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Clown college: The Upright Citizens Brigade

Monday, November 9th, 2009

The NY Times has an interesting story about the New York comedy scene: Over the years, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Chelsea has earned a reputation as a kind of mint where comedy stars are coined: in go aspiring actors, writers and ex-medical students, out come new performers and writers for “Saturday Night Live,” [...]

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Fuck the Yankees, for so many obvious reasons. If you’re in need of a little pick-me-up in the wake of their five thousandth World Series victory, here’s a delightfully savage radio rant from comedian Bill Burr:

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The word vaginas—plural of vagina—isn’t in the Google dictionary. I had to stick it in manually (ahem). I’m not sure if the blame for this falls on the Chrome team or the Google Docs team, but either way: neeerrrrrds! “My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men. The word itself [...]

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Git ‘er Dunham

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

The title of this post is stolen shamelessly from the Hijinx Ensue comic, which offers us this brilliant commentary on Comedy Central’s new Jeff Dunham Show: Some of the widespread jeering is undoubtedly due to envy over Dunham’s lucrative popularity (see also: Dane Cook, Larry the Cable Guy, etc.). On the other hand, the video [...]

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CJ Alexander is not Miss J. Alexander

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

I took a look at my traffic stats last night, and a small but noteworthy number of people are finding this site while searching for the similarly-named Miss J. Alexander of America’s Next Top Model. For the record, I’m a pretty sexy bitch, but this is definitely not me: This is Miss J. Alexander, runway [...]

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