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Archive for October, 2009

Colbert on Blackwashing

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

This is from a couple weeks ago but still worth watching. It’s Stephen Colbert, once again bringing the brilliant:

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A comedian needs a car

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Getting serious about comedy means having your own car.
This probably seems blindingly obvious, and it’s probably true that it falls into the category of “things that don’t need to be said.” Kind of like: if you’re walking down the street and see a syringe on the ground, don’t pick it up and jam it into [...]

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Let’s blow up the moon

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Unless you’ve been living on it, you probably heard about NASA’s recent adventure in bombing the moon—for science. As a way of easing back into regular blog updates, here’s a highly topical video from the greatest sketch comedy show of all time, Mr. Show with Bob and David:

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I’m not dead

Monday, October 5th, 2009

“Sorry… I’ve just been really busy.”
Female readers will recognize this for what it is: the most pathetic excuse in the universe, routinely offered as a guy’s reason for not calling.
Googling for a man apologizing ledto a fun little walk down memory lanecourtesy of Chris Brown and Rihanna.
I realize I’ve been pretty scarce lately, and [...]

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