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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Today's Best Tweets by Comedians


Twitter! It's basically designed for comedians to drop comedy on the masses, one joke at a time. But there are so many comedians on Twitter, from the most famous to the up-and-coming, how do you keep track of 'em all? Don't sweat it. Here are today's funniest and best tweets by comedians, courtesy of WitStream.

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A Genuine Original Week in Comedy

- Shit Comedy Websites Say: "We analyzed the Shit X Says meme 50 days later."

- We smiled genuinely at Letterman's most sincere moments with his guests.

- After Hermphen Cainbert did poorly in South Carolina, he decided to reclaim his Super Pac – that is, if Jon Stewart will return it.

- We wondered why SXSW doesn't pay comedians. READ MORE

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Adult Swim Has Started Production on a Groundbreakingly Zany Talk Show

Adult Swim has started production on what they're calling "he most manic and unorthodox late night talk show ever made." The Eric Andre Show will be hosted by...comic Eric Andre, along with his co-host Mr. Hannibal Burress. Here's a description:

Taking place on a dingy public-access TV channel within an alternate reality, The Eric Andre Show creates its own distorted pop culture universe by conducting interviews with an unpredictable mix of actual celebrities, “fake” celebrities and extreme real-life weirdos. These interviews are broken up with deranged man-on-the-street segments, surreal flashes of inexplicable studio chaos, talk show desk-pieces and the general deconstruction of late night's most beloved tropes in every quarter hour episode.

Awesome, now we don't ever have to try dropping acid to know what it feels like to totally trip out. No word on when the show will air, but get ready for some craAaAaAziness when it does. And maybe some flashbacks to Vietnam.

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Well, You Could Always Buy Some Glue That Looks Like Homer Simpson


You can buy this Homer Simpson-shaped piece of glue for just £151,100.00 if you act now! Because that is what the value bestowed upon it by the free market, and that is what it is worth. Think of all the Simpsons episodes you could act out with it before getting it stuck to your hand! (By the way, this thing would go for even more if Chelsea Peretti sold it on QVC).

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From Community's Dean Pelton to Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Jim Rash

He may play the best-dressed dean for 50 miles in any direction (starting from anywhere), but Jim Rash is also one of the co-writers behind Best Adapted Screenplay nominee The Descendants. In this interview he talks about the process of making the film and how he and his writing partner had to "de-funny in the sense of pulling back and not over-sentimentalizing moments." God, it must have taken a lot of self-restraint not to title this movie The Deanscendants.

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Tim and Eric are doing an AMA on Reddit right now! So far most of their answers are explaining that they were not on drugs when making their sketches. | January 27, 2012

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Examining Jon Stewart's Humble Late Night Beginnings

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)

In terms of modern poltical satire, there’s no better source than the double-punch of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. From their recent skewereing of the SuperPAC system through creating their own to their massive Washington DC Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, over the years The Daily Show and its spin-off, have had deep impacts on the modern popular culture. But where did it begin? Let’s take a look an episode of the prequel to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show: The Jon Stewart Show.

In 1992, MTV was in that transitional period that everyone likes to complain about, in which the 24-hour music video channel was beginning to introduce non-music video programming. First among these were The Real World, Liquid Telelvision, and then a little thing called You Wrote It, You Watch It , hosted by a young stand up named Jon Stewart, in which sketch ideas submitted by viewers were acted out by members of The State. It was cancelled after one season, but the following year, in 1993, The Jon Stewart Show premiered as a nightly talk show and became the network’s second highest rated program, right behind Beavis and Butt-Head. READ MORE

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Parks & Rec dropped 11% to a series low in the ratings last night, while 30 Rock stayed low from last week. Meanwhile The Big Bang Theory is beating American Idol with around 16 million viewers, so...that's happening. | January 27, 2012

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Why Isn't Martin Luther King Day A Real Movie?


I think it's time we all take a moment to appreciate how wonderful the Martin Luther King Day trailer was on last night's 30 Rock. This should be an actual comedy film. They could even make a sequel called Arbor Day. (It would probably involve Tayler Lautner and Emma Roberts having a tender breakup in an orchard. "Maybe we both need some time to branch out and grow.")

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Shit X Says: The State of a Meme at the End of Its Life (Hopefully)

It all began on December 12, 2011.

That's when "Shit Girls Say" was uploaded to YouTube and nearly broke the Internet when it was picked up by Reddit, the Huffington Post, and pretty much every other website, too. A month and a half later, it's racked up over 12 million views. "Shit Girls Say" began as a Twitter account created by Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard, before they, along with some help from Juliette Lewis, put together the 79-second video that almost instantly "changed" the Internet, for better or worse (worse). Ever since, hundreds of parodies have popped up online, ranging from the inevitable "Shit Black Girls Say" to the far more out there "Shit Premature Ejaculators Say." And somewhere in-between, we've got "Shit Lana Del Rey Says."

Unless it's Rebecca Black-related, memes are meant to live and die in a very short amount of time. As soon as Tebowing became a thing, it was time to move onto something else, like Cam-Newtoning (you just didn't hear about it), and everyone who was still Tebowing was, as the assholes from that AT&T commercial would say, "SOOOO FOUR SECONDS AGO." But people are still making Shit X Say videos, with dozens more uploaded to YouTube every day. What does a meme look like nearly 50 days after it began? Well: READ MORE