Jon's Ego (in print form!)

Every month at the #jonvention, we buy one big bottle of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:09 -0400

Every month at the #jonvention, we buy one big bottle of whiskey. It usually lasts the night. It is now empty. The first group hasn’t finished yet.

Hoo boy.

I bet there's an owl somewhere who doesn't know he's supposed to be nocturnal and is just super lonely.

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:41:23 -0400

9AM, New Jersey. #FearTownUSA Very excited to do a scene with...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:25:18 -0400

9AM, New Jersey. #FearTownUSA

Very excited to do a scene with this clearly benevolent character!

Yep.

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:08:50 -0400

Yep.

I may have only had two hours of sleep, but this is pretty damn...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:04:05 -0400

I may have only had two hours of sleep, but this is pretty damn nice.

If you think that measly puddle is enough water to keep Ariel...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:24:36 -0400

If you think that measly puddle is enough water to keep Ariel alive, you are sorely mistaken. Look at her. She’s already getting weak.

When I watched this live lo those many years ago, I also...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:54 -0400

When I watched this live lo those many years ago, I also didn’t know what a stevedore was (the second season of The Wire was still three years away). Using context clues and the fact that the word sounded vaguely like some kind of spicy Spanish word (like a luchador but more… steve-ish), I assumed stevedore sex was a good thing.

Looking at this GIF set, 13 years after watching “This Year’s Girl,” I’m realizing I might be mistaken. Still, that’s still a cryptic thing to say.

All I can imagine is that Joyce felt like Giles “loaded” her “box” in a very workman-like way, with no passion. Right?

ps. I swear I’ve had sex before.

danmaxfox: eradicatedelicacy: Amazing Thanks Chris Love...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:31:13 -0400

danmaxfox:

eradicatedelicacy:

Amazing

Thanks Chris

Love these.

beigeucb: Check it out! Beige is in the Hot Seat over at the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:18:07 -0400

beigeucb:

Check it out! Beige is in the Hot Seat over at the Austin Sketch Fest blog to promote our show there which is coming up fast!

Read the interview and watch us deftly straddle the line between answering questions sincerely and being just plain silly!

chamberlain: #HOT #IMPORTANT NEW #SUMMERJAM: “ROOFTOP...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:47 -0400

chamberlain:

#HOT #IMPORTANT NEW #SUMMERJAM: “ROOFTOP PARTY”

Feat. the voices of Madalyn Baldanzi, Ann Carr, James Coker, Jason Flowers, Ben Rameaka, Will Storie, John Zachary Townsend, & Moujan Zolfaghari

This is better than the new Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, and Cheez Wizzzard* albums combined.

*Cheez Wizzzard is a super cool band you don’t know about.

Timmy Loves Julie: UNDERRATED COMEDY: THE MOTION PICTURES: THE LIST

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:05 -0400

Timmy Loves Julie: UNDERRATED COMEDY: THE MOTION PICTURES: THE LIST:

timmylovesjulie:

davidbluvband:

timmylovesjulie:

Last night Dave Bluvband and I brought up comedies that we thought were underrated (or wrongfully critically maligned or just forgotten). We then decided we need to make a master list. Feel free to add on to this list but show your work.

1. THE LONELY GUY: The Jerk is a great movie but I would…

Timmy and I had a great conversation last night, and it took me all day to compile this list, but I think it’s a good one.

1. THE LANDLORD: Hal Ashby’s directorial debut (he later directed Harold & Maude and Being There). I LOVE Hal Ashby movies, and this one is always my default for top ten favorite films of all time.

2. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE: Timmy mentioned this last night, and I was so happy someone else had seen this movie, and then we both realized we were shocked because no one else we knew had seen it. This was one of those movies that made me want to become a filmmaker. Everyone around UCB should watch a Paul Mazursky film. They are all funny, and dark, and just wonderful all the way through. This one is his first and it’s really good.

3. A SHOT IN THE DARK: A Peter Sellers classic. The only Inspector Cleuseau film that’s not Pink Panther related. If you have some time, watch the first Pink panther movie, and this one in succession and just have a good time.

4. THE HOSPITAL: Another one of my default top ten favorite movies. Written by Paddy Chayefsky and starring George C. Scott. This one is also a pretty dark comedy about the inner workings of a Manhattan hospital, and how the chief of medicine (Scott) has to deal with personal problems like his wife leaving him, and a string of sudden deaths of doctors and nurses. I’m a huge fan of Chaefsky’s writing, and this movie just nails it on every angle.

5. WORLD’S GREATEST DAD: Granted, I tend to like “darker” or “weirder” comedies, so I get why this might be people’s cup of tea, but I love this movie. I saw it twice in theaters when it came out, I’ve seen it twice on netflix since then. I think it’s a really fresh and original comedy, and people should give it more love. Bobcat Goldthwaite is one of my new favorite writer/directors right now, and I can’t wait for his next movie.

Those are my five! Keep this list coming! I want to add more things to my netflix queue.

This list was fun to do! Thanks for those that also threw in their input ( Kevin Hines! Jon Bershad! Dave Bluvband! and more) I thought of a few more!

COLD TURKEY - a Norman Lear film starring Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart ( as the antagonist) a small town takes the challenge that they will all quite smoking for a month and if they do, the town will win a tax free check of 25 million dollars. Great movie, really funny performances and a great Randy Newman song in the begging.

STRANGE BREW I need to revisit this but I remember loving it.

THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS I think this is the best of the Bob Hope “solo” pictures. ( the Crosby/ Hope road ones can’t be beat)

DOWN WITH LOVE great play on the Doris day/ Rock Hudson/ Tony Randall comedy but shot through a modern lens.

THERE’S MORE BUT I NEED TO REMEMBER THEM!

I went to see Down with Love on a date in high school. We were both fairly new to the whole dating thing (she was better at it than I was) and chose a random romantic comedy purely because we felt like we were supposed to. After the movie, she apologized for making me go to it. I turned to her and said, “What are you talking about?! I LOVED IT!”

She broke up with me soon after. I don’t think that was the reason but who knows.

Seriously though, that insane monologue Renée Zellweger gives at the end is absolutely hilarious.

In an amazing crossover event, Dwight was killed and eaten, proving Hannibal was the Office spin-off all along.

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:25:54 -0400

beigeucb: “Regular Show (Reprise)” August 13th, 2012 Finally,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:09:04 -0400

beigeucb:

“Regular Show (Reprise)”

August 13th, 2012

Finally, here’s the finale to the show. Lots of hugs and cutesy stuff here.

beigeucb: “Taco Bell Party” August 13th, 2012 In addition to...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:34:54 -0400

beigeucb:

“Taco Bell Party”

August 13th, 2012

In addition to all the musical silliness, the August show also had this which may be my favorite sketch I’ve written for Maude Night. Totally worth the money I spent on those tacos.

In other “cool stuff going online” news, the web...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:38:04 -0400

In other “cool stuff going online” news, the web series I star in, Nepotism, posted it’s second and third episodes online. Go to the Facebook page to check it all out!

beigeucb: Well, it took a while, but Beige’s big musical show...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:14:45 -0400

beigeucb:

Well, it took a while, but Beige’s big musical show from all the way back in August 2012, “Regular Show,” is finally online! Here’s the opening number in all of its singing and dancing glory!

“Regular Show”

August 13th, 2012

Yay! This show was easily one of my favorite things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of.

I was pushing forever to do a musical show with Beige because I’m a weirdo. When we finally got to do it, it came out better than I ever could have imagined. That’s all thanks to Avery who’s a musical genius and wrote the song with me, Eric Gersen who’s on the piano, John Flynn who guest directed somehow disguised the fact that it was all thrown together by by a bunch of non-musical people in two weeks (!), and everyone else in Beige who fucking killed this.

The best (worst?) part is that I was out of town for the whole rehearsal process (trust me, I would have forced my terrible singing voice all up in this if I had been there) so I spent a whole vacation sitting in my hotel room anxiously watching cell phone footage of rehearsals. I still have those videos. They’re hilarious.

jonbershad: Here’s the trailer for the American version of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:43:05 -0400

jonbershad:

Here’s the trailer for the American version of Gavin & Stacey, a British show the networks have tried to remake multiple times.

And… it doesn’t look terrible. Using State alums is always fun and Michael Ian Black as Uncle Bryn (or whatever his name will be here) is pretty inspired.

I don’t get the title change at all though. I actually don’t mind “Us & Them,” but why? My only guess is that test audiences didn’t like the British-sounding name Gavin.

Also, I have no idea how they’re going to make it work with American-length seasons. The original series already had to stretch to explain why the
families who lived so far apart kept meeting up and that was only with a
few episodes.

Still, I’m intrigued. Of course, this is a mid-season replacement so we may never actually see it.

I’m reblogging myself because I have a much better guess about the name change: The failure of Ben & Kate caused it.

Here’s the trailer for the American version of Gavin &...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:57:27 -0400

Here’s the trailer for the American version of Gavin & Stacey, a British show the networks have tried to remake multiple times.

And… it doesn’t look terrible. Using State alums is always fun and Michael Ian Black as Uncle Bryn (or whatever his name will be here) is pretty inspired.

I don’t get the title change at all though. I actually don’t mind “Us & Them,” but why? My only guess is that test audiences didn’t like the British-sounding name Gavin.

Also, I have no idea how they’re going to make it work with American-length seasons. The original series already had to stretch to explain why the
families who lived so far apart kept meeting up and that was only with a
few episodes.

Still, I’m intrigued. Of course, this is a mid-season replacement so we may never actually see it.

stophittingyourself: Outtakes from Young Frankenstein. Enjoy,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:54:46 -0400

stophittingyourself:

Outtakes from Young Frankenstein.

Enjoy, friends.

Did they know how good they were? How good the movie was going to be?

First official still from the set of “Super Mario Bros.:...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:55:25 -0400

First official still from the set of “Super Mario Bros.: Days of Future Past.”