Remembrance Of Video Past #65: Duran Duran, "All She Wants Is"

When I was 13, nothing was funnier than an orgasm in a pop song. Twenty years later, you would think I would stop howling with laughter at the ecstatic moans toward the end of this song. Trouble is, these moans are sequenced with synthesizers, making it sound like a sex piano (or sex keytar).

What's makes it even funnier is as these moans creep up on the soundtrack, the female protagonist faints in front of an open fridge. You're welcome.

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Patton Oswalt Vid EVERY BUDDING COMIC MUST WATCH

Taken from Beth Lapides' page (more on her significance here) is this annotated video of Patton Oswalt at Un-Cabaret. The annotations dissect how, when asked questions about his anecdote, Oswalt's responses are not only funny but truthful and within his character. It's not so much that he's on. It's more like he's really present onstage.


In this sense comedy is like reporting: Patton Oswalt is giving the story while Lapides (the hostess who asks questions to elicit further information) is like the editor, demanding even a seasoned vet like Oswalt to give more detail and to answer any lingering questions.

A Perfect YouTube Moment

I got the following comment on this video (NSFW):






This is the only comment by someone other than me. It's a very flattering, supportive comment. I am enjoying this unspoiled moment before I start receiving negative "faggot" comments. Or, even worse, before I realize that I will never get another comment on my videos ever again.

(Thanks Abbi for the heads-up and the video!)

Best Viral Video Of The Year (About MJ Media Hypocrisy)

I've seen Jon Lajoie's work and I've always thought it was OK but nothing could prepare me for this scathing rebuke of the hypocritical media's reaction to Michael Jackson's death. Before Jackson's death he was demonized as a child-touching pariah. Now he's been crowned the King of Pop by everybody carbon-based life form. Which is it? Lajoie seems to lean towards the "kid-diddling sicko" view, but he keeps his unwavering focus on the media circus that interviewed vapid talking head after vapid talking head.

There have been plenty of hilarious viral vids this year but this is one of the precious few that challenges the status quo. Indeed I can't think of another viral video produced exclusively for the web that does.

NSFH (Not Safe For Hypocrites)

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Upcoming Stand-Up Comedy Gigs For Mo Diggs

The Hangover Wins Over Angry Meatheads

First of all, this is the most perfect film ever realized. It is at least the best comedy I've seen in a very long time. I don't think a better comedy will come out this year but I hope I'm wrong.

It was especially awesome considering the conditions. I saw it in a sold-out theater full of angry douchey bros who were waiting 15 minutes past the scheduled time for the movie to start.

This movie better have roofies!


A theater employee announced that the movie would start in five minutes. As we were watching the trailers, the projector went out and everyone booed. They started the movie a few minutes past the very beginning which pissed everybody off. Some audience members were booing the projectionist. One guy behind me said "This movie is doomed."

At the end of the film, there was rapturous applause. Hangover with the win!

Is There Such A Thing As A Bad Audience At A Comedy Show?

Absolutely. Some audiences are dumb and want Chinese jokes. I'll take it one step further - sometimes the HOST is terrible. Sometimes the Feng Shui is out of whack. Sometimes the comic before you killed by making fun of convenience store clerks from Southeast Asia.

This only means it is our job as comics to rectify the situation. More often than not this entails being "loose" which means either:

a) crowdwork
b) articulating your stream-of-consciousness as it happens
c) commenting on a joke from the previous comedian/host

What this does is it gives the audience and comedian common ground without the comedian selling out. The best way I can describe it is to be your own host because if the host did their job right the crowd would be pumped. So YOU have to get them psyched (Rob Lathan steez).

Speaking of getting psyched COME TO MY SHOW TOMORROW AT OCHI'S.

Here are the details:

Mo Diggs presents Claudia Cogan (featured in Time Out New York), Jamie Lee (one of the winners of NYUCF Emerging Comics Contest), Nick Turner (DC Comedy Festival), David Angelo (David Angelo Radio Show), Todd Montesi (Howard Stern) and Matt Nagin (New York Post). Musical guest Joe Yoga.

Date: Wednesday, May 27th
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Ochi's Lounge (basement of Comix; 353 W. 14th St)
NO COVER/One Item Minimum