A new video!! Veronica and Zach are so, so good in this. And Fred Soligan and all the Grey Hour Media guys are mega-talented filmmakers. Please watch and share!
Madalyn Baldanzi?
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2013-05-21
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2013-05-16
Goodbye Office
Today is the season finale of The Office, and I feel that I can’t let it go by without saying some sort of thing on the Internet about it.
I know it’s not really cool to like this show. It’s much better to say, “Oh, I like the British Office. The American version just isn’t that funny and it’s been a disaster the last few seasons. I don’t even watch it anymore.” So when people ask me my favorite TV show of all time is, I usually lie. But it’s The Office. The American Office. I love this show. A real, genuine, and sure, maybe pathetic love.
I started watching The Office my sophomore year of college. So I’ve been watching this show since I was nineteen years old. Every Thursday night, or once I started working, Friday at 5PM, I would sit down and visit with people that became my close friends. I feel genuinely close to Pam, and Jim, and Dwight, and Michael. I guess that’s weird to admit, but it’s true. I love these fictional people. I remember thinking in college how horrible it would be when it ended, because these people I love would essentially be dead. And I get that that’s what TV is all about: they rope you in on the characters so that they can keep selling you the show, even when it’s past its prime.
But that’s just the thing. More than anything else, The Office is what made me decide I wanted to write for TV. I can’t watch the finale live tonight, because I have to go to a writer’s meeting for my sketch group, my favorite thing in the world. Because The Office made me want to write for TV. I mean, those guys kept me going through some shitty things in my life, and I wanted to do that for other people. To entertain people in that way. And it was the characters who did that. So for all the sketches we write, and improv scenes we do, The Office has taught me to love character. Those are some of the best damn characters ever. And that’s a lesson I will never forget when I’m writing something, and I think a good one to remember.
I don’t know, I understand that most people don’t like the show anymore, and maybe never did, but it’s been very important to me and I’m sad to see it go. I guess I’m gonna get out of this by ending with one of my all time favorite quotes, which absolutely does not apply to anything I just wrote about.
“Christmas is awesome. First of all, you get to spend time with people you love. Secondly, you can get drunk and no one can say anything. Third, you give presents. What’s better than giving presents? And fourth, getting presents. So four things. Not bad for one day. It’s really the greatest day of all time.” - Michael Scott
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2013-05-12
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2013-05-06
Did You Know?
Russell Bertrand’s A History of Western Philosophy is full of great facts. Here is the best one so far.
Did you know that…
…”After five years spent in retirement, Francis Bacon died of a chill caught while experimenting on refrigeration by stuffing a chicken full of snow.” ???
Poor Francis B. Sad boy.
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2013-04-29
I wrote this sketch from last month’s Fambly show. It stars Dan Black, Zach Broussard, Dan Chamberlain, Bridey Elliott, and Veronica Osorio. Directed by Dan Mirk.
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2013-04-23
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2013-04-18
April 1974: Bruce Springsteen and the as-yet-not-formally-named E Street band played at the amphitheater.
Source: swarthmorealumni
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2013-04-17
Source: jasonflowers
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2013-04-16
Damn, this kid is 23. He was writing great pop songs three years ago and it sounds like he’s just gonna keep getting better and better.
Source: Spotify
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I wrote this. I don’t really like sketches about sex stuff that much, but hey, I mean, I wrote this down on paper and people acted it out, so there you go. It’s got all of Fambly in it except for me and they were all awesome and great of course, and the sketch was directed by the lovely Matt Klinman.
