What happens to all the great material/performances that lead to rejection? Well, if you're lucky enough, you can be a part of Jon Friedman's "The Rejection Show" which performs in New York City. If you aren't within driving distance of NYC you'll also get the opportunity to read the stories in Jon's upcoming book "Rejected." To see a list of Jon's upcoming performances be sure to check out his MySpace page at MySpace.com/JonFriedman and The Rejection Show webpage at RejectionShow.com.

Q: What's the worst prediction you've ever made?

JF: When I was a kid I really went out looking for a Leprechaun in the woods behind my house seriously hoping that he would lead me to a pot of gold and let me hang out in their village. This was on St. Patrick's Day.

Q: What's your biggest pet peeve?

JF: I have a lot of them! One of them used to be using too many exclamation points (not anymore). I hate when cashiers turn your dollar bills face up when counting your money. They always have this look on their face like, "How dare you hand me some of these bills facing down."

Q: How long must you wait before joking about a "sensitive subject"?

JF: I assume you mean me personally and by joking you mean on stage. I don't believe in any specific time frame or rules for talking about sensitive subjects. You have to use your best judgment from topic to topic from show to show. Also, what is sensitive to one person can be entirely not sensitive to another. For example, I have a really stupid stand-up joke about my parents and a bear. It is possible that someone was once in the audience who had a parent that was once attacked by a bear making that a very sensitive issue for them. For my "brand" of comedy I much prefer doing jokes about sensitive subjects as a means towards healing rather than shock value. I mostly stay away from talking about sensitive subjects on stage, not as a rule for myself but I like to talk more about small silly observations about everyday simple things. I once told a joke about 9/11 in 2003. It was during the time when the media had a field day with Randall Simon, the baseball player that was brought up on charges for knocking over two mascots that were dressed as sausages and running around during a Milwaukee Brewers game. I made the comparison that it only took two years for the front pages of the newspaper to go from two towers falling to two sausages.

Q: What's one of your guiltiest pleasures?

JF: Mariah Carey's version of "Can't Live If Living Is Without You" is in my iPod.

Q: Which celebrity is your top pick for certain impending doom?

JF: Whoa! That's intense. This is a tough question for me to answer given what I do everyday in dealing with the entertaining side of failure and rejection. Doom can be gold for my show. I don't ever root for people to fail but I hope my show has taught people that it can be okay to fail. Also the term "celebrity" is so much broader today than it was even five years ago -- so there are so many more successes and impending dooms everyday. Ok fine, I pick this years winner of American Idol (not yet determined).

Q: How tough is it to follow a comedian who has just "killed it" on stage?

JF: I always try to use the audience's reaction to the comic before me to my advantage. Whether it be "killing" (which in the comedy world means having a terrific set) or bombing (bad set) -- it's kind of funny that the term for doing well and the term for doing poorly both have to do with death in some way. That's a small insight into the insecure mind of how comedians feel about what they do. When someone is doing well and I have to go on next I see it as an opportunity to perform in front of a fun lively audience that is ready to laugh and when someone does poorly I see it as an opportunity to get the audience laughing. The challenge for me in following a comedian (and I guess for any comic) is when their material has similarities to yours. Or using a rare word choice that also happens to be part of a punchline of one of my jokes. That happened to me once involving the word "pelican." One of my punchlines was about a pelican and the act before me was talking about pelicans. It's rare, but it can happen.

Q: If you had your very own television channel, what kind of programming could we expect?

JF: I have to answer this question not seriously because I seriously think about this question everyday and if I attempt to answer it seriously I will go on for hundreds of pages. So with that being said, you can expect all whales all the time. 100% whale programming.

Q: What would your fans be surprised to learn about you?

JF: That I have other fans. Kidding. I don't have other fans. Just the one. No really I have more than that. A lot of people I already knew before comedy and people I meet outside of comedy are surprised to learn that I perform at all. But as for new fans now...I guess they'd be surprised to know that I once worked at Ann Taylor Loft.

Q: Where can we catch more of you in 2007?

JF: I'm going to continue on the same path that I have been on. I want to keep improving my show, The Rejection Show --and explore new show ideas. The Rejection Show Music Series will debut this summer. I hope to travel around with my show more in 2007 as I work on the first official Rejection Show book, titled "Rejected." Hopefully I'll be doing more stuff on the web, more stuff on TV and more stuff on the radio. I want to keep improving on my writing and performing techniques as a comic, host and actor. I want to keep doing what I've been doing and do my best to get better at it everyday. I love living in New York City and I love performing here and most importantly I like the idea of having all of my options open. Oh yeah, my show would be nothing without its contributors and the great audiences that come to see it.

Q: Let's end with word association. We say wombat and you say.....

JF: Do you want to hang out with me?