Tonight I will be reading at KGB, an East Village bar named after Russia's hilarious secret security apparatus. My...
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This is a tour I did of the offices of Glenn Beck. He is the most loved man in...
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Do you live in beautiful Durango, Colorado? Are you going to the Durango Independent Film Festival this weekend? OH...
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A "breakdown" is industry parlance for a list of the characters in a script that a casting director is looking...
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The Deposition of Lou Bagetta, the short film I made that I won't stop talking about much to your...
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The following is a list of friends and acquaintances with books out recently. If you're looking for something to read,...
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The Canadian premiere of Deposition took place on Thursday, July 23rd at the Just For Laughs film festival, which...
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For this, we wandered around Bryant Park with a tiny camera and a karaoke microphone, giving us a nice...
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My violent, swear-laden mafia comedy screens Sunday, June 7th at Laemmle's Sunset 5 movie theater in Los Angeles. It appears in Competition Block 4 as part of the Dances With Films festival that I am accidentally not at.
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The paperback version of In the Event of My Untimely Demise also has a new cover design. The book is no longer red like a fire engine. It looks like a lockbox. And they got rid of the subtitle "Twenty Things My Son Needs To Know" ironically, citing the same exact argument the author made for not having a subtitle in the first place: The information in the book is for more than a son - it's universal.
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Doing my part to make commercial air travel even more uncomfortable. A big shout out to my brother for...
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The trailer for my comedy short, The Deposition of Lou Bagetta. It's currently doing the festival circuit.
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The Deposition of Lou Bagetta screens at the Sarasota Film Festival this Sunday and again next week. This is the third public screening of the film.
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My favorite part of these things is the automatically generated transcript, which the Fox site warns "may not be 100% accurate." I'd say. More like the ramblings of a guy wandering down the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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It seems like only a year ago that my book,
In the Event of My Untimely Demise, came out in paperback form. But it was about 11 months. On April 28th the paperback will be released. Although the hardcover version will always have a place close to my heart, the paperback is really swell.
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My first appearance as "Fear Consultant" on Glenn Beck's show on Fox News Channel.
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If you find yourself talking to an actress who you'd just seen naked in a screening, try to pretend that you didn't just see her naked in a screening.
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The new season of CNN Headline's Not Just Another Cable News Show starts up this weekend. This screenshot is from the story of the couple who turned those cute little doggies behind me into sweaters. Yes. Sweaters.
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The Deposition of Lou Bagetta will be in the line-up at the 2009 Sarasota Film Festival, which takes place March 29 - April 9. Screening time forthcoming.
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I was notified that
The Deposition of Lou Bagetta has been selected by the LA Comedy Shorts Festival, which runs March 5-8 in Los Angeles (obviously). We have not been assigned a screening time yet but when we have I will announce it with blaring trumpets and whatever else you use to announce things.
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