nytimes: How to be Funny -- john hodgman compilation

nadine · Post by **nadine** » November 11th, 2006, 10:53 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magaz ... dgman.html

York99 · Post by **York99** » November 12th, 2006, 1:37 am

Is that article good enough to paste? I don't want to register and have the gov't think that I'm reading the nyt... my dilusions of grandeur include thinking my computer is tapped.

By the way, did you change cats on your avatar, Nadine... or am I just a psychopathic maniac with an oedipal complex and strong fingernails?

nadine · Post by **nadine** » November 12th, 2006, 6:55 am

oh .. i didn't realize you had to register. sorry.

it's interesting, just a compilation of how to be funny in different ways (screen writing, dressing, etc) by different people like garrison keeler and people who created "the incredibles" and cowrote "napolean dynamite". and some people here seem to like john hodgemon (who wrote "the areas of my expertise").

but despite all the names, its prob not interesting enough to have to register.

that's still the same cat. just dryer. and when he was a kitten. i was browsing baby pics recently.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » November 12th, 2006, 1:13 pm

How to Be Funny
Compiled by JOHN HODGMAN
Published: November 12, 2006

How to Direct a Comedy Legend
By Paul Feig, director of the upcoming â€œUnaccompanied Minorsâ€

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » November 13th, 2006, 12:21 pm

thanks for posting that article.

i just want to say that Paul Feig is amazing, and is much of the reason why Freaks & Geeks was the Best Show Ever on Network Television (That Nobody Watched.)

phlounderphil · Post by **phlounderphil** » November 13th, 2006, 1:03 pm

John Hodgman is also a genius.

I'm sitting in training at Apple right now and we just watched several of the commercials he's done. (The PC vs. Mac ones).

He's also done some of the funniest Daily Show segments in the history of the Daily Show.

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » November 14th, 2006, 1:37 am

Brad Bird is so serious.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » November 14th, 2006, 9:50 am

mcnichol wrote:thanks for posting that article.

i just want to say that Paul Feig is amazing, and is much of the reason why Freaks & Geeks was the Best Show Ever on Network Television (That Nobody Watched.)

hear hear! Every day that passes without a new episode of Freaks & Geeks is a slap in the face.