YEAH! RE:COM #4 is ready for order; featured inside is Tim Minchin, Andy Kindler, Jon Benjamin, Rob Delaney, the Late Live Show (Chicago), Hamclown (Los Angeles), Annie Lederman (New York City), and more. A bunch more! Order/download now! Or soon!
Huge thanks to contributors Erin Nekervis, Mindy Tucker, Aziz Lalani, Susan Kindler, Elizabeth McQuern and Megan Curran (photography), Jeremy Nguyen and Andrew DeWitt (illustration), Lauren Vino, Hank Thompson, Travis Tack, Nimesh Patel, Ron Babcock, EJay Buoncore and Jake Kroeger (essays), Tia Ayers and Sara Buffington, our favorite ‘tender. And all of my love to Michelle Peterson, design and writer extraordinaire.
RE:COM is a fantastic print magazine about comedy put together by fantastic people giving a great picture of what’s really happening in the world of comedy. Everyone reading this should pick up an issue or digitally download it.
Also, as an extra incentive, we wrote a little something in this issue.
This will be my seventh year involved with setting up the comedy show for FYF. Glad to have been a part of it since the get go.
COMEDIANS PERFORMING AT FYF:
Hosted by Jonah Ray & Kumail Nanjiani
Matt Besser (Upright Citizens Brigade)
Natasha Leggero (Chelsea Lately, Reno 911)
Matt Peters (Weeds)
Joselyn Hughes (Tosh.0)
Marc Maron (WTF Podcast)
The Sklar Brothers (Sklarbro Country)
Matt Braunger (MadTV, Comedy Central Presents)
Ron Funches (Conan)
Matt Dwyer (How I Met Your Mother)
Steve Agee (Super, The Sarah Silverman Programme)
Emo Philips (No need for an introduction. We love him- FYF)
Nick Thune (The Tonight Show, Conan)
Sean O’Connor (Conan, Sports Show w/ Norm Macdonald)
Jon Dore (The Jon Dore Television Show)
Jim Hamilton (Comedy Central)
Chris Hardwick (The Nerdist Podcast)
The comedy performances are presented by THE MELTDOWN.
This is the FYF comedy line-up. This will be posted more times in case you’re too lazy or non-committal to click this link.
A few very fun things…
Stripped Stories is now a podcast! Listen to episode 1: boundaries with Erin Judge, TuRae, Jessica Delfino, our sidekick producer Zach Dressler, and your hosts Margot Leitman & me! Subscribe at iTunes.
Also we’re starting up our fall tour, Monday Aug 29, we’re at Zanies Chicago and Thursday Sept 1, UCB NYC. For tickets, info and other tour dates visit strippedstories.com. And yes, we did get fancy new photos by Anya Garrett, thanks for noticing!
Lastly, I’m headlining Mottley’s Comedy Club in Boston THIS WEEKEND Fri Aug 26 & Sat Aug 27. Get tickets here and please spread the word.
You are the best! No really, YOU ARE THE BEST!
Aliens Attack…A Condo? We saw SKYLINE so you don’t have to. A new HOW DID THIS GET MADE? podcast w/ @jordan_morris
GQ Profiles FOD Writer Chris Kelly
“Since it launched in 2007, Funny Or Die has consistently created viral sensations. And they’re not always as difficult to pull off as you might think.”
HAMCLOWN’s going through some changes. BIG ones, too.
Remember that year Becky Koppelstein got one boob? It was really weird, but like super cool to look at. Her other boob came in a year later, and like, when was the last time you thought about her, y’know? You haven’t. Be honest. You HAVEN’T.
Well, HAMCLOWN grew a boob you guys.
That’s the best way I can explain it.
Line-Up:
Jesse Popp (Conan writer)
Barry Rothbart (Tonight Show)
Karl Hess (Montreal)
Hampton Yount
Max Lance
Jason Lawhead
Aaron Glaser“Hand Shucked”
Saturdays 8pm
Moving Arts Theater*
1822 Hyperion ave
Los Angeles, Ca 90026
$5 w/ free beer (or byob – bring any beverage – wine, etc)
Free parking (across street at the key shop 1831 Hyperion)*The theater is hard to find b/c there’s no sign. If going east on Sunset, turn left on Fountain. And right after Fountain curves north into Hyperion, the theater is the BLUE building on the right. Parking lot is to the left (at the corner of Hyperion and Fernwood Ave) under the sign that says “KEYS”
It’s comin’ up quick, DON’T MISS OUT
Hosted by Jake Weisman
With guests:
Ed Salazar
Jarrod Harris
Kate Berlant
Andrew Solmssen
Jason Nash
Kumail Nanjiani
Jackie KashianFREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE!
Doors at 9pm, show at 9:30pm!
Plus, there will be beer/wine/soda/coffee/chip s for sale! AND DELICIOUS PARK BROWNIES (for all your munchies needs!)
(Cash Only)REMEMBER: Drink sales will keep BRUNCH alive so please come ready to drink!!
And don’t forget how awesome BRUNCH is, check out photos from past shows!!
Please vote for our SXSW panel. The future of the country is at stake!
In an election year that is as divisive as any in recent memory, a snarky, slightly jaded and unflinching group of funny folk are taking action and making an impact on the political scene. Learn how the internet empowered comedians and comedy writers and how funny folk are wielding their online prowess to affect some real-world change. Join comedians and staff from The Daily Show, Huffington Post,and Wonkette in an in-depth discussion that may very well save the world!
I wrote about the WTF with Marc Maron podcast for GQ’s comedy issue in July. It ended up as an iPad-only bonus and I’ve had the PDF forever but am just now remembering to share it with you guys. I was so thankful to have the opportunity to write this (what up, master editress Lauren Bans!) and even more so to be able to hand a printout of the piece to Maron in person at his last Bell House gig in Brooklyn. Marc more openly gracious than I had any right to expect.
Hope you dig the piece. Maybe clicking it will make it bigger/more readable? [Edit: No, it won’t. Boo.]
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The Terminator is on Twitter and it’s Kind of Amazing
He can be followed at @111001001101010. Also, Sarah Conner?
Performance Anxiety is back again, as it is customary for bi-weekly comedy shows to re-appear once every two weeks. For $7 you get FREE BEER, FREE PARKING (which is practically TV-credit worthy in LA) and this fantastic line-up:
Eddie Pepitone
Melissa Villasenor
Jerrod Carmichael
Thai Rivera
Adam Cayton-Holland
TJ Miller
Eli OlsbergRemember the part at the beginning where it said FREE BEER & FREE PARKING? Yeah, that hasn’t changed since you got to the bottom of this post!!
