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The Cornish Game Hen Maneuver. A shamelessly ridiculous Star Trek-inspired sketch written by and starring John Frusciante. Directed by me. Also starring Devlyn Corrigan, Cody Lindquist and featuring the voices of Mike Still and Greg Tuculescu. Edited by Carmen Angelica. Crew: Brett White, Ben Ragheb, Mike Fallek, Ian Carr.

I’ve been watching episodes of the original Star Trek series on Netflix recently. Great fun! I love that everyone who worked on that Enterprise was 40 and had a gut.

That microphone is very much not plugged into anything.

Performed stand-up on the Union Square L train platform Saturday night as a special guest of Joe Pera, the host. Dan Wilbur also performed. Very fun. It was part performance art, part awesomely challenging stand-up conditions. Joe had done this twice before. I’m only now realizing I never asked him how he came to think of this. I think he liked the idea of 2 hours of stage time, broken into 5-10 minutes sets (the time in between each train departing). Or it just seemed fun? Not sure.

That’s your host, Joe Pera. [...]

I was never really into Michael Jackson, but I respected how powerfully pervasive his popularity was.

1) My friend Greg Lancaster could reproduce with impressive accuracy Michael Jackson’s dance from the Motown 25th Anniversary show where he did the moonwalk the first time. We had all been about 12 when that special was on and I for one didn’t give a crap about it. Bloom County made fun of Michael Jackson and so therefore so did I. But I guess Greg had been spellbound. In the fall of 1988, during our freshman year at UConn, at a party with people who would become my best friends in the world though at that time they were mere acquaintances, Greg at one [...]

Pitchin’ Nightmares: You Say Tomato. This one is my favorite. One and a half minutes of fantastic subject-changing good times.

The New Pornographer’s video for “My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism” is one of the funniest and coolest depiction of defiant dirtbaggery I’ve ever seen! It’s not that there’s a huge VOLUME of dirtbaggery. Just well chosen details that slowly build into an awesome last shot.

Found after watching Letter From An Occupant via achilles’ blog. Both are amazing and fun songs!

Later!

This blog is a self-promotional nightmare! But let’s keep it going!

Father’s Day Acting Class LandlineTV. I fake vomit in this!

The Landline makes hits! Also, before the shoot started, I swore loudly in front of the child actor when I decided it would be hilarious to get extremely fake hostile with Tim Martin because he was reading Harper’s! (“you like that fag s*** you f***?”) How awesomely awkward! Why do I enjoy being such aggro jerks? Because they are warmhearted and care about America, that’s why.

You guys want me to post more videos I’ve been involved with, right? This is American Apparel: Everyday Sexy, written and directed by Todd Bieber, and starring Nate Dern who is one of the two ucbcomedy.com video editors. Gawker has it on its front page right now, which is fun.

Todd wanted a certain kind of script — something with lots going on visually, about a subject that people would WANT to see made fun of, but still filmable in a short easy session. So he wrote one! Todd and Nate did a lot of work to get this video from a 4+ minute [...]

How about some more videos? Good heavens I’m just promoting myself these days.

I said “We need stuff we can film fast and release right away.” Clements and Spellman had this: Pitchin’ Nightmares: Good Luck Chuck. We filmed it two days before Senior Clements moved to L.A. I am in this one, and there are two more coming soon. They’re all on UCBComedy for complete-ists. I am IN THIS performing my time-tested Frustrated Straight Man Role!

The End of the World –and improvised sci-fi show — starts tonight at 11pm. The class and I have spent 8 weeks developing this show. Half the class spends the first half of the show creating events that lead up to an apocalypse, and then the other half of the class shows the world that develops after that apocalypse. It is great fun! It runs for four Tuesdays starting tonight.

The idea for this show was born when I was IM-ing with Katey Healy-Wurzburg in February and said “I wish I could teach a 600 where we just act out the plot [...]

I got my head more or less shaved last Friday. Why? Well, I had to play Eisenhower in a play that night. I’ve always kind of wanted to try it, as my hair recedes more and more, to see what it’d look like. But most of all is because the LAST time I went to the barber (I go to that pit of barbers beneath Astor Place) a man in a thick Russian accent said to me “You know what you should do next time? Use number two clippers on the top, number one clippers on the side — QUIT MESSING AROUND.” It genuinely affected me — I had [...]