Lorelei Ramirez is an artist, comedian, performer, filmmaker, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She hosts a monthly variety show called NOT DEAD YET at C’mon Everybody every third Sunday of the month, and an experimental sketch comedy show called SLOOP JUMBLY. You can see her in The Cry of Mann on Adult Swim and Viceland, and live in […]
Continue ReadingLike someone doing a spot-on celebrity impression, even the best parodies are, at their very core, marvels of the derivative. Still, there’s something mesmerizing about a well-tuned riff on a zeitgeisty moment. It’s almost primal. Anna Roisman and Cannibal Milkshake don’t reinvent the skate here by any means, but they don’t have to. Their ear for tone and […]
Continue ReadingWhen I first arrived at these time-vector coordinates to stalk and kill John Connor, future leader of the human resistance, I didn’t realize just how hard dating in 2018 would be for a futuristic annihilation machine. As a T1000 Terminator programmed to identify as a heteronormative cis female, I’m literally ahead of my time — […]
Continue ReadingLarry Owens is a multi-hyphenate millennial living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He’s an actor, writer, singer, and comedian currently writing for truTV’s new game show Paid Off. Check out his website www.larryowenslive.com and social media @larryowenslive for live performances. How would you describe your Twitter to someone who’s never seen it before? My tweets are […]
Continue ReadingIn 2014, comedian Mo Welch posted her first comic on her @momowelch Instagram handle. It featured a simply drawn depressive named Blair and read “Spirit Airlines is my ‘Nam’” Two years later, The Daily Dot wrote a piece on Mo, the traction her Blair comics were getting in the space, and–perhaps more importantly–the inspiration behind sitting down and drawing in […]
Continue ReadingDear Nightclub Booker, Hi. I’m Dugan Rathbone, guitarist and lead vocalist for Doctor Sad Man’s Sad Time Jam Band, the nation’s only winter blues band. That’s right, our quartet makes your favorite blues tunes even bluer thanks to our debilitating case of seasonal affective disorder. We’re now accepting bookings for our Endless Winter national tour. […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements’ prickly cult podcast Hollywood Handbook is as restless as it is brilliant and consistently funny. The podcast has introduced scores of features and running jokes that it abandons when it grows tired of them, like the […]
Continue ReadingRachel Jane Andelman is a writer, performer, and coach living in the Boston area. You can visit her website here, read her here, and watch her accost strangers here. If you are in Boston on March 2nd, she’s recommends you see this. This week, Andelman talked to me about unexpected Twitter interactions, tweets vs. standup, […]
Continue ReadingMollie Merkel’s got a great belt. She wants to tell you all about it. Now, this is just my opinion but, I think you’d be wise to listen up. Luke is executive producer at Big Breakfast and a watcher of many web videos. Send him yours @LKellyClyne.
Continue ReadingDear Marvel Studios, Over the past few years, your production company has financed many big-budget, high-octane, insect-inspired films such as Ant-Man (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (2019). And, considering the sheer volume of insect-films your studio has created (in such a short amount of time, no less), […]
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