by Ryan McKee
Jay-Z
Diddy
Bill Ayers
Ahmad Rashād
New Yorker illustrator Barry Blitt
Anybody else named “Hussein”
Obama Girl
“Married” California gay couples
James Frey (asked by Oprah’s people)
Cubs fan who caught the foul ball and ruined their chances at the 2003 World Serie
I’ve shied away from blogs in the past, preferring to read books, magazines, and Internet pornography. But now with a recent move to New York City and a new workload of internet writing, I’ve been reading some amazing blogs. My favorite right now is Molls … She Wrote.
Here’s my blog: What We’re Talking About When We’re Not Talking About Anything. My humor writing and comedian interviews (when I finally do some new ones) will remain on this website, but I’ll have daily posts over there. Check it out and add me to Your Neighborhood.
Oh, and look for me on Facebook
Ryan McKee’s list
10. At least your wife is still kinda hot
9. Do you know that maverick also means “motherless calf”?
8. Have Cindy get you one of the 100 million beers she owns.
7. So . . . Palin? You hit that shit, right?
6. Can a nigga get a table dance?
5. Yo, Bill Ayers says to watch your back
4. Ever listened to Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet?
3. Raise your hands if you’re sure . . . oh, wait, you can’t.
2. Now you’ll have time to go hunting with Ted Nugent
1. How much do you want to punch Palin right
Tara Munson’s list:
10. How’d you get my number?
9. This is McCain? You mean McLoser?
8. Hard to believe that “this one” won, isn’t it?
7. Hey, I just talked to Bush and he even voted for me.
6. By the way, Michelle told me to tell you: “Fuck off”
5. On the bright side, John, you won’t have much time to feel bad about this because you’re going to die soon
4. Look, if you need some money, I still have some left over from the 700 million we raised to beat you.
3. We should run against each other again in 2012.
2. John, you should go back to being a POW. People admired you for that.
1. Eat me
When celebrities like George Clooney or Phil Spector (totally hip, relevant celebrities) endorse a political candidate, it’s one thing. But when completely nameless, out-of-work Republican “celebrities” go to Minnesota to “reclaim” their good name away from Al Frankan . . . c’mon, who put this campaign together. Really? Does even one Republican recognize Victoria Jackson from her brief six-year stint on Saturday Night Live. And for those who don’t recognize the sarcasm . . . six years is not normally “brief,” yet Jackson’s tenure was exactly that.
If they really wanted to scare parents, they should have used a picture of Heather Graham from the end of Boogie Nights.
Since I’m living in the Northeast now, I’m reminded of our trip to Ron’s alma mater, University of Scranton. We were doing an hour-long show, a mixture of sketch and standup. The Student Activities Board promoted the show with the above flyer.
Problems with the flyer:
1. Instead of getting either of our names correct, they combined Ryan McKee and Ron Babcock into hybrid super-comedian named Ryan Adcock.
2. This Adcock character is billed as a Scranton alumni. If students are supposed to care about an alumni performing, shouldn’t the name at least be correct. Besides, Ryan Adcock would have better credits than just “Scranton alumni.” For example, “HBO” and “Shot Teddy Roosevelt.”
3. We didn’t even perform under our names at that time. We performed under the name Modest Proposal. So, they should have billed us as Modsalcock.
4. We’re billed as an “Improv Team.” While we included standup, sketch, pseudo-musical numbers, video, and even synchronized dance, improv was the one type of comedy we didn’t perform. However, the one-man comedy Voltron Ryan Adcock performed improv.
5. We performed at 8pm, not 10pm. Only a Rachel-stomping, Chandler-choking son of a twelve-legged comedy bitch like Ryan Adcock would follow Friends.
It’s my second week living as a New Yorker and I should be writing more about it. However, between looking for work, doing standup, meeting up with friends, and crashing on couches (I finally move into my permanent place tonight!), I haven’t had extra time to think. The good news is I’ve met up with an old MPM contributor, Kevin Polowy (aka DJ Kevlar), and he’s got some great videos for you while I catch up.
First up, a great Rabbi Darkside music video (we have an old interview with Rabbi D that I need to re-post).
“Bill Muthafuckin Murray”
Second, a Kevin Polowy as a child in a United Way commercial with former Bills quarterback, Jim Kelly.
Lastly, Kevin didn’t shoot this, but he introduced me to McFadden’s. This is where all the best Bills fans in the City gather to watch the games. There’s all you can eat wings and all you can drink beer for $25. This is from the Bills last minute win over the Raders on September 21, 2008. It’s an absolute madhouse!
I made a webpage, so I guess that means that I’m legit now. It has an incredibly witty name.
I know, it kinda took my breath away too when I thought of it. It has videos, photos, a blog - you know, a webpage. Enjoy the fruits of me taking comedy more seriously. (I didn’t know how to make the image below a ‘clickable’ link, so just use the URL above. Wait, let me come to you. Here, just click here - www.RonBabcock.com
by Ron Babcock
I like to relax and have a few drinks on the weekend. But I also like to write and feel productive. These two life directives coincided last week when I decided to start writing a spec script for Flight of the Concords. I’ve never thought about doing this before. I haven’t even seen that many episodes of Flight of the Concords. I just got super drunk and said to myself, “(burp) Time to bang out a Concords script (vomit).” If you have any idea of what I am saying, please tell me…
flight of concords idea
drug commerical stupid because they are too glam and the lighting in them is too whatever, so the other guy wants to make a drug commercial and he puts in exactly what is wrong. he puts inte the last glam shop is dance club lightting and just even more exaggerated stuff with the commercial. Guys anger and then argue. guy doesn’t do it because he’s stupid, he assumes he was right
because the first guy complained abou the commercials saying it was just ridiculous. the other guy agress but assume the drug commercial didn’t go far enough. he did it even nore extreme. justifies it though by making cray agrugments. COMEDY
My favorite part is the end and how I just write, “COMEDY.” Because creating comedy is as simple as writing COMEDY. I imagine Hemingway would get drunk and write things like, “The Old Man and then the sea. A fish. DRAMA.”
I got to stop drinking and writing.
I think we published this in Issue 5. It one of my favorites - Ryan
