Updates for you all, kiddies; hope there’s something in here that you all can laugh at.
Barry Julien and Scott Jacobson (writers, Colbert Report and Daily Show, respectively)
- Sounds like Barry’s got a brief respite from his job at the Starbucks underneath Stephen’s desk. Where can you find him? In “Comedy Free Williamsburg” at Sound Fix Lodge this Wednesday night. Joining him will be Daily Show writer Scott Jacobson and several other comics. There’s more information here; drop by, if you can!
Aasif Mandvi (correspondent, The Daily Show)
- We haven’t seen much of Aasif lately on The Daily Show, but you can still catch up with him by listening to the “Selected Shorts Podcast” this week on NPR. Aasif reads this week’s selection, Rishi Reddi’s short story “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy”, and he reads it very well. If you’ve got a spare hour, have a listen to this podcast (brought to you by the good folks at Public Radio International and Symphony Space).
Ed Helms (former correspondent, The Daily Show)
- Congratulations to Ed Helms on scoring a leading role in the upcoming movie Hangover (with Bradley Cooper). According to the Hollywood Reporter: “[Helms and Cooper] are in final negotiations to star in director Todd Phillips bachelor-party comedy, about three friends who lose the groom at their Vegas fandango two days before the wedding. The third lead role has yet to be cast for the Warner Bros. film.” Good luck with this, Ed!
Samantha Bee (correspondent, The Daily Show)
- Sam is featured in the “How To Wiki” of Wired magazine, and she has some advice on “How To Look Good on TV.” One of her tips caught my eye: “3. Don’t use words you don’t know — especially zeitgeist or orthogonal.”
Why does this crack me up? Well, if you read the issue of Wired in which Stephen Colbert taught us how to “Be an Expert on Anything,” you may recall that he said this:
“USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don’t really know their definitions: zeitgeist, bildungsroman, doppelgänger – better yet, anything Latin. But avoid paradigm. It’s so 1994. If you say the word paradigm, everybody knows you’re a poser.”
Conflicting tips, perhaps? Nah, Sam left a loophole for those people who know what those words mean. (But I’d still avoid using the word “paradigm”, if possible!)
Mitch Rouse and David Pasquesi (The Factory, Strangers with Candy)
- We’ve mentioned here before that The Factory, the series showcasing Mitch Rouse and Dave Pasquesi, premiered on Spike TV last month. We hope you’ve been watching; the show is very funny. And I’m not sure whether you know it or not, but Spike has been featuring outtakes and deleted scenes from the show. There are several there, but this one might be my favorite (uncontrollable laughter is irresistible to me). Enjoy!
I’ve got Factory as a series recording on my DVR and hubby and I are really enjoying it. The Builtgood Srewcutter episode was hilarious!
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I always thought the warning not to use “paradigm” because it’s out of style was kind of funny because “paradigm” seems to be something of a favorite with Jon Stewart.
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