February 2012
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WatchI’ve been doing some thinking and I’ve determined that it would be possible to improve Downton Abbey and make it accessible to all types of audiences. The video above is a 20 second example to show just how easy it would be.
Wonderful, Thanks.: Episode Twenty-Four - Fantasy... →
wonderfulthanks:
Word: Fantasy Guest: Lev Grossman Bio: Lev Grossman is the New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians, its sequel The Magician King, and several other wonderful books. Additionally, he has worked as a journalist for The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly,…
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Joke #00172
Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: The Kardashian sisters will appear topless in a new series of ads for Sears promoting a line of jeans named for each of them. So be sure to pick up your pairs of “Over Her” and “The Other One” jeans today! [KEY: Those names stitched on denim]
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Joke #00171
From the week of February 1st, 2012: Officials in Weed, California arrested a man at a local bus terminal who was carrying more than 1 million dollars in meth. Meanwhile, officials in Meth, California are very close to passing legislation to change their name.
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Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: German authorities have started issuing parking tickets to drivers that do not have a fine and just the message “lucky you.” Man, even when the Germans try to do something nice there’s a hidden layer of underlying threats.
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Joke #00169
Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: CBS has ordered a new series that will be set at the headquarters for Groupon. The show’s about three wacky friends who work at a company that’s about to collapse into bankruptcy.
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Joke #00168
From the Week of February 1st, 2012: A couple in Las Vegas this week, who have been married for 78 years, were named the longest married couple in the country, with a combined length of 188 inches.
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Joke #00167
From the Week of February 1st, 2012: A new casino being constructed in Atlantic City, New Jersey has announced that it will set term limits for its staff, requiring them to reapply for their jobs after their term ends, which will give the entire staff a specific point to reflect and consider where their lives went wrong.
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Joke #00166
Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: On Monday, NBC pulled an episode of the reality show “Fear Factor” in which contestants were forced to drink donkey semen, and since they won’t be airing that episode, that means that you’re watching the network that made someone drink donkey for no reason.
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Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: Mitt Romney on Tuesday won the Florida primary with 47 percent of the vote. But only if you consider being popular in Florida “winning.”
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Joke #00164
Jokes from the Week of February 1st, 2012: Newt Gingrich is being sued for using the song “Eye of the Tiger” from Rocky III at political rallies. You know you’re in trouble when it’s 2012 and the band Survivor is asking to be heard by fewer people.
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http://splitsider.com/2012/02/watching-tom-snyder-i... →
So, I’m doing these every week, in case you didn’t know, but I haven’t been posting them all here on the blog. You should check this one out, though. It’s Tom Snyder in 1978 interviewing a young David Letterman, Merrill Markoe, and Billy Crystal. There’s some great quotes in there about comedy just waiting for you, from some folks that had some big things ahead.
January 2012
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Podcasts! I'm on 'em!
As you all know, I co-host the weekly podcast Wonderful, Thanks with my dear friend Adam Maid. But what if that’s not enough hearing-my-voice for you, this week I appeared on all kinds of podcasts that I want to plug!
Things Are Happening is a weekly topical podcast featuring me, Erik Tanouye, Eddie Brawley, Kevin Hines and Will Hines. It’s short and sweet (18 minutes!) and is very...
Episode Twenty-Two - Stars with Mamrie Hart
wonderfulthanks:
Word: Stars Guest: Mamrie Hart Bio: Mamrie! Here’s a lady with her hands in many pies. She is on the UCB Maude Team “Fambly.” She hosts the always entertaining stage show “Celebrity Funeral.” Not enough Mamrie for you? Okay! Check out her web series “You Deserve a Drink” or follow her on Twitter @mamriehart! Discussed: Dole, ALF, weird botany professors, and drunk magazine...
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toyns:
Hey everyone, a good replacement for Wikipedia today is this new topical comedy podcast, Things Are Happening. Each week I assemble some of my favorite writers to make fun of things that are happening in the news.
The first episode features Eddie Brawley, Ramsey Ess, and Kevin Hines, and it’s not even a day old — if you had a bagel for breakfast this morning, the content is fresher...
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I had one (1) metric ton of fun sitting down for a conversation on Ramsey Ess and Adam Maid’s podcast, Wonderful, Thanks. Click here to listen to us talk about why I became the Milkfuls guy in high school, why Downton Abbey is suddenly so damn popular, urinary-tract-invading robots, English teachers, catchphrases, and, of course, the apocalypse. There are one or two curse words.
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From the Week of January 1, 2012: A man in Illinois was arrested for a DUI after he passed out in his car while waiting in the drive-thru lane of a McDonald’s. You think you had a rough night? Imagine sobering up and finding yourself in a jail cell next to this guy. [KEY: Hamburgler]
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Joke #00162
From the Week of January 1, 2012: A new report shows that men took the majority of new jobs created last year, preventing the first-ever majority female workforce in US history. Just remember ladies, it’s not a competition. But if it were, we’d totally be just barely still winning.
Joke #00161
From the Week of January 1, 2012: UPS said that Tuesday it handled more than 550,000 gift returns, setting a new record, both for returns and the number of bad gifts purchased by Americans.
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Joke #00160
From the Week of January 1, 2012: While two men in Utah were being arrested for shoplifting, another man broke into their car and stole electronic equipment in a classic example of “an eye for an iPod.”
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Joke #00159
From the Week of January 1, 2012: An ancient Roman coin has been discovered on the banks of the Thames River in London that is a token used for entry into a brothel. Historians were able to recognize its purpose from the image of Hugh Hefner engraved on it.
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Joke #00158
From the Week of January 1, 2012: In response to a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew, Pepsi is asking the suit be dismissed because they say the mouse would have dissolved in the soda before he had a chance to drink it. Which you may have already read about that one time someone asked Dear Abby how to get rid of a body.
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Joke #00157
From the Week of January 1, 2012: In an effort to deal with the growing number of obese Americans, dude ranches in the Northern Rockies are adding heavyweight horses and extra-large saddles for overweight customers. However, if you take up more than one, you do have to pay for both horses.
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Joke #00156
From the Week of January 1, 2012: This year PBS is hoping to attract new viewers by capitalizing on the success of the British drama “Downton Abbey” and getting viewers to think of Public Television as a source of top-tier shows like HBO and other cable channels. They’ve already started rebranding their science show Nova as “Breaking Bad without the characters and plots.”
Joke #00155
From the Week of January 1, 2012: While campaigning in Iowa, Rick Santorum has received a lot of attention for the sleeveless, V-neck sweater vests he always wears, marking the first time any man has.
Joke #00154
From the Week of January 1, 2012: A couple in Montana finally recovered their engagement ring 36 years after the wife dropped it into a toilet, which means that her husband will have to find a new way to end every argument besides “Well, at least I didn’t drop a four thousand diamond ring in the toilet.”
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Joke #00153
From the Week of January 1, 2012: New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said this week that the kiss he shared with Lady Gaga in Times Square on New Year’s Eve was not as good as the one he shared later with his longtime girlfriend. This was stated in a press conference that he was not at all forced to give.
Joke #00152
From the Week of January 1, 2012: A library in Massachusetts recently sent police officers to retrieve two overdue books from a 5 year-old girl. But before you get upset, the girl learned a valuable lesson and has sworn off reading forever.
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Joke #00151
From the Week of January 1, 2012: Rick Santorum’s close second-place finish in the Iowa caucus has given new life to his campaign, allowing him to raise enough money to buy a plane ticket to the next caucus in New Hampshire.
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From the Week of December 12th, 2011: A group of school children in Japan have created the world’s largest Kit Kat bar. First their kids start outperforming us in test scores, now they’re trying to take childhood obesity away from us!
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From the Week of December 12th, 2011: It has been rumored that after Yankees short stop Derek Jeter has a one-night stand with a woman, he sends her home with an autographed baseball. Unfortunately we’ll never know what he gives to women who he has a meaningful long-term relationship with.
Joke #00148
From the Week of December 12th, 2011: Researchers in Japan are planning to use wild monkeys equipped with radiation monitoring devices to study the levels at the devastated Fukushima Nuclear power plant. Which I’m pretty sure is how “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” started…
http://splitsider.com/2012/01/inside-the-creation-o... →
This week’s “From the Archives” examines the creation of one of my favorite shows, Arrested Development.
Fun to research, fun to write, fun to read.
Click it! Otherwise you’re implicitly saying you hate fun!
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Jokes #00147
From the Week of December 12th, 2011: This week a nude sketch of Lady Gaga drawn by Tony Bennett will be auctioned off for charity, which is expected to sell much better than Lady Gaga’s sketch of a nude Tony Bennett.
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From the Week of December 12th, 2011: A new report shows that a growing number of teenagers are smoking new mini-cigars that come in colorful wrappers and flavors such as strawberry, watermelon and chocolate. It’s perfect for the teen that almost wants to look cool.
Joke #00144
From the Week of December 12th, 2011: Newt Gingrich on Monday signed a pledge with a conservative family group to support an amendment banning same-sex marriage if her were elected President. But to be fair, this is an important personal issue to him, as he has so many marriages to protect the sanctity of.
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Joke #00146
From the Week of December 12th, 2011: Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he will not moderate the December 27th Republican Presidential debate, which I believe means that he’s running out of Republican primary related activities to drop out of.
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From the Week of December 12th, 2011: By New Year’s Eve the last American troops in Iraq will leave the country, officially ending the nine year war. But, like most people, I’ll believe it when I see the banner.
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Joke #00142
From the Week of December 12th, 2011: Both Mitt Romney’s Republican opponents and the Democratic Party criticized his attempt last weekend to make a 10,000-dollar bet with Rick Perry, saying that he was out of touch with the middle class. Romney insists that he is not out of touch; he’s just a regular guy who wants to be America’s first president with a severe gambling addiction.
December 2011
46 posts
woodyallensunusedmovieideas:
An American tourist gets lost in some European city that has money to fund a movie
I’d like to tell you about my new blog, “Woody Allen’s Unused Movie Ideas.”
Inspired by the American Masters special on Woody Allen, in which we see his box of movie ideas written on napkins and scraps of papers, this blog will expose the world to a number...