January 2012
19 posts
“When Jezebel launched in spring 2007, I myself was keenly interested in being a...”
– While we’re closed, we recommend this piece by Molly Fischer on the ladyblogosphere over at n+1: So Many Feelings. (via mcnallyjackson)
<a data-cke-saved-href="http://teenrunnings.bandcamp.com/track/why-does-everybody-do-demo" href="http://teenrunnings.bandcamp.com/track/why-does-everybody-do-demo">Why Does Everybody Do?(Demo) by TEEN RUNNINGS</a>
Shit Andrew Tompkins Whispers
How you can help an awesome comedy theater get...
From their Kickstarter:
A group of us got together, Nick Turner, James Adomian, Sean Patton, Annie Lederman, Rebecca Trent, Sara Benincasa, Pat Dixon, Marcus Parks and Robert Dean and decided to put this project together in hopes of raising enough for a Marquee, advertising, and promotions. We want word to get out. We want audiences in the seats without turning this place into bringer shows...
“As a comedian, I have tons of stand up comedy heroes — but none I really see...”
– Ralph Hardesty has some thoughtful things to say about gay jokes, gay comics, and the challenges presented by and to them. (via dansolomon)
“Aziz, barely audible over the jabbering crowd and telling jokes skewering...”
– So this is what parties at Sundance are like. (via cheatsheet)
IRL Hologram Toes
In possibly the best episode of a podcast ever, Comedy Bang Bang Episode 118, Eddie Pepitone drops in on a Patton Oswalt interview to talk about his life as a “diner marshal,” a top secret agent who travels the country trying to find insurgents at IHOPs. Now, Esquire is reporting on the “Waffle House terrorists,” group of Georgia men charged with plotting mass...
ROCKY VS RAMBO →
Stop everything. Read this.
via scottaukerman:
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at...
Important PSA from Nick Kroll:
My CC standup special #THANKYOUVERYCOOL is now on NETFLIX instant. W/ @mulaney @mindykaling @akaBobbyB #fabricefabrice #elchupacabra n more
Watch it here.
Here is what awaits you out in the world: the stands-too-close monsters behind you in line who cough into your hair and talk with that accent that sedative-overusers have. Other people’s projects of art and commerce, which can be a drag when you realize you’ve oriented your go-out life to other people’s efforts to be cool, rich, relevant. Near-daily disappointments by existing and potential...
Favorite quotes from Funny or Die at Five (The Hollywood Reporter):
Performers rarely are paid for their work, but the exposure for up-and-coming comedians (like Gibson and Delaney) is invaluable. “This is definitely a brave new world,” says FoD creative director Andrew Steele. “The new Belushis and Aykroyds are appearing on the Internet.”
“Part of what...
Favorite quotes from Jonah Weiner’s Louis C.K.: The Man Who Loves to Hate Himself (Rolling Stone):
He scraps his act every year, forcing himself to start again. “It’s the greatest,” he says. “If you write a book, you can’t keep writing it.”
Louie is a critically adored hit that blurs together cringe comedy, poignant drama, bathroom humor, slapstick gore and surrealist flights of...
“The boy I loved didn’t know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus,...”
– David Levithan, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Will Grayson, Will Grayson at The Why We Broke Up Project 