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
The Beverly Hills Girl: An Interview with Sophia Rossi | LA I'm Yours
Reading this interview with Hello Giggles founder (so, my technical boss) Sophia Rossi was sooo surreal for me. The interview has all these gorgeous photos of Sophia working in her beautiful, brightly lit Beverly Hills home and it’s such a juxtaposition from where I’m sitting right now: the darkly lit cubicle at my midtown financial firm day job where, yes, I do most of my Hello Giggles writing.
The closest I’ve ever been to living in Beverly Hills was when my childhood telephone number was 9-9-92010. True fact.
Dorkwad on Dorkwad: Gaby Dunn And Meghan O’Keefe (Part 1: Comedy)
Ahhhh! This happened! Gaby and I interviewed EACH OTHER! Whoa!
by: Meghan O’Keefe
This is a new column at 100 Interviews wherein two people interview each other over the Google chatting mechanism, GChat. Then, we post the nearly unedited conversation and expose their crazy. Because GChat saves everything. GChat knows.
The first in this series, Dorkwad on Dorkwad, is with 100 Interviews founder Gaby Dunn and HelloGiggles blogger Meghan O’Keefe. They are both writers and comedians in New York City, and knew each other prior to this interview. Sometimes in this column, the people will not know each other! Isn’t that quirky? This is not one of those times. Also, this is split into three parts. The first is about comedy.
Erin McKenna talks to Sloane Crosley on HelloGiggles
Sloane: For most of the young women I meet, laziness is really not the issue. The younger women who come to my readings are smart and so funny and put-together and frighteningly ambitious...But the flip side of that is that want everything to be perfect out of the gate. I believe they paralyze themselves with this fear. That’s what Jenny [Egan] was saying. Basically: get over yourself, have a little faith in your own talent, do something new that only you can and produce above all.
Erin: I love that. Fear, perfectionism and unwillingness to make mistakes only lead to avoidance or failure. You have to know that each time you screw up, you’re just that much closer to your victory. Man, when I started baking, everything was naaaasty and I was often on the floor crying! But instead of laying there in a tear fest, I’d visualize the bakery, breathe in that joy and pick myself up and start over.
Inside with: Steve Soroka & Mamrie Hart of BoF | The Apiary
I love interviewing nice and funny people, especially when said nice and funny people can’t decide which one of them is the Blanche Devereux in their relationship. Read up! And see the show! It’s delightful and funny!
Inside with: David Mogolov | The Apiary
What inspired the show?
I started with the first line of the show. I knew that I wanted to talk about these bullwhips my brothers and I had when we were kids: It seemed to be a parable for almost anything, especially as my wife and I were expecting our own first child.
I spoke with David Mogolov about his awesome and smartly funny one-man show, “There Is No Good News”. Yes, it’s about babies and bullwhips. Sort of.
Inside with: Jessi Klein | The Apiary
What was your favorite sketch or idea for a sketch that never made it on-air?
Hmm. I had a thing I wrote with Jenny Slate and Abby Elliott, who are both hilarious, where they played these super annoying dumb sisters who crash their very waspy mom’s second wedding. Sigourney Weaver was the mom. We’d all had experiences with the kind of horrible sorority girl who writes terrible rhyming poems and reads them at rehearsal dinners and wedding receptions in lieu of a speech, like, “When Rachel met Josh/she thought oh my gosh/I’m so in love/I feel like a dove.”
I also wrote this. Well, I didn’t write the intro. A guy who apparently has a crush on Jessi Klein did. You should read it because it’s filled with awesome stuff from an awesome lady comic.
Inside with : Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez of The Pajama Men | The Apiary
The Pajama Men is this crazy amazing sketch duo who’s won the Barry Award and been nominated for the Perrier Award at Edinburgh Fringe. I was lucky enough to chat with them about their comedy—oh! And they’re in NYC for two more days! Check them out!
Not big into self-delusion, Radner doesn’t pretend to be a model of maturity herself. “My personal life is confused and at loose ends,” she concedes. “I start to go out with a guy and then think, ‘Can I handle this?’ ” The answer so far has been not really…But though “nothing ends, like, horrible,” she explains, “I’m nobody’s steady date. I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
After reading this (poorly written People magazine) article from 1977, I feel more certain then ever that Gilda Radner is my dream best friend. She would totally get me.
Seriously, read the article. It’s interesting what topics weren’t taboo in the 1970’s, backstage SNL gossip, and there’s stuff about how Gilda felt about being a woman in comedy. Most of all, it’s really hard to find stuff where she talks about herself in her own words—because everything is a “tribute” now—but she does so here.
Proof you can be friends with anyone in New York if you can just figure out which jazz club they like to hang outside of.
Oh, and there’s going to be an Anderson Cooper interview of Lady Gaga or something.
Rachael Mason: How many jokes do the writers write per day?
Jeremy Bronson: I would say about 100 per day.
Meep. How many jokes have I written today? None, of course! I’ve been too busy reading IMDB’s Beautiful Girls memorable quotes page!
From Rachael Mason’s Splitsider interview with Jeremy Bronson, head monologue writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
