I've signed up for a sketch comedy writing class at Upright Citizen's Brigade, something you can only do in New York or LA (or Chicago or Toronto with Second City). I was in no small part motivated by reading Tina Fey's book, which pointed out to me how startlingly similar our lives' trajectories were up until a certain point (so to speak). Born in ( Read more... )

For tonight's taping of Saturday Night Live, I had standby ticket #21, the lowest number I've had to date ( Read more... )

Quick show of hands: Who here is brave about schooling people when they say "that's so gay" or toss around the word "faggot" in a less than queer-friendly sort of way ( Read more... )

For a once I am absolutely certain: Arms up is me, wearing my Steelers jersey. Go Steelers!


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( Me and several Saturday Night Live cast members )

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I have to get ready for today's birthday festivities ( you're coming, right?), but I wanted to share pictures of the SNL cast members that my friend John and I got to meet last night:


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Ernest Borgnine, clearly having the time of his life.

Is anyone else getting Rosanne Rosannadanna from her impression? Then again, I'm not familiar with the work of Miley Cyrus, so maybe Miley Cyrus sounds a lot like Rosanne Rosannadanna too. Either way, I'm once again happy to see one of the new kids getting some airtime. She obviously needs to learn not to wait for the laughter (the mic's on you ( Read more... )

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