May 2012
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WatchBill Maher on why Obama is such a crappy socialist.
This, this, this this…500 times this. Standing ovation.
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John Purcell: The Stepfathers vs. a heckler →
This sounds completely epic….if only for this part:
“…Silvija gestured for the guy to go back to his seat while Michael Delaney stood giving him the bird.”
My favorite ensemble in NYC by leaps and bounds…
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johnpurcell:
Tonight, The Stepfathers did a typically great set. However, during the last five minutes...
When you do an awkward walk-on and then try to...
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When you go to a weekend show and the audience is...
To whoever is behind this whole thing…well done.
whatshouldwecallucb:
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WatchBill Maher on why Mitt Romney’s “charitable” donations to his Mormon cult are bullshit.
Preach. It. Bill. Maher.
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April 2012
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Lost Cosmonauts →
(write it) like disaster: Best Improv Scene →
Becky Drysdale at the Lets Have A Ball show from DCM 2010. I forget who her scene partner was. It was the scene we’ve all done about a housing broker trying to sell a shitty apartment, but I’ve never laughed harder in my life. The choices were so specific, so real, so funny. I wish I remembered the details, I just remember the audience absolutely roaring with approval at an otherwise...
March 2012
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Something I wrote almost 5 years ago
Thanks for everyone’s kind words. They mean a lot. I’m very disappointed, but I’ve gotten good news phone calls, bad news phone calls and no phone calls, so this is nothing new. Great people got cast. Great people got cut. Even better people didn’t even get a callback. I can’t complain. It’s one thing to go in there and, during those tense moments, put out...
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Some unsolicited advice
Don’t sign up to audition “with a buddy.” It won’t help you. Ensemble auditions are something else, but I’m talking about going in there hoping you’ll do one of your two scenes with a specific person.
In the first round, they’re looking at hundreds and hundreds of improvisers, many of whom the people on the panel don’t know well. You have two brief...
February 2012
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“America’s Funniest Home Videos is really the fucking funniest show on...”
– Michael Delaney on how comedy = suffering
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January 2012
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WatchPenguin takes a crap on the floor of the Kentucky state senate, and the senators proceed to be hilarious about it.
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President William McKinley's post-shooting medical... →
Little known fact…President William McKinley survived for 8-days after being shot by an assassin in 1901.
Lesser known fact…he spent those 8-days getting brandy injections and having “nutritive” concoctions of egg whites and whiskey shoved up his ass.
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Michael Delaney on audience expectations for...
“Say we were all trapped in this classroom, and I had to prepare dinner and all I had was the stuff in that vending machine. And then say somehow I managed to put together something resembling a meal beyond what you normally eat out of a machine. You’d be tremendously impressed. Then say I invite you over to my home for dinner. You’d probably expect a nice home-cooked meal. If I...
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WatchNo. No no no no no no no. No.
thedailywhat:
Beauty Pageant Kids These Days of the Day: I have a theory about Toddlers & Tiaras that involves TLC working with Child Services to lure unfit parents into a trap a la police station lotteries.
It has to be that. It just has to.
[bwe.]
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December 2011
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Russia' real doomsday machine - "The Dead Hand" →
Dr. Strangelove himself couldn’t do it this well.
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"The Heart Attack Grill" in Las Vegas Nevada →
Highlights…gross, gross highlights…
- “In fact, the whole restaurant sticks with the hospital theme with customers being referred to as “patients” and the waitresses as “nurses.” As soon as you walk in you’re even fitted with a hospital gown before one of the nurses takes you to your table to take your order. Your food is then prepared by a cook dressed up in doctor scrubs,...
WatchThe back kick. Oh my god.
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Taekwondo Tykes
They’re pacifists (by default).
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To all improvisers who think they're so funny they...
TJ and Dave mentioned in their talk today they still rehearse. They’ve been doing their show for 10 years, sometimes 4 times each week. Remind yourself of that the next time you say your group’s “chemistry” is so good you don’t need to do the work. No improvisers have more chemistry than those two. They did the work to create it.