As the old adage goes, if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Well to be perfectly honest I could think of many people. I could laugh at fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins for losing the Stanley Cup. I could laugh at Chad Johnson’s bipolar disorder. The wide receiver will now apparently show up to Bengals camp although philly.com seems to think otherwise. Hell I could even laugh at how the Yankees are below .500, New Kids On the Block are back on tour, and Michelle Obama joins the cast of The View (my dream trio).

But Theatre Exile wants me to laugh at myself. No, not for scoring on my own net in a men’s league roller hockey game (rest assured I scored 2 goals in the correct net, although my teammates didn’t find it quite as funny). They want me to laugh at a bit of a bigger picture in Philadelphia sports. A one-man-show flaunting our 25 seasons of un-fulfillment. Here is an email they asked me to share with all of you.

Theatre Exile presents a return engagement of its hit show The Philly Fan by Bruce Graham, starring Tom McCarthy, and directed by Joe Canuso. A one-man tour-de-force in which two-time Barrymore Award winner Tom McCarthy takes audiences on a hilarious journey through the frustrations of the past fifty years of Philadelphia sports.  This production is an in-your-face, tell-it-like-it-is romp through the memories of a hard core fan used to seeing sure-thing victories turn into “oh-my-God-they-blew-it†defeats.  June 10-15 at The Playground at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street.  Tickets are $25 - $30 ($50 for the Opening Night Gala); call (215) 922-4462 or visit www.ThePhillyFan.net.

I’m sure this show will be funny. It will poke fun at our 100 seasons without a championship and will probably make women laugh and grown men weep. Hell I’m tearing up a little bit just writing this because now the failures that hardcore Philly sports fans have had to endure for 25 seasons are becoming a supposed form of entertainment. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL SOMEONE JUST WIN A GOD DAMN TITLE?!