My Favorite Weekend

Andy Dick, who presents his one-man show, “Andy Dick’s Circus of Freaks,” Saturday at the Key Club.

Snake Walk: I like to take my three kids hiking in Topanga Canyon, where I own several acres of land. We look for lizards and rattlesnakes on the trails. It’s kind of scary when you find them, but really, it’s more thrilling. Snakes don’t bite you if you don’t bother them.

Stage Development: I perform live when I feel I need to get something out of my system. Lately, on the weekends, I have been working out material for my show, “Andy Dick’s Circus of Freaks,” at Beth Lapides’ Uncabaret at LunaPark and at the Improv. The show is autobiographical. It goes from birth, to dealing with issues about adoption, to deciding to become an actor, to making it, to getting lost in drugs and alcohol, to rehab, to the present-day hell.

Theater Beat: A weekend is really good if I saw some interesting, innovative theater. I seek out performance pieces and one-person shows. I am always at those theaters on Santa Monica Boulevard. Laurie Anderson has a show at UCLA right now that I am excited to see.

Top Down Dining: I hang out with Vicki [Lewis] and I used to hang out with Phil [Hartman] a lot. We would go out to dinner after the show, usually to Authentic Cafe, which is great. But when agents or producers take me out, I like to go to the Ivy or Pane Vino--the expensive places. A couple of times at Ivy I ordered a glass of port for $60! But that was back when I was drinking. Now I have the famous Shirley Temple Ivy Gimlet.

Hollywood Haunts: I go out with friends to clubs quite a bit. I like the Opium Den, the Viper Room and Grandville. I go to the same places, so people are used to me. Kinda like “Cheers,” “where everybody knows your name.” Except at these places, it’s more like “everybody forgets your name!”

Going In Circles: I love to jump on my trampoline in the yard. I can do front and back flips. I’d love to learn how to do them on the ground because then I could say things like “I flip over you.”