January 2011
57 posts
Guns
They brought guns to our town today. Shiny metal and dull black, crafted by designers who know the shape of a hand. They put them in the shop windows. All of the windows, for some reason, even at the fast-food restaurants and the women’s clothing stores and the barber. There was a kind of ceremony, and a speech that seemed boring but didn’t go on for too long and then they got in their...
do this
jesserelly:misterpeace:
1) Go to http://images.google.com
2) enter “cat snow cone” into search bar
3) press Enter
4) You win
Thank you.
Or press this CHEAT LINK. You’re welcome.
Allison Silverman Interview
Over at Splitsider, Mike Sacks has put up his extended interview with former Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show and Colbert Report writer/producer Allison Silverman:
You wrote an article for Slate magazine in 2001, and you listed the six types of jokes that writers weren’t allowed to come up with at The Daily Show. One of the examples was to avoid “jokes that will get claps...
Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses
Have you watched this yet?
The blogs are already a-buzzing: Comedy Central Insider (pretty good for a network-run blog) and Splitsider (one of the best blogs about comedy in existence. Check them out) have both mentioned it.
It will be the best 15 minutes and 37 seconds you spend watching a YouTube video today. It’s a NYU film student thesis. I like it.
Edit: Some favourite quotes.
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More About Tommy Westphall's Universe
This is from Nick Skyles’s blog where he redesigned the whole map.
From the original research:
“What’s this about his Mind?
St. Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series – many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of the St. Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional...
Hot Little Potato: "Queue", the Communist version... →
hotlittlepotato:
Cluedo - no mansion, no titles and no array of potential weapons - only one room, filled with factory workers and a brick - it doesn’t matter who the killer is, just remember they were murdered for the greater good of the people.
Scrabble - instead of making up the best words from…
Watchtopherchris:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
YOU BLEW IT
jamesvandermemes:
WATCH VANDERMEMES ON FUNNY OR DIE
The Room
(by Hans von Hozel, genius author)
One day, Tommy Wiseau was making a buying flowers.
“Is goodly to have a flowers,” Tommy say as the flowers danubed into his bag.
But suddenly, Mark to the flowershop and set it on fire!
“Hahahaha,” Mark laugh, “I will get Lisas now!”
“NOOOOO!” Tommy say, “You cannot set flowershop on fire as I have the...
Watchmiketruesdale:
Craig Rowin asked for a million dollars and got it. So I thought I’d come out of the woodwork…
Big thanks to Paul Bartunek for shooting and editing.
Watchmrgan:
Greg Borenstein sweded our game. This may be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a cool thing or two. Greg, you’re a monster champ.
Fun and Gondry-esque. The music makes it extra great.
Watchmerlin:
Phone Guy - “Hillbilly Excel”
Do you know about That Phone Guy? You should know about That Phone Guy. And Merlin Mann stuff in general because he is great. The End.
“Like a planet pulled into orbit by a star”
This look at Jay Z explains how he fell in love with hip hop and began carrying a notebook with him everywhere. Sounds similar to the way many fall into standup too. In the summer of 1978, when he was 9 years old and growing up in the Marcy housing projects in Brooklyn, Shawn Carter — a k a Jay-Z — saw a circle of people gathered around a kid named Slate, who was “rhyming, throwing out couplet...
“The past two years have seen a marked shift. “Wallace’s status has...”
– Jennifer Howard, The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace, The Chronicle Review
fireland:
The Regional Dialect Meme
Say these...
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CRYING EDITION
jamesvandermemes: