While at Bob Jones, he co-founded a comedy troupe, the Leaping Pickes, whose motto was, "We put the fun in fundamentalism."

As a struggling artist, he took various day jobs, including road work, construction, and as a convenience store cashier.

[2] Many rejected cartoons are good, he explained, but inappropriate for the magazine because they are politically incorrect or sexually suggestive: "...the idea that the cartoonist did it, and actually pitched it to the New Yorker, makes it even funnier to me, like ‘what were they thinking’?

[5] He plays banjo and fiddle, and recently won a race in the sport of joggling (juggling while running), for which he will appear in an upcoming documentary.

[5][6] He currently hosts The Steam Powered Hour, a "smart and cozy night of bluegrass music, standup comedy, and cartoons."