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September 8th, 2008
Categories: Ruminations, theorizations and stuff

As this week wraps up, everyone should definitely pay respect to The Bastion, the Chicago-centric offspring of NY comedy blog, The Apiary. It’s shutting down after today. An Obama fistbump to Elizabeth McQuern and Kristy Mangel who were able to rack up “750 blog entries, 630 comments, and a quarter of a million page views” says McQuern, in its two year run. Best of luck to the both of them in future endeavors.

A hip, hip, and a hooray are in order.

September 5th, 2008
Categories: Ruminations, theorizations and stuff

So you come back from your long weekend, and Monday is really a Tuesday. Today is technically Friday, but it feels like a Thursday? All disturbances in the time line aside, all I know is that we’re at the threshold of yet another New Clip Round-Up. So get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour, because here we go.

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads, after the jump!

September 5th, 2008
Categories: The New Clip Round-Up

This week marks the first week of work for our newest intern at this lol-factory. Everybody, I would like you to welcome, Valerie! (pictured, right) Valerie grew up in Iowa, and graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Journalism and moved to the Bay Area in the middle of July. While interning here she will be assisting Annie, our awesome Partner Relations mas-tah (you might know her from her trip to Canada, or for being a Tim Gunn partisan) with various marketing and programming endeavors.

In her spare time, Valerie enjoys reading, writing, and all things TV, and her own words, “the return of prime time TV cannot return fast enough for me, I need more Office!!”

So everybody, Valerie, everybody. Now we’re all friends, let’s all get malts at the Peach Pit!

September 5th, 2008
Categories: Cool stuff from RooftopComedy

Not since Kramer versus Kramer have I been this excited to see people with the same name go at in the arena of pointing. This week on a very special Point/Counterpoint, Emily (S) and Emily (H), respectively, step back into that thunderdome where two points enter, one point leaves. With the bombshell announcement from McCain announcing Sarah Palin as his running mate, the first possible VPilf in the US of A, the Emilys set their targeting reticules and arm their shoulder cannons on a more pressing issue. Palin, or Predator?

Everything you need to know about this week’s Point/Counterpoint is after the jump.

September 4th, 2008
Categories: Point/Counterpoint

Amber Preston loves mustaches, just graduated from the University of Minnesota, and tells jokes. A lot of jokes. She’s also this week’s interviewee for this week’s Funny Title Here. I’ll tell ya this, if I went to class with Amber Preston, I think I would’ve gone to class more often. Or would still be in school.

Paolo: You made it to the Regionals in our first National College Comedy Competition, what was that like?
Amber: The Rooftop Comedy Competition was a blast. I had returned to the University of Minnesota to finish up my degree after a short, i.e. several year break and was eligible for the contest. I was pretty much the old contestant, but it seemed like a good idea and who doesn’t love a chance to be 22 again?

Paolo: How did you get into comedy?
Amber: I’ve always enjoyed performing and fancied myself pretty decent with the tap shoes, show tunes and jazz hands. Unfortunately for the folks on Broadway I veered more towards the funny than the chorus line. I performed with an improv group in college and hated it. It was absolutely the worst experience and I am still nursing my “yes, and” wounds. I did, however, enjoy the challenge of making a room full of strangers laugh. So after attending many open mics as an audience member I finally wrote my 3 minutes of material and got on stage. I don’t know what I was expecting but people actually laughed and they let me come back and keep trying. As nerd-alert as it sounds I truly was hooked from the start. I’ve been writing and performing ever since.

Mustaches to bring to a desert island, and the rest of this interview, after the jump!

September 3rd, 2008
Categories: Funny Title Here

You know, I can try and tell you about why you should watch this week’s A Tight 5ive, but I’d rather show you what you’d be missing out on if you don’t watch this week’s episode with Robert Kelly:

Friends! Forever!

September 3rd, 2008
Categories: A Tight 5ive

Hey, remember that time that Andy Dick totally pulled down that seventeen year old girl’s top, exposing her statutory caliber breasts outside of a fine chicken wing dining establishment? (Buffalo Wild Wings, to be exact) Then he was pinched for sexual assault and drug possession, which produced the mugshot on your right?

Well, stop grasping at those vague memories, pretending to care, there has been an update in the case! By way of our friends at Punchline Magazine, there has been a development in the case! Turns out that after watching video footage of the incident, prosecutors decided that it was more of an assault. Than sexual assault. In any case Dick will still be charged with misdemeanor drug possession and battery. In any case, nothing to see here, go on with your lives, people. I only hope that Jon Lovitz gets another shot at Dick’s dome. Lovitz only needs two hits anyway, he hits you, and you hit the ground.

September 2nd, 2008
Categories: Ruminations, theorizations and stuff

Don LaFontaine is dead. How will anybody convey information through movie trailers anymore? Sign language? Carrier pigeons? Seriously though, these “In Memory” posts are starting to get taxing, for serious. I starting feel like I’m an extra in Bone-Thuggs-N-Harmony’s Tha Crossroads video.

Anyway, Don, wherever you are, I’m positive that trailers there just got exponentially more epic, ominous, and rich.

Good night, sweet prince.

September 2nd, 2008
Categories: Ruminations, theorizations and stuff

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September 1st, 2008
Categories: elbow macaroni