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nickdouglas: slacktory: Apt 8 News: Episode 1 Two roommates...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:56:45 -0400

slacktory:

Apt 8 News: Episode 1

Two roommates make a news show in their apartment to air their grievances.

Created by Kristofer Wellman.

I bought this smart, slickly paced show from Kris after it got prematurely cancelled on Channel 101. I promise you that episode 2 is just as good, if not better. We’ve commissioned more, and we’ll be releasing them throughout the summer.

I really consider this top-shelf stuff, in the 99th percentile of online scripted comedy. I’m very personally proud to publish this show. If you like it, PLEASE REBLOG and please subscribe to Slacktory on YouTube.

This show really is great (especially as a way to passive-aggressively tell my girlfriend that she needs to clean the kitchen JUST ONCE IN A WHILE).

From Buzzfeed’s “8 Comedians You Need To Get On...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:43:50 -0400

From Buzzfeed’s “8 Comedians You Need To Get On Board With Right Now”.

A few years ago this weird message board found a side-project of...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:40:04 -0400

A few years ago this weird message board found a side-project of mine and spent a few days tearing me apart. They don’t think I’m funny, which is fine - my stuff isn’t for everyone.

Every now and then I like to go back and take a look at the insanely hyperbolic responses they have to my jokes. Like, these guys get really angry that someone out there thinks I’m funny.

The whole thing is hilarious and humbling. Mostly the former.

amanda brooke. hi.: That Time (and TIMES) I Told a Rape Joke.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:54:48 -0400

amanda brooke. hi.: That Time (and TIMES) I Told a Rape Joke.:

amandabrookeperrin:

It was a joke that worked 100% of the time.

I reasoned that the joke wasn’t about rape, but instead about how hilarious it would be if I got attacked and couldn’t fight back.

Guys, I know. I am the one typing this. I KNOW how awful this is..

Amanda Brooke Perrin just became one of my comedy heroes.

If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:52:47 -0400

If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?:

Last Thursday, I went on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and tried to explain rape culture in a few 15-second sound bytes (fun stuffâif you’ve never tried it, RUN-DON’T-WALK).

I am engaging in some wholesome conversation.

Fri, 31 May 2013 15:24:44 -0400

I am engaging in some wholesome conversation.

Not even one minute after my tweet, some guy cries...

Fri, 31 May 2013 15:20:37 -0400

Not even one minute after my tweet, some guy cries foul/doesn’t understand what he’s talking about.

Catherine McCormick's Personal Comedy Rules

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:20:54 -0400

Catherine McCormick's Personal Comedy Rules:

mccormcorp:

Been talking to a lot of new comics lately about setting your own boundaries and finding your own spot in comedy. When you’re first starting to perform it feels like you’re learning a lot of rules about what you have to do and when and how and with who. Most of those “rules” I can tell you now,…

This is amazing. I revise and re-write my own comedy rules every day, and to see somebody else’s written down is really awesome. I don’t want to overuse the word “empowering”, but that’s what this is. Catherine rocks.

I use facebook.com to make friends.

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:25:36 -0400

I use facebook.com to make friends.

I don't know much, but I know this: if you are putting on a comedy show and it is going badly then you should put me on stage and for the seven-to-ten minutes I am on that stage it will be a good comedy show.

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:03:00 -0400

(No big deal, but I’ve had a couple of really good sets lately -after not doing stand-up for a while, too- and gotten some very high praise from some people I respect, and it’s all gone to my head and I’m walking around my apartment telling my girlfriend that she’s lucky she gets to live with a Comedy Messiah. And I’m half-joking, but half-not.)

(And the thing is that I’ve been to a lot of comedy shows, and I’ve seen a lot of bad comedians, and a lot of good-comedians-who-are-having-a-bad-night-and-take-it-out-on-the-audience, and I have had enough of that, you hear? Because all you have to do to have a good show is 1) be amazing and 2) treat the audience like they are amazing. None of this “why aren’t there more of you here, you assholes?” or “uhhh, that’s joke’s new, you don’t get it.” NO. FUCK YOU. JUST BE AMAZING. IT’S NOT HARD.)

(My fundamental, A1-message to all comics is you can will a good show into being. All you have to do is be your best, act like you’re performing for a thousand people who have all paid money to see you-and-only-you, and you will have the set of your life every time.)

(Oh, also, take the time to learn your material and practice at home. I swear, notebooks only belong on stage if you’re Steven Wright.)

(Yeah, give me 15 minutes of stage time spread out over a week, and suddenly I know everything about comedy. WELL the joke is on you because I already knew everything about comedy, it just took the mild self-esteem boost of performing to bring it out.)

*Mic drop, except not really because that damages the mic, assholes. Please have some respect for the establishment and your fellow comics.*

Watching Louis CK's latest special makes me so happy as a feminist. FINALLY a straight white man is saying super obvious stuff about women, and doing so in a paternalistic manner that denies them any sexual agency or desire.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:20:01 -0400

Bonus points for the gay voice that “is not a gay voice”.

deanofcondos: bitchsalad: IN TWO WEEKS!!! Tickets HERE...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:04:34 -0400

deanofcondos:

bitchsalad:

IN TWO WEEKS!!!

Tickets HERE - http://www.ticketscene.ca/events/8336

yall are lookin pretty fine

Oh no big deal but that’s me on that poster and I’m super excited for this show.

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:07:28 -0400

File under: tag lines that also work for your life in general.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:33:42 -0400

File under: tag lines that also work for your life in general.

Sometimes I feel like women should not be allowed to wear the hijab, because the only reason they would want to is because they've been primed by a woman-hating culture to think it is appropriate, and wearing it just re-inforces that culture's power. Then I shave my legs, put on make-up, and plan an outfit just to go to the store.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:55:42 -0400

We should all be allowed to indulge in our own culture’s tools of oppression, I guess.

I’m really sick right now, and taking solace in one of my...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:12:00 -0400

I’m really sick right now, and taking solace in one of my favorite things of all time.

The Maniacal Rage Podcast, née The Garrett Murray Podcast, was the first podcast I ever listened to, all the way back in April 2006. Seven years later, I’ve transferred every episode from old computers to new, onto iPods and iPhones. This show was such a huge part of the molding of my comedy sensibility (ugh such a stupid thing to say), and I’m so glad that it returned last week, after a looooong hiatus, giving me an excuse to go through all the episodes all over again as I lay in bed with MRSA*.

If you’ve never heard the show before, I’d really recommend hitting up the archive and starting at the beginning. One of my favorite episodes is #4, because I think it’s a perfect example of what makes this show so different from every other podcast. Not only do Shawn and Garrett mix the usual two-white-guys-talking-about-nonsense formula up with pre-written bits, but those bits are highly produced, involving work outside of the main recording session. That is so incredibly rare in the podcast world, you guys! Seriously, the joke theme songs in #4 are miles better than many actual theme songs for other podcasts.

(#4 also features an exchange -“Can you eat bullets?” “You can… You shouldn’t.”- that I found so hilarious I got it engraved on my first iPod. That’s either a sign of just how wonderful the show is or just insane I am about the things I like.)

Please listen to this show. I think you’ll like it. And then we can get together and talk about it, and about how great Shawn and Garrett are, and how they should do a shirtless podcast**.

*Well, we’re pretty sure it’s MRSA.

**Reference to incredibly old bit from the show in question, because I’m obsessed oh wait did you figure that out already?

Something tells me I won’t be sitting shiva over this...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:06:27 -0400

Something tells me I won’t be sitting shiva over this particular loss.

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:32:31 -0400

I made a weird little comic about Bart and Lisa Simpson, and the...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:19:10 -0400

I made a weird little comic about Bart and Lisa Simpson, and the fine folks at Slacktory were nice enough to put it online. Head over there and read the whole thing, why don’t you?

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:54:48 -0400