One of the most fun parts of this job is being able to do voiceoivers for Onion Radio News.
Check out my latest gig in Nunchuck Mastery Displayed To Enemy
Yesterday I taped an interview with CBC Radio’s “The Current.”
Similar to the Brian Lehrer show I did Tuesday, the subject was about satire and the New Yorker cover. We spent more time in this show talking about “is it hard for comics to make fun of Obama?”
I was partially repping The Onion, and my fellow guests were Aron Kader (of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour) and Greg Proops (of Who’s Line Is It and all things awesome in comedy)
You can listen to the show live on CBC Radio online at 8:37am ET Thursday July 17. It will also be available at The Current’s site later in the day.
BTW, the host kept insisting that George W. Bush was great for comedy because it was so easy to make fun of him. I strongly disagree with that. Bush was great for bad, hack comedy. Any president will be good for good comedy.
cross-posted to Jack & Jill Politics
My people, it has been a while. Apparently a brotha cannot take a vacation without major ish going down! Jesse Jackson is crazy. Tony Snow is dead. Phil Gramm let slip McCain’s true economic idiocy. And the New Yorker has generated more comments on Jack and Jill Politics than any other post.
The first media request I got upon my return was to join fellow (black) comic Jordan Carlos (known for playing the role of Colbert’s black friend and writing this Washington Post op ed about the lack of black comedy writers) on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show yesterday.
I had been so cut off from media and cell phones that I missed the initial heat and played catch up late into the night reading over 300 comments here and articles elsewhere across the web.
Here’s the audio of our appearance. It’s about 30 minutes, and former New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman joined midway through.
I have mixed feelings on the cover, but I basically come down in defense of it. You should listen to the entire show to hear the range of opinion, including my full explanation of my own, but here are the highlights.
Continue reading ‘My Take on the New Yorker Joint w/ Brian Lehrer Show Audio’
cross-posted to Jack & Jill Politics
I am an ambassador for OneWebDay, an annual effort to:
focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy)
focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills)
create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet
I got online in 1994 because a parent at my high school worked for UUNet and donated a connection to our school. We had one computer in the corner of the lab with access, not to the “web” (cause that didn’t quite exist), but to the “Internet.”
There were no graphics, just amber text on a black background. The browser, as it was, was a piece of software called Lynx. You launched it by typing the word “lynx” at the prompt and pressing “carriage return.” Remember carriage return yall? That’s from typewriter days!
Continue reading ‘OneWebDay Is Coming Sept. 22nd or Why I Love The Internet’
(1) feed i’m trying to burn http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/feed
(2) feedvalidator says it’s ok but
(3) here’s feedburner not letting me burn it
The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Unknown feed format encountered (The root element is [Element: <html/>])
I hate posting all my tech questions to my blog, but feedburner doesn’t seem to offer any support whatsoever. They have a Google Group. That’s all.
I’ve tried using jackandjillpolitics.com/feed/atom and jackandjillpolitics.com/wp-rss2.php
They all result in the unhelpful cryptic message above.
Other info that might be of use? The blog software is installed at /blog but i have the public address as /
Could there be something in the .htaccess file?
Thanks to anyone who can hook me up. We have lots of RSS subscribers, and I don’t want them to lose out.
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