Well, he lent the key out to us . . .
Joel hipped us to Jeff and Casey Time a while back. I’m here to tell you that Book 2 (The Mayonnaise Crisis), Chapter 2 is pretty funny.
“Everybody’s losing their shit, right? They’re like, Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, there’s a scorpion on the nun, there’s a scorpion on the nun!”
12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group
I think this is my favorite story of 2011.
Smell Them; You’ll Know.
Fade from black to black.
Have you seen this?
Wait until about the 4:45 mark…
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Texts from Bennet
The tumblr claims it’s real. I don’t believe it, but that doesn’t matter.
quote out of context
I suppose you’re right, but from my experience, writing a novel is like having sex with a gorilla. You ain’t done till the gorilla’s done. You might think, Well, when I’m done, I’ll be done. But you’re not done.The gorilla’s still going.
Astronauts Falling Down
For some reason, after watching this, I spent another twenty minutes watching moon-landing conspiracy videos. Try to avoid that if possible.
The Wet Spots
I’ve recently rediscovered The Wet Spots. They make sex-positive musical comedy. I’ll leave the being funny to them.
“Where’s my rubber chicken?’
A rubber chicken is a replica of a completely plucked but otherwise complete barnyard fowl made from a latex injection mold. A popular sight gag and slapstick comedy prop, rubber chickens are sometimes used by comics as a mock weapon. They are also sometimes used by jugglers in place of clubs. The origin of the rubber chicken is obscure, but is likely a natural change of the use of pig bladders. In the days before the development of plastic and latex, bladders were inflated and attached to a stick. They were used as props by jesters and minstrels for the same comic effects as the modern rubber chicken.
Love Candy
Jeff and Casey Time
Jeff Roberts and Casey Muratori, creators of my favorite podcast in the world, have started a new animated improv comedy project called Jeff and Casey Time:
It’s animated by David Hellman, who did the artwork for Braid, and Raber Umphenour, who I’ve never heard of but he’s probably awesome too.
World of Class Warfare
This Monday’s Puddin’ is nicely concise
Swedish Smörgåstårta
Since we’re on the subject of angry cooking show comedy:
(Via David’s brother-in-law)
Vegan Black Metal Chef
Mysogyny, Labels, Isms, et cetera
Zach Weiner:
Part of my distrust of terms comes from a funny experience I had coming out of college. Allow me a brief digression: I went to a liberal west coast school. The kind of school where many of the kids manage to be oppressed and wealthy and socialist all at the same time. A frequent topic of discussion was the “inherent sexism” of the English language. There were two main lines of argument – 1) in English, the default pronoun is “he” 2) English contains a number of words, such as “bitch” and “pussy” that combine an insult with femaleness. So as not to digress too far, suffice it to say that I think these arguments are unconvincing. At the least, they require a lot of nuanced (even statistical) explanation in order to claim them as true. That said, this sort of thing was my impression of how “sexism” worked in society.
Then I moved to LA to get into the film business. In LA, it is considered acceptable to ask a potential secretary to send headshots. In LA, it is acceptable for a casting director to say “could you play that role blacker” as a way to say “act loud and dumb.” In LA, you hear people describe homosexuals who’ve died of AIDS as having “died of assfucking.” In LA, you hear even nice people say “women can’t be funny.” These aren’t exaggerations – these are things I experienced. Having seen these things, it was incredible for me to look back at the way that, in college, we’d parse the tiny details of language to try to locate some sexism. In Hollywood, it was real sexism, without doubt or hesitation. It was people holding back women (and other groups) actively and overtly.
It occurred to me what a bizarre thing it is that “sexism” blankets both the experience I had in college AND the experience I had in LA.
from the comments
For those who hate musicals…
…you might become a believer. So certainly NSFW.
Herschel, the Magnificent Jew
Old Jews Telling Jokes, via John Gruber
Sit down. Shut up. (I’ve done this before — and some audiences actually laughed.)
Brian Beatty in Minnesota Playlist on how and why he does what he does:
Poetry entered my stand-up sets because I wanted to up the “snob” factor of my stage persona, to increase the comedic tension.
Hunky Jesus 2011
Highlights at 3:11, 4:21, and 4:53.
coming clean
I totally prefer The Bends over Ok.
