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IFC's Chris Gethard Tries to Get a Diner to Hang Up His Autographed Photo

by | December 4th, 2012

Here's IFC's adopted comic Chris Gethard going around, trying to get his autographed headshot hung up in a series of diners but to no avail, which leads him to give a shoe warehouse and "a weird, closed-down miniature golf place" a shot. I've definitely seen far-less-successful actors than Gethard with their photos hung up in crappy restaurants. Maybe he's being too ambitious with his diner selection. Either way, Gethard will have no trouble getting his photo hung up in even the world's loftiest diners once this IFC Adopt-A-Comic program kicks into high gear and gets him all the fame and riches he expects it will. Then, he can afford [...]

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How I Convinced Diddy to Do a Basement Theater Comedy Show Tonight

by | January 14th, 2011

Thirteen months ago, I put a video on YouTube, completely on a whim. It was Christmas Eve, I was shirtless in a bed at my parents’ house, and in it I was sending a message to entertainment impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs.

I told him about how I wanted to believe that the world was a cool enough place that a guy like him and a guy like me could hang out. I asked him if he would be a guest on my talk show at the UCB Theater in New York. I asked my Twitter followers to help me convince him to do the show by putting up tweets [...]

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Jackass 3D Guns For an Oscar

by | January 6th, 2011

In the season of self-serious For Your Consideration ads for self-serious movies, you've gotta love this tongue-in-cheek one for Jackass 3D. I mean, come on, the art direction was pretty tops in that one.

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