February 2012
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From the Wikipedia page on Frasier:
As Cheers approached its last season in 1993, (Kelsey) Grammer approached (David) Angell, (Peter) Casey, and (David) Lee. The actor had enjoyed his appearance on an episode of the three men’s Wings, and hoped that they could create a new show for him. Grammer did not want to continue playing Frasier Crane, and Angell, Casey, and Lee did not want the...
January 2012
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“I went to the House of Blues Friday night to see the Peter Gammons Band play...”
– SI’s Peter King in his Monday Morning QB column - but also, exactly the specifics I would have used if I was writing a hilarious parody of a Peter King MMQB column.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Quantum Yeesh!
This was the original intro narration for the first season and a half of Quantum Leap. It’s a bit of breathtakingly clunky copy that reads like it was dashed off by a hungover PA while Scott Bakula waited impatiently in a recording booth:
It all started when a time travel experiment I was conducting went…”a little caca”. In the blink of a cosmic clock, I went from...
September 2011
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August 2011
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My favorite part is "obviously"
Lt. Dixon Piper: Why did he do it? Why did Cunth kill your wife? MacGruber: To this day, I have no idea. We actually all went to college together. Believe it or not, we were very close friends. Then after graduation, he got engaged to her. He asked me to be his best man and right about that time, I started banging her and mowing her box. She was actually the first person I felt comfortable...
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May 2011
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March 2011
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WatchGus Johnson, the best in the biz! I wrote up this tidy lil’ script for him Monday in LA, he recorded his audio Tuesday in NY, and the Funny or Die team had it up on the internet by Thursday. COUNT IT!
Andy Kula: March 21, 1962 - US Air Force launches... →
My brother writes some quality humor content. (Click link above.)
onthismonday:
Yes. LAUNCHED A BEAR FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND.
Forty-nine years ago today, the US Air Force shocked the world with its announcement that a bear had become the first living creature ejected from an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound (around 770 miles per…
February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
5 posts
WatchMark Shepard and Alex Reiser, the co-anchors of SportsDome on the Onion Sports Network. (Premieres 1/11/11 on Comedy Central.)
November 2010
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September 2010
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The Shittenheimer Podcast is a fantasy football...
WatchFormer Michigan football stars + Chuck Norris-style jokes = this Funny or Die video I made to benefit Champions for Children’s Hearts, a wonderful charity that serves the Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.
*Note: Lloyd Carr was witty and personable and nailed his lines in one take. Rich Rodriguez didn’t quite seem to understand what he was saying or doing at any point....
August 2010
6 posts
“Yesterday’s high temperature in Central Park was 91 degrees. That’s...”
– -from Gothamist
Looks like I picked the wrong summer to quit sniffing glue and come work in New York.
July 2010
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Don’t you just love when you need to research former NBA swingman Stacy Augmon and the last line from his Wikipedia entry makes you LOL?
Two nights later on March 13, Sandoval continues, “Augmon became angered over a question that an Orlando Sentinel reporter asked Magic guard Steve Francis.[7]“That’s a stupid [expletive] question,” Augmon allegedly said, according...
June 2010
4 posts
The Man and His Wife
I’m getting married this fall. For more than six years now Sussy and I have built a relationship on laughter, love and the comfort in just being ourselves. She’s a special lady, my partner and equal, and it’s sad knowing this will all come to an end when she becomes my wife.
Because if there’s one thing Sussy believes about marriage, it’s that her personal identity ends the day she becomes...
WatchThe original “Karate Kid” Ralph Macchio tells Hollywood… Wax On, Fuck Off
This is one of the last things I wrote at Funny or Die and it came out AMAZING. Ralph and director Todd Holland were very cool to work with - they came in with this idea of Ralph trying to shed his 30-years-in-the-making nice guy image, and Chad Carter and I scripted out this documentary idea. Really...