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An Animated Tig Notaro On Why It's Good to Be Disliked in Suburban Denver

by | August 8th, 2012

Dumb Denver (DENVER! YEAH!) crowd from the past, you don't know anything about anything. First, all your faces are weird. Second, who actually throws tomatoes? Did your friend call you up and say, "Do you want to go to this comedy show? Make sure you bring a tomato, you know how we do." Or do you just always carry around a tomato, hoping someone will stop you on the street with an incomplete salad emergency? Maybe next time, skip the comedy show and go directly to whatever sauce-making after-party you were planning on attending afterward.

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Conan Writer Todd Levin on Why Some Jokes Just Bomb

by | September 15th, 2011

Conan writer Todd Levin's "Just Like That But Funny" essay for Good magazine explains point-by-point what can and will go wrong when you're working in the "volume-driven business" of a daily comedy show. There are so many fail factors at play when you're cranking out sketches at such a rapid rate, he writes, like for example, poor acting, unforeseen bloopers like botched dialogue or "subpar" puppetry, the inability to perceive the crappiness of one's own work and, of course, the propensity for comedy writers to go too dark. "If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without any interference from a host, producer, or [...]

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