…and on the F train all the 49er fans quietly return to Brooklyn.
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I hope nobody wins.
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Yelle - Comme Un Enfant (Freaks Remix)
Wanna smile real, real big?
This video is incredible. And Nathan Barnatt is crazy talented.
The whole thing is great, but gets especially impressive at 1:55.
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Kirk showed me this and I have now watched it 6 times. It’s the inaccurate hall of presidents. I will watch it more times. Enjoy it.
Buddy Knox!
Geppeto Corrigan!
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At least she’s staying in school.
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(Source: purns)
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Teaching Sketch and you can Help!
So I’m preparing to teach sketch to high school kids. Need videos.
What is everyones favorite CLEAN (PG-13) sketches?
Anything from SNL, In Living Color, MadTV, The State, All That, et cetera…
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And just when I thought I was done with these Shit ____ Say things, Eliot & Ilana go and make the best one. If you live in New York. I PROMISE.
Meme isn’t over until Eliot and Ilana say it is!
Homesick.
I’ve really tried to stay in touch and everything, but this really made me miss home.
exactly!
Pitch Perfect. Also the YouTube comments are adorable.
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Start with the honest part. If we believe that a character has some recognizability, some traits we identify with, some relationships to the world and other people we can respect as true, you can always make that funny. If you head right to the funny and miss with a joke, you can’t all of a sudden try to convince an audience that it’s real. They won’t buy it. Real can turn into funny, it’s harder to turn funny into real (especially because you generally only have to when the funny goes away.)
—Isn’t this also Rule #1 for sketch writing?
Improv Nonsense: Teaching Interviews: Chris Gethard, Part 1 of 2
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![newsweek:
Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
[h/t gangster curator Katie Notopoulos]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_500.png)
Tweets from kids trying to use Wikipedia for their homework—and failing. SOPA!
(via wnyc)
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Well at least Portuguese Wikipedia is available today.
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ROCKY VS RAMBO
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at each others’ work. I got the last section, and it was also my job to clean the script up, join the sections together, and try to get it to make sense.
Then we had a reading of it to hear what the others came up with. And then we never did anything else with it.
…UNTIL TODAY!
So here it is. Enjoy!
The writers:
Paul Rust (actor, “I Love You Beth Cooper;” currently co-writing the new Pee-Wee Herman movie)
Kulap Vilaysack (co-host, “Who Charted?” podcast; actress, “Childrens Hospital”)
Michael Cassady (actor, “The Office,” “Freakdance”)
Harris Wittels (writer, “Parks and Recreation,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Eastbound & Down”)
Neil Campbell (UCB Theatre LA Artistic Director; writer, “Mike Detective”)
Scott Aukerman (host, “Comedy Bang Bang;” writer, “Mr. Show;” co-creator, “Between Two Ferns”)
Click on the TITLE of the article to be taken to the script!
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Michael Delaney on audience expectations for improv vs. sketch
“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 served you an arrangement of vending machine food it wouldn’t fly.”
(via jonbershad)
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A lot of AOL properties and other “content farms” … who are trying to sort of commoditize the production of content, wake up in the morning and look on Google search trends. Google makes it publicly available what are the top things that people are searching for every moment. So, editorial decisions get made based on this information. It’s really this idea of voting for — in very small, almost nontransparent, subconscious ways — for content that isn’t very good for people.
