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.
collegehumor:
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.
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November 2011
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Lincoln tried to arrest the Chief Justice of the... →
They decided to not actually go through with it, but another federal judge WAS arrested after finding Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus was unconstitutional. This is a link to the original court documents detailing the events. They are astounding.
Judge Matthew Merrick, a sitting federal judge, granted a writ of habeas corpus and ordered the chief marshal in Washington to produce the...
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Will Hines: Your Xmas Gift To Me →
Awesome. The Einstein story is incredible, pure physics miracles aside.
His own work led to Neils Bohr developing quantum mechanics, which Einstein absolutely could not accept. The idea that certainty did not exist, and that at the quantum level (a level Einstein led us to) we could only predict probability, was unacceptable to Einstein. “God does not play dice with the world,” he...
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Ok lets do an improv post - Two yuppy sports...
We’re in unfamiliar territory here. The world of sports is foreign and frightening to me, and it’s no surprise my two examples reference tennis and golf, the only two fancy lad sports in which I found even a smidgen of ability. I spent a week at soccer camp without touching the ball save putting it back in the mesh bag at the end of the day, and I don’t understand how football is...
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October 2011
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Okay lets do an improv post - I'm teaching a... →
I’m excited and flattered to teach a workshop next month, during the usual lull of classes in November and December. I’ve been developing this for about 2 years, and most of you who I’ve coached during that time have been unknowing (and very helpful) test subjects along the way. So thank you!
What’s Going On? with David Siegel Use the base reality of your scene to never...
WatchObligatory Mormonism-related Bill Maher “New Rules” post
hilarious/brutal
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“Huntsman I can understand and appreciate. Perry is an empty bad suit. Romney...”
– Andrew Sullivan on last night’s GOP debate
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/vicodin-live-blogging-the-bloomberg-debate.html
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WatchMUST WATCH - Alan Grayson schools an entire smart-ass panel on “Real Time with Bill Maher” about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The best part is how he keeps totally silent for the first half, and then just lays waste to all of them, Bill Maher included. If he runs for president in 2016, I want to find a way to work for this man. Also, can someone please put P.J. O’rourke out...
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September 2011
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I never plug shows. I'm plugging this show. →
Tonight “Weekend of Regret” - a team I’ve been working with for over a year, makes its debut on the UCBT stage in Cage Match. I think these are some of the finest improvisers in the city, we’ve put together a show we’re proud of, and it’d mean the world to me if you could make it out tonight.
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“I think the hardest thing, frankly, as an improviser, is to get to that point...”
– So what’s the best way to get new improvisers to this point? I almost feel like this should be the place to get first, and THEN start worrying about game. I sometimes wonder if it’s helpful to learn about game before knowing how to act like a human being on stage, and how to yesand in a...
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I've seen Widespread Panic 27 times, and I'm...
If you know me well at all, you know I’m obsessed with the band Widespread Panic. It started my senior year of high school, when my boss/tennis coach slipped a Panic track (One Arm Steve) onto a mix-CD he’d burned for me. He made it using his fancy new manual CD-burner, manual meaning not attached to any computer, since computers didn’t do music back then and I’m old. That...