"If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without any interference from a host, producer, or network, that show would probably be called The Darkest and Most Impossibly Horrible Things You Can Imagine, Presented as Comedy. Every sketch would end with a gunshot or an infant’s stroller engulfed in flames, and the show would be canceled halfway through its opening titles. That’s because most comedy writers are so inured by humor that only the most shockingly toxic ideas can achieve the proper velocity to penetrate their indifference."
Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny”
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M83’s new album streaming live!
Listen to M83’s newest album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, streaming live at the Urban Outfitters site. Two tracks in and so far so awesome!
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is out October 18 on Mute Records. Sweeeet!
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Check out this fat man in a banana costume trying to sing “Welcome to the Jungle” at karaoke.
Wait, THAT’S AXL ROSE????
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Nightmare Fear Factory
If you’re the type of person that finds terror on the faces of others absolutely hilarious, there are minutes of entertainment awaiting you at the Flickr feed of the world’s scariest haunted house, Nightmares Fear Factory.
Little do these boys know that the real thing to be scared of is not the zombie popping out of the wall, but their contorted faces being memorialized online for all their friends to mock. Forever.
This guy’s ready to punch a zombie UP!
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Hey guys, Duane Reade sells sushi now, just in case you ever wanted to buy sushi from a drugstore.
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Is this prostitution in the wireless age? Or just really direct telemarketing? (Taken with Instagram at TheTimesCenter)
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AOL’s chocolate-covered sunflower seeds at Advertising Week. I’m such a sucker for edible swag.
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Any girls out there looking to rent a single Ben? Here’s your guy. (Taken with instagram)
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Rude Hand Gestures of the World
Never mind phrase books—rude gesture books will get you further in a foreign country. Further to a hospital room, that is. And Roman Lefevre’s book, Rude Hand Gestures of the World, will help you get there.
Check out The Atlantic for a sampling of gestures you can use to really show your disdain for the natives of the country you’re visiting. My favorite is the Italian gesture The Pepper Mill which ”mimics grinding a pepper mill, suggesting the content of the subject’s brain.” Ha! I guess that’s akin to our Cuckoo gesture, rotating the index finger near the ear, then pointing at the nutjob.
I love non-verbal communication.
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