November 29, 2005
At this year's SXSW, I (along with my friends Ryan, Sam, and Sandy) caught an encore performance (as it were) of the Comedians of Comedy tour, with Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford. For the SXSW stop (they were there to screen the film), they had Eugene Mirman open the show and generally act as MC for the evening. It was by far some of the funniest hours of my life.
Just recently, the documentary of the tour itself was released through Netflix, and I've watched it a couple of times, and found myself making others watch moments of it repeatedly. It's nice to see such genuinely funny comedians get recognized for their own work (as opposed to their stints in sitcoms like Just Shoot Me and King of Queens, or films like Out Cold), and the documentary is an interesting (and hilarious!) look at what being a touring comedian for over 15 years is/can be like. Well worth the time.
There's apparently also a Comedy Central show of the same name, which I haven't caught yet, but will do my best to this week. And Eugene Mirman, meanwhile, keeps writing brilliant entries on his Village Voice blog. The most recent post, about TV news (and Nazis, and a gay Bill O'Reilly, and poodle-rock band Skid Row), is especially funny, and you should be sure to listen to his phone call to ABC News, made in an attempt to find out what about the winter could kill his dog.
(You can also see a picture of Ryan taken by Patton Oswalt on our plane trip to Austin here, if you scroll down the page to about the halfway point.)
Posted by starlen at November 29, 2005 10:15 AM
