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Posted Tue, 02/09/2010 - 09:49 by Jesse Thorn |

Past JJGo guests Chris Hardwick and Jonah Ray are starting a podcast!

Inside the Antiques Roadshow

Rooftop Comedy talks to our pal Jonathan Coulton.

A.O. Scott talks about one of my favorite films, "Three Kings"

A great interview with Todd Phillips about why he casts people who are actually funny in his films.

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Posted Wed, 09/23/2009 - 19:57 by Jesse Thorn |

An insane idiot and his collection of descending-size deer heads, by Jack Handey

Rafi Kam says the insult of our times is: "your hustle is showing."

Exhaustive interview with Stephen Colbert in Rolling Stone. He's a class act, by the way.

Fat Joe's new single is bananas. Next single will be horrible.

Errol Flynn STAYED fly.

And one of the photos from the above... NERD BOYFRIEND-IZED

Jordan and I went on our old pal (and one-time TSOYA host) Brian Heater's podcast, PC Magazine After Hours. Luke Burbank and Tom Scharpling were on, too! Fun!

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Posted Wed, 09/09/2009 - 20:18 by Jesse Thorn |

An insane idiot and his collection of descending-size deer heads, by Jack Handey

Rafi Kam says the insult of our times is: "your hustle is showing."

Exhaustive interview with Stephen Colbert in Rolling Stone. He's a class act, by the way.

Fat Joe's new single is bananas. Next single will be horrible.

Errol Flynn STAYED fly.

And one of the photos from the above... NERD BOYFRIEND-IZED

Dick Cavett talks to Jimmy Fallon about hosting a late night TV show.

David Letterman grows up?

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Posted Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:03 by Jesse Thorn |

J Zone's top ten adventures digging for beats

Mike Judge on Fresh Air

Raekwon grabs a Jay Dee beat for this track with RZA, GZA, Inspectah Deck and Method Man from Cuban Linx II

MaxFunPal Dan Kennedy is hosting a new public radio series based on stories from The Moth. I think it's gonna be great.

Bill Hicks' Principles of Comedy

Patton Oswalt profiled in the NY Times

David Cross in Time Magazine

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Posted Sat, 08/01/2009 - 07:45 by Jesse Thorn |

The epically brilliant illustrator Maira Kalman (a past TSOYA guest, use the search function people) illustrates what's so amazing about an all-time king of The New Sincerity, Ben Franklin for the NY Times

Armando Iannucci interview in the AV Club

What's the difference between cheap loafers and good ones?

True stories of the Orange County taco trucks

This is one ridiculous made-up trend in the NY Times that I can get behind "The New Antiquarians"

The bizarre majesty of Los Angeles public TV host Huell Howser

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Posted Tue, 07/14/2009 - 11:06 by Jesse Thorn |

Suggested poems for specific occaisions, from Scott Simpson

Andrew WK on Bach on All Things Considered

The New Yorker talks about souls with Paul Giamatti.

Where do baseball players go when they retire? To Billings, Montana, as it turns out. At least that's how it went for Delino Deshields.

I really like this new Naughty By Nature track, "I Got," because I am very old (on the verge of death)

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Posted Mon, 07/06/2009 - 12:57 by Jesse Thorn |

It's Garry Shandling's Show is coming to DVD!

Our man Jay Smooth on NPR's All Things Considered

Great Bob Odenkirk interview in The Chicago Reader

In dance craze news: are you jerkin'? Maybe you should be SUPER JERKIN!

Quincy Jones remembers Michael Jackson

The unofficial soundtrack to Eastbound and Down

I'm contributing to the sideblog on Boing Boing Video, sharing some of my favorite videos from Internet.

Mike Sacks, the author of "And Here's the Kicker," a book of interviews with comedy writers, has shared several in full on his site, like this one with past TSOYA guest Roz Chast.

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Posted Mon, 06/29/2009 - 09:53 by Jesse Thorn |

Now I want a pet capybara. Thanks a million, person who interviewed the owner of a pet capybara.

Interview with the great Tom Scharpling

All the Norm MacDonald videos you can handle, and more.

Our good pals Janet Varney and Cole Stratton (from SF Sketchfest &etc) have released their second Rifftrax -- Ghost.

The State DVD is now on sale.

Greg Mottola's last film was the really excellent "Adventureland." His next one is called "Paul," and it's written by and starring Nick Frost & Simon Pegg.

The NY Times "The Ethicist" columnist, a former Letterman writer, writes about the ethics of Letterman's Sarah Palin joke(s).

The music videos of Michel Gondry

Punchline Magazine talks to our pal Jimmy Pardo

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Posted Wed, 06/24/2009 - 16:13 by Jesse Thorn |

The Hoagiez: worst band ever

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Bonnaroo

David Cross is making a UK TV pilot with Will Arnett and Spike Jonze (acting for the first time since Three Kings)

Brule's Rules rules.

SoCal billboards of the 1950s. Amazing stuff.

Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter from Stella and The State have a new Comedy Central series, Michael & Michael Have Issues, and they've got their site up and running.

Baseball in beautiful charts

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Posted Fri, 06/19/2009 - 09:20 by Jesse Thorn |

Our pal Alex Blagg writes about the important stuff at Wonderwall. For example: TWELVE STARS WHO HATE PANTS

Our pal Brian Heater talks to Kevin McDonald of the Kids in the Hall about his one-man show, the KITH and Sketchfest NYC.

Our pal Jimmy Pardo in the Cleveland Examiner

Barry Obama, age 19

I love the movie Quick Change.

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