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3 Things: Norman Maclean, Existential Riddles, and Greg Hochmuth
Hi friends,
If you're new to these emails, welcome! Every Saturday, I send out a short email with three great things. If you feel like you haven't gotten these emails in a while, try checking to make sure this email is a trusted address so they aren't getting filtered to spam. For live shows, I've got a bunch featured below and a complete list on my website. Feel free to spread the word about these emails! Anyone can sign up for the mailing list online and/or check out the archive with all past emails here.
SHOW UPDATES:
NEW YORK:
Sunday, December 20 at 7 p.m. It's my last NYC show of the year. Come to You Get A Spoon! for jokes from me and Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight), a reading by Adina Talve-Goodman (One Story Magazine) and lots of audience prizes!Details/tickets here
SEATTLE:
Wednesday, December 30 at 8 p.m. You Get A Spoon! makes its Seattle debut. I'll be telling jokes, we'll have music from Zubin Hensler and Willem de Koch (The Westerlies), and Bianca Giaever (This American Life) will screen some of her short films. It's going to be great. Get tickets here
You can also see my full schedule up on the website now.
Ok, on to this week's list!
1 Thing I Think Is Great:
I try my best to keep it positive, but every once in a while, a good, well-deserved burn is very satisfying. Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It , was "rejected by publishers Alfred A. Knopf after initially being green-lit." After his book became wildly successful, those same publishers asked him if they could publish his second book. His response if one of the all-time great burns. It's just perfect. Letters of Note: The end of the world of books
(Side note: I strongly recommend the blog this comes from: Letters of Note. They're great).
1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:
Ethan Kuperberg's piece in the most recent issue of The New Yorker is brilliant. It's one of those pieces of comedy writing that makes me laugh and then makes me immediately intensely jealous of how good it is. I literally cut this out of the magazine so I could keep it.Existential Riddles
1 Interesting Thing:
I met Greg Hochmuth through mutual friends in NYC. He's one of the most interesting people I've gotten to talk to. Greg is a software engineer who helped start Instagram, but he's also an artist trying to get people to think about the way that tech influences our lives. His latest piece an amazing, thought-provoking artwork that could only exist digitally. In fact, you are only allowed to experience it for about 7 minutes at a time. I'd recommend reading this profile of Greg's work in The New York Times and then checking the site out for yourself. Network Effect
Ok, thanks for reading! More details on shows and my full schedule online at www.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/
Have a great weekend,
Chris
3 Things: The Light Switch, Julianne Moore, and Enterobacter
Hi friends,
If you're new to these emails, welcome! Every Saturday, I send out a short email with three great things. If you feel like you haven't gotten these emails in a while, try checking to make sure this email is a trusted address so they aren't getting filtered to spam. For live shows, I've got a bunch featured below and a complete list on my website. Feel free to spread the word about these emails! Anyone can sign up for the mailing list online and/or check out the archive with all past emails here.
SHOW UPDATES:
BOSTON:
TOMORROW! December 6 at 7:30 p.m. Taste Test Comedy is back at ImprovBoston. We've got free samples from Union Square Donuts, Chanukah gelt, and an amazing lineup of standup comics telling food-related jokes and stories Details and tickets here
NEW YORK:
Monday, December 7 at 8:30 p.m. It's a special Chanukah edition of An Hour Abroad. Evan Barden and I will teach you the entire Yiddish language in 60 minutes. You'll learn several ways of making adult children feel guilty, how to decipher signs in Yiddish, and have a chance to shout words of encouragement at comedian Myq Kaplan. Details/tickets here
You can also see my full schedule up on the website now.
Ok, on to this week's list!
1 Thing I Think Is Great:
Charlie Todd and the people at Improv Everywhere have come up with so many genius ideas over the years. Their mission is "to cause scenes of chaos and joy in public places." That feels like exactly what the world needs more of right now. They orchestrated the "No Pants Subway Ride" (now an annual tradition), they got hundreds of people to camp outside of a regular 99 cent store on Black Friday, and they filled a random unknown band's concert with rabid fans to give them the "best gig ever." That's just a small taste of the kinds of things they invent. Their latest creation is a giant red switch that allows unsuspecting New Yorkers to turn on 50,000 Christmas lights at once. Watching people discover what the switch does (especially the little kids) is just pure joy. The Light Switch
1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:
Julianne Moore's bit on Billy on the Street is amazing. She and Billy Eichner run through Times Square trying to convince tourists to stop giving tips to the weird guys dressed as Elmo and instead give Julianne Moore a dollar in exchange for performing scenes from her critically acclaimed films. I don't think it's possible to create a funnier moment than Julianne Moore yelling "Do you want me to cry on command?" at an Asian tourist. The Julianne Moore Acting Attack!
1 Interesting Thing:
"A brilliant surgeon offered an untested treatment to dying patients. Was it innovation or overreach?" Depending on who you talk to, Paul Muizelaar is either a pioneering hero or a borderline criminal. The story of how he's tried to treat fatal brain tumors brings up questions about how long medical research takes and whether or not we have an obligation to try and help people who are dying right now. But his story is also tied into the question of whether medicine's goal should be to extend life or to improve it. I can't imagine you won't have a strong opinion on his decision to treat patients by deliberately infecting their brains. Plus the whole article is worth reading for this quote: "If I ever get a [brain tumor], put your finger in your keister and put it in the wound." Bacteria on the Brain
Ok, thanks for reading! More details on shows and my full schedule online at www.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/
Have a great weekend,
Chris
