Comedy Blog From The Staff and Comedians of RooftopComedy

A Tight 5ive Gets Dirty

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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Kevin Camia has an Exchange of Words

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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Reid Faylor is the Funniest Person in Cincinnati.

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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Ferris Bueller Parade Reenactment Gives Me Chance to Relive High School Dreams, Angst

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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Subway Nearly Kills Blogger, World Says, “Meh”

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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elbow macaroni Presents: Open Mic Night with Colin! Episode 5

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Posted: August 18th, 2008 under elbow macaroni.
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Tropic Thunder Doesn’t Care About Retards?

Protesters gathered at the premiere of Tropic Thunder yesterday. Not just any kind of protesters. But a special kind of protesters. What? Too soon? Let me back up.

Tropic Thunder, the latest Ben Stiller vehicle, may or may not (probably not) dethrone Dark Knight at the top of this week’s box office heap. This parody of war films and the studio system, starring Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr, incited the ire of the mentality disabled with their meta film-within-a-film “Simple Jack”, complete with the tag line, “Once upon a time…there was a retard.”

Used to flesh out the Tropic Thunder universe, and to subvert the idea of actors playing mentality disabled people in a hunt for Oscar nominations, (I Am Sam, I am looking at you) mentality disabled advocate Patricia Bauer didn’t take too kindly to this, demanding that “Paramount/DreamWorks should pull all scenes and clips that include Ben Stiller’s portrayal of Simple Jack from the movie, DVD, trailers, promotional material and merchandising”. It should be noted that Paramount did take down the fake site for “Simple Jack”, but have stated that “no changes or cuts to the film will be made.”

Allow me to step onto my high hobby horse of haughty opinion, after the jump.

Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff.
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