Mitch Fatel calls Punchline Magazine’s own Dylan Gadino on sexual orientation. Talk of beautiful vaginas, being true to yourself, smart girls, and hand jobs within! Also, a positive message to the youth.
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under A Tight 5ive.
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Here is an interview I did with Kevin Camia a few weeks ago. Wow, look at my hat. You should also look at Kevin too, he’s funny. Funny like ha-ha, not like funny looking. On top of performing at the Aspen RooftopComedy Festival back in May, he also was featured on Live at Gotham on Comedy Central.
I’ll also have you know that he is performing tonight and tomorrow at the Punchline in San Francisco with other friends of RooftopComedy, Kevin Avery (of one half of Siskel and Negro fame) and Chris Garcia (of oh-my-God-are-those-his-balls-in-that-American-Apparel-video fame).
Posted: August 19th, 2008 under Cool stuff from RooftopComedy.
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Don’t let anybody tell you different.
I’m sure you guys remember Reid Faylor, runner-up to our first ever National College Comedy Competition. Well, I’ll have you know that he just won The Funniest Person in Cincinnati Contest last week.
Production is busy cutting out and prepping Reid’s winngiest performance from last Wednesday at the finals, but until then, please to enjoy his semi-final performance from three weeks ago at Go Bananas.
I’ll just leave you with this.
Dreams really do come true.
Posted: August 19th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Hot off the presses! We’ve been informed that Laurence Fishburne is indeed joining the cast of CSI! Our own Point/Counterpoint discussed this a few weeks ago. Check out our groovy debate here. I win! I win! 
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Point/Counterpoint, Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has a special place in my heart. My high school years were my teen-angst-I-want-to-be-a-filmmaker-and-the-educational-institution-is-totally-holding-me-back-from-my-dreams (mooching free drinks from open bars at film festivals) phase. During this time, I was perpetually writing my magnum opus script that would make me a Sundance darling. And by perpetually writing, I mean perpetually telling people I was writing it. People would ask me what it would be about, and I would murmur, “it’s like Ferris Bueller, but darker,” which basically meant the entire film was gonna be about me brooding, cutting class, and talking about “living life”.
All angst aside, my hands down favorite scene in the movie was the immortal Von Steuben Day parade where Matthew Broderick, in probably the absolute peak of his career jumps on a float, starts lip syncing to The Beatles’ Twist and Shout, and incites the crowd to perform acts of mass exuberance. To me, it was pure, absolute joy to behold. I spent so many late afternoons mimicking that scene, pretending that I was indeed Ferris Bueller pretending to be Abe Froman, Sausage King of Chicago.
So thanks to the Comedy Central Insider, I’ve learned that on September 6th (two days after my birthday, natch) artists are recreating the iconic parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s day off in NYC! Happy birthday, indeed.
The protocol goes for the event goes:
1. Pick a character from the clip.
2. Show up to the parade dressed like them.
3. Start singing and dancing along like it’s 1986 when their Ferris float approaches. (This is the most important step: to get everybody dancing!!)
I won’t be there, because I live in California, and will be laser tagging, but this feels like the best inadvertent birthday ever received. I excitedly await for the post-parade footage. For more information, check out the Project Bueller Tumblr or the Craigslist Ad for the event!
My question would be, who would you dress up as from the parade?
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Holy Jesus, it’s good to be back from beyond the pale of food poisoning. Did you guys miss me? Wait, don’t answer that. I’ll spare you the deets, but I will tell you this, last week was the week that I decided for the sixth time to try and get the shambles of my life back together. You know, eat better, do some push-ups, think more positive, blah blah blah. So I try to eat a vaguely healthy meal at Subway, and projectile vomit for a week was my reward. I should go back to my deep-fried bacon wrapped Twinkies. They’ll NEVER break my heart. Just explode it.
In other news, I definitely want to thank Briana so much for taking the reins on this ship of blogging. Baby, I’m back!
PS: I never really even liked Subway THAT much to begin with. Subway to me is settling, kind of like marrying the first person to give you any time of day because you’re afraid you’re gonna die alone, or be hungry for lunch. One in the same really.
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008 under elbow macaroni.
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Generally, NBC sucks at pretty much all news-type broadcasting. Specifically, the 2008 Summer Olympic coverage, from what I’ve seen, is atrocious. And the Olympics could be such a great chance for the US to show that we can produce quality content with global appeal.
Maybe it’s the fact that most of the coverage is heavy on either American athletes or athletes with well known international gossip stories. Or maybe its the seemingly endless commercial breaks. No - these things should have been expected, are in fact part of a long history of Olympic coverage aesthetics. I think what I’m most annoyed by are the self-important “Chinese Cultural” pieces that are peppered throughout the event coverage. Perhaps I should have expected this? Well, I didn’t.
Bob Costas & Mary Carillo Suck. Why?
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under Reviews, Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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This week’s Point/Counterpoint is sponsored by the Olympics. Jen and Briana share opinions on Michael Phelps, American swimmer extraordinaire and all-around beefcake. Or is he? In the words of Michael Myers on SNL’s Coffee Talk sketches…”Discuss!”
Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Point/Counterpoint.
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OK, so by now we all know that Doug Benson smokes weed. I mean, the man created The Marijuana-Logues. Benson is an expert at crafting jokes for the weed smoking community, and has taken this talent to the big screen. In Super High Me, Doug Benson sets out to discover what effects marijuana have on his stand-up career, his mind, and his body.
Based on a concept similar to Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me”, Doug Benson documents his experience of abstaining from weed for 30 days, and then consuming massive amounts for 30 days. Since Doug is already a stoner, the 30 days of sobriety are just as funny as his 30 days of being baked.
Super High Me is just as much about stand-up comedy as it is about weed. The film has some excellent cameos from the LA comedy scene. Comedians Jimmy Dore, Sarah Silverman, Dana Gould, Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt and tons of others discuss their views on marijuana, and one of them even smokes it on camera.
People that don’t enjoy smoking reefer will enjoy this movie as well. “Super High Me” examines California’s system of medical marijuana use and adds a much needed layer of seriousness that keeps the movie from being just a bunch of dumb stoner moments.
Go check out some of Doug’s clips on RooftopComedy.com, and add “Super High Me” to the top of your Netflix queue!
Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Reviews.
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