That’s the game where you put the ball in the hoop and score the home runs right?

The new clips for the week, after the jump!

Posted: January 30th, 2009 under The New Clip Round-Up.
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The 2009 edition of the National College Stand-Up Competition will be officially kicking off tomorrow at UC Berkeley! Come out to the Bear’s Lair (map) at 8pm for a night of (free) laughs with the funniest that the good ole blue and gold have to offer!

Who knows, you might be seeing the kids who would be going…ALL…THE…WAY to Aspen this year! In addition to that, they’ll guest cameo appearances from RooftopComedy staff in the audience, and Alex Koll hosting/comedy-ing shenanigans.

And if you can’t make it out to Berkeley tomorrow night, due to geographical concerns, or America’s Best Dance Crew related syndrome, don’t fret, we’ve loaded an iPhone up with Twinkle, and we’ll be attempting to live tweet things from the faithful RooftopComedy Twitter, with possible (unintentional) hilarious consequences.

Also be sure to check out our calender of events to peep out when we’ll be coming to a college near you! And we can’t forget to mention our National College Funny Film Competition, any college student in America can submit any funny film under five minutes to us! Check out the funny film page for more information, but I just wanted to let you know that submissions are free, submit as many films as you want, and that submissions close March 15th.

Posted: January 28th, 2009 under National College Comedy Competition.
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Seeing God’s Pottery as this week’s Guest Editor is like having a musical version of the nine years of my Catholic school upbringing as Guest Editor. Only the last nine years of my Catholic school upbringing never made it to the Finals of Last Comic Standing last year. Also, I doubt any of the nuns at my schools would have said anything as informative and entertaining (info-taining) as God’s Pottery.

Geoff Tate – Marriage is a partnership
This may surprise you, but we are big Geoff Tate fans! He can get a bit “salty” at times, but he does understand the beautiful partnership of marriage.

John Mulaney – My favorite Law & Order character
John Mulaney loves Law & Order, and we love John Mulaney! We also love the spin-offs, John Mulaney: Special Terrific Person and John Mulaney: Hilarious Intent!

Mike Birbiglia – The deaf leading the blind
Michael Birbiglia is one of our best friends in comedy, even if he doesn’t know it. There is some rough language in this story, but it’s worth it to see Michael’s dedication to making sure deaf people get a chance to laugh too.

Tim Harmston – Heaven is a rainbow
Our good friend Tim Harmston does a fun video here about RELIGIOUS GUYS (what?!) spreading the word of JESUS (WHAT???!!!). Tim plays the man in the Arizona Cardinals shirt.

Andy Kindler – Jewish eye for the Christian guy
Our Jewish friend Andy Kindler has fun with stereotypes, and reveals some interesting truths along the way!

Erin Jackson – I will not sing for you
Erin Jackson is one of our favorite comedians! And she’s so right about the danger of making assumptions: when you ASSUME you make an ASSESSMENT based on LIMITED INFORMATION.

Posted: January 28th, 2009 under Guest Editors.
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This week on Funny Title Here, Austin’s Chuck Watkins steps up to the Funny Title Here to explain a love for TNG (That’s Star Trek: The Next Generation to you non-trekker), the perks of acting like a goon, and the trouble with technology.

Paolo: Finding your Star Trek song at RooftopComedy was one of the things that made my month. Would you care to articulate in textual terms your love for Geordi La Forge and/or Levar Burton?
Chuck: Warp factor: Ridiculous!!!!!

I’ve always been a big next generation fan, and love to write these huge epic ballads about people. But the idea didn’t come to me to do a Jordi LaForge song until I was forced to write an entire musical in a week for our sketch group last year. The opening scene was a band meeting between some krusty punk rockers who just want chicks and beer VS. the biggest nerd in the universe, who is only in the band because he’s got all the cool music equipment.

My girlfriend’s name is Jordi too, so I thought it would also be funny to be like, “listen baby, I’m writing you an epic love song…sortof.”

Once I got the idea for the song, it only took about 20 minutes to write and about an hour to record the music, which is pretty rare for me. I’ve only performed it twice, once for the sketch show and once at Cap City Comedy Club, but it’s one of my favorite musical pieces I’ve ever gotten to do.

The rest of the interview with Chuck, after the jump!

Posted: January 28th, 2009 under Funny Title Here.
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Last night, the very funny Nikki Glaser was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno along with The Office’s Rainn Wilson and music’s Hoobastank (remember Hoobastank?)

Many many congratulations to Nikki, why I remember when she was the second
Funny Title Here-ee ever! Her set kill’d it, believe me I know — It is on Hulu after all! Check out the second to last section. And while you’re on Hulu, check out some of our sweet, sweet 480p stuff as well!

Celebrations are in order, until then here’s some blast from the past (I don’t think vintage would be appropriate) Nikki!

Posted: January 28th, 2009 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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It all started innocently enough. I’ve been retagging some videos on our Youtube page (which you should check out by the way) for the past couple of days when I came across this hilarious (if, albeit…hairy) clip from Austin’s own Jimmie Roulette. Take a gander for yourself:

Now that’s out of the way, take a look at the tags for the video. The crudely drawn red box are the tags I’ve added today.

Exactly. Those lucky enough to posses little to no knowledge about the furry “subculture”, I can only hope it stays that way. But here’s CBS4′s Kathy Walsh with some soft news about a furry convention. That’s way more than you really need to know. To those who know about furries, I’m sorry.

I think I need to find a cauldron. Filled with fire. For me to jump into.

Posted: January 27th, 2009 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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Posted: January 26th, 2009 under elbow macaroni.
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In this episode, Siskel and Negro review Yahoo’s! most anticipated movies of 2009. Feature topic: What is Kate reading? Also in this episode: Kevin gets a haircut, Kate has a stroke, and Kevin pronounces words that we all know.

Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under Cool stuff from Rooftop Comedy.
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After getting a webcam for my computer for a certain project I will be implementing very soon, I have rediscovered the awkwardness of live streaming. After setting up a Ustream account (find me at PaoloRooftop) I am officially streaming live from Rooftop!

Yeah. Watch as I try to get work done as people get water from the cooler behind me! It’s riveting! And here’s an embed of it, so you can see what i’m doing RIGHT NOW. I can’t promise much talking, or interaction for that matter, but I promise R&D is working on that as we speak.

Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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SF Sketchfest happenings in our fair city, this week’s Guest Editor is none other than Joe Lo Truglio, co-founder of the sketch group The State, in addition to being a writer and actor. He’ll be in town for SF Sketchfest this weekend, for a midnight screening of the classic Wet Hot American Summer with the cast, and a tribute to The State, with not four, eight, or fifteen (okay there weren’t fifteen) but all eleven members of The State! Deets at SF Sketchfest!

I’m going to take this moment to shut up, and just let Joe guide us through the hilarity he has wrought as Guest Editor. And before I forget, new Staff Picks!

Natasha Leggero – Beautiful LA girls
I met Natasha once and immediately loved her old-school glamour-look, so anything that came out of her mouth was bound to grab me. She didn’t disappoint: “Hey you greasy wop, stop looking at my tits.” Sure, I played hard to fret, but who am I kidding? She had me at ‘Hey you greasy wop.’

Dov Davidoff – Let’s just be friends
I’ve known Dov for a few years but only last week did I stop calling him Dave, which is what his name should be. He’s the kind of guy that in high school would’ve called me a faggot as I passed the Smokers Area, but hey, what can I expect wearing Ocean Pacific sleeveless muscle shirts with white clamdiggers. Very natural, cool storyteller, cool dude.

Butch Bradley – Watching scary movies
I’m a sucker for bits about horror movies. Plus his name could either be a comedian, a CFL quarterback, or a brand of durable, outdoor paint. All fantastic choices.

Rich Hall – Nine trillion dollars in debt
This guy I loved because he was on the first news parody show, Not Necessarily the News, which I watched constantly as a kid. He had this segment called “Sniglets”. Now a “sniglet” is any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary, but should. For example, MEMNANTS (mem’ nents) n. the chipped or broken M&M’s at the bottom of the bag. I could not get enough of this stuff.

Tig Notaro – Speaking out loud
Tig couldn’t be more relaxed on stage, which always helps when watching stand-up comedy. Granted, the ludes are a big part of it, as is the puff of ‘Trainwreck’ sativa just before her set. But hey, I’ve got about 10 CCs of horse tranquilizer racing through my nads right now, so who am I to judge? Who am I, Judge Judy? I am NOT fucking Judge Judy. So don’t even. Tired of this enabling bul..,.m./fhgn.mnfd.dfkm;.m.mffff

Posted: January 21st, 2009 under Guest Editors.
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