I was just recently in New York over the weekend and checked out Dave Hill’s band, Children of the Unicorn at The Highline Ballroom. I was excited to see that the headliners were Gibby Haynes with the School of Rock All Stars, playing Butthole Surfers songs.
As you can see, it was pretty awesome.
Afterwards, I managed to talk Dave and a some fellow comedian friends to go get some wings and talk some shop.
Update: The graphic image of the tarnished Apple icon has been modified for your safety.
There is nothing as sexy as a hot, little game of peek-a-boo. And today, we here at Super Deluxe got our ROCKS OFF all over the Steve Jobs’ MacWorld 2008 Keynote.
Mmm Mmmm. That’s…uh…pretty juvenile.
But to quote Brody Stevens, “Why come?!” Well, it just so happened that while some of us (the slightly Asperger-afflicted techie types, to be precise) were geeking out over the biggest Apple announcement this year, we noticed a familiar little logo tucked in the corner of a spy pic posted over at MacRumorsLive.com.
Did you catch that? It’s right there in the lower right-hand corner near the dude’s head. Do you see it yet?
Mmmm. Look at that thick, white booty and those bubbly, bursting curves. Damn girl. You fine. Basking in the afterglow of this whole thing, wethinks 2008 will be a very, very good year.
Sean Watkins is the big, hairy guy from Fark TV that everybody loves. He’s also a goddamn criminal.
Today’s podcast is put together from Chunklet’s [Still] Born In The USA Tour. A couple of months ago, I jumped in the car with Jonah Ray, Sean O’Connor, Nick Maritato, Andrew Wright and filmed the last show of the tour.
It was a blast… for me at least.
They might need to spend some time apart from each other.
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If you’ve looked at the Internet recently, you’ve probably seen Dave Hill around. Maybe here on this infernal site with his Little Michael Jackson And Me series, or on Mojo, or perhaps on his very own website.
Well, he also happens to be in today’s podcast. We just posted the second half of the incredible apartment tour he gave us when we were up in New York last, and its a doozie. But if you’re looking to save some time, we’ve also put together this A.D.H.D. version of the whole affair that’s truly something special. Apparently, yours truly no longer speaks in subject-verb agreement. Or in intelligible English. I just grunt and snort and creep people out. Good people like Dave Hill. Thanks, buddy!
The man behind The Freeloader’s Guide was in town recently and we decided to show him around our offices here at Williams Street. Big fucking mistake. Just take a look.
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.
New York is such a wonderful city to visit this time of year. The weather is perfect. The women are still all beautiful and summerfied. And the plane ride up is un-fucking-bearable.
Last night, we went to Ground Zero. Ground Zero of alternative comedy in New York City, that is. BOOOOM!!! OK, that’s not cool. There’s a lot of other places in Manhattan that probably would contest that they are the nexus of alt-comedy. But we weren’t at those places, were we? We were at Rififi’s in the East Village enjoying the crap out of Bobby Tisdale and Eugene Mirman’s weekly comedy show, Invite Them Up. If you love these guys’ Super Deluxe videos, chances are, Invite Them Up is where some of the original ideas for them were conceived and/or fleshed out. Or not. It’s a pretty “whatever the fuck goes” kind of night. Like when the multi-multi-talented Reggie Watts (seen here with fellow hair models) wrapped the evening up in a pretty bow with a beatbox-loop pedal-mindfuck improv performance that defies further categorization.
Here’s Super Deluxe stooge, Senatorturer, Bobby Tisdale and Invite Them Up co-producer and gracious hostess, Holly Schlesinger.
Of course, both Eugene and Bobby performed, as well as Adam Lowitt, Seth Herzog, Larry Murphy, and Chelsea Peretti. We got a ton of amazing footage of the performances that’s going up on the site and on the podcast soon. We also have to add that big, evil gentrification is threatening to shutdown Rififi, and consequently give Invite Them Up the boot. So, there’s going to be a special podcast about that.
And that’s not to mention all of the random folks that just happened to show up last night, like Zach Galifianakis (who was sporting those big headphones that everybody seems to be wearing these days).
Anywho, if you’ve made it this far down in our ramblings and you’re in Manhattan tonight, come and join us at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. The all-lady comedy revue that is the Variety Shac (Chelsea Peretti, Andrea Rosen, et. al.) is performing. And we’re going to be front and center and paying lots of attention.
This is off the subject, but did anybody happen to Tivo the Kid Nation premiere last night? Videotape it? We’ll take a Betamax if you got it. Somehow, after all the hype and the controversy and the full-page ad in the New York Times yesterday, the whole thing just crept up on us like a boulder falling on Piggy’s head and–BAM!–we slept right through it.
Speaking of adolescent deviance, we’ve pinched off the third and final installment of our Dragon*Con 2007 odyssey for your viewing pleasure. And by “odyssey,” we mean “14-hour-long schlep through three layers of hotel lobbies filled with Star Wars wannabes, goth girls and utili-kilts.” It was nothing as exciting as this will be. Or this. But it was something. Really something.
Here’s where Super Deluxe’s descent into the sci fi/fantasy vortex gets weird. Guest appearances include Michael Winslow, the black guy from the Police Academy movies who makes all those wacky noises with his mouth.
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