I am only just now watching 30 Rock, at Tabitha’s insistence. Working my way through season 1 — the show is so good, it hurts me.
I’ve been asked to put together a series of ideas for news-based comedy. News-based comedy! Not only is it all people (with money) seem to want, it’s what people assume I’m good at. I may radiate “newsiness” but I’m as topical as Wacky Packs.
DeCoster and I did Oxygen Destroyer for Michelle’s Gilda’s Club benefit. Fun. People laughed.
The second (of this era of) Maude Night happened. I direct the team Mix Tape ‘98. It’s terrific fun. There were no Rick Roll parodies, which made me feel better about the world.
Cat update: Hopey is now enormously fat. [...]
Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space is now on Superdeluxe. Cakey’s debut at Channel 102 is one of my favorite moments. It was a good sized crowd at Anthology Theater and the episode starts. By the time the OPENING credits were rolling, people were cheering as if Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space was a long-beloved character of American culture. Really fun. Cakey was a huge smash there — crowds cheered and gasped at every episode. At that time, each Channel 102 screening would end with episodes from Cakey and Puppet Rapist — a nice one-two punch of brutal cuteness.
I like [...]
Here’s A-Rod’s Baby, an awesome sketch by Brandon Gardner which I filmed and edited. Starring Anthony King and Molly Lloyd.
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I’m pretty proud of this one as it looks decently polished. Not in a showy way, but in a “you can hear all the words and the people are well-lit” sort of way. A boom mike helped part one and big open windows helped part two. I like the performances a lot, especially Anthony’s expressions after he has clearly lied to his wife– trying to hide that he is excited about her being pregnant with A-Rod’s baby. Molly rocks that shit too. I’m going to continue to crank these videos out until I hit one right on the [...]
DeCoster and I represent the UCB’s commitment to new comedy in today’s issue of AM New York. Above is from our sketch “Harpooned” which opens Seven Fights. Thanks to Dyna for making that harpoon look pretty good! We’re not credited in the caption so I will do that here: “Matt DeCoster questions why Will Hines won’t comment on allegations that he has been harpooned.”
Separately, I’m doing stand-up tonight at 8pm at Pianos. Come check me out, friends.
Mine and DeCoster’s sketch show — Seven Fights — goes up one last time tomorrow, Friday Feb. 8 at SEVEN PM. We’re gonna tape it. Two things:
- Please come see it! I know many of you have and thank you. But if anyone could stop by tomorrow we could use you. We’ve evolved the show over its run and this is a nice final draft version. It’s shorter, snappier and better than the one we debuted at Spank last August — and we liked that one!
- Can anyone tape it? If I could get two people — one for closeups and one for a wide shot, that’d be great. Though I’d settle for just [...]
Mine and DeCoster’s sketch show “Seven Fights” is up at the UCBT tonight at 8pm paired with the awesome “Blitzkrieg! A Sketch Show From The Future.” We don’t have any other dates scheduled so if you’re interested in seeing it, tonight’s your night. Do you need to be enticed? Okay. At one point Matt says to me “Hey man, did you get a chance to read that young adult novel manuscript I sent you?” And at another point one of us is wearing a concert T-shirt from David Lee Roth’s “Skyscraper” tour. So there’s that.
My cable stopped working 24 hours after it had been installed. A man is here [...]
I got nothing folks. Here’s some things I considered blogging about:
- The best Chaplin movie to watch if you’ve only got time for one is City Lights.
- The best blog out there is kottke.org. You all probably knew that.
- For Christmas, among many other good gifts, I got the entire Love and Rockets series in their new small softcover format. Beautiful! Start with “Heartbreak Soup” and then “The Girl From H.O.P.P.E.R.S” if you’re new.
- I’ve had two impressive nights of over-drinking recently. During one of them, Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke entered the bar, but I was more focused on getting Ben Schwartz to notice I was flipping him off. At the other, I promised a friend I would [...]
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This one is so strange, I bet even Sue Galloway will shake her head. It’s “The Fightin’ George Orwells” which I was going to submit to Channel 102, but it ended up being too nuts even for that admittedly lenient arena. I had just read Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London and then re-read 1984 and was obsessed with creating a weird distorted view of those worlds. Basically, I like to do adaptations as if they were being done by non-English speaking Eastern bloc directors who are told only the titles of what they are supposed to be adapting.
Anyway, on a Saturday afternoon last May I shot this with Jon Golbe, Dyna Moe, Rob Lathan, [...]
Today we edited a piece on Chris Dodd’s enormous head. That’s a bit of a spoiler, but I think you people can keep it a secret. Production of this piece involved making this!
That’s a good time.
Matt DeCoster’s and my sketch show Seven Fights is up tonight at UCBT! Come on out! I predict seating will be available!
My sideburns were reaching a Martin Van Buren level of thickness so I thinned them down to a five-o-clock shadow length. The next day I got three compliments on my “haircut.” Lesson: when you are balding, your sideburns comprise a significant portion of people’s perception of your hair.
Also, as Ben Rodgers and I were walking into UCB Theatre for School Night last night we passed Rob Lathan going the other way with a pair of stilts. I really love that my life is at a place where such things happen so I documented it with a picture. At School Night, DeCoster and I improvised a scene of two guys [...]
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