Is Your Best Friend an A***hole? They Should Be.

You don’t need nice friends. You need honest ones.

“And tell everyone how cool I am. Without telling everybody how cool I am.”

These are the words spoken to me by my ace-in-the-place, my one-and-only-like Sony, my best friend.

He told me to say all that.

His name is Joe. He’s an asshole.

Like any asshole in your life, Joe is one of those people that has a super-annoying way of remembering the shit you clearly don’t want to be reminded of. Like embarrassing moments. Or ultimatums that you vow to keep while drunk. Or when to shut up and do your work.

See, I came up with this great idea for a podcast (All by myself, too. Joe didn’t help out at all, no matter what he tells you). And Joe, because he is an ass, reminded me that I have been thinking about producing it for the better part of a year and that he’s grown quite tired of my shit. This banter is our process. He pushes me to stop wishing and start working. I push back to get him to turn our ideas and pop culture-related rants into scripts and videos that have become the dozen sketch comedy shows and cabarets that we have created together. He wanted to work around artists, so I brought him around my theater troupe. I wanted to do gigs on my off nights, so he brought me to his band. We’ve developed this symbiotically creative relationship that grows deeper with every new project. Neither one of us makes a move if the…