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New video: Loving Farms

Here’s another UCB Comedy video I wrote. This vid will mostly be remembered as the one that started Diamonds, Wow!’s obsession with writing baby goats into everything we produce. Loving Farms produces old-fashioned animal porn untainted by homosexuality.
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New Video: Zuckerberg’s Facebook Apology

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is soooo sorry about Facebook’s new privacy policy. Psych. (I wrote this one! Mostly. Ed came up with a bunch of the visual gags. And it is HuffPo approved.) I tend to only embed the vids I wrote, because they look so messed up on formatted for this blog. But you [...]
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Video: Jennifer Aniston Wants Your House

Guess who has a new video with Diamonds Wow at UCB Comedy! Please check out our other videos at UCBComedy.com. As always, this will look better there than pounded into Wordpress with a mallet.
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Chrysler Failed Because of Three Guys Who Each Stole a Car a Day

I wrote this awhile ago, but never shot it. So here, website. Have a script about the implosion of Chrysler. Exterior, Chrysler factory, day. A whistle blows. Three guys in hard hats enter. They sit on a bench to eat lunch. Clyde takes out a newspaper. VERN Hey, you guys hear the penny finally dropped? Yeah, after years of [...]
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American Beauty Bag Audition (new video)

Ed and the guys get the credit for the stop motion animation. I get the credit for deciding that Gristedes bags are patronizing assholes. Please check out our other videos at UCBComedy.com. (You can see this video bigger there. I’d recommend it, actually.)
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Backlogged Google Accounts Payable Department Finally Gets Around To Sending Out GMail Bills

Dear Gmail Customer, First off, thanks for bearing with us. You’ve had a Gmail account since 2004, which makes you one of our longest users. You stuck with us through the years that Gmail was in beta as we worked out the kinks. We’re sending you this email to let you know how [...]
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The Blind Side = My Friend Flicka

So the Oscars are tomorrow, and the feel-good Sandra Bullock film The Blind Side is nominated for Best Picture. This has served me to remind me of something: how weirded out I am by The Blind Side. I haven’t seen it, but every time I saw the trailer it made me uncomfortable and I couldn’t [...]
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Sex, Drugs, and the Hard Rock Cafe

Check it: the first video I wrote for UCB Comedy group Diamonds, Wow! It is mad funny, you guys. Thanks to all the cast and crew, especially editor Zach Neumeyer, who died of a massive Photoshop overdose. You can find all our fabulous Diamonds, Wow! hilarity at UCBComedy.com.
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Diamonds Wow!

So as my Twitter followers know, I recently joined an Upright Citizens Brigade video sketchwriting team called Diamonds Wow!. Diamonds Wow! has been hard at work these last few weeks crafting internet funnies for you and yours, and our first video just went live. Written by the hilarious Kevin Hines, I give you Stops Diarrhea, [...]
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The TSA’s new rules governing the last hour of international flights foil Ahmed and Sayed the procrastinating terrorists

AHMED The time is nigh! The Captain has turned off the Fasten Seatbelt sign and we may move about the cabin! Now, Sayed, we will retrieve our carry-on luggage from the compartment above us, take out our detonators and explode our gunpowder-filled pants, blowing these infidels to kingdom come! Death to America! SAYED Yes! Death to America! AHMED Death to [...]
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