Hope to see you
at Gotham this Wed. @ 9:30 p.m. for the Funniest Reporter show as part of the New York Underground Comedy Festival. I'm not competing. I'm just doing a little set of God knows what and handing off the crown made of empty promises.
...So wow.
These may be some of the funniest Gawker comments I have read in forever. They went apeshit. But it's pretty brilliant stuff.
Genius.
Speaking of which, please read about Colbert's new book in a preview I wrote for this Sunday's Post. My friend Soren McCarthy gave me a quote, which I absolutely love, love, love, as it sums up so much of what I've learned about comedy, writing and just existing in the last few years.
Suspend your ego, and that's when life gets really awesome.
After you're done, if you're a Colbert fan, which you should be as he's the most subversive voice out there right now, read this exquisite Vanity Fair profile. Wonderful, in every way.
(Something wonderful right away.)
I also have to say, I think there's something about experiencing tragedy in your life early on (for me, it was growing up with my father's) that makes you a little more fearless, a little more joyful, a little more free to just seize the shit out of everything. So yeah. I relate to that. It's all in how you use things, right? Right. So remember that the next time you encounter suffering.
Now go be fearless.
...So wow.
These may be some of the funniest Gawker comments I have read in forever. They went apeshit. But it's pretty brilliant stuff.
Mandy Stadtmiller writes her own prescriptions for over-the-counter drugs.
Mandy Stadtmiller once experimented with spelling her name "Mandy Staadtmiller," but gave it up a couple minutes later.
Mandy Stadtmiller is reasonably sure she's not a lesbian, but that chick on "House" occasionally makes her think otherwise.
Mandy Stadtmiller came in fourth place at a Texas regional 5th grade spelling bee without even participating. The word that finally got her was "couch."
Mandy Stadtmiller calls croutons "toasted bread cubes."
Mandy Stadtmiller feels guilty about still following "Desperate Housewives."
Mandy Stadtmiller can produce a working lava lamp from two lumps of silly putty, a jar of mayonnaise, a hair clip and a match.
Mandy Stadtmiller served as fact checker for the Essex County, CT regional newspaper's police blotter.
Mandy Stadtmiller's idea of a good time is none of your beeswax.
Genius.
Speaking of which, please read about Colbert's new book in a preview I wrote for this Sunday's Post. My friend Soren McCarthy gave me a quote, which I absolutely love, love, love, as it sums up so much of what I've learned about comedy, writing and just existing in the last few years.
Suspend your ego, and that's when life gets really awesome.
"He trusts the audience to be at least as smart as he is," says 36-year-old comedy writer Soren McCarthy, who was a few years behind Colbert at their shared improvisational training ground, Second City in Chicago. "Many other smart performers will treat comedy as an intellectual exercise . . . They have the need to make sure you know they are smart. Stephen fearlessly suspends his own ego. It's the only way he can so convincingly play 'the high-status idiot' so well."
After you're done, if you're a Colbert fan, which you should be as he's the most subversive voice out there right now, read this exquisite Vanity Fair profile. Wonderful, in every way.
(Something wonderful right away.)
I also have to say, I think there's something about experiencing tragedy in your life early on (for me, it was growing up with my father's) that makes you a little more fearless, a little more joyful, a little more free to just seize the shit out of everything. So yeah. I relate to that. It's all in how you use things, right? Right. So remember that the next time you encounter suffering.
Now go be fearless.
posted by mandy at 10/02/2007 12:06:00 AM
