September : 2009 : Will Hines Dot Net

September 21, 2009

House Porsche

House Porsche. Dialogue NSFW. Written by Sean Clements. Directed by me. Shot by Todd Bieber. Edited by Nate Dern. Starring John Gemberling. Graphics by Ed Mundy (titles) and Matt Meyer (highway signs). Voice over by speedyspots.com. Produced by Misha Sundukovskiy, who got us a Porsche!

As featured in the New York Times on Sunday. And was the number one pick on G4′s Attack of the Show on 9/23/2009.

I thought the car was the star but it ends up that the voiceover was the star. We tried several voiceovers for this. They were all good, but it always felt like something was missing. Then Bieber [...]

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September 18, 2009

My Deli Might Be Hilarious

Deli Photo

My deli (Hana Food) on Metropolitan Ave might be very funny. They like to rename their sandwiches constantly. Like this new Kanye West sandwich! They also name a lot of stuff after Shrek characters, which is fun and gets more fun the more out of date that is.

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September 13, 2009

Sunday Stuff

Mitch Magee and I recently made this promo for his series Sexual Intercourse: American Style which is now running on atom.com.

That was fun. You can see Mitch and I using are awesome improv skills that we honed in November 1999 when we were in Level 1 together.

Other random things:

Check out this amazing life story in today’s New York Times of Norman Borlaug, a scientist who maybe avoided worldwide famine by developing high-yielding crops in the 60s and 70s! Go science!
Top 10 most iconic Marvel Comics panels of all time at Comics Should Be [...]

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September 12, 2009

I Like The Beatles and Sandwiches

My favorite personal Beatles memory is hearing “I’ve Just A Seen A Face” for the first time, which happened in my friend Dave’s room in 1987 when the first batch of Beatles CDs came out. At that time, I was 16 years old and not really a Beatles fan. I had a copy of The White Album on cassette which I thought was cool, and I had tried to figure out what the big deal was with Sgt. Pepper’s and couldn’t. The Beatles were very squarely an “oldies” band in my mind and hopelessly out of date. Also, they were synonymous with “the 60s” and I was sick of the 60s.

When my friend Dave bought all of the [...]

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September 10, 2009

End of the World FRIDAY NIGHT!

End Of The World

Some improvisers and I will be creating THE END OF THE WORLD Friday night (tomorrow) at Under St. Marks Theater at 10:30pm. I ran a class this spring which developed this show, and we are doing a reunion of it, thanks to the graciousness of our hosts Thank You, Robot. TYR will do a set and then we do our 40 minute or so show.

We get a suggestion. We end the world. We back up and show how we got to that end. Then we show the world that rises up in its ashes. All off a single suggestion! Good heavens, right? Please [...]

September 8, 2009

The The Final Destination

UCBComedy.com editor Nate Dern released this funny sketch inspired by The Final Destination movie series: The The Final Destination. Check it out, won’t you?

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Month: September, 2009