Lawrence The T-1 Connection Guy Hit Of White-Collar Comedy Tour

August 22, 2006 | Issue 42•34

OFFICE PARK, MD—This year's White Collar Comedy Tour, the comic festival that "dots all the I's while it crosses the business class," is selling out nationwide largely due to the moderately edgy office comedy of "Lawrence The T-1 Connection Guy"—"the thinking man's Dilbert." "I don't care what your level of diversity training is, company policy requires you to file that under 'Humorous,'" Lawrence often quips after one of his many uproarious bits about improper middle-manager–secretarial-assistant relations. "Now, let's 'commit to increased productivity'!" Lawrence, born Emerson Huckins in Miami, OH, is currently working on his first book, tentatively titled You Don't Have To Use This Seven-Step Organizational System Of Effective But Mildly Irreverant Cheese-Movers To Work Here—But It Helps!