he tried therapy and therapists laughed at him, so he finally tried stand-up comedy and voila – nobody's laughing now.

OK, OK, that’s not really true. Ned was an engineer in Silicon Valley companies for over 20 years, so he understands corporate culture. Give him some background information on your company or group and he can custom cut the material in a way that fits their foibles. Always appropriately inappropriate, you request the rating: from reserved to risque.

Ned gained seven years of professional platform experience as a motivational speaker, but you can only be a failure at speaking about success for so long. As a masterful master of ceremonies, Ned has MC'd events as varied as vaudeville shows, small private parties and huge corporate functions (even in the blimp hangar at Moffett Field!)

Ned now performs stand-up comedy at local comedy houses like Rooster T. Feathers and The Improv in San Jose as well as at various private venues. He studied improvisation at Comedy Sportz and comedy technique at San Francisco Comedy College, like that matters.

Ned is probably thinking of something really clever and funny to say to you right now, so why don’t you give him a call? Tell him your problems, he’s really a good listener — especially when there’s money involved, and if laughter truly is good medicine, then maybe you can get your company’s health plan to cover the cost.

Audio Comedy Selections to Enjoy:

You know how it goes. At first, Ned was all goody-goody motivational, "Go for your dreams" and all that stuff. Then his life went in the toilet (don't ask) and he went downstream to really raunchy club humor: "Go for your wet dreams!" And now, salivating for those juicy (but tame) corporate gigs, he's come back to somewhere in the mainstream. However, you can still enjoy some of his finest club moments, by listening to the links below:

  • Ned's childhood tribulations and therapy
    (PG-13 Rated, corporate-friendly. About 3 minutes.)
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  • Ned on drugs
    (R Rated, no vulgarity. About 3 minutes.)
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  • Ned's sex-club act
    (X Rated, adult topics. About 10 minutes.)
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Motivational Speaker Send Ups and Parodies

Corporate and conference programs to be booked by those cutting edge event planners who might be considering career change.

  • Mock Motivational Seminars
    Ned has resurrected his seminar presentation career, but just as the Frankenstein monster was a grotesque reanimation of previously living human parts, in the same way Ned's new motivational seminars are an electrified and shocking version of their former selves. He's taken all that moribund, goody-goody motivational material and stitched it back together in a way that has audiences in stitches.
     
  • Public Speaker Parodies
    Ned returns to public speaking, but as a parody of his former self, in the persona of Earnest Awful, that purveyor of pompous platitudes in presentations peppered with the three "P"s. You know: "Purpose, Passion, People" or "Partnership, Performance and Profit" or "Pride, Patriotism, Peace… or possibly Pre-emptive war." You get the idea, Earnest means well but his shtick is as stale as last month's muffin.
    (Note, these presentations paradoxically implant positive principles, precisely because you presume they won't.)
     
  • Fractured Speaker Fables
    You've heard them a thousand times, the stories of the starfishes on the beach, the eagle who thought he was a turkey, the footprints in the sand. Well hear them again, but this time, hear them totally twisted.
     

March '08 - Update

Funny thing - my club comedy career has been on a bit of hiatus. (The high ate us?) Oh, I'm still doing some gigs, but mostly at private parties (check out my third audio selection above and you'll know why) and it seems few corporate types have been willing to risk their comfy career by booking me.

However, I've been able to keep myself fed by combing up crumbs from under the couch and also by doing a bit of web weenie type work on the side. So, if instead of laugh at me, you'd rather tell me what to do, give me a call to grill me about my web weenie work (www).

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