At this point in my life, a full-grown adult without any kids, publicly sharing the amount of cartoons I watch would either call into question my mental capacities or land me on a sexual predator watch list. So let’s skip over that part. Instead, let me jump right to making …
We’ve always liked to consider our company as existing within the overlap between technology and comedy/creativity. Well, listening to NPR yesterday I discovered the Cultivated Wit of shooting things with a high powered rifle. Tracking Point is a startup gun company (yup, that exists) from take one guess where. Hint: …
Late night comedy shows have employed the shove-a-microphone-into-a-stranger’s-face technique for several decades now. The Tonight Show has a long history of quizzes and gotcha-type moments exposing some level of ignorance in the public. I’m particularly interested in these street interviews when the setting is the historically black Harlem neighborhood in …
We recently spoke with Patrick Moberg who created the incredibly popular mobile game Dots, but somewhere in between chatting with him and actually publishing the interview there may or may not have been a couple hundred games that transpired. In addition to learning that I should never try and write …
A junkie sits alone in his ramshackle apartment, lit only by the glow of his smartphone screen. Unblinking, he taps and slides his finger along the screen like a panicked animal. “Squares, need squares, c’mon, just one,” he mutters to the emptiness. 100. 200. 300. “This could be the one.” …
Our good friend, former colleague, and favorite in-office bodega proprietor Joe Garden posted his review of the new Facebook Phone on Thing X today. If you’re in the market for phone that both connects you with your friends and serves as a great surface for starting fires, then clearly this …
This past weekend, I was invited to join John Hodgman and Carrie Brownstein on stage as part of “The Connecticut Forum.” The Forum’s final event of the year was on Funny Smart People. Here is some of what happened as retold through tweets, photos, and vines.
Now that Comedy Hack Day is a glimmer in the rearview mirror of our gold-plated Tesla, it’s time we discuss something very serious and dear to our heart: Venture Barn.
The video above is called a “sizzle reel,” which is an industry term that means, “We are badass, and everyone should watch and sponsor this program.” That’s right, we make television now (or the thing that looks and acts like a television but still allows snobby people to say “I …
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