History Creator / ChristopherTitus

* SkewedPriorities: PlayedForLaughs. He came close to committing suicide during his divorce and was fine with his wife getting the house, their kids, and everything else. However, he changed his mind when realized this included his sports cars.

* SkewedPriorities: PlayedForLaughs when he was contemplating suicide, saying his wife can have the house...the kids...but pulls the gun away at thinking about the cars.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Every routine has one, but the one in ''Neverlution'' really changed his life. When younger Chris thought his father hated him (and often thought about killing himself because of it) because Ken was saddled with being a single father. At 28, Titus went to a self-help seminar and sobbed how his father hated him because he spent his entire life savings on trying to get custody of Titus back from his mentally-ill mom and her equally crazy relatives. Those at the seminar were stunned and told Titus that his father ''must'' have loved him ''because'' he sacrificed his entire life savings to get his son and stayed with him his entire childhood (something that seems to rarely--if ever--happen these days in RealLife). It was quite a revelation because Titus never did get along with his father, but the last five years of Ken's life, they were best friends.

-->''(From Rockwell)'' I don't think a man should ''ever'' hit a woman... until the fifth time she's cracked him in the face. So I smack her. Open handed! And I regret it - [[BaitAndSwitch because it wasn't as hard as I could've]], man!

* BigNameFan: "The Voice In My Head" concludes with Titus telling the story of how he got to meet Music/BruceSpringsteen, who revealed that both he and his son were fans of ''Series/{{Titus}}'' because of the way they made such bleak situations funny. Titus is a ''massive'' Springsteen fan, so to have him say that was one of the best moments of his life.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Papa Titus was married and divorced so many times because he was so good at getting women (some of which were married). The sitcom even showed that both Ken and Juanita cheated on each other often (with Juanita using her mental illness as an excuse to do it).
** 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."
** Titus himself was the product of this trope -- his mother and father had sex one last time, and Mom's new boyfriend was outside the room when it happened. Papa Titus took the opportunity to {{troll}} the new boyfriend.

* EpicFail: ''The Voice in My Head'' covers the greatest "epic fails" (in those exact words) in his life.

* ArmedFarces: His account of his dad's time as a National Guardsman in ''Love Is Evol'' certainly suggests there was a damn good reason [[MilitaryMaverick Ken "Papa" Titus]] was "busted down three times" from the rank of Sergeant.

** Juanita's second husband, who had no qualms about beating up women, thought it was okay to hurl Juanita's turkey after coming home and having to wait fifteen minutes until it was fully ready. When you bear in mind that Juanita was a violent, manic-depressive schizophrenic who rarely took her prescribed medication, was an alcoholic, and tried and failed at killing her first husband (Ken Titus), is it any wonder that he got what he deserved (read: shot dead while Juanita was acquitted of all charges, won his life insurance policy, and became owner of his shooting range)?

His experiences growing up 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' mom and was there when Titus' 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 an IQ of 180 and competed in so many beauty pageants that she qualified for Miss California back in the 1960s. Despite her high intellect, stunning beauty, infectious charm 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--which made her violent outbursts something akin to what you would find in a comic book supervillain) 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.

* ThrowItIn: He revealed on a podcast that the idea for his show "Love is Evol" came from having to do a couple of performances within hours of discovering that his wife was cheating on him and instead of trying to stumble through the show he was touring with, he improvised a rant about what we go through to find love and the audience really responded to him. He joked that the one good thing he got from the divorce was the idea for a new show.

** Titus himself was the product of this trope (His mother's new boyfriend was [[Squick outside the room when it happened]]

*** His response to this seemingly convoluted turn of events: "How may I serve thee, Lord?"

** In ''The Voice in My Head'', 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 Tako (take-o), calling him "Taco" instead and doing stupid Mexican jokes (because, by his own admission, [[WhatAnIdiot he's an idiot]]). [[https://youtu.be/LyoG7_FDi8c The dog's handler responded by making the attack a little more vicious than intended]].

* BrainBleach: Titus' reaction to learning that his grandmother (Juanita's mom, not Ken's) tried seducing his father a week after he'd married Chris' mother. Also his reaction to the [[SarcasmMode heartwarming]] tale of his own conception, but given [[DysjunctionJunction his parents]] he should've known better...

* ArmedFarces: His account of his dad's time awas a s a National Guardsman in ''Love Is Evol'' certainly suggests there was a damn good reason [[MilitaryMaverick Ken "Papa" Titus]] was "busted down three times" from the rank of Sergeant.

* BrainBleach: Titus' reaction to learning that his grandmother (Juanita's mom, not Ken's) tried seducing his father a week after he'd married Chris' mother.

His act caught the attention of Creator/{{FOX}} television producers Jack Kenny and Brian Hargrove who met with him about adapting his act (now named ''Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding'') into the television show ''Series/{{Titus}}'', which aired in early 2000. They took many of the bits of the act and adapted it into entire episodes, and other episodes were directly inspired by events from Christopher's life. Kenny and Hargrove had experience in theater arts and Christopher is a stage performer, so much of the show was structured in that way. It was a remarkably well-conceived and well-received television show and lasted a respectable three years but, because of the material, it was considered "pushing the envelope" too much and was canceled. Christopher said he preferred the show was canceled due to its content rather than being "not funny." He admitted (detailed in his ''The Voice in My Head'' special) that he mouthed off to the President of Fox at the start of Season 3 when she gave him a new direction she thought the show should go in. He proceeded to explain how horrible an idea it was, but did it in front of her entire staff, making a life-long enemy.

There is now a petition to get Titus the rights to his TV show back so that maybe he can re-release them one day or even make a reboot. Here's the link and make sure to share it. https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-titus-christopher-titus-i-want-fox-to-give-back-the-rights-to-the-tv-show-titus-back-to-christopher-titus?recruiter=396718156&recruited_by_id=302a79b0-6a0c-11e5-8fd8-c35f0918e3f8&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

--> '''Nazi Girlfriend:''' Yes, that's what happened. [[VictimBlaming But who left their keys on the table so they could not unlock ze door]]?

* ''Amerigeddon'' (2018): The current show he's touring with, it skewers both sides of the political aisle and tries to remind the audience that they can weather the state of the Union.