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Beat Sheets

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:27:25 -0400

Recently read Save the Cat by Blake Snyder. A well known book on screenwriting. In it he shows you how to break down a story using a beat sheet. Breaking the 3 Act structure into 15 beats every Hollywood movie hits and when (what page). I’ve found it to be super helpful. It got me wondering if this could be done for sketch.

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communitynbc: Congratulations to The Spoonmissioner, the Grand...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:27:52 -0400

communitynbc:

Congratulations to The Spoonmissioner, the Grand Prize Winner of the first ever Greendale GIF-A-Thon!

Gizoogle.net

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:32:48 -0400

Gizoogle.net:

spotastic:

Holy shit, this is the best link in the world. Everything is hilarious.

Especially Will Hines’ Twitter Feed.

mattfisher: Last year when we were going through all the...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:24:03 -0400

mattfisher:

Last year when we were going through all the Progressive nonsense, there was a hashtag going on Twitter, #katiefisher, and people were using it to pass around updates about how the news battle was going and to give Progressive grief (for which grief I will be eternally grateful to you all).

It occurred to me then that even though so many people were working so hard for Katie and me and my family, we weren’t really talking much about her and her life. So I sort of jacked the #katiefisher tag and put up some tweets about my memories of Katie. One of those was about all the cookies that she mailed to me when I was away at school.

It was that tweet that inspired Porter and Kim Mason to suggest to me that we should memorialize Katie by seeing how many cookies we could get sent around between people who love each other.

Part of the reason that I was and am so excited to be working on Katie Fisher Day is that I want to remember Katie, and I want y’all to remember her too.

Everyone has again worked so hard to make Katie Fisher Day 2013 happen, and it means so much to me because it is a very Katie kind of day. She would have jumped all over this.

Hopefully the joy of the day is between the people baking cookies and the people receiving cookies, all of us enjoying their happiness. I won’t take this day to re-eulogize Katie or to try to put me and her in between you and the folks that you love.

Everyone should know, though, that by getting involved and baking and reaching out to your loved ones, you’re remembering Katie the best way possible— by doing for each other the things that she did for me and everyone around her.

anthonyking: joemande: TOP REPUBLICANS ON ROMNEY. Pretty much...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:39:24 -0400

anthonyking:

joemande:

TOP REPUBLICANS ON ROMNEY. Pretty much the only political ad you need to see this year.

#mittromneyisaliar

kuma-naru: The Line of Dwarves Of Erebor

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:22:42 -0400

kuma-naru:

The Line of Dwarves Of Erebor

Will Hines: More Anti-Progressive Daydreams

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:02:25 -0400

Will Hines: More Anti-Progressive Daydreams:

williebhines:

The Fishers initially wanted $75,000 from Progressive (the difference between the at-fault driver’s claim and Katie’s). Progressive refused to pay. The Fishers aren’t legally allowed(?) to dispute that so they sue the other driver, and despite Progressive legally defending him, are awarded…

mattfisher: My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:23:36 -0400

mattfisher:

My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court

I’ve been sending out some impertinent tweets about Progressive Insurance lately, but I haven’t explained how they pissed me off. So I will do that here as succinctly as possible. There’s a general understanding that says, “insurance companies— oh they’re awful,” but since Progressive turned their shit hose on my late sister and my parents, I’ve learned some things that really surprised me.

I’ll try to cleave to the facts. On June 19, 2010, my sister was driving in Baltimore when her car was struck by another car and she was killed. The other driver had run a red light and hit my sister as she crossed the intersection on the green light.

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Reblog this, speak out about this, and exercise financial pressure on the corporate goons and lawyers that make gross inhuman decisions like these. Don’t buy Progressive insurance. If you already have Progressive, take your business elsewhere. Don’t support a company that is willing to defend a murderer b/c it’s cheaper than doing the right thing.

mattfisher: My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:21:08 -0400

mattfisher:

My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court

I’ve been sending out some impertinent tweets about Progressive Insurance lately, but I haven’t explained how they pissed me off. So I will do that here as succinctly as possible. There’s a general understanding that says, “insurance companies— oh they’re awful,” but since Progressive turned their shit hose on my late sister and my parents, I’ve learned some things that really surprised me.

I’ll try to cleave to the facts. On June 19, 2010, my sister was driving in Baltimore when her car was struck by another car and she was killed. The other driver had run a red light and hit my sister as she crossed the intersection on the green light.

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Eliza! Eliza!: Dudes - fix your shitty apartment.

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:01:10 -0400

Eliza! Eliza!: Dudes - fix your shitty apartment.:

elizaeliza:

Simple. Masculine. GOOD. You can do this.

A few weeks ago my friends and I went to a party at a guy’s house. This dude and his friends were very cute and funny, with great arms and taste in music - AND YET upon walking into their apartment my pussy dried up and left. It put on it’s…

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:26:20 -0400

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Wed, 30 May 2012 09:58:36 -0400

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:05:47 -0400

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? :

danharmon:

Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…

Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago Improv with SNL's Alex Baze

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:10:22 -0400

Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago Improv with SNL's Alex Baze:

improvnonsense:

I did this interview with Alex Baze for splitsider.com. You read splitsider, right? Don’t be dumb: read splitsider.

splitsider:

He was in his late 50s when I was taking classes from him and he had a shitty apartment and slept on a futon and all he ever did was hang around Improv Olympic, watching or teaching, never really performing. His classes were so insane. It was a three hour class and sometimes he would tell two people to get on stage and we would just do scenes for three hours and get notes from him and then sometimes he would come in and say, “Did I ever tell you the time that John Belushi and I did acid?” and he would just tell you stories for three hours and nobody would get on stage. You’d be like, “What the hell just happened?” But it was clear that he just had unfounded enthusiasm for this form and it was contagious. He was a charismatic guy.

- SNL’s Weekend Update head writer Alex Baze on his time studying under Del Close in Chicago in the early 90s. He performed with The Victim’s Family (later shortened to just The Family), a legendary team that featured Adam McKay, Rachel Dratch, Matt Besser, and Ian Roberts, amongst others.

khealywu: salgentile: A Ron Swanson/Rorschach mashup? The...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:08:40 -0400

khealywu:

salgentile:

A Ron Swanson/Rorschach mashup?

The internet is wonderful.

Ron’s fitful run up the hill after ‘the bacon is gone’ speech is one of my favorite moments in recorded comedy.

Swanson for VP 2012

caro: nusca: paulafroelich: surprised they werent all hired...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:36:13 -0400

caro:

nusca:

paulafroelich:

surprised they werent all hired by NBC news first

Whether you agree or disagree, this is hysterical right on down to the shopped HBO logo.

I wonder if Mamet’s daughter has improved at all since her awful performances on “Mad Men”.

"HOW TO 'MAKE IT' IN COMEDY" by Rob Delaney. This is good advice. Also applies to writing, music, cheesemonging, technical drawing, everything.

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:09:12 -0400

"HOW TO 'MAKE IT' IN COMEDY" by Rob Delaney. This is good advice. Also applies to writing, music, cheesemonging, technical drawing, everything.

"My name is Douglas Rushkoff I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices. You are not..."

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:49:53 -0500

“

My name is Douglas Rushkoff
I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices.

You are not fighting against people, but against a machine.
It was put in place over 500 years ago.
By a wealthy elite - trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy.
Those people are all dead, but their program lives on.

They invented an operating system called central currency.
People who used to trade directly,
were now forced to borrow money from the king’s bank.
At interest.

The elite also invented software for that operating system.
It was called the chartered monopoly. Today we call it the corporation.

It is a program designed to extract value.
It has legal monopoly over its industries.
We are legally prohibited from creating and exchanging value
unless we do it through the corporation.
We cannot work unless we have a “job.”

We outsource our work, we outsource our savings, we outsource our borrowing, we outsource our investing - all instead of sourcing one another.

This 13th Century, printing-press era operating system
is incompatible with a 21st Century economy.
It is broken and dying. But it is still occupying our reality.

Too many are mistaking this operating system - for the way things are.
They see the Occupy Movement as the impediment.
No.
We are not asking for wealth to be redistributed.
We are asking for the redistribution to STOP.

The Long Extraction is Over.

The peer to peer society is back.
We are ready to create and exchange value as people.

They say that the Occupy Movement has no leadership.
They are wrong.
You are the leaders

The rest of us are your followers.
What you do here - shows what we can do out there.

You are the classroom - we are the students

You are the experiment - we are the results.

You are the proposition - we are the resolution.

If you can sleep under tarps
the rest of us can tell your story to our children at bedtime

If you can resist the cops.
The rest of us can resist the market and the mall

If you can live on shared food
The rest of us can buy and grow local crops

If you can live with no money
The rest of us can start using alternative currencies

If you can stand firm in the streets
The rest of us can stand firm in our foreclosed homes
and stand with our neighbors in theirs.

If you can occupy Zucotti Park
The rest of us can occupy reality.

And by that same logic:
As the nights get colder,
as the Mayor grows less tolerant,
or as the police get more violent,

Remember that you have already won.

Whatever happens in this square,
the day you leave is not the day you have lost
it is not the day you have surrendered.

It is the day you have spread out.
It is the day you have declared a bigger battlefield.
It is the day you teachers and we students become the same.

It is the day we Occupy the World.

”

- Douglas Rushkoff’s speech to Occupy Wall Street last Wednesday (via halphillips)

Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:11:30 -0400

Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger

Superman's Powers Put To Most Efficient Use For Good

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:10:06 -0400

Superman's Powers Put To Most Efficient Use For Good