September 2011
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This song is not on the internet so I had to rip it from vinyl. You’re all welcome because it’s totally fantastic.
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Nick Vatterott (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)
Dan Chamberlain (UCB, Left Handed Radio)
Joe Pera (Hockey Night in Canada)
Michael Hartney (UCB)
Ashley Ward (Big Black Car)
Josh Ruben (CollegeHumor)
Alison Rich (UCB)
Paul Briganti (Landline TV, CollegeHumor)
Morgan Evans (The Onion)Hosted by Rob Stern @ The Peoples Improv Theater, 123 E. 24th St. 10PM; $5.
DOING THIS YOU FUCKERS
“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.”
—Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny”
Paragraph Long Short Stories #1
Every once in a while I will write a short story that is only a paragraph long. Here’s #1.
He found it strange that the women he used to adore he was now attracted to only superficially. Maybe the only attraction he ever experienced towards them was inherently superficial and everything else on the periphery (it did seem now to be peripheral) was simply inspired by this primitive attraction. Maybe time doesn’t change them, he thought, maybe it simply makes clear what was there all along. He thought all this while standing in line at the taqueria as his car was being detailed in the adjacent auto shop. Who could he call to pick him up? It’s not so much that he burned all his bridges but rather a wildfire swept through and eviscerated everything, bridges included. Since the divorce he’d been thinking more about these women. He’d always been faithful but was now considering whether it had been worth it. Monogamy couldn’t be completely outdated, right? Maybe the only thing killing this social construct were the endless discussions about it. Regardless, he was allergic to something out here and now his nose was killing him.
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