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You hang out with comics, actors, I don’t know if you’ve ever done this, but you go out late at night, you’re having coffee, you’re noshing, what have you, getting to know you, you’re sitting around a table. It’s like a psychotic poker game. It’s like ‘Ok, I’ll see your alcoholism and low self-esteem and raise you one fear of intimacy and an ego trip for two. How’s that?’ Codependency! Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Janeane Garofalo (via karirogers)

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"Sad Full House: Michelle's Mom Is Dead"

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The Canadians — 1975 Toronto Company of Second City, promotion photo for Alterations While you Wait  (Credit: Hugh Wesley Photo)

Source: mikethomasauthor.com

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whatever happened to the Unknown Comic movie? 1982.

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2 hours of Norm Macdonald telling stories on late night TV

if you start you won’t be able to stop

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Janeane Garofalo, 1998

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Slovin & Allen

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In case you're living under a rock, Gary Burghoff of M*A*S*H fame joined Twitter last month. And he gives not one single solitary fuck.

His thing is: drink, tell incredible 70's story, disparage Alan Alda, repeat.

Last night he told all about the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars. Every comedian you follow went bananas.

Of course there's debate over its legitimacy, but I personally don't find this situation too shocking to be real. And it's a great account either way.

Check it out if you can handle insults/references like calling someone "a comedy version of Kiki Dee".

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The most bizarre DVD music replacement I’ve ever seen.

The song was “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” but also lost were the rights to that song.

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90s stand-up comedy thumbnails on youtube

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My brother gave me this yesterday. He says he was the only bidder for this on Ebay.

For the young and the uncultured old: This is the picture and signatures of Martin Mull and Fred Willard from the 1977 parody talk show Fernwood 2 Night. It is the coolest thing.

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Comedy Time Warp: Christmas With Saturday TV Funhouse

By CNU Editor/Comedy Time Warp Creator Kari Rogers

Saturday TV Funhouse, a regular segment on Saturday Night Live from 1996 - 2008 created by writer Robert Smigel, really took you out of the show in a wonderful way. Aside from Norm Macdonald’s Weekend Update, it was the most provocative part of SNL. It’s no wonder it was spun off into its own (short-lived) Comedy Central show.

It packed a powerful satirical punch under the absurd, benign guise of Hanna-Barbera cartoons and Rankin/Bass stop motion, sometimes just animating around real found audio to make political but never too preachy statements. Though inconsistent, TV Funhouse has become an alternative comedy classic. I’ve found that the holiday TV Funhouses - featuring writing from Louis CK, Stephen Colbert, and Julie Klausner among others - were really special and I’ve ranked them from “worst” to best.

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Saturday TV Funhouse: Fun With Real Audio - Christmas (December 13, 1997)

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Comedy Time Warp: Christmas With SCTV

By CNU Editor/Comedy Time Warp Creator Kari Rogers

If Comedy Nerds United had a holiday show on QVC, I imagine I would go all Shaq Plaque over Christmas With SCTV, a DVD put out by the incredible Shout Factory in 2005. It. Is. So. Much. Fun. With a particular emphasis on the talent of the late great John Candy. Includes 2 superb holiday episodes:

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The Improv: 50 Years Behind The Brick Wall

Above: Andy Kaufman in one of the hundreds of episodes of An Evening at the Improv that aired on TV in the 1980s.

The hourlong documentary debuted this weekend on EPIX and online.

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