Intern Caroline

Happy April GHOULS Day!

(Source: Spotify)

I picked up this delight at Amoeba today. I haven’t listened yet, but this is the description on the back:

In the fall of 1968, the Harvard Lampoon set out to make a record which would bring to the nasagraph the kind of recognition and acceptance which the LP brought to the phonograph. Working long, grueling minutes over steaming Tonettes, stopping only long enough to catch a few precious weeks of sleep, they managed to produce an album which combines all the best qualities of acid rock, soul, folk music, and a disk brake. The thirteen songs below were carefully selected from the more than seven originally recorded, and together they represent a sound so new, it will resemble nothing you have ever heard before, unless you’ve been in a pet store when a dozen hounds are bought for ten times their value as chopped suey.

What a weird, funny, cool treat I’m in for. If anyone wants to come over to listen and smoke jazz cigarettes and talk about Nixon, come on over.

It’s for a funny bit I thought up where everyone votes for Fred Claus.

funnyordie:

PediaMeat: Meat Smoothie for Vegans

Help them say goodbye to hippie entitlement, and hello to traditional American nutrition.

Whaaa, the roommate be back on FOD front page? Marley and those other goofballs at The Kids Table be killin’ it!

funnyordie:

Cleve Dixon: A Murder of Crows with the Pride of Lions

For detective Cleve Dixon, tracking women is a matter of perspective.

Adam McCabe is a very funny person.

funnyordie:

Humblebrag with Nick Offerman, Adam Scott and Chris Pratt

Nick Offerman, Adam Scott and Chris Pratt are too busy to help Harris Wittels promote his new Humblebrag book.

Man, girls on Tumblr are not going to like this AT ALL!

kylefreakinkenyon:

I highly recommend you guys all become friends with Caroline and then run into her when you’re out on a date so you can get messages like this on your Tumblr the next day.

What Kyle said! 

nakedcomedy:

Thanks Caroline, you had the best parents with the best home video collection. Without them we wouldn’t be here today.

If obscure animated specials of the not-quite-either-decades are your thing, STEP RIGHT UP!

barackobama:

Just press play.

They saw Do The Right Thing on their first date because awwwwww!

farlizzle:

I got to sit down with Scott Aukerman to talk about his new IFC show, and with Jason Mantzoukas to watch him make fun of Scott a lot. 

socalfood:

Midnight Snack: La Poubelle with Scott Aukerman & Jason Mantzoukas

Farley: As far as the IFC show goes, do you feel like it’s been a long time coming?

Scott: Too long! Like, what the fuck took it so long?!

Jason: Woah, woah, woah. Be humble, Scott.

Scott: Shut up Jason. Who are you to think that I shouldn’t have a TV show?!

Jason: This interview is not going to turn out the way you want it to.

Scott: Honestly though, it’s crazy to me that I have a TV show. It’s weird. I don’t deserve it.

Jason: I agree. Everybody agrees.

Scott: When I first started and I got into comedy and I got onto “Mr. Show with Bob and David,” I assumed that I would be starring in my own show the very next year.

Jason: That’s the whole thing. I remember starting in 1998 and thinking that I’d be on SNL in a couple of years. Not the case. At all.

Read more here.

Love everything about this.

(Source: kcetliving)

earwolf:

Comedy Bang! Bang!: Anniversary Party!

What do you need to throw the perfect anniversary party? You need some tunes, you need some bros, and if you’re Comedy Bang Bang you need some celebrity guests! Put on your party hats and boogie shoes for an hour and a half of Zach Galifianakis, Harris Wittels, Brett Gelman, El Chupacabra, Marissa Wompler, Cake Boss, and a posthumous visit from Christopher Hitchens. We’re making new friends in musicians St. Vincent and Toph Shay, and we’re playing everyone’s favorite party games like Harris’ Foam Corner. Make like Zach and get yourself a cupcake to celebrate the the three-year anniversary of Comedy Bang Bang!

This was a fun day. Congratulations Scott! Nobody deserves success more than the Scottobot.

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earwolf:

Comedy Bang! Bang!: Jing It Or Ding It!

We’re back again with more previously unreleased Comedy Bang Bang hilarity. This time first time guests Leo Allen and Will Forte remember some of their favorite rejected SNL pitches, discuss the tragedy of divorce, and try their hand at a brand new game: JING IT OR DING IT!

Leo is the best.

eyethune:

Alexander Croom’s Extraordinary Conservatory Sponsored Nick’s BIG Talk Show in February.

Thomas Middleditch has quickly become one of my favorite performers at UCB. He’s just so fearless, and he can keep so many plates spinning at once. 

Once, at Diamond Lion (musical improv), he was playing a son who had been force fed poison by his parents so they wouldn’t have to take him to Disneyworld. As a result, he started having non-stop seizures. So, he sang a song to his parents about how mad he was at them, but in a cartoon-y Disney sort of way (steam coming out of his ears, eyes bulging) and was seizing the whole while. It’s been one of my favorite baby-improviser learning moments out here, because he was so committed to the reality of it and never let go. The song, acting, improvising never took second fiddle to the constant seizing. The seizing was never an excuse for him to stop being an active improviser.

I feel like most of the non-Harold night improv I see out here has a strong “We know the rules so we can break them” mentality, with players calling people out on personal issues, breaking in-between scenes, telling jokes instead of being truthful. The performers I feel I can learn the most from are the ones who know the rules well enough to break them, but instead challenge themselves to follow them harder with more challenges.

Aren’t you sad for me that I’m this big of a dork and don’t have the money for Improv 201?

earwolf:

Vote for Earwolf in the 2012 Comedy Awards - Viewers Choice!

In the Best Comedy Podcast category Earwolf scores twice with Comedy Bang! Bang! and Sklarbro Country. Vote now!

And vote Earwolf for the Best Comedy App.

Hop over to Comedy Central now and vote!

theidiotking:

Wanna See A Magic Trick?

Written by/Starring Dave Horwitz

Featuring Nick Wiger

Shot by Harrison Brown

A new sketch from A Kiss From Daddy. Originally performed March 7, 2012 at the UCB Theatre in LA.

Ugh, I had to miss this show because of my DUMB JOB! First AKFD/Birthday Boys show I missed since I moved to LA. Praise the lord that at least some of the stuff is captured via video.