UPDATE! After this blog entry was written, I emailed the text of it to John Hodgman on a whim. A few hours later, to my surprise, I received a response. His Honor told me he would endure my "gut punches" if I disagreed with him, but that I
[Ed. note (2025): This post hasn't aged so well. As smart as Louis C.K. might be, there are still some things he definitely does not get.] Louis C.K. is one smart dude. He's not just one of the best standup comics working. He'
A brand-new short story of mine, "Stand Up," is available now at the group blog This May Get Awkward: "Stand Up" The good folks at TMGA (in the person of the estimable JD Adamski, an MVP of the Tuesday Funk reading series I co-produce) asked me
Saturday, August 27, 2011 Dear Marc Maron— For some reason this is a hard letter to write. I'm a relatively new fan of your podcast and your comedy, having come to it all through the broadcasts on WBEZ, but it seems like ages I've been trying
It's easy to see why Drafthouse Films (the new distribution arm of Austin's great Alamo Drafthouse theater chain) was able to snap up the rights to British TV vet Chris Morris's feature film debut, Four Lions. Probably no one else wanted to touch it.
Early last week, █████ and I were lucky enough to win an invitation to a preview screening of the new comedy The Hangover, which opens today. Having been seeing the commercials for weeks already, I was looking forward to the screening. From the little I'd seen, the film looked
I busted a gut watching Marc Shaiman's short revue "Prop 8: The Musical." Among the many celebrity cameos herein, my favorite is Jack Black's, who may be my favorite Jesus since Graham Chapman didn't play him.
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits.
God, I wish I had seen this on The Colbert Report. Maybe I or someone else can track down the clip on YouTube. (In the ex-Mormon online world, Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer is commonly referred to as Boyd KKK Packer because of his extreme fundamentalism and his stated desire
I'm not sure which would be worse to receive—a head in a box, or, um, something else in a box.
Oh, now the New York Times deigns to mention Stephen Colbert's skewering of the president. But only, it would seem, because people are talking about it online. And you and I are not the only ones who noticed the earlier eerie silence.
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