Whilst sitting at The Coffee Bean on La Cienega Blvd, I overhear a woman on her cell phone: “Yeah, hi! Yeah, I got ‘em. They’re so awesome. Yeah. Yeah. What? You what? You had surgery? Oh my god. Are you ok? Cool. Ok, bye.” UPDATE!Guy sitting next to me talking about his screenplay:“I mean, the [...]

http://wgtclsp.nbcuni.com/o/483dce16aa491e3d/49c02b9ef4365bf7/483dce16aa491e3d/7843cb91/-cpid/8f769a0ed5e6cc7f Wow, the Kingdom looks a lot like Manhattan, doesn’t it? Watch the vid and tell me if it seems odd to you too that there’s a Time Warner Center in the alternate universe of the Kingdom. I guess media deregulation had a bigger effect than we thought–that rule about not owning all the tv [...]

Time passes differently out here in California. Maybe it’s the adjusting to a new place to live, maybe it’s the perpetual Spring weather, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since I left New York, and yet last week Paul Rudd was a guest on “the Daily Show” for the second time since [...]

Ok, seriously, someone has to make sure I don’t die having had a comedy career that turned out to be primarily web-based in my last few years. Which means you need to go back in time and mercy-stab/beat/crush/drown/shoot/trebuchet me when I was about 26 years old. Either that or you need to hire me RIGHT [...]

See the LA WEEKLY interview with Lizz Winstead talking about the fantastically hilarious fake morning show within a fake network-show, Shoot The Messenger. Don’t forget to buy your tickets for STM in LA next week. Seats are almost gone, unavailable, er, em…compromised, etc, but if you order now, I can almost practically sort of guarantee [...]