In honor of this Veterans Day, I would like to honor all the brave men and women in the armed forces, who fought, or are currently fighting for our right to put jokes about dicks and about how men and women are different on the internet. Including, but not limited to:

The Rebel forces who fought at the Battles of Yavin, Hoth, and Endor, Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates, Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan, Charlie Sheen in Platoon, Colonel Kurtz, Tank Girl, Joker, Animal Mother, Eightball, Touchdown, Stargate SG-1, John Connor, Sarah Connor, everybody in M*A*S*H, Sgt Apone, Cpl Hicks, Pvt Vasquez, Pvt Hudson, The soldiers in Delta Squad, Rasczak’s Roughnecks, everybody in G.I. Joe, and the crew of the Battlestar Galactica.

To celebrate, here is a clip from Isaac Witty, Aspen RooftopComedy Festival performer, person of wit, among other things, discussing what America should do next time Cobra Commander wants to try and take our freedoms away!

Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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On top of hitting up Punchline Magazine’s 3rd Anniversary show at Comix at the beginning of October, Nate and Annie (In a team that could probably, probably be dubbed RooftopComedy Live) were conducting other business in the city that the Muppets took.

And with that said the legendary Comic Strip Live in New York City is…Live! On RooftopComedy! The Guinness Book of Records holding club for longest stand-up show (50 hours non-stop) is now officially a RooftopComedy partner club! With a page to show for it!

And as a token of good will, here is one of my favorite clips from the Comic Strip Live, from the one and only Paul Mecurio.

Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Cool stuff from RooftopComedy.
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Posted: November 10th, 2008 under elbow macaroni.
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This week on the Guest Editor-er-ing front, we have Kevan O’Brien from Adobe. Obsessive fans of RooftopComedy might recognize him as one of the faces at this year’s Aspen RooftopComedy Festival’s panel talking about smushing comedy and new media together. And if you have the sixty-two minutes and fifty-four seconds to spare, you can watch that very panel right now!

Kevan O’Brien spent over 20 years in the troubled wilderness of Post Production making a living selling snake oil and fixing broken dreams. On realising even the French Foreign Legion required a social security number, Kevan decided to take a real job working for the software giant Adobe. Using his vast editing and production skills, Kevan avoids doing any real work but still edits award winning films in his spare time and enjoys live comedy and Thai food.

Often found baiting editors at least twice a month in San Francisco he is currently punting CS4 as the “Future” to the disenfranchised editing community, if only they’d give him a job.

And in what appears to be an emerging tradition with guest editors, the hows, whys, and hows on why they chose what they chose!

Lamar Williams - Getting out of college
We’ve all been there and hell parents just don’t realise do they! I didn’t get a diploma I just got a bill!

Jason Kanter - Shaving my nuts
Cautionary tale for us all, no matter how careful we are it’s never a good idea when drunk.

Kathleen McGee - Itchy boobs
Guys don’t have them and interested when mentioned, but love the ending.

Cousin Ricky Peardon - Haunted trailers
Well you sure as hell ain’t gonna get me living in one now, haunted or neighbours it’s all so wrong.

Mario Digiorgio - If McCain wins
Simple enough explanation of the complicated point of US politics to a stupid Brit, why do I live here?

Posted: November 7th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Yes we done did it.
These clips did it, after the jump.

Posted: November 7th, 2008 under The New Clip Round-Up.
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Our friends at SFstandup have alerted me that former San Franciscan comedian Will Franken is returning to The Purple Onion this Saturday! Press release to follow, after the jump.

SFstandup.com presents…

Posted: November 7th, 2008 under Press Releases.
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This week on the return of Funny Title Here, we have Atlanta, by way of Jamaica and the Bronx, Drew Thomas!

Paolo: If you say that this Election is like a reality show, what do you hope/think the season finale will be? Will it involve a game-changing twist? (Ed note, questions sent pre-election) Drew: A lot of people don’t want to admit racism still exist because it doesn’t exist in the form of the past so they are millions of Americans that don’t want a Black President but too late jump on board it’s gonna happen. This just in it did happen. There’s the big finale.

More with Drew Thomas after the jump!

Posted: November 5th, 2008 under Funny Title Here.
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That was a great election, wasn’t it? Let’s have one again real soon, huh?

I don’t want to politicize too much right now, because I can’t, going to community college and all, but still. Hearing the news that Barack Obama won, I honestly felt like I had something to be legitimately proud of as an American, more so than just being proud of Team USA in D2: The Mighty Ducks and Rocky beating Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (PS: Happy belated birthday Dolph Lundgren!) Now is as good a time as any to bust out the USA Flag parachute pants, and not feel ironic about it!

Although, honestly, I think the real winner is will.i.am and hologram technology, don’t you agree? And no, I will not be making any Star Wars New Hope jokes. Although, I will be counting down the days until we can vote for hologram rights.

Okay comedians, let’s get back to writing dick jokes and buying tampons for your girlfriend or whatever. Stat!

PS: Prop 8? Really?

PPS: Sorry Al Franken.

PPPS: I think the following photo after the jump conveys everything I’m looking forward to in 2009 and beyond.

Posted: November 5th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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I am merely a humble blogkeeper, if you came to this entry hoping for some kind of inspirational, motivational post about how you should vote, because this is a historic election for not only America, but the world, then you came to the wrong place. Instead, here is Mike Brody letting you know the unexpected (positive) side effects of girls voting.

Posted: November 4th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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I don’t care if I’m late to this party and all of you have seen this already, but in an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago, Dee takes Charlie to an open-mic night.

Also, congratulations to Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day on their new pilot, Bodly Going Nowhere for Fox!

Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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