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 …
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 …
Baratunde may host Comedy Hack Day, but Matt Klinman might now be considered the star of the show. Matt, if you read that sentence and laugh, thinking to yourself “that’s absurd,” well it’s NOT! Okay!? You’re a star, Matt! A two-time champion and A STAR!! Sorry. Where were we? Right, …
When we arranged to bring Comedy Hack Day to the MIT Media Lab, we hoped it would produce more hardware than we had seen in the past. And sure enough, we soon wound up facing the question: Does the stage have enough room for a toilet? Team Pizzicato Privy, comprised …
The teaching opportunities of a virtual pet don’t extend beyond a minor amount of detached responibility. In an effort to bring a deeper, worldview-altering lesson to the world of animated animal ownership, Comedy Hack Day virgin Benjamin Apple created My Real Puppy this past weekend at our Comedy Hack Day …
Knowing about music makes you cool, but looking up music makes you uncool; that is the paradox at the center of Sly Sound. Created by Trevor Burnham and Wes Hazard, the mobile app that works like Shazam without looking like Shazam took second place at this weekend’s Comedy Hack Day …
It only took three Comedy Hack Days to finally expose the truth. The MIT Media Lab played host to this weekend’s hackathon, which brought together 14 teams of comedians and developers in a contest to crown the most hilarious app, site, or musical toilet. The five-person team that called itself …
We all know technology is changing nearly everything. It has affected food delivery, personal navigation, and the rhetoric of our mayoral candidates. I’ve been a tech junkie all my life, and a lot of that passion developed in the 12 years I lived in the Boston area (1995-2007). This is …
Loyalists and stalkers will recall the self-anointed “Greatest Hackathon Prize Ever” we awarded our Comedy Hack Day SF winners: an all-expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to meet Chris Hardwick and sit in on a recording of Nerdist. Well, four months later we finally made good and sent Conor Doherty and …
You thought we were done wrapping up Comedy Hack Day SF? You thought wrong! Craig has finished compiling highlights from our event at Twitter, and now we are proud to present the final installment of our CHD multimedia assault. Enjoy the highlights, and we’ll see you this fall in Boston.
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