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This Short Documentary on Mitch Hedberg's Writing Process Will Floor You

by | August 7th, 2012

A month ago, we reported that Mitch Hedberg's widow, Lynn Shawcroft, had over 30 never before seen notebooks of Mitch's. This documentary does a truly wonderful job of capturing his process and giving us a glimpse inside those books. "Men's Clothing Liquidation, I had to buy something before they melted," read one of the pages. You can just hear Hedberg's distinct cadence in that one sentence. You know what I like? This documentary. (You are like, "Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.")

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Ben & Jerry's Serves Up a Heaping Mouthful of Schweddy Balls

by | September 8th, 2011

We've all imagined having a mouthful of Schweddy Balls at some point or another, and now 11 years after the fact, Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls flavor is making that dream a reality. "The name is irreverent," needlessly explains Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood. "But we've always been about having some irreverence and having some fun … We're not trying to offend people. Our fans get the humor."

Based on The Delicious Dish Christmas skit that aired on SNL December 12, 1998, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon and, of course, Alex Baldwin's Pete Schweddy will be memorialized in a limited run of the flavor, which will be [...]

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Howdy Ho! Mr. Hankey Should Be Used To Fight Rectal Cancer!

by | October 18th, 2011

We know him. We love him. We squeeze him between our festive buns, and now in an open letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone improviser Michelle Dobrawsky makes the exceedingly persuasive argument for South Park's Mr. Hankey to join the fight against rectal cancer. "I propose promoting and licensing Mr. Hankey as the official ambassador for rectal cancer. I can’t think of a more appropriate spokesturd," Michelle writes on her Tumblr. "As a rectal cancer patient, I spend a lot of time focusing on that particular area, and its particular output. And to generate, painlessly, productively and naturally, a perfect Mr. Hankey, is the goal of my treatment.  [...]

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Melissa McCarthy: Even Better In Bridesmaids Then You'd Thought

by | July 18th, 2011

As you probably could have guessed, the Bridesmaids DVD is going to straight-up murder you with outtakes of Melissa McCarthy's genius riffing. To prove it, GQ rounded up the film's cast to testify to the actress's master improvisation skills. "During the Brazilian-restaurant scene, Helen's talking about this big house she has and that people can stay with her if they want. Melissa goes on this whole run of how she needs to do that because there's a squirrel infestation at her house, and a squirrel had burrowed into her vagina and was living in her vagina. I could never get it into the movie, but it made me [...]

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You'll Get All The Rhea Perlman You Need In Kirstie Alley's The Manzanis

by | October 10th, 2011

I'm ready for Rhea Perlman to be the Danny DeVito of Kirstie Alley's new show The Manzanis. Clearly I'm projecting my own personal wants and desires onto the new ABC multi-cam sitcom, which features the Cheers co-stars as a loud, proud Italian woman and her mother-in-law respectively, but this could go Real Housewives of New Jersey so satisfyingly fast. Imagine Caroline Manzo emerging sweaty and naked from inside a leather couch, is what I'm asking of you.

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