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Extreme Measures
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How Stephen Colbert Trained Himself to Never Feel Embarrassment

by | December 6th, 2012


Here's John Hodgman on SiriusXM's "Unmasked," in which he talks about how he heard Stephen Colbert rid himself of ever feeling embarrassed: by a strange version of immersion therapy, in which he basically did very embarrassing things in public until it didn't bother him anymore. Comedic commitment: Stephen Colbert basically defines it.

Deleted Scenes
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Watch Hannah Fail to Get a Job at a Cupcake Store in This 'Girls' Deleted Scene

by | December 6th, 2012


The first season of Girls comes out on DVD next week, and included will be a handful of deleted scenes. Including this one, in which Hannah attempts to find a job near and dear to her heart: at a cupcake shop. Does she get the job? Obviously not, or this scene would have been too important to relegate to the internet/DVD extras. Alas!

Standup
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Chris Rock on Martin Lawrence and the Low Point of His Career

by | December 5th, 2012

Judd Apatow interviewed Chris Rock as part of the Vanity Fair comedy issue that he guest edited, and while the whole thing is great, I love this bit about what he considers to be the low point in his career:

The low point happened about a year after I was off Saturday Night Live. I was a cocky bastard. Even though all evidence said I wasn’t a star, I thought I was. I drove a red Corvette and kept my shades on indoors, just a fucking asshole. Anyway, I had a gig in Chicago where I was the headliner. At every gig there would be some opening act that would try to make noise, but by the time I was offstage people had forgotten. One night in Chicago, as usual I was the headliner, and on this night my opening act was an up-and-coming comic named Martin Lawrence. Now, normally I never used to watch the opening acts, but I was in my dressing room and I heard a roar. I got up to see what was going on. I thought it was a fight or something. So I got up and went to the side of the stage. When I got there I realized it wasn’t a fight, it was people laughing so hard that the building was shaking. People were crying, standing, stomping their feet — screaming laughter. I was terrified. It was like watching somebody fucking your wife with a bigger dick.

Let's be honest: if seeing Martin Lawrence kill while opening for you is the lowest point in your career, you've had a pretty great career.

Casting Notices
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BJ Novak and Mindy Kaling are reuniting on The Mindy Project, Vulture reports. Novak is set to do a two-episode arc in which he plays "a charming Latin professor who bonds with Mindy over their love of a dead language," as people are wont to do.

SNL
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Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx Bring Some Holiday Cheer to the New 'SNL' Promos

by | December 5th, 2012


I'd really like to hear the rest of that mixtape.

The Simpsons
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Let Mr. Burns Explain the Fiscal Cliff to You

by | December 5th, 2012


This whole self-created fiscal cliff crisis is both complicated and simple at the same time: complicated in that it involves a whole slew of specific tax hikes and spending cuts that, if enacted, would have a huge effect on the economy, and simple in that it's just a bad thing that congress created in order to force themselves to actually do their jobs and they really hate that the time is now upon them to deal with it. Why stress about something you have no control over that'll almost definitely be taken care of in a satisfactory-enough manner when you can just have reliable old heartless billionaire Monty Burns explain the ins and outs to you while making jokes at the expense of the very rich?

Games
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Splitsider pal Mike Drucker has put together his list of the funniest video games of the year, and it's great. Games are generally not a genre known for their subtle senses of humor — unless you count the unintentional comedy of the plots of most Call of Duty games — but Drucker has pinpointed a selection of games across multiple platforms that manage to actually be, you know, funny.

Events
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Splitsider and Tumblr's Dog and Pony Show: Emily Heller, Ilana Glazer, Erik Bergstrom and Nick Turner

by | November 26th, 2012

Splitsider and Tumblr's Dog and Pony Show, our new monthly show with our buddies over at Tumblr, is back for its second installment this week. On Thursday night at 7:30pm, swing on by the UCB East in NYC for an excellent lineup: Emily Heller, Ilana Glazer, Erik Bergstrom, Nick Turner and host Halle Kiefer. All that for only $5! You can't go wrong.

Head over to the UCB East website to make your reservations now!

Turkeys
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Happy Thanksgiving, You Humorless Sons of Whores

by | November 21st, 2012


We're taking off a bit early today because it's the day before Thanksgiving and that seems like a pretty airtight excuse for a half-day. Enjoy your starches and awkward familial interactions tomorrow! We'll be back in full force on Monday once we've slept off our red wine hangovers.

Spending Dollars
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Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: 'Patrice O'Neal – Better Than You'

by | November 7th, 2012

Yesterday, a new Patrice O'Neal EP was released. Entitled Better Than You, it consists of material that was recorded at the same time as, but cut from, his last full-length standup album, Mr. P. The 20-minute recording may be the last new release we ever get from the late O'Neal (although you never know — obviously Tupac has been putting new albums out pretty consistently over the 20 years since he died), so you should probably jump on this ASAP. READ MORE

Recaps
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Wednesday Night Sitcom Recap: 'South Park' and '30 Rock' Weather the Storm

by | November 1st, 2012

Last night, while South Park aired at its normal time, Hurricane Sandy forced NBC to move 30 Rock to Wednesday instead of Thursday so it could make room for a delayed episode of The Voice. All other NBC comedies were cancelled this week. But I'm sure they don't feel too bad — they know who pays the bills in the peacock's house. But let's see how those two shows went last night, shall we? READ MORE

Casting Notices
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Bill Lumbergh himself, Gary Cole, has just signed on for a "major recurring role" on the upcoming season of HBO's Veep. He'll play "a Karl Rove-type of character named Kent" and will be in as many of 8 of the season's 10 episodes. Cole is obviously quite adept at playing suit-wearing dickbags, so this sounds like a pretty great fit to me.

Good Causes
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Nick Offerman Has Some Moustache-Related Advice for You

by | October 24th, 2012


There's a new cottage industry popping up in the comedy world: making web videos in which Nick Offerman talks directly to the camera, generally about being very manly, and often for a good cause. He recently offered to strip for Autism research, made a PSA about the bacon shortage, and did some bacon-related beat poetry for Malaria prevention. And now? He's got some advice for fellows interested in growing a moustache for Movember, which is the version of November in which you grow some lip fuzz in order to help promote men's health. We may be approaching the Offerman saturation point, at least with this type of video, but I suppose one can't complain about a guy using his moustache and overabundance of testosterone to make the world a better place.

Magazines
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Vanity Fair is prepping its first-ever comedy issue for January, and they've snagged none other than Pope Judd the First to guest edit it. I'm not entirely sure what guest editing entails — I assume just picking some of his famous friends to write stuff for the magazine, not actually line-editing drafts — but it'll be interesting to see what Apatow brings to the magazine. And we'll see which is longer: this issue of Vanity Fair or the This Is 40 script.

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