History Creator / ChristopherTitus

* SelfDeprecatingHumor: "I actually knew my wife in high school, but she was in the 'Hot looking Babes" group and I was in the '[[RunningGag Outcast Losers Who Fell into a Bonfire]]' group. ...Very exclusive group."

* ''The Voice in My Head'' (2013): Less politically and emotionally charged than his previous specials, the heart of the show revolves around six stories of his greatest "{{epic fail}}s," from mocking [[BullyingADragon a military attack dog]] to a one-time high school job being a low-rent Darth Vader for birthday parties to his "$30 million mistake" clashing with the head of FOX and costing him his show. This culminates in what he considers his greatest moment, meeting BruceSpringsteen and discovering the man was a fan of his work, which coming off one of the worst years of his life (his divorce) it was a humbling and life-affirming experience. The special is only available on Titus' website and was completely self-produced, as Titus was sick of ComedyCentral cutting his comedy specials for commercial time. 10% of the profits made on the DVD of his special go towards his charity The Insight Youth Project (focusing on helping youth from troubled and/or dysfunctional homes).

-->Every woman in here has a girlfriend who at point showed up at your house, "Oh my God, we got in a fight and he pushed me!"...two weeks later, not only she's seeing that dude again, she's moved in and agreed to marry him. Retard. [[{{Rihanna}} Ri-hanna]]-[[IncrediblyLamePun tard]].

* HarsherInHindsight: During his Neverlution special, he talks about how Terrorism is over (in the US) due to the multiple, laughable attempts by IncompetenceInc-class terrorists. Cut to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings April 15, 2013]]...
** Ditto for his joke about preferring to be [[BlackComedyRape locked in the basement and raped by a neighbor]] than [[FateWorseThanDeath taken back home to his dad for punishment]], given the recent stories about women being recovered decades after having that scenario happen to them.

His growing up experience was on the '''''extreme''''' end of what most people would consider "dysfunctional." His father, Ken Titus, was a hard-drinking, chain-smoking [[TheCasanova womanizer]] with a string of failed marriages [[note]]married six times, divorced five times, and [[ReallyGetsAround slept around]] near-constantly[[/note]] that each ended with Ken getting cleaned out of everything he had and constantly fighting for custody of his children, professionally a salesman and a former National Guardsman. He used ToughLove (that sometimes bordered on self-esteem-crushing sadism) to set Titus and his brother, Dave, straight [[note]]Titus also had a blood-related sister named Shannon (who lived with Titus's mom and was there when Titus's mom murdered her abusive second husband during Thanksgiving dinner in 1986) and a few step-siblings thanks to Ken's multiple marriages[[/note]]. His mother Juanita (Ken's second wife; maiden name Holmes) was a concert pianist, spoke four languages, was a SupremeChef (especially around Thanksgiving), had a 180 IQ, and qualified for Miss California in the 1960s. Despite her high intellect, stunning beauty, and amazing talent, she was also a manipulative, mentally-ill [[note]]Juanita was diagnosed with manic-depressive schizophrenia, though the TV show depicts her mental illness as paranoid schizophrenia mixed with dissociative identity disorder, as she always feared that aliens were after her and she often thought she was other people[[/note]] alcoholic who never took her medication (choosing instead to drink alcohol to medicate it herself) and could convince everyone -- including mental hospital board members -- into thinking she had her mental illness under control, only for her to fall into another psychotic episode [[note]]Juanita's second husband was shot to death in 1986 after he beat her up on Thanksgiving for not having dinner done when he got home from work. After her husband tossed her turkey against the wall, Juanita tried to scald him with some boiling mashed potatoes. The guy got so pissed, he decked her in the face and pounded her to a bloody pulp. Juanita then staggered upstairs, got a gun, came back downstairs, and shot the bastard, because, "...she didn't want him to do that again." Not only was Juanita acquitted of all murder charges, she won the guy's life insurance policy ''and'' the acre behind his house that he wanted to use as a shooting range -- ''not'' a good idea when you're an abusive jerk who's married to a manic-depressive[[/note]]. Christopher said that for him all this was just normal and it wasn't until much later in life that he realized it was wildly unusual.

* TheFunInFuneral: His father's funeral, according to ''The 5th Annual End of the World Tour''. Ken wanted to be buried in a cardboard box, invited everyone he pissed off in life to pee on him (including his own son) while Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" played. They also charged a cover (but ladies got free admission). A friend of his father's said "It was either the best or the worst funeral ever".

* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkass: The friend he talks about in "The Voice in my Head", who turned up the disability "3000%" in response to a waitress who thought DisabledMeansHelpless.

'''Christopher Titus''' (born October 1, 1964) is a comedian who has done work in many different areas of entertainment, but primarily in [RecordedAndStandUpComedy Stand-Up Comedy]]. Born in Newark, California, he began stand-up at the age of 18 with a simple gag he did at his high school about how to properly throw freshmen into the garbage can.

'''Christopher Titus''' (born October 1, 1964) is a comedian who has done work in many different areas of entertainment, but primarily in StandUpComedy. Born in Newark, California, he began stand-up at the age of 18 with a simple gag he did at his high school about how to properly throw freshmen into the garbage can.

* HarsherInHindsight: During his Neverlution special, he talks about how Terrorism is over (in the US) due to the multiple, laughable attempts by IncompetenceInc-class terrorists. Cut to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings April 15, 2013]]...

-->Every woman in here has a girlfriend who at point showed up at your house, "Oh my God, we got in a fight and he pushed me!"...two weeks later, not only she's seeing that guy, she's moved in and agreed to marry him. Retard. [[{{Rihanna}} Ri-hanna]]-[[IncrediblyLamePun tard]].

-->"If your boyfriend beats the crap out of you and you go back to him...you're a retard. [[{{Rihanna}} Ri-hanna]]-[[IncrediblyLamePun tard]].

* NWordPriviledges: In a roundabout way of using the trope, he brings up a friend and fellow comedian with Cerebral Palsy and how he realizes that some disabled people "use that against us." He also discusses the use of the word retard and why he uses it to describe people with all their faculties who are complete morons, cause there are many people who are disabled in one way or another who are actually more advanced.

* ''Scarred For Life'' a.k.a ''The Voice in My Head'' (2013): Less politically and emotionally charged than his previous specials, the heart of the show revolves around six stories of his greatest "{{epic fail}}s," from mocking [[BullyingADragon a military attack dog]] to a one-time high school job being a low-rent Darth Vader for birthday parties to his "$30 million mistake" clashing with the head of FOX and costing him his show. This culminates in what he considers his greatest moment, meeting BruceSpringsteen and discovering the man was a fan of his work, which coming off one of the worst years of his life (his divorce) it was a humbling and life-affirming experience. The special is only available on Titus' website and was completely self-produced, as Titus was sick of ComedyCentral cutting his comedy specials for commercial time. 10% of the profits made on the DVD of his special go towards his charity The Insight Youth Project (focusing on helping youth from troubled and/or dysfunctional homes).

* AscendedExtra: His "inner retard" is basically a co-star in "Scarred For Life", since the show revolves around his most embarrassing stories.

* BullyingADragon: In ''Scarred For Life'', he tells a story of how he got to do some stuff with Navy [=SEALs=] at a compound in San Diego for a Comedy Central production. While readying to do an attack-dog simulation, he proceeded to make fun of the attack dog's name, Taiko, calling him "Taco" instead and doing stupid Mexican jokes (because, by his own admission, [[WhatAnIdiot he's an idiot]]). The dog's handler responded by making the attack a little more vicious than intended.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: ''Scarred For Life'' is one humiliating anecdote of Titus's life after another...until he ends it with a story of how he got to meet Bruce Springsteen and had "the greatest night of my life".

* EpicFail: ''Scarred For Life'' covers the greatest "epic fails" (in those exact words) in his life.
* FromBadToWorse: His stories in ''Scarred For Life'' escalate in this way.

** Scarred For Life- "And had I stop talking ''there''..." and his comedy [[ItMakesSenseInContext killed a baby.]][[note]]During a show in Louisiana, a heavyset man interrupted the set by grabbing the mic to tell an audience member that her baby had a 104-degree temperature. Titus then tried to make a joke out of it, which didn't go over well with the owner of the theater-- the heavyset man from earlier.[[/note]]

** In "Scarred For Life", in detailing what he means when he uses the word "retard":

** In "Scarred For Life", Titus talks about celebrities who have "douchebag credits", who have built up so much goodwill that they would be excused from a heinous act. He talks about Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen having enough credits that if they punched an innocent bystander, the bystander would apologize to ''them''.

* CountryMatters: Discussed in "The Voice in My Head," saying it doesn't apply to %99.99999 of women but the %.00001 deserve it rightfully.

* ''Scarred For Life'' a.k.a ''The Voice in My Head'' (2013): Less politically and emotionally charged than his previous specials, the heart of the show revolves around six stories of his greatest "{{epic fail}}s," from mocking [[BullyingADragon a military attack dog]] to a one-time high school job being a low-rent Darth Vader for birthday parties to his "$30 million mistake" clashing with the head of FOX and costing him his show. This culminates in what he considers his greatest moment, meeting Creator/BruceSpringsteen and discovering the man was a fan of his work, which coming off one of the worst years of his life (his divorce) it was a humbling and life-affirming experience. The special is only available on Titus' website and was completely self-produced, as Titus was sick of ComedyCentral cutting his comedy specials for commercial time. 10% of the profits made on the DVD of his special go towards his charity The Insight Youth Project (focusing on helping youth from troubled and/or dysfunctional homes).

* ''Scarred For Life'' a.k.a ''The Voice in My Head'' (2013): The heart of the show revolves around six stories of Titus's most humiliating moments in his life, or "epic fails" as he calls them, from unwisely mocking an attack dog's name to a job he had at age 16 of dressing up as a low-rent Darth Vader for birthday parties to his "$30 million mistake" of clashing heads with his new boss at FOX and costing him his show. Less politically and emotionally charged as his previous specials, as the point of the tales is that despite all the shit he's gone through past and up to his nasty divorce, he's finally in a great place in his life, as summed up in the final story of meeting one of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen, which was everything he could hope for and more, including being life-affirming. The special is only available on Titus' website, as Titus was sick of ComedyCentral cutting his comedy specials for commercial time. 10% of the profits made on the DVD of his special who go towards The Insight Youth Project, which will help homeless youth and children from dysfunctional families turn their lives around.

** In "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding", Titus tells the story of how he and his first girlfriend (the 5'1, 100 lb. Jewish girl who suffered from extreme MoodWhiplash [described by Titus as going from "I love you" to angry cat hissing]) had a fight at his dad's house on Christmas Eve while watching ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'', which, according to Titus, "...earned me a White Trash Black Belt" because he threw his girlfriend out by tossing her expensive heels out the door, found her minutes later trying to get back in by banging on the door with a half-filled vodka bottle, opening the door and getting punched in the face, and whining, "I'm calling the cops!" before she ran off with his father's camera (then seduced Titus by wearing his father's camera, the heels Titus threw out, and nothing else).

* YourCheatingHeart: Papa Titus was married and divorced so many times because he was so good at getting women he would sometimes get multiples at the same time. Christopher was later devastated when he learned his wife was cheating on him, especially since he had been faithful working in a business where "there were chuckle-sluts to be had."

* RefugeInAudacity: Everything about Titus's messed-up family and how he survived it with little or no trauma while a lesser man or woman would have gone insane, committed suicide, or have become a crazed killer, but definitely the story of how his father got custody of him. Ken was refused custody of Christopher for being an unfit father and was sent to Juanita, who wasn't a better parent, as she was mentally ill and an alcoholic. The child support payments she was supposed to use for Titus ended up going to her for booze, and Titus was sent to live with Juanita's parents in Michigan. Ken hatches a plot to kidnap his son -- and inadvertently tells his plot to a man on an airplane who works as a district attorney. Rather than arrest him, the district attorney (after a few drinks with Ken) reveals that he's going through a divorce too and gives Ken some legal tips on how to convince the judge to let Christopher live with him again. Only in Christopher Titus's highly-outrageous world would this be considered a believable story and a plan that actually worked without any repercussions.
** In each special he has to remind his audience that things are likely to get more outrageous. In "Love is Evol" he called jealousy the "Auschwitz of Emotions" (Relationship Death Camp) and only smiled and nodded when people realized that he just went there.

->''"Dysfunctional." I'm not dysfunctional. I'm evolving to the next level.''