This week we flew up to Toronto to test out a new kind of Comedy Hack Day. CMDC had us build and demo two Comedy Hack Day-style projects at their conference. We brought six Comedy Hack Day all-stars (Zoe, Toby, Matt, Derek, Kim, and Aliya) and made two projects: Tab Champ and ... read more
Last week we published our first Comedy Hack Day product video. It looks like this: We’re thrilled that people like it. We had a blast making the thing and would’ve been happy with 5k plays so all of this is gravy, honestly. However, because we did get a bunch of ... read more
You know those startup videos? The ones that explain a product as you see people laughing in parks and b-roll of the Golden Gate Bridge? We made one for the most recent Comedy Hack Day winner–WellDeserved, the premier marketplace for unused privilege. We had a ton of fun creating this ... read more
Miranda July has just released two things that are wonderful: Somebody, a messaging app that encourages strangers to deliver your texts to friends verbally, and a short film that imagines four increasingly awesome stories around the app. When Somebody hit the Burrito Den, our internal Slack channel for goofy stuff, ... read more
We think Comedy Hack Day is awesome and at least a handful of other people do too. They are all in this video, captured in their post-CHD high. Feel free to enjoy this among family, friends, and past college roommates you sometimes hang out with in an attempt to hold ... read more
This installment of ANWCEWSI features another from Key & Peele. I promise I’ve seen more than one show but “Continental Breakfast” came to mind after posting “Liam Neesons & Bruce Willy” so it’s 2/483,782. Be sure to watch through the end for one of the best-executed movie references ever. read more
After learning last night that a person whom I respect and will go nameless had not seen (any) Monty Python, I feel an obligation to begin the long process of sharing every weird sketch on the internet. I’ll start with Key & Peele’s “Liam Neesons & Bruce Willy” for two ... read more
Not every day are we given the chance to watch a dude spray an aerosol can into a plastic bag then freeze the condensation to create homemade rave drugs. Today is the exception. My buddy Dan led me to this gem. WHATEVEREST by Kristoffer Borgli is the story of Marius ... read more
If you want to put creative stuff online you have a ton of options. If you want to consume creative stuff online you have even more options. But what if you want to be creative online? And what if you’re not technical? The list shrinks quickly. I’m hashing out ways ... read more
Like most projects I work on, Comedy Hack Day started as a joke. At the time I was living in NYC with one foot in the comedy scene and one foot in the tech scene, working at The Onion and spending my nights and weekends at tech events. The more ... read more
Craig Cannon is product director and outdoorsman at large. Craig served as graphics editor for The Onion and campaign manager for the How To Be Black marketing campaign, contributing to the planning and largely implementing the digital strategy behind much of the book’s success. He’s a graduate of New York University where he served as president of the campus satire magazine and, for his thesis, designed an eReading platform.
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