The British Office meets the Justice League of America

This was the winner of a monthly Filmaka.com contest. How it fit in with the theme "Extra-Curricular Activities" I'm not sure. But it is a wonderful example of the deadpan, very dry humor the British seem to excel at lately.

Japanese do Matrix Ping Pong

This clip has been around a while, but it deserves a place here as the first video I'd go out of my way to show to my friends. Plus, it captures the true weirdness of Japanese TV, without the weirdly cheerful cruelty that's in so many of their YouTube clips (see "Human Tetris").

My Chicago Debut, Belated

Ah, after weeks of no sketch activity, either because of other, longer scripts hogging my attention, or fathering, or submitting sketches that weren't all that funny, had the opening bit in last week's BIG NEWS SHOW, "Illinois Obama and the Temple of Appeasement." Although I'm swelled with pride over it, credit must be given to Michael Hughes for a great punch-up, as well as directing it. Oh yeah, there were some actors too.

I also found out today that for the first time in Big News History, the same sketch (mine) opened both the LA and Chicago shows. So, I'm elated at have had my stage debut in Chicago, despite the weirdness of finding out five days after the fact.

Here's a video of the L.A. For those of you short of attention span, it's the first thing performed.

Art's all about what you leave out

I never much cared for Garfield. Most of comics were variations on three punchlines involved either a) Monday, b) lasagna or c) stupid dogs. Who knew the only thing preventing Garfield from inspired brilliance was, well, Garfield.

Garfield Minus Garfield shows versions of the comic strip with Garfield photoshopped out, leaving a darkly comic tale of Jim dealing with his crushing loneliness and possible bipolar disorder.

Oh, and Odie appears to be blessedly absent as well.

More at: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/