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Start Getting Excited to Watch the Improv Everywhere Movie

Here's a pretty cool Kickstarter video for the Improv Everywhere movie, a feature-length documentary about the people and process behind the no-pants subway ride, the tuxedo-ruining Black Tie Beach, Mall Santa Musical, frozen Grand Central, and approximately one kagrillion other heart-warming and day-making pranks. The movie also features Aubrey Plaza and Nick Kroll and, if it's like this trailer, will probably make you feel good about art and comedy and humans. You can donate to get the project off the ground here.

Donate to the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, Get a Goat Named After You

Eugene Mirman has taken to Kickstarter to help finance this year's Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival in Brooklyn, because he wants to do some ridiculous and unprofitable things. Things like set up a petting zoo outside the venue and, you know, pay comedians to perform at it. The incentives for donating are all pretty excellent, from an autographed WWII helmet that acts as a VIP badge to a 22-year-old "handler" to hang out with you all weekend and be "sort of helpful." But my favorite may be this one: "An autographed ostrich egg that gets you and a guest into the VIP HUSH-HUSH AFTERPARTY, a roped off area in [...]

A Proposed Kickstarter to Help Louis C.K. Raise $8 Million to Make a Movie

Louis C.K. said in his Reddit AMA that he would make a movie if he had $8 million. Shouldn't be too hard to round up, right? We've taken it upon ourselves to come up with some Kickstarter incentives for the project:

$1: You get the satisfaction of being a material Louis C.K. supporter at the lowest possible level and nothing else because it's only one dollar.

$5: You get to download Louis' new special, obviously.

$25: You get a copy of the movie on DVD/Blu-ray/digital download/whatever.

$50: You get a copy of the movie and the first two seasons of Louie.

$100: You get a signed [...]

The Ladies Of Ass Backward Beseech You

Casey Wilson and comedy partner June Diane Raphael need you to give their asses some money. The comedy duo of SNL alum Wilson and Year One's Raphael are mere shooting days away from finishing their indie comedy Ass Backwards, which has been floating around Movie Limbo since their funding dried up five years ago. The film stars Wilson and Raphael as delusional New Yorkers Kate and Chloe, who travel back to their hometown to win the beauty pageant that bested them in their youth. In addition to the film sounding a little Romy And Michelle, a little Ab Fab and a lot amazing, Ass Backwards offers some excellent [...]

You Have Four Hours to Make the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival a Much Crazier Event

Eugene Mirman has been raising funds on Kickstarter for the past month in order to make his Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, happening in Brooklyn in September, a crazier and more ambitious affair. The period for fundraising ends this afternoon, and he's currently about $1,300 short of his $18,000 goal. If he doesn't hit $18,000 by 2:06pm EST today, he gets none of the money. That would suck! So go toss him a few bucks if you want to support awesome, funny things. There are some seriously ridiculous incentives in it for you, too! Unless you don't want "a leather jacket covered in swears, culturally and racially insensitive messages [...]

Charles Manson: The Kickstarter Page, by Scott Jacobson

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Listen, you play it on the square with me and we'll be fine, just fine, but I seen the earth turnin' and burnin' since before you had teeth in your skull, brother, so don't come askin' me where to hang your fine cotton panties when the shit goes down! Here's the score: the world's drownin' in blood, there's a race war comin', and we got bulls swingin' beatdown sticks out in Suicide Alley with the Jews and homosexuals hangin' back waitin' for sloppy seconds! So I'm seeking $6,500 for outreach materials and to fund workshops focusing on open skill and resource sharing!

HOW WILL THIS PROJECT [...]

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