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Designing The Perfect Comedy Club

July 26, 2010
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The comedy club. Perhaps no other words in the English Language fill a comic with such a strange mixture of excitement and dread. Comedy clubs are where the people are, the people who have paid to have you make them laugh. They are also the place of annoying owners, broken mic stands, uncomfortable greenrooms, and [...]

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Reviewing The 30 Rock Adult Parody (VERY NSFW)

July 20, 2010
30 Rock Parody

This week we’re joined by guests Lou Fernandez and Rachel Korowitz as we review the 30 Rock adult parody. We watched it in Dustin’s living room, and then recorded our reactions. I thought watching a movie like that with friends would be awkward but instead, it turned out to be very very awkward. You might [...]

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Pop Culture Comedy

July 12, 2010
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This week comedian Ben Kissel stops by to talk to us about using pop culture as a basis for your comedy. Sure, it’s a good way to get a quick laugh, but if you’re not careful, your jokes may have the shelf life of Vanilla Ice and Justin Bieber fighting to the death with pet [...]

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Backstage At The Friars Club

July 5, 2010
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This week we are reporting from the FrISC, which is the Friars Club Improv and Sketch Competition. 5 Sketch teams and 5 Improv teams went up against each other and the winner went home with $10,000 to make a short film that will be shown at the Friars Club Film Festival. Dan talks to Sue [...]

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Programming Comedy Central Classic… If It Existed

June 28, 2010
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There is ESPN Classic. There is VH1 Classic. There is Boomerang (which is like Cartoon Network Classic). There is the History Channel, The Military Channel and the Military History Channel.* So with all these channels, this week Dan and Dustin, along with special guest Michael Hartney, humbly suggest a channel that doesn’t exist, but we [...]

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The Rules and Lingo of Comedy Writing

June 21, 2010
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In this week’s episode we take a look at the comedy writing lingo and the rules of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film making trio that brought you Airplane!, The Naked Gun and Top Secret! Showing that even in comedies as seemingly scattershot as the ZAZ films, there is a method to [...]

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