I laughed at this. I think I shared a bag of chips with that dude in college, and we had the same conversation. The guy truly loves his flavored chips and his Conan tv show.
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Originally posted by Brain Stew
I've been working at my computer programming job.
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As long as you don't have to think about it after work, it's a good day job.
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Posted by Dart Shitter and CaptainPUNT
im still waiting for life to happen to me...
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There was this weathered poster near the subway where I lived in NY, it said: "Life is a journey, not a destination - Ralph Waldo Emmerson." It had a picture of a hot air baloon flying over the swiss alps on a crisp sunny day. I hope the description of this poster inspires you.
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Originally posted by ME!!!!
Get a day job and try to break into the comedy scene.
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When I was there the UCB theater was the place to bust in. Another show called Surf Reality was where new stand ups would get time and work out. it's gone now, but I bet there's another in it's place.
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Originally posted by Pali
Hopefully I'll get to performing stand up and from there, who knows? Probably failure. The fact remains however that my love of comedy will always lie in the US, the comedy 'scene' in Britain is somewhat lacking.
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From what I've heard you can actually make a living doing stand up based in London. That's really hard to do in New York or LA. (There are great rooms and shows in both cities, but they don't pay jack crap) There are still circuits across the south and mid-west, but you'd have to be on the road for most of the year to make a living. But, yeah, it's a thriving comedy scene. So much funny stuff going on right now.
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Originally posted by scotch-romanian
I wrote a full-length sketch the other day (finally). yay.
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Cranking out a sketch makes me feel giddy and light headed sometimes. The rest of the day I feel like I did something.
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Originally posted by tjamick
I need to get back into stand up and writing. i have a few new jokes and am working on a few things, but i havent done enough.
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I think Jerry Seinfeld is saying exactly the same thing right now. I sometimes feel the same way, I think everyone does at one point or another.
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Originally posted by agent_PUNT
I am starting up a comedy show in my hometown with a friend. we are hoping to do it once a month. travelling to Toronto to do some shows too... and playing the local crap comedy clubs.
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I remember going into a bar once and seeing that it had a good stage and realizing that I had to do a show there. Having a show in a good room is a great way to network. It keeps you out there and you get to know other comics, and you get into other rooms easier.
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Originally posted by Jerkpatrol
Brand new to the forum, and like to break my cherry, so to speak, by thanking Mike for giving all his sage-like advice to young comedy writers trying to break on thru. You're like a high-school guidance counsellor, if he did his fucking job.
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Welcome Jerkpatrol. My high school guidance counselor met with me once. He looked over my report card, pointed to a C minus and said, "You've gotta get this grade up." That's it.
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Originally posted by ME!!!!
Until cooked, the roast beef has a toothpaste like consistancy. Everything else is deep fried in grease. And almost everything lays around for about 12 hours before you eat it. I don't wash my hands and neither does anyone else.
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Haven't you seen the sign in the goddam restroom? "It says All Employees Must Wash Hands." or you'll be fired and get a $50,000 dollar fine and they'll close down the place. I used to go to Arby's all the time when I had a office job near one. I'm gonna go puke now, or maybe fuck the dog first.
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Originally posted by CptPlanet
hey mike, ron lynch is fucking hilarious in powerloafing. pass it on.
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He sure is. He's one of my favorite comedians ever, right up there with Buster Keaton.
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Originally posted by ME!!!!
When is the Office Shooting incident episode of powerloafing coming out?/Why haven't you introduced a crazed white power janitor co-worker yet?
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I actually had an idea on the drawing board once. I based a 1/2 hour Powerloafing pilot on something that happened at my day job when a guy made a joke about shooting up the office and got suspended. Some day I'll sell that show.
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Originally posted by Rabot
Creamy Center is my little brother, right now he is sitting on the couch staring at niothing with his hand in his far too long hair. He is blaiming an appointment he missed with a teacher on my mother and refuses to call and appoligise to her. He is making life hell for my parents! Hurray for adolesence. It's good to be visiting home.
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Nothing a little military school won't straighten out. It must be hard to complain about his too long hair when you're sporting those those dreds though. But, maybe be ignorant, are rastas and hippies natural enemies?
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Originally posted by Jerkpatrol
Its amazing, Fox can't find an audience or a place for the brilliant Arrested Development, yet I just saw an ad for a new Fox show called Hell's Kitchen.
Who greenlights this shit?
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I ask myself this same question.
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Originally posted by voodoochile
Which episode was that from?
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It's entitled "Dog Fucking Another Dog and Puking, Part I" I can't fathom how that moment got captured. Someone had to get the idea of videotaping their dogs fucking - a sick idea, and wrong. Or, maybe one of their dogs was sick, and they were going to tape it puking - also wrong and disguisting. But, due to unique and unreplicatable circumstances, they captured one of the finest moments since the invention of video tape. Sickos!
I'll look for more photos, I got a bunch.
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