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The Complete Guide to Everything: Hurricane Sandy Aftermath

by | November 5th, 2012

It's been a week since our episode recorded right before Hurricane Sandy hit New York City. The good news is that this week we were able to be in the same physical space to record! The bad news is that Hurricane Sandy devastated our city. We discuss our own personal experiences during the storm (spoiler alert: neither of us were affected much more than mildly inconvenienced), the 24 hours news cycle making everyone think everything is over-hyped and Tim almost gets punched in the face while waiting in a long line for gasoline. Also Tom visits the Brooklyn Botanical Garden for the first time and discovers it's just full [...]

News

When Comedy Happens in the Real World

by | June 29th, 2011

Annoying, water-cooler-dwelling office drones who comment on the unexpectedness of everyday life’s ironies and oddities are justified in their amazement at reality. “You can’t write this stuff!” one always says. “Life imitating art.” another inevitably adds, and etc.

But it’s true. They’re right! Every day, all around us, there’s a ton of insane, unbelievable, real material, the stuff of which Hollywood hilarity is made. Don’t believe me? Just have a damn look!

MTV

Bo Burnham Gets Pilot Order from MTV

by | September 7th, 2010

Internet music comedian Bo Burnham has been doing pretty well for himself lately, just coming off a string of sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. And now MTV has ordered a pilot from him that'll "be about a kid fresh out of high school who's pursing the new American dream of being a celebrity without having any talent." Kind of a ballsy angle, no? If it's not great, it makes life easy for critics, at least. It'll also feature music prominently, probably. [via]

Definitive Lists

Variety Names Its 10 Comics to Watch for 2011

by | July 26th, 2011

Just in time for the Montreal Just for Laughs festival this weekend, Variety has unveiled its annual list of "comics to watch." It's a list that consistently features people you're about to hear a lot more from; the last couple of years' lists featured Hannibal Buress, Aubrey Plaza, Ellie Kemper, Garfunkel and Oates, Donald Glover and Ken Jeong, amongst others. Here are this year's honorees:

-Jerrod Carmichael -Chris D'Elia -Josh Fadem -Pete Holmes -Thomas Middleditch -Tim Minchin -Amy Schumer -Rebel Wilson -Harris Wittels -Ali Wong

Tough to argue with any of those choices. Lots of very funny and [...]

Oops

Breaking News on CNN: Jeff Daniels Has Diarrhea

by | December 10th, 2010

Here's something you generally don't expect to see on CNN following a piece about protests in Britain and the battle over taxes in Congress: the diarrhea scene from Dumb and Dumber. But hey, I guess these are the sorts of things the 24-hour news networks need to resort to in order to entice viewers in this internet age. Or maybe it was just some incomprehensible fuckup. Either way!

Conan

Conan's New Show Starring Conan Will Be Called Conan

by | September 1st, 2010

The Conan O'Brien Show has an official name: Conan. Catchy!

Also: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this isn't his real office. For a dude who got $40 million to leave The Tonight Show and who got a signing bonus of over $10 million for his new show, he sure likes to claim poverty. You're rich, Conan! It's OK! No on begrudges you that (well, at least I don't). You don't have to be obvious about it, but there's probably a middle ground between pretending you make $35,000 a year and owning a fleet of exotic cars. [via]

News

This Week in Unintentional Comedy in the News

by | July 6th, 2011

Runaway brides. Breast-milk-assaults. Tom Cruise’s snore room.

This week, we’ve got it all!

Monaco’s Prince Albert Forces Runaway Bride to Marry Him

When my past girlfriends wanted to leave, they just told me I was “great and sweet” and promptly unfriended me on Facebook. I always let them go without a fight. Clearly I’m no Prince Albert. The Telegraph reports that the Monacan aristocrat has had some trouble tying the knot with his new wife, Olympic swimmer and South African native Charlene Wittstock, 33. Just last week, senior Palace officials foiled her attempt to board a flight back home from France. Before that, Wittstock tried avoided the alter by [...]

Quicklink

Young People Get Their News From Fake News Shows

by | September 15th, 2010

The biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which tracks how people get their news, tells us what we pretty much already knew: "In terms of age, the Colbert Report (80%), Daily Show (74%) and New York Times (67%) have the biggest percentage of viewers and readers in the 18-49-year-old demographic. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly (35%) and Sean Hannity (33%) have the smallest."

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