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David Cross and Bob Odenkirk talk about their HBO pilot.

The happy story of Human Giant's "Hot Air Balloons Patrol"

Coolest fraternity guys in history.

Neil Campbell presents: The Cat Bath Chronicles

Transexuals + balloons + elephant polo = holy shit, what a find on metafilter.

Louis CK writes about his role as Ricky Gervais' best friend in Gervais new film.

Really wonderful old interview with graphic designer Chip Kidd in the AV Club

David Sedaris quit smoking, then wrote about it in The New Yorker

Human Giant's web video picks on Wired.com

NPR YouTube channel

How much money do you make?

Early Conan: The Cartoon Strip

My esteemed alma mater slides further into self-parody

Marketing guru / TSOYA Fan Seth Godin: There's no Hillary bias or Obama bias. There is a drama bias.

Yes we can! Type!

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Spectacular profile of Lenny "Nails" Dykstra, former Phillies star, now super-rich guy, in the New Yorker

Jack McBrayer in the NY Times

The death of comedy legend Del Close

Stuff White People Like got a $300K book deal? Imagine how much they could have gotten if it was funny.

Report: Nation's gentrified neighborhoods threatened by Aristocratization

Cool interviews lately in the AV Club:
Amy Poehler
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
Amy Heckerling

Dave Hill's TV show got cancelled, but he will have a new TV show, so says Dave Hill.

The new UK coinage is kick ass.

Tasha Adams, wife of MaxFun pal comedian/author Nick Adams, has a new block with Curbed called Racked LA about LA shopping.

This is probably my favorite music video.

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Interview with JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pootietang) that is fucking hilarious.

Andre the Giant: The Greatest Drunk on Earth

Jack Handey is so fucking funny it is hard to imagine that The New Yorker publishes him in "Shouts and Murmurs," one of the world's least funny humor columns.

Great AV Club guide to the work of Alan Moore. I'm a comics neophyte, for the most part, so there was a lot of good info in here for me.

This is a great picture of a great bunny rabbit, sent to me by a listener who didn't give his or her name.

Congrats to the very funny Mike Birbiglia who just got a CBS pilot - "My Secret Public Journal"

Chris Meloni (Wet Hot American Summer, Law & Order) and Amy Sedaris are in a Nickelodeon TV movie due later this year

I don't usually link trailers, but for the new Errol Morris film, I make an exception.

One of the funniest Onion stories ever, and also probably the saddest. Almost made me cry.

My long time friend Adam Katz is reviewing entertainment at his very good new blog What I Love. It also chronicles things he doesn't love. How he's doing this while in his first year at Columbia Law is beyond my comprehension.

Interesting rundown of Gene Wilder's SF Sketchfest on-stage interview

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Great (but old) article in Salon about Chris Morris and his (in)famous BrassEye satirical special on pedophilia. BrassEye, by the way, is the funniest TV show with which I am familiar.

Who wants to subsidize a billionaire? The Hardball Times takes on the BS of demanding pro ballplayers give "hometown discounts."

In other baseball news: baseballanalysts.com lists some of the coolest non-roster invitees this spring. Tim Raines Jr.!

RIP to Dame Edna's legendary "bridesmaid" "Madge Alsop," actress Emily Perry. Died at the ripe old age of 100.

Ira Glass talks about translating TAL to TV on the Borders Show (or something like that... it's giving me flashbacks to my summer at Borders in DC) Host does a nice job.

Best Spring Training picture ever. Jim Bowden? More like GOB Bowden.

Fred Willard profile in the NY Times

"If two couch potatoes mate, does that make their offspring hashbrowns?" - Jean Tisdale tries standup.

SF Standup interviews wonderful standup comic and MaxFun pal Al Madrigal, who's got a new sitcom on CBS

You may have caught Elephant Larry on The Sound this past weekend; one of the group's members, MFer Alex Zalben, has just started contributing to a nerve.com blog called The Modern Materialist. He's a smart, funny guy, so I bet it'll be great. And that site has SUPER CLASSY porn.

Ever wondered what the relationship is between the Onion and The Onion AV Club?

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George Saunders: People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction

Great profile of our man Claude Brodesser-Ackner from The Business, with a focus on his conversion to Judaism

Mortified, the live event (and book) series of people reading embarassing material from their childhoods, has launched a web video series

The history of British comedy, with copious video links

JB Smoove hits the pages of the NY Times

Vendela Vida + Dave Eggers + Jon Krasinski + Maya Rudolph + Sam Mendes = Movie?

Michael Showalter in the AV Club

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

A "beefsteak" sounds like the greatest social event of all time.

Can you spot the TSOYA poster in this episode of BBTV?

Our man Andrew WK interviews Baby Dee on Fader TV

Vice Magazine's assholery-free look at improv, and particularly the UCB's Assssscat.

Update from a reliable source (trust me) w/r/t the status of the Terry Gilliam film, featuring the late Heath Ledger

Good instructions on a very basic podcast recording setup for two macs anywhere in the world. (full disclosure: author is the boss of TSOYA underwriter metafilter)

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David Wain & Paul Rudd hit New York public access to promote The Ten

Paul Scheer's top 5 goats of 2007

What family means to me.

New York comedian Matt Ruby describes what it's like when Chris Rock hits a club to work out some material.

Hodgman: "The nerds are winning."

Ape Lad interprets Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker mascot

This baby is smoking a pipe!

Tracy Morgan autobiography? Fuck yeah! Possible title: "Hilarious Nonsense I Have Spewed"

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Paul Rust's life to age 13 in a blog post. Fucking hilarious.

Aziz Ansari from Human Giant is straight-up GRUBBIN in NYC. He is having some chomptacular experiences.

How to make rainbow pee.

I love Laura Linney! And the AV Club interviewed her.

How to buy eyeglasses online, courtesy of 43 Folders

Baseball swearing, turn-of-the-century style. When your history teacher told you to look at primary sources, think she was talking about "cunt-lapping dogs?"

Pretty in-depth Futurama feature in Wired

Big comedy documentary coming to PBS

Holy shit do I want to live on this 1950s cruise ship parked in SF.

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The Jeannie Tate Show is full of TSOYA-pals. It's the world's only talk show filmed in a suburban mom's minivan. Directed by Maggie Carey, featuring special guests Jordan Carlos and Rashida Jones.

Is a $1200 bottle of wine immoral? Daniel Handler considers the issue, as chronicled by Kasper Hauser's Rob Baedekker.

The New York Times profiles Human Giant and the UCB Theater. Excellent primer on NY long-form improv.

Steven Fry has started a tech column for the Guardian.

350 MST3K shorts.

A big piece in Macleans, a Canadian national newsmagazine, about Colbert that mentions TSOYA

Mike Birbiglia got himself an A-Team van.

This is important: Jeff Solomon of Elephant Larry offers us some highly comprehensive apple reviews. Not Apple reviews, apple reviews.

199 Peter Cook videos

Our man Ben Kharakh interviews our man Chris Hardwick (who'll be back on TSOYA soon)

Robot Comedy in McSweeney's (Thanks David)

Be the first to mail emma the intern (emma at maximumfun) an identification of the Genesis game above, get stickers in the mail.

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The Wire creator David Simon in The New Yorker

Mindy Kaling, writer/actor on the office, offers her "Summer 2007 Cute Awards," which award the cutest things of Summer, 2007.

Paul Rust has determined the five worst ways to die.

The always-insightful Brian Palmer runs down the website "Hot Chicks with Douchebags"

What it feels like to bomb, by Louis CK

The Apiary goes Inside With America's Funnyman(TM), Neil Hamburger

How to win a mustache contest.

Nathan Rabin at the AV Club offers a thoughtful endorsement of the wonderful and very funny film "The TV Set," which I guess is out on DVD now.

Teller explains the science of magic...

Looks like Richard Montoya of Culture clash is headed to the Sundance Institute to develop their show Water & Power into a film.

As always, first person to email me the name of the genesis game above AND their mailing address gets a TSOYA sticker in the mail.

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BLAST PROCESSING!

This is how Season One, Episode One of The Wire begins. "This is America, mayne."

There are only 12 kinds of advertisements.

If you like to see weird and wonderful (and very often beautiful) cars, you should be subscribing to the Hemmings Motor News blog. From steam cars to Ferraris to amphibious cars to the car from Risky Business, they cover it all.

The New Yorker looks at Philip K. Dick

We should all have such wonderful problems: what to do with two dozen sticky hands?

Turns out basketball star Gilbert "Agent Zero" Arenas, previously believed to be awesome, is actually kind of a jerk.

Slate gets it right: screw House, watch A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

What it's like at a public radio singles mixer.

Remembering the Situationists, 50 years later.

David Wain's hilarious student film (thanks huond)

Merlin Mann's thoughts on Fight Club

Jordan reports for Fuel from the Star Wars Celebration

Bill Weber on Antonioni

New video from the LA sketch group "Oh, You and Your Bone Spurs"

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IT IS PROVEN: old people don't get jokes.

A succinct recap of an amazing Match Game I saw in LA. You'll never believe the text message that led a strange audience member to flee the theater halfway through.

Why are some New Orleans politicos trying to ban taco trucks? I'll give you a hint... it starts with "r" and ends with "acism."

Surprise! White people hate Barry Bonds.

Are video game consumers the most discerning in entertainment?

NBC is standing behind its Thursday comedy lineup.

Why don't we create more sweet new sports?

The excellent NYC radio host Jay Smooth is videoblogging at illdoctrine.com --

Patton Oswalt makes the Newspaper of Record

Punchline Magazine covers former TSOYA guest Jimmy Carr's set at Just For Laughs, the Montreal COmedy Festival.

C-Span's Book TV now has a handsome redesigned website with plenty of stuff to see online.

I'm not entirely sure what the periodic table of the internet is, but it seems that MaximumFun.org is on it. Thanks, mystery site!

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Why doesn't western literary tradition respect comedy?

The dark history of "white trash"

Congrats to Hard N Phirm, who are getting a Comedy Central special!

The secret to the Red Sox success: five-toed socks from Japan

Neal Pollack teaches his son early about TSOYA t-shirts.

The GREAT Andy Daly joins the cast of Ferrel/McKay HBO Pilot

LOLCoultonz

Also: how Jonathan Coulton became an internet superstar

Hard N Phirm comment on soft rock on Video Hits One.

Judd Apatow + Harold Ramis + Jack Black + Michael Cera = "Year One"

The secret to opening for Springsteen: form a band of literary superstars, like my friend Kathi did.

Is improvisation ruining film comedy?

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Perhaps China is a bigger threat than any of us realize. (Video by listener Scott)

If you live in New York, you can go to this WNYC Soundcheck singles event. You fucking lonely record nerd. (PS: I love you)

Dear Roger Clemens: I hate you (and you are fat)

The very funny Brian Regan is bidding to break out of the "as famous as you can be for performing live standup" box with a two-special deal with Comedy Central that may also include a series.

SF Standup interviews the wonderful Will Franken

Kool-Aid pickles are The New Sincerity.

Ten Reasons Why Paul Scheer loves Abercrombie & Fitch

Our main man Jouster interviews our other main man, the Human Giant's Jason Woliner, who was a TSOYA supporter before he was even a Human Giant!

Emdashes gives us more secrets from The New Yorker's librarians

Roger Ebert is on the way back, and I think it's time that all the haters admit that this guy is a great asset to our nation.

Seth Rogen in Mass Appeal

Matt Groening and James L. Brooks discuss the Simpsons Movie.

Am I wrong to think David Cross seems a little sad in this interview? Maybe I'm totally wrong.

Inside with Joe Garden in The Apiary

Simon Pegg on Quickstop Entertainment

Human Giant's Paul Scheer in the Long Island Press

And the whole team in the AV Club

Rob Corddry's House in the NY Times

Patton Oswalt's touching and hilarious thoughts on the best job he ever had (co-starring on The King of Queens)

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The hilarious Conan writing packet of Andres du Bouchet (a guest on our live in NYC show)

Bob Odenkirk is producing "Derek & Simon" as a web series for SuperDeluxe.

Orange County husband-and-wife comedy (and recreational boating!) team Sky & Nancy Collins get the Q&A treatment on The Coming.

Rob Heubel doesn't really hate whales: OR DOES HE?!

Ronnie DeVoe's new career is POISON on inconvenient home purchases!

Michael Ian Black to have a new commentary / sketch show on Comedy Central

Remember the TV taping with Paul F Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Andy Daly, Greg Giraldo and Louis Black? TV Squad went, and provide us with a rundown.

Baseball nerds only: a great interview with Jonah Keri, part-time sportswriter, part-time stock market writer, full-time baseball stat nerd.

"Why Mr. Bean scares the bejesus out of me."

Interview with Hard N Phirm in The Apiary

Ambidexterous Division 1 baseball pitcher. I believe I speak for America when I say: FUCK yeah.

Party fish!

Our pal Ben interviews Craig Ferguson

MaxFunPal Heather Campbell reviews the new Zelda game (very negatively)

Identify the Genesis game above first, send me your name and address, get stickers in the mail.

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This American Life TV show free on the internet

The New York Times and scientists team up to learn that laughter isn't about humor, it's about social cohesion. Which, by the way, is why people love Dane Cook.

Louis Theroux (TV Nation, Weird Weekends) interviewed by Quickstop. Fascinating stuff.

This video is very funny, it is also a little creepy. That said -- great use of the medium of web video.

Girls Gone (Oscar) Wilde

Comedy sound effects legend Michael Winslow (Police Academy) on love: Talking food is not funny to girls.

Dude, Rosie Perez is way cool.

Friend of TSOYA pal Mark de la Vina interviews Friend of TSOYA Doug Benson in the San Jose Mercury-News.

Dead Frog chats with Jen Kirkman

Another TSOYA print-pal, Rick Polito of the Marin Independent-Journal, tries standup.

Admiral John Hodgman, Captain of the good ship USS Friedfoods, investigates deep fried White Castle burgers

Venture Bros season 2 DVD preview

The Times covers The Whitest Kids U Know and The Human Giant

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Jen Kirkman gets the hook on Last Comic Standing

Holy crap, this is a murderer's row of comic talent they've lined up at Superdeluxe.

How rich people buy their way into elite colleges, and why poor people don't apply

Our folks at Quickstop Entertainment talk with Billy Connoly

The Reno 911 guys visit Washington DC's Georgetown

Seriously intense interview from IFC with Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan)

CB Radios are very New Sincerity.

I know Borat videos are sooo 2006, but here's Martha Stewart and Borat making a bed.

BEST FRIENDS!

Your Friend Andrew WK in the NY Times

Clint Eastwood Movie or Gay Porn?

Our pal Jackson Publick gives the rundown on what he spent the last few months doing.

Scott Storch is an idiot.

Michael Jordan was magical. Seriously un fucking believable. Even in 1984.

Speaking of SPORT, it seems that baseball legend Greg Maddux is fond of urinating on rookies in the clubhouse shower.

A recap of Brian Posehn's appearance at WonderCon from Ian Brill

As always, first person to email me with their address and the name of the genesis game above gets stickers in the mail.

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JJ GO is in this month's iTunes Podcast Spotlight!

File under: signs you've made it... we're one of the Five Hot Finds in the Pensacola News Journal!

Nerd alert! Former TSOYA fill-in host Brian Heater just started a great comics blog-zine: The Daily Crosshatch.

Man, Tina Fey is the greatest. Why was I once suspicious of her? Oh yeah, because I am an asshole.

How can National Public Radio become National Public Media?

Ego Trip interviews Prince Paul circa 1995 (thanks Josh!)

"Return to Oz" scared the piss out of me as a kid. Gave me many, many nightmares. I kind of remember loving it, though.

Damn, Anthony Bourdain really rips the Food Network a new one.

Our old pal comedian W. Kamau Bell gets a writeup in the SF Chronicle

David Sedaris lives the simple life, buys weed, etc (in The New Yorker)

The Onion: Justin Timberlake Apathetically Crowned "King of Pop"

Comedy writing legend Alan Zweibel's "History of Me" at the PIT in New York

What it's like to watch late-night TV comedy live... (and what it's like to wait in line for tickets)

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Simon Pegg (Shawn of the Dead) busts the myth that Americans just don't get irony.

If you are feeling down, it is a good idea to look at these pictures of happy bunnies and their new families.

I always enjoy the Pine Oaks Community Newsletter

Great Devin the Dude interview (aren't they all?)

On "conscious" rappers and homophobia

"The Tard Blog" (not by one-time JJGO guest Rachel)

The New York Times loves "Tim & Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job!"

TV Hero Louie Theroux (TV Nation, Weird Weekends) has a new book about his travels in America

Studio Comedy Death Ray on the Franklin Strip

Eugene Mirman in NY Mag (Thanks Emily!)

Details on Rian Johnson's new film, "an international con man adventure." Assiduous readers may recall that I am in love with his first film, "Brick."

Benjamin Franklin: our most hilarious Founding Father (by far)

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