One of our favorite peoples who may or may not be working with us in the future on a multi-episodic comedy video trilogy series (or not) has a new album out on Comedy Central Records that you should go buy. And not steal. Don’t steal.
Nick Swardson is one funny motherfucker. Need proof? Dead Frog has sample MP3’s from “Party” here.
In the meantime, here are two of our most favorite Swardson joints: Smoking Weed (which he did for us with Nick Goossen) and Gay Robot (which was a pilot for Comedy Central that never made air).
Today’s guest blog is from our very own Mason Steinberg. Not only does Mason enjoy reading about things, he also likes to make videos about cat cops and black militant babies.
Scientists in Patagonia have unearthed a new species of dinosaur said to be one of the largest ever discovered. So what?! All that means to us commoners is there’ll be some other big-ass dinosaur for Jeff Goldblum to run from in the next Jurassic Park movie. What’s more, they named it “Futalognkosaurus dukei.” I, as some of you may know, love to insult people and “Futalognkosaurus dukei” is just the shot in the arm I needed. Sometimes I lay awake at night, just trying to think of stupid names to call people. Other times, a gem like “Futalognkosaurus dukei” just jumps into my lap. It’s too perfect. I can’t think of a single term that more accurately describes some deadbeat with a clubfoot that smells like death. To be honest, I would probably call anyone with a clubfoot this, regardless of their stench. How can a scientist–who probably got the shit kicked out of them in high school–name something “dukei?” You gotta see that coming a mile away. So, thank you, scientists! For replacing Club Foot McShitYerPants in my arsenal of insults for people with physical ailments!
In case you’re curious here’s the link to the article.
In case you didn’t already notice, we set free the latest batch of new features yesterday. Here’s the quick and dirty list of the new awesome:
- New Homepage Design:
We redesigned the entry point to the funny to make things easier to find and more inviting.- Most Viewed/Highest Rated:
Everyone loves lists of top things. Here’s your chance to see the most viewed and highest rated videos on the site. You can choose to look at only the top videos from Artists, or just members or from the whole pool of funny.- Search:
We added the ability to search for Series and the results page got tabby. From here you can choose to only look at results for Videos, Series, Artists, Members, and All. Take a look.- Other Redesigniness:
The Series and Shows pages were combined into Funny Shows, which showcases the greatest stuff from our Artists, the video player got some freshening up and we added links to send videos to Fark and Stumble Upon.- Artist Series List:
Artist profiles now contain a list of all their series. If they have series.
Your Profile got a lot of updates, it gets it’s own section.
Themes:
You can choose to select from a set number of themes to jazz up your member profile page. From your profile, click the Open button to slide down the theme selection box. This is where I spent 90% of my time yesterday and the reason for the delay in this blog post. It was just so difficult to decide between the football theme and the hip-hop theme, you know?Favorites:
Think of it as a collection of your favorite videos around the site. It’s your chance to program the site by watching them all as a playlist or let others subscribe via RSS. You can even embed the player in your blog.Series Favorites:
You can also add any of our original series as a favorite, sort of like being a fan of an Artist. From the series profile page select the Add this series to my favorites link and you’re done. The series will then show up in your profile under the Shows section.Recent Comments:
Here you can keep track of the hilariously witty and well thought out last few comments you’ve left strewn throughout the site. Laugh at your funniness over and over.
So with that, I’ll leave you to explore the site. If you’d like to tell us how much you love the updates or just say hi, feel free to drop us a line.
Today’s original chuckle courtesy of JCK.
Guys just like hanging out with other guys without their shirts on. Just shopping in New York all shirtless and shit. Improv Everywhere knows this…
As opposed to what they normally do? Don’t they usually speak…with words? Who writes these stupid headlines, anyways?
As we mentioned before, we were in New York recently where we got to spend time annoying the piss out of some of our favorite video makers. Among the irritated was Olde English, the comedy troupe that has brought you such Super Deluxe favorites as this and that and this and that. We were able to coax three-fifths of the group (Ben Popik, David Segal and Raphael Bob-Waksberg) to meet up with us in Madison Square Park on a fine Friday afternoon. The other two guys (Caleb Bark and Adam Conover) politely declined, telling us to “go fuck ourselves.”
But seriously, folks–at the risk of getting all blubbery–the OE guys really are as fun and nice in person as they appear to be in their videos. We even got them to reflect a little bit on the whole Super Deluxe experience and what it’s like making comedy shorts for an audience of very opinionated commenters.
They also broke us off this lil’ gem of a promo that really drives home the point of just how happy Olde English is with us!
Also, check out the write-up Olde English just got on NewTeeVee.com. For the uninitiated, NewTeeVee is a great site that’s tracking this whole online video explosion that we’re presently knee-deep in.
From what we’ve been able to glean, it has been one wild, wild October for Jonah Ray and his compadres. Their month-long stand-up tour through this great country of ours (specifically, the east coast) has brought some of the biggest laughs in recent memory to places like Kafe Kerouac in Columbus, Ohio. So, big ups to that.
But like all good things that are a play off a Bruce Springsteen album title, this tour must come to an end. The final three nights are going down right here in our proverbial backyard this week (Wed. in Birmingham, Thurs. in Atlanta and Friday in Athens). So, you know we’re going to be there, standing around with cameras in our hands, trying to encourage everybody to “act natural” while we film them.
While that footage is forthcoming, please enjoy this exclusive vlog direct from the (Still) Born tour van. Seems Jonah really captured some of that comedic good cheer that keeps everybody going on the road.
Bob Odenkirk is a-blogging again. This time he’s explaining about all the projects he’s juggling right now, including a lil’ something for Super Deluxe.
Andrea Rosen talks to The Apiary about her dad, the “hippie who fled to New Mexico.”
And Jim Norton chats with Dead Frog about his HBO special that premiered Saturday night and alcoholism!
Imagine that strangely attractive beast on a nice, clean, crisp white T. Tit-alizing, isn’t it? Ever since we watched Baby Cakes‘ Group Therapy, we can’t get the thought out of our normally empty heads.
So, who’s wants one?? Who wants a Bobbie Bunny T-shirt?? We’ll make ‘em. We might even just give them to you. Just depends on how you ax.
Here’s the deal: in exactly one week (Friday the 19th), our new news show called What’s Your Story? is premiering.
Here’s the premise: You send us the stories you want to know more about and we report on them. It’s like the opposite of Fox News: instead of “We Report. You Decide,” it’s “You Decide. We Report.” Instead of fascist propaganda, it’s peoples’ propaganda. Instead of Bill O’Reily, this loofah lover, Larry Wachs, will do all the ranting…
Here’s the pledge: the stories we get the most emails about are the ones that get covered—no matter what. The majority of you want to hear about Iran? The meat puppet talks about Iran. Britney? He talks about Britney. Pumpkin pie? Larry will talk about pumpkin pie, by God. AND! if you think he did a crappy job, you can email him that, too. The more complaints, the happier he is. So bring the abuse.
Email us the stories you want reported at WhatsYourStory@SuperDeluxe.com! Email us the stories you want reported at WhatsYourStory@SuperDeluxe.com! Email us the stories you want reported at WhatsYourStory@SuperDeluxe.com!
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