Sunday, November 30, 2008

Sara Benincasa’s “Family Hour” at Comix
Saturday, Dec. 6, 8:30 p.m.
Family Hour with Auntie Sara at Ochi’s Lounge/Comix!
H. Alan Scott!
Heather Gold!
Mandy Stadtmiller!
Clea Wilson!
Amanda Pettit!
Gilad Foss!
Sean O’Connor!
Alessandro Minoli!
Meg Cupernall!
Myq Kaplan!
Ochi’s Lounge/Comix
353 West 14th St. (between 8th and 9th)
New York , NY
Sunday, November 23, 2008


Let’s be friends

Friday, November 21, 2008

NY Post: Shot Of Fun To The Head

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Reminder

Am doing Sara Benincasa’s “Family Hour” at Comix next month on Dec. 6, 8:30 p.m.

Info here:

Family Hour with Auntie Sara at Ochi’s Lounge/Comix!
353 West 14th St. (between 8th and 9th)
New York , NY
Cost: 1 item

H. Alan Scott! Heather Gold! Mandy Stadtmiller! Clea Wilson! Amanda Pettit! Gilad Foss! Sean O’Connor! Alessandro Minoli! Meg Cupernall! Myq Kaplan!

AND, a special holiday message:

Thank you.

Really.

I revamped my book proposal recently, and one of the readers giving me notes wrote me this: “Ok… I’ll be honest with you… I read the entire thing three times, and I could only make three comments. One was a huh? comment, one was an oopsies! comment and the other was an oh-my-god-you-are- f–king-brilliant comment. and you are f–king brilliant…That’s what’s beautiful about you, Mandy Stadtmiller…in all the vulnerability of your writing you are the strongest female I have ever met. A lot of people (not just women) will be able to relate to your story about starting over, and you will be able to give so many of them inspiration.”

Down to the very tips of my toes, thank you.

You (and I mean everyone) know who you are. I’m going to extend my blog holiday through the end of December as I work on transitioning to a new Webmaster and finally settling into my SoHo apartment. Writing and videos will continue to be updated.

Here’s wishing you love and gratitude and grace in these coming weeks.

Sunday, November 16, 2008


We were discussing the opaque nature of complex credit markets.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Sarah snarks on all

SARAH Silverman delivered an inspired set at her sold-out Hammerstein Ballroom show Saturday as part of the NY Comedy Festival, riffing on everything from her relationship with Jimmy Kimmel to Barack Obama, reports The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller. “Jimmy was yelling at me for being Jewish the other night,” she told the crowd. “And he said, ‘You need glasses to see and pills to breathe.’ ” Saying how excited she was to attend a “who’s who” LA fund-raiser for the president-elect a year ago, Silverman said she was able to walk right up and ask him: ” ‘Sen. Obama, when you were in school in Boston, did you encounter any racism?’ And he said something really interesting. He said, um. He said, ‘I’m Kanye West.’ ” Staying with the racial humor, Silverman made fun of Angelina Jolie and Madonna: “I would like to adopt someday, thank you. I think if you adopt, you really have to go brown with it because otherwise you don’t get the credit.”

Tuesday, November 11, 2008


RICKLES, baby!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

NY Post – Page Six: Sarah Silverman Snarks on All

Monday, November 10, 2008

Two pimp-out things

If you live in Chicago, see Hannibal Buress as he headlines Zanies at the tender and hilarious age of 25. Also, I am behind on this one, but here is Kyle Kinane’s second super rad set on Carson Daly.

Go Chicago comics, go.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Have been going to a lot of NYCF events

and coverage is in writing and videos.

By far, the craziest night was Thursday with Katt Williams who played Carnegie Hall just 35 minutes after posting a quarter-million dollars bail for gun charges.

Gotta say, I really dug what I saw of his set, and it was exhilarating to see such a raw performance that was equal parts anger and inspiration, exuberance and hilarity.

At the end of the night, as I told Page Six, he threw off almost all his clothes to a thrilled audience and then went through Carnegie taking pictures with fans wearing only his jeans, undershirt and socks. When I, like the obnoxious reporter I am, held up my voice recorder to him and asked what do you want people to know about your arrest as he climbed across rows of seats to reach ever more fans, he said, “That I’m free. And thank you.”

One person in the audience waiting to get a picture with him said, “I feel like Election Day all over again.” Another said, “Everybody’s on a high from Obama. But he needs to take a break. Go to Africa, pull a Dave Chappelle for a little while.”

Outside the back stage door as Chris Rock, looking handsome and dapper as ever in a newsboy cap, emerged (and practically sprinted from me), said, “I thought it was a really good show.”

[UPDATE: From Ladi Di--Katt Williams hospitalized.]

Here are some excerpts from the Carnegie Hall show, obvs NSFW:

“I’m going to need y’all to give me a minute if you don’t mind…What a pleasure to be in Carnegie Hall….They didn’t make places like this for ni–ers. See all this gold, this was not for ni–ers. Naw beautiful sh-t was supposed to happen in this place. You’ll have to forgive me–I know I’m moving slower than my normal pace, but I just got out of jail about 35 minutes ago. [REFERRING TO ELECTION DAY] So a couple days ago I guess we all know what happened a couple days ago. I ain’t never gonna be the same. They could kill Obama tonight, nothing could change. Nothing–it’s already happened, motherfu–ers, it’s already happened. Everybody ain’t happy, uh-uh, I live in an all-white neighborhood. That motherfu–er was looking at me like I killed Jesus with my bare hands. That motherfu–er was looking at me like I stole Christmas and sold it to Barack Hussein Obama….Barack Obama needs help, and I’m going to recommend…if he come in your jurisdiction, and you care about the ni–er you might want to look out for him. ‘Cause some crazy sh-t happened to me today. I was in fu–ing jail, and I was mad as sh-t, and I was thinking I was going to miss this, and I know you don’t believe me when I say this, but I really wasn’t thinking about the money. Now that’s ’cause they paid me in advance. But I really needed to see you motherfu–ers believe it or not…you motherfu–ers are my whole team. I am alone in New York. I had 15 ni–ers with me yesterday. The police put them all in…I’m the only one out. In case you ain’t never been to jail it’s an uncomfortable rest in jail because although you tired and you wanna sleep what you sleeping on is cold so this is how you sleep. [LIES ON FLOOR UNCOMFORTABLY, THEN DOES PUSH-UPS] You can always do some push-ups. I was in there, and some crazy sh-t happened. Everybody in there treated me nice. Threw me off, fu–ed me up….So I’m in there, I’m strong, head up, lip stiff. And these motherfu–ers were nice as sh-t to me, brought me coffee…let me call my loved ones….And there I was in jail. But I’m in New York. But I’m in jail. And I missed Conan yesterday. And then two days before that it came out in the news that I had died in a plane crash. And then I lost a loved one in my family and 10 minutes later Barack’s grandma died…and then the next day…and then the next day I’m in jail. So you gotta understand I’m in jail with every emotion that I possess. I’m hurting ’cause I said I wouldn’t go back to jail. And I tried to play the system, they said I couldn’t carry a gun so I gave it to another ni–er and then they arrest him….I was sad, and I was angry, and I was missing y’all, and…I’m still happy and proud and sh-t because every time I see a white person it remind me of something, ‘Oh, we got a black president!’….I was just waiting to post bail…because we are in for some exciting sh-t in the world. Now white people I need you to understand something on behalf of ni–ers.” [SOMEONE FROM THE AUDIENCE SHOUTS, "SAY IT!"] “See you can’t say it like that anymore. You could say it like that two weeks ago. You could go, ‘Say it!’ But now we got a black president, we don’t act like that. SAY IT! Yeah, so anyway white people I need y’all to understand that as a black people we understand the fact that racism is as fu–ed up for y’all as it is for us. Because no white people own slaves. Today. And so all the white people today are being penalized for some sh-t they didn’t even do which makes them almost ni–ers. But now if we gonna get over racism it can’t be done by acting as if it’s less than what it was. It’s not. It couldn’t be….’Cause I’m a cold motherfu–ing ni–er…[DURING OBAMA'S SPEECH] Black people were watching…you know we was watching waiting on a sign or some thing. We was trying to wait for the ni–er sign….Did y’all–black women, did you see Michelle Obama glide across that motherfu–ing stage?…White people I know you don’t like the word ni–er. And I know you wish that I stopped saying it. Because you think I’m funnier if I don’t say it–but I always think if I don’t say it then it don’t exist–and I need ni–ers to exist. For I am a ni–er. I’ve already explained that tonight….White people did something for ni–ers. Let me just make something perfectly clear….If all the ni–ers, all the African Americans, all the colored people, all the blacks and all the Hispanics woulda voted for Obama he would’ve lost. I don’t think you heard what I just said. If all the ni–ers, all the black people, all the coloreds, all the Hispanics had voted for Obama, he would’ve lost. The reason that he won–and when I say win I don’t mean win like win. I mean win like shut the fu– up [KNOCKS OVER THE MIC] was white people. White people, we have been waiting on y’all to pay us back for a long time.”