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The World’s Best-Top-Most-Recommended-By-Me Comedy Offerings Of SXSW 2014

So let’s see. There is Whiskey Friday. There is my panel (How Creative People Arrive At Good Ideas) featuring Scott Aukerman at 11:00 am Sunday. Then there is Baratunde’s panel (Communicating With Humor: Perils & Best Practices) featuring Baratunde at 12:30 pm Sunday. What are you doing with the rest …

It Would Be A Good Idea To Vote For Our SXSW Panel On Good Ideas

Editor’s Note: This post, while enlightening, is first and foremost a plug to have you vote for our SXSW panel. If you would prefer to be a mindless drone who simply takes orders rather than reading or contextualizing, you can follow that link right now. Thanks drone! Science has taught …

3 Days In Berlin: We Came To Arrange A Comedy Hack Day, We Stayed To Trespass On Private Property

Scoring a business trip to Europe then only staying for four days would be like winning the lottery and only buying a new pair of shoes. It wasn’t gonna happen. So not long after AOL agreed to bring us to France to represent our series Funded at the Cannes Lions …

Satirist Saman Arbabi Launches Art Project To Commemorate Iranian Elections

I first met Saman Arbabi the night before my opening keynote at SXSW 2012 in Austin, Texas. My friend Raina Kumra insisted I attend his talk, Iranian Outlaws: Satire vs. Censorship. I was so impressed and moved by his presentation that I asked to include some of his slides in …

PBS’s Embrace Of Comedy In Marketing Proves We Know Everything

“Do you have any ideas for docu-soaps?” the network executive asked me out of nowhere. “That depends. What’s a docu-soap?” I asked. I was in a meeting my TV agent had set up during a visit to Los Angeles. “It’s a documentary soap opera,” she explained. “They’re really big right …