I stopped doing art and comedy many years ago. I may one day down the road find myself back into comedy or artwork in the future but in the present moment I lost my mojo my push my love my drive and well frankly took my foot off the gas in life itself. 
Being pushy for others approval led to lots of constant rejection and heartbreak and low self worth and depression let down and it just pretty much got old and wore me down after so many years trying to make all of my dreams and fantasies come true to no avail. 
So all of the things on this website of stand up comedy and my artist website are very very old and not current of this year or last few years to this day. 
My photo of me on this website or my artist website was taken in 2013 when I was 33 or 34 years old. I am partially bald now (not totally bald, just 15 to 20 percent bald on thinning of my hair on top of my head) and not as skinny in the stomach as I was in my early to mid 30's age in life. 
Art and comedy had a lot of great pride and meaning for me many years ago when I was younger and in a better place in life or living on my own independently. I lost my passion my love or drive to create paintings ceramic statues drawings or jokes and stand up comedy. the art was to ease my self or get my emotions out of me onto a drawing or painting...but no one cares, no one showed up. I wanted the approval and admiration or attention of others I wanted to like me back and be intrigued or fascinated by me. It did not happen, So I stopped and moved on to other things in life. I do not know if this is a sign of growth or maturity or more being a burn out as a natural born artist who lost his love of making artwork. It was not about fame or world famous fantasies as a celebrity art star that was not the goal or dream. I wanted babes and sexy girls to like me back, and none did. If they did, I ran away and hid and got scared off from intimacy at the starting gate. Dating seems so confusing on uncomfortable and when a man tries to hard to get some else's approval or attention all he makes is a new enemy so screw it. I no longer really try. No hot girl wants to be a babe or artist fantasy day dream girl muse or cheerleader for a guy who is not famous not tough not a buffed out hunk not in a position of status or high regard from others. The just work more on yourself does not work. After 10 years of just working more on myself led to nada nothing zip zilch zero. The people who give you that advice to just work more on yourself first are always in a romantic relationship themselves and not take or listen to their own advice they give you or others for their own personal life or love life. The people who will tell you just be by yourself and work more on yourself are never single themselves. I call bullshit. Life is about making bonds and connections and friendships basically close relationships with your pets and other people and family if your family stops the constant fighting and battling each other all the time enough to be close or respectful to one another if at all possible. Pets are a good way to have a bond and unconditional love. unless I become rich or famous...I may very well be another random guy single without girls trying to go out or more like willing to go out with me. And I myself need to let my guard down to give a girl who likes me a chance without running away and hiding. 

The rest below here was written in 2014 or sometime in that era many years ago. 

 I was an artist first, a storyteller second, before I found my 3rd love and natural inborn talent in stand up comedy.

If you met me or heard about me from somebody else who met me or heard of me recently some way or another,
thank you for stopping in and seeing my site and my comedy.  

People are always telling me I was a funny guy and asked if I did stand up comedy for years: most of my adult life. In 2012 I took a stand up comedy class offered at CSULB in the Film department on campus. I now have another  passion in my life that I really love!  I love to be performing on stage and I thrive on doing stand up and making the people watching me start laughing!  

I have been told that what is the funniest about me is the truthful parts or real life stories and events I say in my set. I do have plenty of jokes that do tell that are not true at all and never happened to me before. I am told my real life character and persona and real life stories is funnier than my "jokes" that are some of the made up part of my set. I perform both because that is what makes me happy and what I myself find funny. 

In essence I am Peter Pan the boy in a grown mans age body and Pinocchio naive boy up on stage as to what I do and am about or doing up on stage. In Pinocchio his nose grows longer every time he tells a lie that he says convincingly to others listening to him. All comedians tell lies up on stage. Mostly what they say up on stage is not true or only partly true, some stuff is mostly true. I do not lie to people off stage in real life. But on stage I excel at making things up like it is the truth, talking making believe that could be real. In facts I burn bridges or turn people off or away being to truthful without a good filter to lie with in real life face to face with other people. Lying is a good thing socially or politically with others and needed to be well liked or popular, I need to improve better at lying to people off stage than on. Being truthful in real life of what I think or feel gets people annoyed or upset with me. On stage being truthful can also get me judged critically or turn people away. Anyone who tells you lying is a bad thing and should never be done anytime and anywhere is a liar. I guess keeping a moral compass of ethics and code of personal conduct and responsibility is necessary to be honest and truthful in real life as much as possible to maintain trust and relationships with others who are around you or close to you.  If everyone only told up the real truth or honest accounts and facts of their life and life experiences people who be critical or more judgemental of them and that person would be written off or rejected by others at a higher rate. So people expand upon the truth, exaggerate the truth, or sugar coat it, or if they want sympathy and people supporting them as an angel, lie about being victims beyond what actually did really in fact happen to them.

I never worked at a theme park and never was any kind of costume character. I never was sexually harassed by the bikini models at comic con or the auto show. The jokes of me on a "date" that is going terrible but still sexually charged is also almost all made up make believe material.  I'm not married and never took my honeymoon over in Somalia.

I do in fact hit on or flirt with bikini models in real life and online and I do love horses, mini horses, dogs, and cats. I ride horses, make art, and love the world of hip hop dancing classes and events. I do own thousands of books as an art book collecting addict.

I have been working on my kids comedy jokes for  years now. I hope to be able to do a whole 5 minutes to half hour set of short right to the punchline kids comedy jokes.  I am working on this goal currently. 

I have a few different variations of myself that I can play and perform on stage easily. I often will mix and match all or some of these characterization types into one persona as myself on stage.

The first character is myself as a sad sap who can't get a date with a sexy model no matter how hard I try and who likes miniature horses. This character chases after bikini models and all kinds of sexy beautiful girls and fails everytime.

The Second character is a sexy guy even though he is a film buff art college graduate comic book nerd who attends comic con and the auto show and gets sexually harassed by the same women who my first character chases after and can't get. This character is humiliated and overwhelmed with the response and aggressive behavior the sexy swim suit models use to try to seduce in a confrontational inappropriate disrespectful way. 
Both characters #1 and #2 go by me Brent Goodman

The 3rd character is Gary Nicholas. Gary is going places. Gary is always performing for only the second time ever, everytime he goes up on stage. Gary is inept at stand up comedy and gets laughs by not being prepared or ready for how to do material on stage. By not having it all organized and together or traditional material, Gary Nicholas makes the whole room ball with laughter as he can't pull his set together, as he keeps freezing and trying to dig himself out of a hole he fell into on stage with not being prepared on how to do stand up live he builds the laughs and loyalty with his audience. I really love Gary and even though I am not a Shakespeare actor or trained actors actor, I learned how to pull Gary off on stage convincingly within only 3 attempts up on the stage with no notes and no prepared set of script or jokes/material!  

Gary Nicholas inept unprepared to be up on stage comic character #3 and Brent Goodman the sexually harassed comic con attendee nerd character #2 who wants to be left alone by all the sexy models seem to do the best so far!  

The 4th Character is me the 1st character but all clean family friendly or kids jokes humor. For many of my sets for the last 6 months I have combined character 1, 2, and 4 all together with the topics and subject matter used. I like telling and creating up my very own kids jokes, what can I say?

I seriously love miniature horses.  I can not afford to own and care for one yet, but I bought this website domain name for when I do thinking ahead of planning for the future. I did my first live audience stand up comedy at Flappers Thursday at 10pm May 3rd 2012 in downtown Burbank California and after the show my classmates thanked me for making them laugh and doing a great job and one of them told me that if I have a website called iloveminiaturehorses.com 
but I did not have the content for it yet with the non copyrighted pictures of the mini horses and various mini horse breeds out there, my comedy class peers told me that this should be my comedian website to send people to who like my act and comedy. So that is how this website got it's name. 

I own another miniature horse domain name website.  

So if you are heart broken that I own this domain name already if you want to work with me on a miniature horse website we can use my other domain name similar to this one.  

If you still do not believe me that I am crazy about miniature horses or sexy bikini models I met before just watch my taped stand up comedy performances I have on this website.   

Believe me....I have scared off a lot of girls telling them how much I like miniature horses. Sadly that rejection for something I actually really do love has got me rejected more than a handful of times.  I guess with beautiful young women miniature horses or Savannah Cats or Hip Hop dancing are taboo or inappropriate topics to mention or bring up to talk about and discuss???  Should I have just talked about how great and amazing she looks the whole time before she rejected me for that too?  Come on, I know that you are a pin up or bikini model but there is more to life than how well you can fit into a wrapping gift ribbon sling shot bikini, no matter how hot you can look in it!  Life is more interesting and complex than sex appeal!  Yes, being a sexy woman is an important part of life or the world at large, but you can't compete with miniature horses, I'm sorry, it's a no contest you will always lose if you are up against a miniature horse, dog, or cat with me ladies. I really like the unconditional love and loyalty pets provide to me right away, I can't say the same thing about very attractive beautiful looking women. But that is just based on my life experiences so far. Maybe if I was blind and could no longer see if a beautiful woman was pretty or not, maybe then every encounter with these women would be uplifting enjoyable and positive experiences....in fantasyland maybe....in real life some people are awesome and cool to have around...some are a real test of yourself and might be difficult to have to deal with.

Back in 2013 to 2014 a few years ago I was out trying to study up all I can about stand up comedy history and the various comedians that were once renouned artists of being funny on stage. I have been reading many books word for word the entire book about comedy biographies and history of comedy venues or groups and eras. They have also made many comedy DVDs and VHS movies and documentaries about comedy events or eras and stand up shows. My research is for myself to improve my comedy act and have a bigger picture of comedy from Vaudville to the present time. I do not want to be a cliche and to not live up to my full potential or refuse to take risks where I might fail or bomb on stage....meaning that with being an artist as a child I quickly grew to love and research art history, close to the point of it being an obsession addiction of mine to buy used art books at thrift stores. This near complete knowledge of western art history has benefited me greatly, not only do I love it, but I can add easter eggs throwbacks (hidden gems just for the fans like in a cult favorite art house movie) of art history hidden in my art that only a art history educated person would see I did in my art to reference something rather obscure.  So...In my stand up comedy I hope...to learn all the great comedians upbringings, lives, falls and triumphs and then see more clearly what they did that they found funny and that the audeinces found funny, even if they were ahead of their time!  Right now I want to move away from just laughing at something funny a comedian said or did, but not knowing how to disect or really fully understand how or why they got that audience laughs, persona, timing, character, or the punchline itself.  The more I know the rules of jokes and timing and comedy, the more I can begin to break or play with those rules. To truly be a knowledgeable master, you need to know and be aware of the rules and guidelines before you can begin to throw them out.  Even if I am a natural at using my intuition to guide me as I create my artwork in a studio work space or my jokes up on stage, I need the mastery and understanding of this first hand knowledge I will teach myself through research before I throw out or abandon all the rules or forms and formulas of doing stand up comedy or telling funny jokes. To truly be different but still accessible and relateable to audiences I need to be aware and not just naive, random, and sky diving without a parachute each time I go up to perform on stage.
 
right now I would place my talent and skill level in my comedy career at intermediate/middle. Past the beginner novice stage and not yet at a master or advanced level of comedy comedian stage yet either.  I will probably be in the middle learning stages of growth for the next few years at least as would be expected in a realistic fashion time length how long it will be taking me to grasp the learning curve of stand up on stage and in show business dealings and affairs of the comedy career. 

I am articulate, but in no way know how to say it all in 100 words or less. Word economy is not my natural strong point. Condensing down what I need to say and making it sound shorter with less is a real big struggle I can't do without an outside person to be a proofreader helping me edit away and removing the oversaturation of my words I write or say.

2016 I performed comedy 4 times on stage in front of an audience! I missed it, I was a bit rusty, it is much easier when you have friends who are my fans I am playing to or performing to looking for laughs and approval from to just jump right in head first into a great set with lots of confidence from the get go on stage. Without close friends I am trying to make laugh who approve of me in the audience it is harder to find my footing and comfort with the jokes or confidence as fast immediately right away. Oh I'm socially fearless, but socially awkward. Now for the last few years I have grown to be much better at being socially aware with a stronger social awareness of what is socially acceptable or appropriate and take less risks and take less chances interacting with others and putting myself out their with people. I did not have much social awareness a few years ago when I was more fun or funny to others around me, or clueless to others I wanted to impress but instead in fact disliked me. I factor now getting rejected from someone else into the equation before I say something or approach them. This makes me much more of a wimp for fear of getting dissed, but makes me less of a pest or annoyance to others from lets say attractive women who mow right over and reject others at an alarming rate escalated everyday. Certain people have very thin limitations with others before they go and reject a person trying to interact with them. Other people want any interaction attention or approval they can get. If your sought after and people approach you all the time you don't need extra people in your life or time. In fact that person might be thinning out the number of his or her friends or people they want to date and go out with. If you are lonely or unpopular and not well known and not busy socializing with others often you seek out more interactions not less. If you do not have tons of close friends or many if any people to date or be around your not going to reject anyone and everyone as fast unless you suck as a cold person grumpy old asshole.


  2015 was a very slow off year for me and stand up comedy.  I have more new (to me) used old non fiction books about comedians from the past like the 1970's or 1990's to still read and get through. I want to be better at my comedy history more and gain more of an artist art history appreciation for the world of stand up comedy. So far I can not truly break down the timing or pronunciation used by the greatest stand up comedians of all time, just as I can not go and paint an oil painting Dali made and recreate it stroke for brushstroke with true exact precision. I do still like great stand up comedy as a fan who also performs it. But I do not know how to teach someone how to do a set like 'Rosanne Barr' or  'Rodney Dangerfield' or 'Jim Carrey' and have them learn to do just a good job if not better impersonating each and every trick, tick, or nuance one of the greats ever up on the stand up stage.  I did do a live audition for Americas Got Talent 2015 season in February for the first wave of auditions in LA.  I did not get picked into the second round auditions.  I'm not so sure my style of comedy is really what the variety contest TV show is looking for, but trying out is not going to hurt me any. I'm not a quitter even if most things in life don't happen to ever pan out as I would want, had planned on eventually happening successfully or liked for my needs as a man and person. My desires and needs are often ignored or overlooked and neglected all the time by others and life still goes on and the years keep on turning into next year soon enough. My tombstone would one day read "well at least he tried" (he didn't ever get what he wanted...but he sure went for it...is that the same thing as failure, if you put in an effort to attempt and really did try out to go and find yourself magical and loyal love, happiness, companionship, and success with yourself and with others?)  In life your dealt the cards or hand you were given and the rest is up to you and circumstance, risks, or chance at how your life and personal relationships, friendships, job, career, and education turn out in the end as you travel the road of your journey or destiny in life as you know it. The cards of hand I was dealt was a pretty low unfavorable one. So I have had to go through some pretty ugly tormenting and torturous bad times over the years of my entire life. I did learn to hustle my social fearlessness communication and networking skills as a good easy sell soft sell salesman over the years, both naturally, and out of wanting to be appreciated and make friends and people providing a lot more positive responses to me. But I do for some reason get peoples goats, or shake some people up very easily just by being my natural self who does not filter who I am and what I think about things around me. Even when I'm quiet and stick directly to the specific task at hand and do not show much personality or to many emotions, I still can burn bridges or get myself dejected and rejected easily. I am a natural outsider and do not fit in, yet I can network and get to know people in a crowd or gathering right away and show leadership in minutes as the class clown ice breaker with a new following of fans in awe of me entertaining them. If they had a job to just talk and entertain and amuse people when you first meet them like a comedian matre'D or hotel conceriege who is supposed to make you laugh and feel liked and feel at home like you belong and fit in. instead of helping you arrange a taxi or shuttle bus pick up or find a good Japanese steak restaurant nearby the hotel to dine at that night. So far I have not found that job. But I have been able to use my socialiable skills charms to my benefit when buying old comic book collections off of craigslist or making people around me laugh and have a good time with one another. I often might take people away from their work or job they were doing if I am not aware of it, sometimes that happens unintentionally. I start talking to someone formally, then I start telling them some jokes or stories and soon before I know it I'm entertaining them as a one on one private stand up comedy show. All the while I never intended it to happen or occur. It just sometimes happens, I can easily entertain and amuse others, especially strangers or people still new to me as an eccentric person. Tons of people I have known pretty well over the years became rich and famous, they were talented guys as artists...but the fact that who I was was unique and a bit weird or unusual helped put me in a place that another off beat person who has a strong drive to work hard and succeed at art or business would be wanting to get to know me or hang out years before they became famous overnight when they were cool guys but still unknown and not a celebrity or art star. I study patterns and conditioning of repetition, It helps me to know what to expect or what will be soon happening or most likely coming my way soon to protect myself from harm and being soon hurt badly by others as a natural intutative form of survival balancing act up on the high wire tight rope. I often miss social signs or subtle clues right and left until it is to late and the person already dislikes me and I did not catch it in time. But I like people and that helps me in life, by not having my guard up with someone who I enjoy meeting or engaging myself with them. I'm not a snob, I'm not to good, or to smart or creative to think I'm better than someone else. I appreciate meeting and being around all kinds of different people from all ages, races, and walks of life all the time. I love to be interacting with others and socialiable as much as possible without burning bridges. I often am all alone or do things alone and by myself...But I love people to much to ever be a loner or any good at being reclusive and cold and distant from others. I know I'm over 10 times more intelligent than many people around me, but I truly like people for all their unique quirks and backgrounds of who they naturally are and do not see myself as superior or more important than other people around me. I am just aware of the fact than intellectually I'm much smarter than average and then some extra supply of it. I guess it is a natural born gift to be blessed with and given a sharp creative imaginative mind. But if I have no one to share my life or days with, it is lonely and not something that really brings what I want in form of companionship and friendships to the table to receive that kind of attention from a woman in that way. Or friends to not completely lose their interest in me after 6 months to a years time and soon proceed to cut me off and ignore me like I never once existed in the first place. Beauty wins over brains any day of the week in life with what the opposite sex wants and desires from you. Having a loving kind spirit and good natured soul and a beautiful mind really means nothing at all in the least to most women who are not the retired and surrogate supportive loving grandma's intellectual well read mature kind ladies who appreciate me and what I can bring to the table as a passionate and caring guy who loves old books and has acquired much wide array of various knowledge over the years and will continue to do so. Some people get mad or annoyed at me that I am to smart to be trusted or relatable to them even before I truly met them more than a few seconds in our initial greeting. I did not tell them I was intelligent or smart, but they picked up on it and put up a defensive wall to me emotionally to not let me past or through their unwarranted defenses. Hot babes like rich and famous guys, or dangerous reckless self centered wild bad boy types, not creative and smart kind people nice guys at all. A sharp mind and brains can't get you everything you want, not even a piece of mind, if it never stops working, never shuts itself off or shuts down. I can sleep soundly at night or lose myself in a movie, book, or TV show. No problem. But my mind never stops looking for things that stir up a passion and desire and sense of playful enjoyment and discovery total appreciation in me. Anything that catches my alert attentive radar and captivates my intense interest and inner drive will greatly have my attention and longing for that woman or object or dream or goal for years to come as something of a note worthy legendary mythical level of great status to me. I am able to relax easily enough and my thoughts don't drown me under. To bad being smart or nice is not a good way to get hired for a job to keep or get the girls I like so much who I met before. Brains over the Brawn thing? I don't know. I just don't get any of it. My brain has been overactivated at a higher level of comprehension than others for my own in tune true self awareness of my emotions and feelings since early childhood, I guess I have this to try to fit in and make sense of other people and life and all it's constant reoccuring difficulties and disappointments that happen to all of us...Including me.  The road to the journey to life is not a parked car but a vehicle going a fast speed on a toll booth road bridge with all kinds of other cars and traffic all around you happening at once on their own journey as you are traveling towards yours for the daily commute to get through to find your way out in the world and find your way back to what is where you can end up going to then at the end of each day, month, year, or decades: call your home!