I talked to Marc Maron this week about his podcast and Comedy and what Comedy Is with capital letters like that. He is scary smart that guy. We did talk a little about clowns.
After the conversation he asked me, “What was your name again man?” I don’t know whether that means he enjoyed it or is sending minions to destroy me. More likely he was being polite. Actually that is the least likely possibility.
Me and Reggie Watts made a list of humorous nouns in this interview. I have never gotten a contact high over the phone before, but it was a grand old time.
This piece was recently published in the excellent Metafiler magazine put out by my favorite members of that site. They made my pretentious ramblings look almost professional! Download the whole thing here, it’s awesome.
The Kids in the Hall is still the best sketch comedy that has ever been on TV. Yes, I do want to fight about it.
Oh and Dave Foley is sweet and great. His comments about why empathy is important in comedy should be written on every aspiring snarky stand-ups face in blood.
“A lot of people don’t realize that what we did on Kids in the Hall was never mean-spirited. It could be really dark and maybe uncomfortable, but it was never mean. Never going out and shitting on people and just being cruel. I think there is a lot of empathy in our work, through the characters we play and subject matter we deal with. I know I don’t like dealing with comedy that’s like, “Hey look, aren’t other people stupid?” You know, I’m not a big fan of watching YouTube videos of people getting hit in the balls or falling off buildings. That just doesn’t make me laugh to see somebody to get hurt. When I see somebody get hurt, I think, “Ow, that would be horrible.” And I think that detachment from other people allows for that snideness you’re talking about. I guess is just a lack of empathy. I think that any art form should be imbued with empathy. Whatever it is. To me that’s just the core of humanity that you should not lose for any reason.”
Also, this .gif.
I talk to nerd-king @Nerdist and try to defend hipsterism against his Wit-sabers. Let’s call it a draw?
Some things are not worth building a new wing on the memory mansion.
This video was made by moi (with Erin as monkey-wrangler) to promote Live From the Lab the Comedy night we are hosting. It hopefully attains a respectable level of really dumb.
Watch on youtube here.
He’s not the black Patton Oswalt or the nerdcore Eddie Murphy. He’s just a really funny awesome guy.
She’s like a stand-up comedy Michel Gondry film. Or like Andy Kaufman reading a George Saunders short story while April March plays piano. Or like a really great quirky thing mixed with another really great quirky thing. I edited out lots of awkward pauses and us talking over each-other so you just have to imagine those parts.
DAG is a comedy legend who has no fear of speaking his mind. That I got him to crack up wildly with a Jumanji question might be the high point of my life.
The freelance writing of Peter Murphy Heyneman.
