It's interesting because it's old!

A brief but amusing (seemingly non-parody) old gameboy 2 commercial has popped up on youtube, featuring the hands and voices of Kerri Kenney (Reno 911, The Ten, Role Models), David Wain, Ben Garant (Reno 911, writer of many things), and Michael Showalter. I guess this would be from when they were all on The State together. Speaking of which, The State complete DVDs are available for pre-order on Amazon now! Very exciting.



In other David Wain news, I'm sure you know there are lots of new Wainy Days up on My Damn Channel, each one supposedly funnier than the last. I'm saving them so I can blow my comedy wad all at once. Why must I be so crude? No one will ever marry me.

Sooo late to the game

I'm really late to the proverbial game (probably because I would never be on time for any sort of real-life game - to quote Mayim Bialik (Blossom), "I hate lineups" --if anyone gets that reference, please, please comment!!!) on this FoD video that I've been meaning to watch for ages:

SNL's Casey Wilson Reads Internet Comments from Casey Wilson

It would be hypocritical to suddenly claim to be a huge fan of Casey Wilson on SNL, but I don't share negative views on message boards, and I'm now very curious about how many posted comments have to do with her body, which is beautiful, but probably carries the "extra" (barf) weight Tina Fey discussed in this winter's Vanity Fair as being detrimental on SNL. Anyway, that's a subject for another post. Love the solemn Patton Oswalt appearance.

I love Jon Benjamin

Michaels, Rob: their normal, semi-uncomfortable picture-taking faces. (In fact, on Sunday night Showalter looked at someone's picture of him and said 'yup, that's my picture-taking face.') Jon: going for it.

Have not "found time" (too busy watching hours of Reno 911 and reading bitchy comedy message boards, putting in a few minutes of paper-writing here and there) to post my Chicago show reviews, but will do in next couple days. I am the worst for writing things long-hand and then not wanting to type them. I could never be a transcriber or court typist person.

For good measure, though:

So unflattering of me, because I'm in a state of shock and awe, but there you have it. The dream, it came true.

Dreams came true in Chicago

And I have it all written down. But I'm too tired to type it out. Tired from laughing, that is!! But also from making my way around Chicago in the blistering heat/torrential rain for six days. But check back!

In the mood to post some old Eugene Mirman favourites

Not safe for work, and highly offensive if you're offended by things!!

You can watch most of these in higher quality in the Eug-tube section of Eugene's website. You just can't embed them individually in your blog so that you can impose your favourites on other people instead of conveniently linking to all of them.

2006








2007


2008

I Said What's Up, Pickle?!

Itunes tells me it has been almost exactly one year since I've last listened to Michael Showalter's
Sandwiches and Cats, his hilarious debut comedy album released in late 2007. The reason I haven't listened to it for a year is that I listened the shit out of it between November 2007 and May 2008, and had to take a long break. I'm listening now in anticipation of seeing Showalter in Chicago on the 21st, and I am reminded how amazing the album is. So smart, so ridiculous, so dirty. Just the way I like it.

Hey, want to see some adorable pictures of Michael and Michael having issues? The fantastic Michael and Michael Have Issues Blog is home to plenty of pictures, amusing updates, and stand-up. For those who like the Michaels in smaller, more frequent doses, follow Writer Assistant @stephiegrob on Twitter for updates. The show debuts in the US on July 15th, and the Michaels are performing at Brooklyn's The Bell House that night, followed by a live screening of the premiere. Anyway, the adorable pictures.

Sho dances adorably.



Sho laughs adorably. Note comedian/MMHI writer Jessi Klein in second picture. She's funny AND a girl!



Oh yeah, Black is also adorable, and they're BFFL


Oh whoops, how did that get in there??? My mistake.


Also, Kumail Nanjiani is beautiful, have you heard?



Do comedians take comedy blogs seriously when the blogger just writes about how much s/he wants to bone them?? This is an awful blog.

On the 18th I'm heading to Chicago for Just For Laughs. I'll be seeing Robert Smigel and Dino Stamatopoulos, Bob Odenkirk's Best of Sketchfest (twice), Bob and David and Friends (twice), and Michael Showalter. Very excited. Will I blog about it? I'll blog the shit out of it.

Damn the Man!

Dang! The big wigs made Scott Aukerman take down his blog entry about the MTV awards! What's the point in doing anything cool if you can't blog about it??

More importantly (hyuck), Comedy Central renewed Demetri Martin's show! Glad to hear that.

Haven't watched last night's Conan yet, but I've heard good things.

MTV Movie Awards

So, I think we can all agree that although the MTV Awards have some unavoidable, built-in suckiness (having to show ten thousand goddamn previews instead of comedy, or, imagine that, awards; giving away awards that don't mean anything (though how many awards actually do?) to people that shouldn't even be eligible (Ashley Tisdale winning Breakout Star for Highschool Musical 3?? Don't they understand what the 3 means??), a quarter of the screen taken up by live tweeting (we have computers, mtv!!), etc.), last night's awards were better than most because:

a) They were hosted by my boyfriend Andy Samberg
b) The very funny Scott Aukerman was head writer
c) Aziz Ansari was on screen, albeit for a few seconds
d) Miley gave that ridiculous acceptance speech where she praised God and screamed "I'M ON A BOAT!!!" in that weird man-voice of hers
e) BRUNO



Scott Aukerman tweets that Eminem was in on the joke last night, but that doesn't make it any less funny. Oh, Sasha. Can't I show you around the baby-machine?? Read more of what Scott has to say about the show here.

In other comedy news...well, Zach Galifianakis is all over the TTC, and that makes me happy.