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Puddin’ with Eddie Pepitone Urges To Be a Savvy Shopper/Criminal

The daily live action comic strip Puddin’ with Eddie Pepitone, written and silently experienced by Matt Oswalt (the guy eating pudding) is still going strong even getting featured on YouTube’s Official Comedy channel. If you haven’t caught on to this series which has posted an ep. every Mon.-Fri. for well over a year, watch this latest episode with special guest Steven Weber that urges consumers to always think “buyer beware” when shopping, even if what you’re buying is incredibly illegal.

Garfunkel & Oates Recount Their Very Personal Experience Swinging “The Other Way”

Wherever you stand on the debate on whether being gay is something a person is born as or not, you have to agree that this latest, very funny song, The College Try, by Garfunkel & Oates (Kate Micucci & Riki Lindhome) should definitely be the theme for the “you’re born with it” side.

It’s Official-Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen Found a Home in LA

Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s wonderful NYC show Hot Tub will kick off at The Virgil and in two weeks (Mon. Dec. 3rd 8PM) as a benefit for Hurricane Sandy victims. You can buy tickets now.

Please, everyone go because it’s for a good cause and also it’s Hot Tub.

NYC Is Having a Podcast Festival With a Solid Line-up of NYC Podcasts

It’s been said that many of the biggest and best comedy podcasts are based in Los Angeles and while LA is home to many great ones (Comedy Bang Bang, Smartest Man in the World, The Pod F. Tompkast, WTF! w/Marc Maron, etc.), NYC has several great ones as well. There’s so many that NYC is going to have it’s own podcast festival with the likes of NYC podcasts of note Dave Hill’s Podcasting Incident, The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, and more.

Sat. Jan. 12th & Sun. Jan. 13th at the PIT, it’ll be the NYC Podfest.

Jason Woliner Made T-Shirts Combining the Faces of Jay Leno and Che Guevara and Had To Redo Them

Jason Woliner (Eagleheart, Human Giant) had the humorous idea of pasting the face of late night talk show host Jay Leno and the iconic face of revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Unfortunately, during his first attempt, the resulting logo was confusing to many people, so Woliner redesigned the shirt so the combo could be more clear.

You can buy both t-shirts now and get it for the comedy fan in your life right even before Black Friday starts.

Here’s a Great Documentary of Long Form Improv at UCB

If you’ve always heard the terms ‘long form improv’ or ‘harold’ and just left it at that because you’ve had bad experiences watching bad improv, Thrash Lab has made a great short documentary explaining what goes into a harold and why you should go watch improv live. Featured within are Matt Walsh, Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, Kay Cannon, and more all talking about improv and the process.

When you have time while the turkey is in the oven, give it a watch.

If You’ve Been Looking for That One Great Thanksgiving Song, Look No Further Than Matt Micucci’s Turkey Song

Kate Micucci’s brother Matt put together quite the Thanksgiving song complete with costumes and vicious pilgrims (played by hilarious people Davey Johnson & Katie Crown) that made for one of the funniest, most memorable Thanksgiving songs we’ve heard in awhile. 

Take a listen especially if you haven’t eaten any turkey yet.

‘Historically Awkward’, a New Web Series, Explains Why John Hancock’s Signature Is So Big

After all this time that people have been saying “you can put your John Hancock here”, there is now an explanation for why Hancock has only been epitomized for his obnoxiously large signature. Thanks to Historically Awkward, a new web series from Grant Lyon and Andy Peters we now have the “truth” (also with great cameos for fellow hilarious people Jarrod Harris and Matt Knudsen)

Give it a watch and learn something.

Jimmy Pardo’s Pardcast-A-Thon Is Starting Right Now

12 hours of comedy put together by the Never Not Funny podcast with Jimmy Pardo for Smile Train is happening. Why are you still reading this? Go, watch, and donate.

Make Kyle Kinane’s “Whiskey Icarus” What You’re Watching Tonight

11PM on Comedy Central tonight, Kyle Kinane’s new stand-up hour “Whiskey Icarus” premieres and at that time, apparently, Kinane will be in the mountains. Let’s all watch, because Kyle is one of the funniest comics working right now, tonight and wish him well though he may not have reception or wi-fi.

Also, if you miss it tonight, you can buy it extended and uncensored this Tuesday Nov. 27th.

Dylan Moran Stopping By Largo on U.S. Tour

Very funny Irish comedian Dylan Moran is returning stateside for a tour and luckily is making a two night visit to LA at none other than Largo at the Coronet Theatre. If you’re unfamiliar with his stand-up or his TV show “Black Books”, making him quite the name across the pond, then please spend this Sunday afternoon familiarizing yourself his dark, smart, observational humor. 

Tues. Dec. 11th & Wed. Dec. 12th 8PM @ Largo is when you should make sure you’re free to see the show.

Jenny Johnson Manages to Get Chris Brown To Suspend His Twitter Account For a Few Hours

Yesterday, Jenny Johnson known to much of the Internet as @JennyJohnsonHi5, comedy writer & renowned celebrity satirist on Twitter, called out Chris Brown for a graphically and sexually demeaning tweet to, no surprise, women. Following that, a fight over Twitter ensued in which Chris Brown, also no surprise here, continued to tweet the same type of sexually demeaning insults toward Jenny Johnson, then declared, in so many words, that he is kidding and “won”.

Of course, Johnson, who professionally satirizes the lives of ridiculous celebrities, would not back down and went back and forth with Brown, until, we’re guessing, someone on his legal team or his crew told him he should shut his Twitter account down.

It’s now back up.

None of this should be a surprise to you as Chris Brown has barely, if at all, made an attempt to calm his public persona as, every few weeks or so, is reported to do something that further enrages the public like his Halloween costume. Yesterday he tweeted, in his defense, “Further proved my point of how immature society is. #CarpeDiem” We’re going to go ahead and say that demeaning women even, possibly, with a layer of irony so thick you couldn’t lay into it with a mini-gun is not pointing out how immature society is. 

Also, if carpe diem, to you, means “shitting on the retina”, then maybe you should know that carpe diem means “seizing the day”, not saying gross things on Twitter with relatively little consequence outside of people on the Internet getting mad at you. Yes, there are comedians who talk about shitting on the eye and do it in a funny way, extending the conversation about sexual proclivities in our society in a way where we don’t have to be ashamed to talk about it. The same goes with sex experts, therapists, etc.

Note how Chris Brown is none of those things and does not accomplish what he claims to do. He’s never been funny and everything he’s said about sex seems, in of itself, to be pretty immature.

Of course, we have freedom of speech in the U.S. and as the Internet has shown, that freedom is used pretty much to its fullest extent, even when it barely seems justified. It should stay that way despite the lack of tact with what Chris Brown or any other bigot with a huge following says because we are all free to call them out, comedians, comedy writers, especially, as they should be.

College Humor Explores If Video Games Had an Incredibly Super Easy Mode

If you’ve ever attempted to play Shinobi and got addicted to playing it, you probably thought to yourself, “Is there a super easy mode than this?” College Humor brings this concept to life with several of your favorite games from “back in the day” like Pac Man, Pong, Zelda, Tetris, Sonic the Hedgehog, and even Mortal Kombat. 

Unfortunately, they don’t not have Shinobi in it, though you should still watch it anyway because it’s pretty funny.