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Work stuff to click

• The AV Club

  • A chat with Norm MacDonald, mostly about bombing onstage. [Q+A]
  • Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on the 2000 Year Old Man and why Brooks wants a free pass from critics. [Q+A]
  • Mitch Hurwitz explains why the success of Running Wilde is directly related to the fate of the Arrested Development movie. [Q+A]
  • Links to my Laugh Track comedy columns, in which I discuss laughs as well as tracks. [Blurbz]
  • I treat him like a princess: an epic chat with The Room's Tommy Wiseau. [Q+A]
  • My take on The West Wing's brilliant season two closer, part of ongoing essays on classic TV. [Review]
  • Heroes creator Tim Kring talks about why the show sucked so bad, angers everyone. [Q+A]

• New York Magazine / Vulture

  • Comedian Mike Birbiglia: "You know what? I'm the guy who shows people his balls." [Profile]
  • Talkin' to Albert Brooks about his futuristic novel and Twitter hecklers. [Q+A]
  • The Daily Show's Samantha Bee wrote an awesome memoir, then talked about pornography. [Q+A]
  • Brilliant Brit comic Peter Serafinowicz achieves his life ambition. [Q+A]

• Variety

  • Spending a day with Daily Show director Chuck O'Neil, seeing how he handles Will Ferrell strokin' a baseball bat. [Profile]
  • I interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio so you don't have to! [Profile]
  • The story of Adam Sandler cronie Dennis Dugan, newly minted billion dollar filmmaker. (Also, thank you for Happy Gilmore.) [Profile]
  • The non-mystery of the wonderful Kyle Kinane. [Profile]
  • Jennifer Lawrence never took an acting class, skins squirrels for realsies. [Profile]
  • The slow evolution of latenight TV. (VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: This article contains the word "dayenu.") [Reportin']

• GQ

  • Carpentry, mustaches, and Ron "F-ing" Swanson. with Parks & Recreation's Nick Offerman. [Q+A]
  • Chuck's Zachary Levi's beef with Christians, even though he is one. Also: hurting himself playing video games. [Q+A]
  • Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison on why he'll always sing the greys. [Q+A]

• Chicago Reader

  • The story of The Lyons Den, the greatest comedy open mic in Chicago history. [Cover]

• Details

  • What Ever Happened To...Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers—besides gay porn rumors. [Slideshow]
  • What Ever Happened To...Undeclared—besides lucrative film success for most of the cast. [Slideshow]

• Entertainment Weekly

  • Books and computers, together at last: My take on the Nook e-reader. [Review]
  • Beatles Rock Band vs. DJ Hero: Only one can be the most button-y. [Blurbz]
  • Assassin's Creed 2 vs. Left 4 Dead 2: Gore. Action. Sequels. [Blurbz]
  • Nintendo DSi w/ Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks vs. PSP and Little Big Planet: Small. [Blurbz]
  • FIFA 10 vs. NBA2K10: Sports sports sports sports sports sports sports sports... [Blurbz]
  • Super Mario Bros. Wii vs. Mario & Sonic: There can be only one game with a fat plumber throwing things. [Blurbz]
  • Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time vs. Brutal Legend: Hey, both have metal. [Blurbz]

• NPR / WBEZ Chicago

  • Mash-up maestros The Hood Internet chat about their music format of choice for 848. [Radio]

• Time Out Chicago

  • Jerry Seinfeld creates something from nothing (aka Bee Movie). [Q+A]
  • Fake, satirical congregation the Best Church Of God way more real than actual church. [Reportin']
  • Profile of Dave Odd, Chicago stand-up's oft-disputed figurehead. [Reportin']
  • PBS gets all politically incorrect on us. [Reportin']

• AV Chicago

  • Hey, bars: You know those tab minimums? Not allowed. Tsk tsk. [Reportin']
  • The Chicago Public Library's new ad campaign, in all its insulting glory. [Laffs]
  • How I snagged a photo of Mike Ditka for a prosthetic mustache growing competition. [This happened]
  • Michael McKean explains the odd inspiration behind Spinal Tap's songs. [Q+A]

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Monday, January 16th.

Whoa there! I spoke to Jorge Garcia (Hurley from Lost) about why he doesn’t like most comedies on TV and how apprehensive he gets about sharing personal information about himself. But it was effortless, mostly because he’s an effortlessly likable guy.

[Vulture]

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