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Tig Notaro Needs You to Help Kickstart Her Clown Service

by | June 25th, 2012

As the video above eventually gets around to saying, Tig Notaro has started a Kickstarter campaign to help finance a short film entitled Clown Service. She's looking for $10,000, which is a good amount of nickels (200,000 to be exact) to ask for. If you do have 200,000 nickels to spend, Tig assures, "People will be really impressed with this, by the way." And if you do, I recommend the next time you see Tig, you go up to her and say, "Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you, but I just have to tell you: I'm the person who completely funded your short film, so can you [...]

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Rob Corddry Discusses the Evolution of How He's Written 'Children's Hospital'

by | June 20th, 2012

In between discussing Seeking a Friend for the End of the World with Blackbook, Rob Corddry got into exactly what he hopes for when writing Children's Hospital:

I don’t think of my sense of humor as being different. However, when I am writing something, like say Childrens Hospital which is all joke based, the ultimate goal is to come up with a completely unfamiliar joke. It’s next to impossible but when you are able to pull it off and there’s nothing more satisfying when you do. So I guess my sense of humor is trying not to copy, which is almost impossible not to do consciously in the world of [...]

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