We Survived the Giants/Patriots Super Bowl of ‘12
so this is happening.
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Yesterday the Giants beat the Jets, bumping the Eagles (my brother’s team) out of playoff contention. Today, he gave me this hat. This is the true meaning of Christmas. Love you Will!
Dec 23
In the first episode of our new web series Hitchin’ a Ride, John Murray from 30 Rock and the UCB Theatre gives SNL writer Chris Kelly a ride from his apartment in Brooklyn to an SNL panel at the Paley Center in Manhattan. Fun times ensue. Check it out!
Charm-fest!
(Source: splitsider.com)
Dec 12
Taran Killam Does His Best Robyn Impression at 4:30 am on SNL’s Writing Night
With bonus flashlight rave from Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer, Sarah Schneider, and Abby Elliot.
This is so wildly endearing.
Nothing quite revives writing night like a furry, dancing Taran Killam.
Nov 20
Nov 04
Do yourself a favor and go see Amir in HK3D TONIGHT! We saw it in Austin and it was great. Amir is great in it, of course, but the crazy thing is all the other actors are great as well! The movie was directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, who directed this CH Classic, so if you liked that, you’ll love HK3D. And if you didn’t like that you can just go see Puss in Boots like a FUCKING LOSER.
So so so proud of my little Andy Bloom! And Schulster kills his first feature film. All around exciting as hell to see my CH family and friends enjoying this kind of success.
Oct 14
Birthday clap via video chat! Thanks guys!
Very sad to be missing Beige Day at my old office.
Oct 12
Announcing: Jake & Amir Fired - A brand new, never-before-seen 30 minute episode!
Click through to check out the trailer!
Want more exclusive content? The DVD also has:
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Outtakes
- Commentary
- The dudes’ hand-picked favorite 10 episodes
- A full-length Ace & Jocelyn episode
My friends made this and it’s so great!
(Source: College Humor)
Oct 11
The comedy scene in New York loses people to LA all the time, and the number of people heading west seems to be going up by the month. Richard Morgan talked to a slew of comedy people on both coasts about making the move, the pros and cons of heading to Los Angeles, and the effect of the high turnover rate on the NYC comedy scene. Click here for the roundtable.
Interviewees include: Matt Besser, Donald Glover, Lennon Parham, Ben Schwartz, Anthony King, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, Eugene Mirman, Anthony Atamanuik, Streeter Seidell, Eliza Skinner, Joe Mande, Gil Ozeri, DC Pierson, and Chris Gethard.
A taste:
MATT BESSER, a founding member of The Upright Citizens Brigade: I was the first of the UCB Four to move out here, in like 2000 or 2001. It was miserable. MIS-ER-A-BLE.
JASON MANTZOUKAS, of The League, Children’s Hospital and upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen project The Dictator: I’d be in LA and people used to say ‘Oh, UCB? Like the University of California at Berkeley?’
BESSER: In a lot of ways it was like starting over. Beyond being frustrating it was humiliating. I remember walking into some tiny coffee shop on a Monday night for an open mic and I said, ‘Hi, I just moved to town and I’m a comedian.’ And this woman who ran it said ‘Yeah, I know you. I recognize you from your show.’ And I said I’d like to perform at the open mic and she said, ‘Sure, just send me a tape and I’ll look it over and let you know.’ I should’ve thrown coffee on her right there. So, no, I didn’t perform there that night. Fuck no. But I performed in lots of places like that, just as bad or worse.
MANTZOUKAS: It’s Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours. We came in and put up shows constantly. I remember I played Ricky Martin for a year — for a year! — in a show every Saturday night. It was a horrible show. I look back and, really, it’s embarrassing. But we were doing it.
I thought I was completely fried on the whole NY/LA discussion, but this article is great and offers some really interesting thoughts from some really interesting people, many of whom I love. Definitely worth a read.
(Source: splitsider.com)
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Jurassic Park Character Has An Awful Realization- (Click to Watch)
Ever feel like it’s not always about you?
I wrote this sketch out of pure love for the plot of Jurassic Park, not even considering that Martin Ferrero himself might reprise his famous role. And then, suddenly, he did. Thanks to everyone who made this exist!
Sidenote: Doesn’t Martin Ferrero sound like a back-up name for his character, Donald Gennaro?
(Source: College Humor)
Sep 20
I loved this moment more than I’ve loved anything in a long, long time.
(via dedelicious)
Sep 14
“ If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without any interference from a host, producer, or network, that show would probably be called The Darkest and Most Impossibly Horrible Things You Can Imagine, Presented as Comedy. Every sketch would end with a gunshot or an infant’s stroller engulfed in flames, and the show would be canceled halfway through its opening titles. That’s because most comedy writers are so inured by humor that only the most shockingly toxic ideas can achieve the proper velocity to penetrate their indifference.
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Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny” (via lonelysandwich)
(via atencio)
This quote rings so incredibly true to me. Whenever I’m writing, my mind immediately goes to the darkest move possible. I’ve learned to push past this initial instinct to see if there’s something more clever or unexpected, but the urge is always there. And when I watch comedy that ends darkly, I always love it. I think for me at least, there’s just something so funny about getting someone to laugh at something that objectively is definitely not funny at all.
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