3 Things: Van Jones, Rachel Bloom, and Peter Hamby
Hi friends,
It's Saturday! Every week, I send out an email with one thing I think is great, one thing that made me laugh, and one thing I found interesting. Feel free to spread the word and share these emails with friends. If you're checking this out for the first time, you can sign up to get these emails here.
Live shows
EVERYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES:
American democracy is free and open to the public for at least three more days. Do not forget to vote this Tuesday. Find where your polling place is located here: Link
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ:
FREE This Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m. at The George Street Playhouse. A special Rutgers edition of You're the Expert. Free and open to the public, featuring Jo Firestone, Josh Sharp, and Aparna Nancherla. Register online to reserve your spot. Link
NEW YORK:
Thursday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. at House of Yes. I'm hosting the final Sensory Speed Dating of the year for Guerrilla Science. A series of dates, one for each sense, help you find love (or at least a very memorable night to talk about on Friday). Link
You can also find my full up-to-date show schedule online here.
This week's list
ELECTION EDITION
1 Thing I Think Is Great:
Van Jones has an extraordinary ability to have deep, meaningful conversations on-camera with people who disagree with him. It's exactly what has been missing in this election cycle. His new series "The Messy Truth" is astonishly good and very needed. Regardless of what you believe politically, you'll gain from this conversation. Especially stay tuned for the point Van makes at the end about liberty and justice. I'd never heard the idea before and now I think it's central to our democracy. Van Jones: The Messy Truth
1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:
Rachel Bloom is the queen of musical comedy. So when it came time to get out the vote, she stepped up to the plate and wrote the funniest "We Are The World" type song ever. Watch Bloom, Elizabeth Banks, Moby, and so many more celebrities deliver the foul-mouthed election anthem we need. HOLY SH*T (You've Got To Vote)
1 Interesting Thing:
Peter Hamby is one of the most interesting political journalists in the country right now. He's a veteran reporter who's now head of news at Snapchat. I've loved every edition of his election series "Good Luck, America." They're funny and insightful and they exist only on Snapchat. It's kind of crazy. He's interviewed every candidate and recently had a one-on-one with Obama. Hamby has some fascinating thoughts on how reporters can use social media to better cover campaigns. Did Twitter Kill The Boys on the Bus?
Ok, thanks for reading! Feel free to find more details on shows and my full schedule online at www.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/
Have a great weekend,
Chris
6 months as the CEO of LinkedIn!
Today, I'm celebrating my six-month anniversary as CEO of LinkedIn. It's the best job I've ever had. I just want everyone out there to know that if you never stop networking, anything you dream of is possible.
I get a lot of InMail everyday from people looking to network with me, the Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn. It's one of the real joys of my job to respond to them each personally.
Read more about my journey in this role here, here, and here.
I have now!
3 Things: Andy Oxley, Abbey Fenbert, and Loren McIntyre
Hi friends,
It's Saturday! Every week, I send out an email with one thing I think is great, one thing that made me laugh, and one thing I found interesting. Feel free to spread the word and share these emails with friends. If you're checking this out for the first time, you can sign up to get these emails here.
Live shows
EVERYWHERE:
A new season of You're the Expert starts today! We're back from our hiatus with a new episode featuring Roy Wood, Jr, Jo Firestone, Daily Show head writer Zhubin Parang, and neuroscientist Dr. Anne Churchland. Listen here
CANADA:
Today, I'm featured on CBC Radio's Podcast Playlist. It airs across Canada at 2 p.m. and then again on Tuesday. Here's a link.
BOSTON:
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00 p.m. at The Museum of Science. A special You're the Expert taping and afterparty with drinks, dessert, and standup at Boston's best museum. Link
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ:
FREE Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m. at The George Street Playhouse. A special Rutgers edition of You're the Expert. This show is free and open to the public, you just have to register online to reserve your spot. Link
NEW YORK:
Thursday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. at House of Yes. I'm hosting the final Sensory Speed Dating of the year for Guerrilla Science. A series of dates, one for each sense, help you find love (or at least a very memorable night to talk about on Friday). Link
You can also find my full up-to-date show schedule online here.
This week's list
1 Thing I Think Is Great:
Andy Oxley takes us on a "tour of the extraordinarily ordinary" in his fantastic short film about the Dull Men's Club. A group of older men who reject modern society's pace and flashy demands, they focus on hobbies like milk bottle collecting or photographing mailboxes. I emailed with one of the founders of the Dull Men's Club and he was as sweet as can be (although he scolded me for using an exclamation point, which "dull men frown on."). This short film screened at SXSW and it's just fantastic. Born to Be Mild
1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:
One of my favorite humor pieces of all-time is Abbey Fenbert's imagining of how the children's television show Wishbone was pitched to TV execs. No matter how many times I read this, it always makes me cry from laughing. It's so good. Honestly, how did this show get made? The Pitch Meeting for Wishbone
1 Interesting Thing:
Loren McIntyre was an award-winning photojournalist for National Geographic. McIntyre was famously the first person to discover the source of the Amazon river. But that's just a tiny part of his story, because McIntyre, a scientist and a skeptic, got lost in the jungle after making first contact with the Mayoruna tribe. Unable to speak their language and cut off from the modern world, McIntyre "became fascinated by the Mayoruna headman, who seemed to communicate with the American through what McIntyre called 'beaming' or mental telepathy."
The story of McIntyre's hunt for the Amazon's source and his belief that he was telepathically guided there is chronicled in a book, Amazon Beaming, and an amazing play on Broadway right now. "The Encounter" is a high-tech head trip through an Amazon Labyrinth
Ok, thanks for reading! Feel free to find more details on shows and my full schedule online at www.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/
Have a great weekend,
Chris
