We've all done it before. We've bought bad presents for our significant others. Sometimes those presents turn out to be worse than we could have imagined. Jean did everything she could to let Rob know what she wanted, but he just didn't get it. Come see just how far from the mark he really was!

Another Friday night, anoth

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This week has two mini-themes of secrets and frightening near futures. You know, mixed in with the usual laughs.

Michael brings us the horrifying truth behind 'The New Job'.
David gives us a frightening glimpse at the near future in 'It's Three A.M.'
Richard gives us hippies and their shameful secrets in 'Fight the P

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You ever wonder about those hippies hanging outside Whole Foods with petitions? Who are they, where do they come from, and why is soap part of the patriarchal hegemony? Here's a sketch about a couple of those kids. Even hemp-clad and doused in patchouli, they still deserve our love, right?

Listen in on Breeze and Anton as t

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In an interview with MTV, Rachel McAdams indicated that she'd like to play Black Orchid in an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean comic from the '80s. McAdams has auditioned for other superhero movies and not gotten the call, so this new approach - finding an exciting and interesting character and promoting herself for

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Do you know what you have to do to go home after surgery? Prove you can pee.

Read with amazement and wonder. Will he pee? Will he do it on his own? What if he just can't?! Will he ever leave the hospital?

The tongue may be in cheek, but the bladder is exposed for all the world to mock. Come see just what it takes to empt

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MI5 employed charlatan-extraordinaire Louis de Wohl for time during WW2 in order to "match the forecasts of the Nazi leader's personal astrologers." His mysterious past (mostly just a series of lies he told about his life) must have made him seem the perfect astrologer to counter Hitler's. At various times, de Wohl claimed

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No mystery by now, everyone should know that Friday nights are more fun than they've been since the Olson twins weren't legal. It's time for Sketch War again! Three comedy writers, three different comedy sketches. This week we've got:

* The One True Plan for the best cellphone coverage possible
* Erin Andrew

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Another Friday means it's time for Sketch War.

The NFL Combine just completed and ESPN Draft guru Mel Kiper learned a lot about the young men jockeying for position in the draft from their performance. But what exactly goes on at the Combine? What are the tests and challenges they faced? And did I see one of the defensive b

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How is this day unlike all the others? Many years ago my mother squirted me out of her vag. Goody for me.

I don't celebrate my birthday - a fact I made perfectly clear to my coworkers. Apparently "I don't celebrate my birthday" wasn't clear enough, for sure enough this morning, the skank I hate brought balloons. Now if

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This week in the comedy arena, three gladiators entered...would any survive? The blood, the entrails, the pain, the laughs! Putting aside their weapons of mass distraction, the warriors fought toothpaste and hangnail for supremacy.

* "Put that cookie down! Cookies are for donors only."
* where ARE all the terrorists these

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Another day, another migraine. There's nothing quite like working with people who can't get by with task lighting to really irritate those of us under 50. If you're sitting in front of a monitor - a source of light, by the way - why exactly do you need to flood the office in a sickly too-blue glow? Is it because you closed t

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Friday night means it's time for another round of sketch warfare. Small comedy grenades, humor bullets, and mirth munitions exploding on your computer for your comedy pleasure.

This week, three writers bring three takes of comedy gold...
* the psychiatrist and the patient with very slight anger issues
* the dream of the

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Kevin Kelly discusses the intelligence of the hive mind and the place for top-down editorial control on the Web. Kelly is the co-founder of Wired, the author of Out of Control, and a board member of The Long Now Foundation.

Believing that "the bottom is not

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The WGA membership voted last night to suspend the work stoppage, and writers are back to work today. The deal with the AMPTP hasn't been ratified yet, but with 92% voting to return to work, it is a foregone conclusion that membership will overwhelmingly approve the deal by the February 25 deadline. And that is quite a shame.

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Alex Cox wrote a sequel to Repo Man back in the mid-nineties, but thanks to a 21-year-old studio exec who'd never seen the cult classic, it never got off the ground. He sat on it, figuring it was dead, for years. Eventually, he decided to try soliciting comics artists by putting it up on his website. Chris Bone res

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