Comedy

He finished 2nd out of 20 of Comedy Central’s top comedians in the Annual Stand-up Showdown, earning him a deal to record a new album on Comedy Central

Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

 Records. In 2006, Josh filmed a 30-minute special, “Comedy Central Presents: Josh Sneed” that debuted in March 2007 and is currently re-airing. In November 2006, Josh placed 6th in the Sierra Mist/MySpace Stand-up or Sit Down Challenge out of over 2,000 entrants. Finishing high in competitions is nothing new to Josh. In 4th grade

Fourth grade

Fourth grade is a year of education in the United States and many other nations. The fourth grade is the fourth school year after kindergarten. Students are usually 9 or 10 years old, depending on their birthday. It is a part of elementary school. In some parts of the United States, fourth grade...

 he earned a blue ribbon

Blue ribbon

The blue ribbon is a term used to describe or symbolize something of high quality. The usage came from The Blue Riband, a prize awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger liners—and prior to that from Cordon Bleu which referred to the blue ribbon worn by a particular order...

 for throwing a softball through a tire. He has toured with such acts as Dave Chapelle

Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber "Dave" Chappelle is an American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist. Chappelle began his film career in the film Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993 and continued to star in minor roles in the films The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His...

, Dane Cook

Dane Cook

Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident. In 2006, Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album...

, Mitch Hedberg

Mitch Hedberg

Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes, mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs...

, Lewis Black

Lewis Black

Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena...

, and various members of "The Blue Collar Comedy Tour". Josh has made several appearances on "The Bob & Tom

The Bob & Tom Show

The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 7, 1983, and syndicated nationally since January 6, 1995....

 Show", and his viral YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 internet videos

Video clip

Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer recording. The term is also more loosely used to mean any short video less than the length of a traditional television program.- On the Internet :...

 have developed quite the cult following.

Unacceptable

Unacceptable is Josh's Debut CD. It was released on September 30, 2008 exclusively online. The CD has sold over 1,500 copies, but Josh's Goal is 5,000 which will earn him national distribution. Unacceptable was produced with Comedy Central Records. It was originally released as a digital album, but has been released as a hard copy

Hard copy

In information handling, a hard copy is a permanent reproduction, or copy, in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person , of displayed or transmitted data...

 exclusively on his website. Josh has said that he will sign all hard copies for free.

Look At Me Shirts

Look At Me Shirts is a web site run by Josh and graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

er Darin Overholser. The site specialises in T-Shirts

T-shirt

A T-shirt is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line....

. There are basic funny shirts and sports shirts, but there are also Cincinnati shirts with Cincinnati Friendly sayings on them (Ex. Even God Hates The Steelers, and I Heart Duke Energy

Duke Energy

Duke Energy , headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America.-Overview:...

.) Look At Me Shirts also sells Adult Footed Pajamas

Blanket sleeper

The blanket sleeper is a type of especially warm sleeping garment worn primarily during the winter in the United States and Canada...

, and T-Shirts made for Comedians such as Doug Benson

Doug Benson

Douglas Steven "Doug" Benson is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season....

 and Dave Waite.

The Detention Show

Josh does a podcast with his friend and co-host, Mark Chalifoux. The Podcast is described by Josh as being like "A fly on the wall

Fly on the wall

Fly on the wall is a style of documentary-making used in filmmaking and television production. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them...

 in a comedy greenroom." The Detention Show has gotten such guests as Jimmy Pardo

Jimmy Pardo

Jimmy Pardo is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host of the popular comedy podcast Never Not Funny.He is married to fellow comedian Danielle Koenig. They live in Los Angeles with their son Oliver...

, Doug Benson, and Eddie Gossling. The tagline for the show is "A show about comedy, pop culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

, and your mom." The theme for the Show is a mixture of quotes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Jack Sneed

Jack Sneed is Josh's black Pug. He is the producer of The Detention Show. Jack Sneed has been described as a "Man's Dog." Jack is just like his master. If Josh drops a piece of salad, Jack will lick the dressing off, and refuse to eat the lettuce. Josh has a photo gallery of pictures of Jack on his Myspace page.