Anthony King: 2009

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MOVIE #19 - It was incredibly exciting to see this on the big screen. Not just because it’s my first time in a movie (though that was also exciting). But it’s remarkable what DERRICK has done. True independent film-making. And a very, very funny film to boot. I’m proud, jealous, and awed all at the same time.

If you’re in NYC this week - GO SEE MYSTERY TEAM. You’ll laugh and you’ll be supporting real independent film.

6 December 2009

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DVD/DVR #56 - Never Eat Again.

6 December 2009

This is my favorite Christmas special. Every year I hunt it down on ABC Family, but this year it doesn’t look like they’re showing it. So I just bought it on DVD.

Because even a miracle needs a hand.

4 December 2009

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DVD/DVR #55 - I IMed Kate while I was watching this:

Antny2017: i’m watching high school musical right now
katelikesyou: sexy
Antny2017: JERKIN’ IT!

4 December 2009

You have to be patient. You have to give yourself a chance. When you’re first pursuing a job in a field like this, there’s a strong tendency to panic. When I took classes with Del Close, he would challenge all of us to wait - to not make the cheap, easy joke in a scene but to have faith that something funnier and more organic was on the way. It can be that way with a career too. There are a lot of times when your biggest task is just to stay calm and keep working.

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Former “Colbert Report” head writer/executive producer Allison Silverman, offering advice to aspiring comedy writers in And Here’s The Kicker, aka the best book ever.

(via katespencer)

4 December 2009 • reblog: katespencer

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DVD/DVR #54 - Boy does this movie think it’s edgy and hilarious.

29 November 2009

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DVD/DVR #53 - And finally a collection of short films about Paris from different directors - JUST LIKE THE TWILIGHT MOVIES HAD DIFFERENT DIRECTORS! AM I RIGHT!?

27 November 2009

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DVD/DVR #52 - Next up - another movie where Kristen Stewart’s virginity is very much in play. But this time her obstacle isn’t vampires, it’s a degenerative muscle disease.

27 November 2009

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DVD/DVR #51 - Kate and I spent Thanksgiving evening watching movies that added up to a kind of substitute Twilight marathon. First up, a really great Swedish vampire love story.

27 November 2009

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DVD/DVR #50 - I’m way late to the Robert Evans party, but this was definitely fascinating. After 1920s and 1940s New York, 1970s LA is my next stop once they invent the time machine.

25 November 2009

REUBEN WILLIAMS: WHAT YOU MISSED (11/21/09)

If you weren’t at the Reuben Williams show on Saturday, you missed:

-An Emergency Room where even your ridiculously bloody back injury won’t get admitted if you have blood on your paperwork.

-A morning zoo DJ who intros every song by describing the melody.

-A bartender who knows every horrible thing about his customers just by looking at them.

-A grandmother with new boobs who gets hit on by very creepy strangers.

-A bunch of unemployed people from Jersey tailgating in the parking lot of a new Best Buy. Unfortunately they die in a gunfight just as Bruce Springsteen is landing a rocket ship in the lot.

23 November 2009

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DVD/DVR #49 - I loved Borat, but this was mostly boring. Watching a high-status character bully unsuspecting strangers and taking advantage of their innate kindness was not very interesting (unlike Borat who was a low-status character who benefited from the innate kindness of strangers in much more fascinating and hilarious ways). Also - flaccid penises are the new fart joke. Yawn.

23 November 2009

REUBEN WILLIAMS: WHAT YOU MISSED (11/14/09)

If you weren’t at the Reuben Williams show on Saturday, you missed:

-A Little Person DJ/Giant Man Bartender birthday party

-Nerd bullies on segways

-The secret smokier smokers lounge hidden inside the regular airport smoker’s lounge.

-Handjob Sex Robot

-A day at the penguin exhibit of the Cincinnati Zoo when the animals have all gone crazy because an employee named The Creeper tried to make them more exciting by giving them Red Bull.

16 November 2009

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BOOK #17 - Everybody who has already read this book is right. It’s great. Unless you don’t care about comedy. If you don’t care about comedy, you’d probably be pretty bored.

16 November 2009