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The Vine 5 Film Festival: Eggs Over My Dad Abandoning Me

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Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very least, challenges comedians to bring a little more laughter into this world. Every Tuesday we showcase five of the funniest short shorts of the past week.

Your RSS feed might be difficult and not show the videos, but trust us – they are there.

More funny people made their first attempts at Vine this past week. As part of #OneVineDay and the Just For Laughs festival in Chicago, some comedians who were either waiting for the app to get to Android and/or for other comedians to sway them with a joke and some playful nagging to get them to use it revealed their inaugural efforts. Here was Conan O'Brien's: READ MORE

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Follow Friday: @longwall26 (Jason Miller)

by | June 14th, 2013

Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are truly worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet. Every Friday we'll make your life a little bit easier by introducing you to an individual that you might not know about who consistently makes us laugh and momentarily forget that other days of the week exist.

(If you're reading this from an RSS feed, jump on over to the website where you can actually view the tweets for an optimal level of enjoyment.)

According to Jason Miller, Jason Miller (@longwall26) is is a writer and comic book hack living in Nashville, Tennessee. He also said a few things about some of his funniest tweets.

"Ah, romance! By the way, a few people wrote me after this one to argue that people don’t really ‘love’ viruses and I’m all, like, speak for yourself, assholes." READ MORE

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'Save Me' Was a Show. It Ended Last Night. It Was On For Four Weeks. You Missed It.

by | June 14th, 2013

The story of Save Me is incredibly depressing, but not unprecedented. The Anne Heche comedy was in the works since 2010 as a potential property of Showtime. Both the show and executive Bob Greenblatt moved to NBC when Greenblatt became NBC's entertainment chairman. In 2012, it was the second new show greenlit after Go On. Then it was announced that it wouldn't be on the fall schedule, but it would show up midseason. Then they hired former Friends producer Alexa Junge to executive producer and run the show. Then they re-shot the pilot. Then Alexa Junge left the show. Then Darlene Hunt from The Big C took her place. Then NBC decided to wait until just after May sweeps was over to start airing the show. Then they decided to run seven episodes, even though they ordered thirteen.

And that it would be shown over four Thursdays, to disappear before anybody ever noticed. READ MORE

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9 Funny People Who Direct Great Music Videos

by | June 14th, 2013

Quick history lesson: if a music video was funny in the 1980s, it was probably completely unintentional. In the first half of the decade, the ridiculously low production values provided all of the humor, and in the second half, it was the unabashed bombastic elements that made you laugh. Weird Al, the Beastie Boys and their pie throwing antics, and weirdly enough Phil Collins' meta work were some exceptions to that, and helped lighten up the art form in the nineties, when directors like Spike Jonze presented artists in innovative and fun ways. In the mid-nineties comedic actors began to be cast in videos1, notably in the classic Yo La Tengo video for "Sugarcube" starring Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, and John Ennis, who were all on Mr. Show at the time. READ MORE

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The Vine 5 Film Festival: The Internship

by | June 11th, 2013

Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very least, challenges comedians to bring a little more laughter into this world. Every Tuesday we showcase five of the funniest short shorts of the past week.

Your RSS feed might be difficult and not show the videos, but trust us – they are there.

Vine came around to Androids last Monday, resulting in some awkward first posts. Dan Harmon is probably going to be too busy to learn how to make more visually stunning effects than in his initial effort: READ MORE

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'My Mother the Car' Tried Too Hard To Not Be 'My Mother the Car'

by | June 10th, 2013

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get things right. That’s where Brilliantly Canceled comes in, looking at the shows that didn’t make it past their first season and saved us all a ton of grief.

It was only a matter of time before My Mother the Car made its way to Brilliantly Canceled: TV Guide in 2002 printed a rundown of what they determined to be the fifty worst television shows ever made, long before the internet would make such lists daily. Despite it being a few years after the apex of its cultural significance, The Jerry Springer Show managed the top spot. Number two on the list – and number one when it came to comedies – was My Mother the Car. Many contemporary shows including The Simpsons and Arrested Development – viewed by many as the polar opposite of quality on the comedic spectrum – have used Mother as the butt of a joke, viewing it as the epitome of dated, stupid, campy, embarrassing, lowest common denominator television. And they were not wrong to do so. READ MORE

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Follow Friday: @michelleisawolf (Michelle Wolf)

by | June 7th, 2013

Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are truly worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet. Every Friday we'll make your life a little bit easier by introducing you to an individual that you might not know about who consistently makes us laugh and momentarily forget that other days of the week exist.

(If you're reading this from an RSS feed, jump on over to the website where you can actually view the tweets for an optimal level of enjoyment.)

Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) is a stand-up comedian, as well as a contributor to someecards. She was also cool enough to talk about a few of her funniest tweets.

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"This actually happened. I'm a very powerful man." READ MORE

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For Adam Scott: 10 More Potential 'Greatest Events In Television History'

by | June 7th, 2013

Last night, The Greatest Event in Television History returned with its second installment, possibly to rectify the earlier mistake of accidentally airing the second greatest event in television history last October. Back then, after a ten minute behind-the-scenes feature hosted by Jeff Probst, Adam Scott and Jon Hamm starred in a shot-for-shot remake of the opening credit sequence to the the eighties detective series Simon & Simon. This time around, Scott and Amy Poehler tried to perfectly reenact the beginning to the rich couple playing "amateur detective" 1979-1984 series Hart to Hart1.

Because co-executive producer, co-star, co-writer and co-director Adam Scott is a busy man, and Adult Swim and Scott have a deal to produce at least two more "events," we figured we would save him the time and effort to research the next subject to be faithfully parodied. Unfortunately, Simon and Simon and Hart to Hart seem to be the only dramas from the seventies and eighties that doubled up on a name, but there remain to be plenty of shows starring a seemingly mismatched pair of individuals that attempted to get viewers to watch with a horribly dated montage of taken out of context clips, usually involving dramatic fundamental differences of opinion, and cars; always cars. There were also some shows about people that developed superpowers and can turn into animals, because television was fantastic like that. If Scott and company choose a different genre to tackle next, it would be somewhat of a disappointment. READ MORE

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The Vine 5 Film Festival: Drugs! Grumpy Kids! Imaginary Friends!

by | June 4th, 2013

Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very least, challenges comedians to bring a little more laughter into this world. Every Tuesday we showcase five of the funniest short shorts of the past week.

Your RSS feed might be difficult and not show the videos, but trust us – they are there.

Yesterday, the Vine app was made available to Android devices, which means that everybody is fresh out of excuses. Sorry, no longer will your weird long standing feud with Apple products and Steve Jobs make for a justifiable excuse to not try and make the most creative and hilarious six second movies ever made. It'll be fun to see the differences between the experienced viners and the newbies in terms of style and execution at first, as well as which Android using comedians are going to make a name for themselves with shorts they had been thinking of making for months that they now have the opportunity to actually make.

For now though, the presumably final V5FF that was exclusively produced by iPhones. READ MORE

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Follow Friday: @Kibblesmith (Daniel Kibblesmith)

by | May 31st, 2013

Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are truly worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet. Every Friday we'll make your life a little bit easier by introducing you to an individual that you might not know about who consistently makes us laugh and momentarily forget that other days of the week exist.

(If you're reading this from an RSS feed, jump on over to the website where you can actually view the tweets for an optimal level of enjoyment.)

Daniel Kibblesmith (@Kibblesmith) is a comedian, writer, cartoonist, and co-author of the upcoming book How to Win at Everything. He is also an accomplished twitter person, and fortunately a benevolent enough man to shed some light on a few of his funny works.

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"The funniest thing in the world to me is when someone half understands something. Now that detractors of marriage equality can't claim the collapse of society is imminent, all of their arguments feel really low stakes. Also, I work in marketing and if I see one more commercial where a fully-grown man doesn't know how yogurt works, I'll probably blow up a stadium." READ MORE

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'The Kings of Summer' Is a Very Nick Offerman-y Thing

by | May 31st, 2013

The Kings of Summer opens in select cities today. It will make its way to the other, non-select cities at some point soon. Patience is a virtue.

The Kings of Summer seems to have come from the mind of Nick Offerman, but it was actually written by first time screenwriter Chris Galletta, a former David Letterman joke writer. The plot of the film finds three teenage boys spending the summer in the woods, building a house and trying to live a Walden type existence to get away from their annoying and overbearing parents. While this goes on, Nick Offerman, who plays Frank, the father of the lead MIA rapscallion, spews acidic, very funny venom at any fools he has to suffer while trying to determine the whereabouts of his son. The story of the high schoolers learning the lay of the land and yearning to be free from authority sounds like both Offerman — a modern day renaissance man who builds canoes during his downtime — and his Parks and Recreation character Ron Swanson's version of a YA novel, and putting people and institutions down through wit, threats, and condescension while possessing a homespun but usually sound logic is how Swanson communicates. READ MORE

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The Vine 5 Film Festival: Loneliness, Death, and Exercise

by | May 28th, 2013

Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very least, challenges comedians to bring a little more laughter into this world. Every Tuesday we showcase five of the funniest short shorts of the past week.

Your RSS feed might be difficult and not show the videos, but trust us – they are there. READ MORE

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And Now the Review of One of the Greatest Comedies of All Time Which Had No Choice But to Try to Change the Game: It's 'Arrested Development' Season Four

by | May 28th, 2013

The adjectives "interesting" and "weird" mostly exist to be placeholders for how you actually felt about something you couldn't completely understand at first. Sometimes the real feelings will come to you as you heat up something in the microwave a few minutes later; other times it takes a day or two for you to start to be able to properly articulate what you had just seen, several microwaved meals later. Even if the delayed final review of the book, movie, or TV show was "oh, it sucked," it still gets credit for occupying your brain for an extended period of time: that interesting, weird thing took over your life.

Season Four of Arrested Development, two days after all eight hours, fifteen minutes, and fifty five seconds of it1 was released to the world all at once, still in some ways remains to be interesting, and weird. The warnings that were both readable online and between the lines were true, that due to the busy schedules of all of the principal actors, interaction between the Bluths would be at a bare minimum, and as a result the storytelling would be completely different to not just the show but possibly new to comedy. The warnings weren't enough for the initial viewings of the new Netflix episodes from being a jarring experience. After fifty-three episodes of all of the characters playing off of each other, with six, seven, nine stories being crammed into a traditional twenty-two minute installment that all somehow coalesced together to make a delicious comedy stew, there were fifteen short films presented to us all at once, each a crazily well-filmed and high-budget fan fiction project in which one of the characters' story of what they had been up to over the last seven years was told, where they met Hollywood stars both real and imagined, mystics, drug addicts, ostrich farmers, and everything else in between. READ MORE

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Follow Friday: @JustAboutGlad (Alison Stevenson)

by | May 24th, 2013

Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are truly worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet. Every Friday we'll make your life a little bit easier by introducing you to an individual that you might not know about who consistently makes us laugh and momentarily forget that other days of the week exist.

(If you're reading this from an RSS feed, jump on over to the website where you can actually view the tweets for an optimal level of enjoyment.)

Alison Stevenson (@JustAboutGlad) is a stand-up comedian, writer, radio show co-host, viner, and most importantly to us at this very moment in time, a funny tweeter. Alison was nice enough to shed some light on the etymology of some of her tweets.

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"This is kind of a weird one to explain. I was in a sex shop and overheard one of the employees
recommend to a customer she buy lube with a water based solution. As soon as I heard that I wondered what the heck 'water based solution' meant. Then my mind immediately went to thoughts of suicide as per usual." READ MORE

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