Creating a Comic

Bombing, killing, and other occupational hazards

Welcome!

I'm your host, CJ Alexander.
This is my blog about breaking into stand-up comedy.


FAQ | Bio | Contact

Archive for the 'Around the Internet' Category

MTV is no longer music television

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

MTV has stopped pretending they still show music, removing the words “Music Television” from their logo. Of course, MTV these days has about as much to do with music videos as AT&T has to do with telegraphs (that’s what the second ‘T’ stands for). But as with AT&T, the initials will stay the same [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

The Daily Show on Chat Roulette

Monday, March 8th, 2010

You’ve heard of Chat Roulette, right? It’s the site that let’s you chat via webcam with strangers around the globe. Since it’s totally unfiltered, I’m sure you can guess at this scheme’s problems number one through eight hundred: dongs, dongs, and more dongs.
This Daily Show segment on Chat Roulette is one of the funniest things [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Conan gets (very briefly) serious

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I really enjoyed Conan’s final Tonight Show, especially his parting message (embedding disabled, unfortunately, or I’d include it here). I fully endorse the thoughtful posts that my friends Andrew and Eva made on the subject.

Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese animation explains Conan vs Leno

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

I would start watching local news again if it was half as awesome as this:

I don’t care how many copyright laws and trade agreements were broken when Conan morphed into the Incredible Hulk — that kicked serious ass.
Pretty much the entire planet has already had a bite at this apple, but to restate the obvious: [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Rhodes on being attacked by a pitbull

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

I first heard about this Tom Rhodes joke from Andrew, who performed with him at Laughs Comedy Spot in Kirkland.
You can watch the whole video if you want, but the joke I’m talking about comes about 25 seconds in (or click here to jump straight to the joke in YouTube):

Brilliant. After the “My question is…” [...]

Read the rest of this entry »