I live in New York. I am a comedian, writer and actor. My day job is blogging for VH1.com. I write about the silly things celebrities and pop stars do, so you know...God's work.
You may have seen my writing on many other reputable websites (The Huffington Post, Hello Giggles, xojane.com, The Hairpin, Splitsider, The FW, etc.). I also write crazy blogs about Game of Thrones, Magneto and Jeff Goldblum.
I don't want to talk about anything with you except Star Trek Into Darkness.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Chandler Bing is the teenage girl inside of all of us.
Chandler is the only female character from Friends I relate to.
This is everything Meredith and I talked about over lunch today condensed into one screencapped gif.
(The bitches we were referring to were ourselves.)
I don’t know if any of you remember my completely unauthorized plan to create a sequel sitcom to Friends, but if you do, I left out the part of the plan where one of the cast members had to be Janice’s Personal Assistant and/or Nanny as his/her day job.
I always found the character Janice to be annoying, but comically speaking I always found her SPECTACULAR.
I got a lot of incredible experience at Friends. I was there when it was the No. 1 show in the country. And I was a very small part of that. And then went to Joey, which has become a punch line, unfortunately. And it was, again, a really talented staff, but again we couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
Robert Carlock, NYMag.com
I said this back when they announced Joey, and I’ll say it again: you can do a spin-off of Friends, but you can’t have the show follow any of the original friends. Their magic is their chemistry. Initially, I thought the spin-off should be Gunther. Meaning, we keep Central Perk as the series’ main set, but you switch the dressing and perspective so it’s not about the pretty people who hang out there, but the art freaks and hipsters who work there. So it’s set in a familiar universe, but skewed. (Also, that means the original friends can have awesome cameos at sweeps.) Now, I would reboot the show and have six new friends who are more hapless, less beautiful and in much more dire straights. Again, shift the perspective and the set dressing, but keep them in Central Perk. You could do so much with subtle jokes that compare and contrast 1990’s NYC and present day NYC. And, there would be the chance to address all the critics who said the original Friends was too glossy and whitewashed. Do it over. Keep what’s eternal—the story of six twenty somethings clinging to each other to get by—but update the context and tone of the humor.
*sigh* But no one ever listens to me. Probably because I’ve never run a show or something…
How friends drift apart over time.
(A paraphrased facebook message conversation)
My high school friend: Hey! I’m going to be in New York this Wednesday and Thursday for work. If you’re not too busy, maybe we can meet up!
Me: I have improv class on Thursday, but on Wednesday I just have to do a mic at this really fun gay piano bar in the Village. You should come! It’s super fun! An open mic at a gay piano bar! The Village! Fun!
My friend: ….
Me: Yeah?
My friend: How about you just text me after your open mic and maybe we can get drinks/coffee somewhere.
I don’t know why my high school friends would be surprised that I think hanging out at gay piano bars is like…the best thing ever. I listened to a lot of Rent back then. Then again, maybe it’s not the gay piano bar thing, but the open mic thing. However, this is the girl who agreed to be my Paul Schaffer if I ever got a Dave Letterman-type gig. We were 18. She knew I wanted to work in comedy. Meh.
Justin is coming to NYC tomorrow night!!!
He’s in town for a radio drama symposium because that’s how he does. Also, he’s planning on bringing a butternut squash to Hot Soup at O’Hanolon’s tomorrow night. Oh the nights of mad dancing, drama and delight that will unfold…
@Daniel I only just started watching it this week. So far I’ve seen the pilot and then the two episodes that aired this week. I love it! I’m sorry I didn’t give it a chance sooner. It’s the right amount of oddball with a little bit of heart. I love the dad. He sold me on the show this week with “smush parts with your mom” and the naming of their boat “Cirrhosis of the River. Also, the real life Jenga game set to “Istanbul, Not Constantinople.” And the baby and the vacuum cleaner. I could go on and on!
@Caitlin If you get the electric chair, I’ll raise your death row baby. But I’m not keeping the name Princess Beyonce.
I’m reblogging this because crabcakes is one of my favorite tumblrs run by someone I’ve never met in real life and jellabyjones is one of my favorite old friends from college and buildingaladder is one of my favorite new friends from New York, and I don’t think any of these people have met each other in real life and it’s blowing my mind that they’re all in one post.
Tumblr: bringing fucking awesome people together.
The plan for tonight? Get a sandwich and eat a sandwich. Meet buildingaladder for awesome wine mongering. Wine monger. See Florence + The Machine perform live for the first time in almost 4 years. Then, if by some rare miracle, I get out of the concert by 10:30pm (and I’m not wasted) I will try to hit up a mic at the PIT.
Sounds pretty amazing.
I wish Maggie and Angela were on tumblr. They need to see this chair. We need to get three of these chairs. We need to create light up suits (like in Tron) and lounge in these chairs sipping neon cocktails while Tesla Boy plays.
It would be the freaking life.
