Joe Mande's Conan set last night contained my favorite Joe Mande bit of all time. It's also a bit which makes me laugh extra loud while darting my eyes from side-to-side with the secret shameful knowledge that I'm two egg creams and one pickling class away from full-blown foodieism. So drink his jokes in! Drink them in like the drinkie you are!
This past Saturday, we celebrated the one year anniversary of Splitsider (technically it's in a couple of weeks, but who's counting?) with a comedy show and party co-hosted by our friends from Gentrify Brooklyn. It was a huge success, with tons of people coming out and helping to raise over $700 for 826NYC. Hooray! If you weren't able to make it, here are some photos of the event from Nadia Chaudhury.
Apparently, the new hot thing to do when making a comedy video is just to find lousy material written by someone else and then winkingly read it on stage. Joe Mande, the comedian behind the blog-to-book Look at This Fucking Hipster, wrote a screenplay based on Glenn Beck's The Overton Window and then had people like Kristin Schall, Big Lake's Chris Gethard and stand-up and 30 Rock writer Hannibal Buress perform a staged reading of it at New York's UCB Theatre. The dialogue is about what you'd [...]
