Please! Please keep these coming! Make a new tumblr if possible!
Can we start an ongoing thread of terrible shows?
Some scientist accidentally dumped The Ooze on an Affliction shirt and it mutated into this show.
People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’
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No need for worldly shit
It was around that time that the Buddha defecated himself from worldly attachment.
A comic I don’t know just wrote this mass message to everyone he knows on F-Book.
Hey, wanted to let everyone know that I have decided not to do stand-up comedy anymore as of last night. Just one change among many though. I don’t know if you believe in God or not, but my life changed just a few days ago. I’d been doing a lot of bad things even though to a lot of people may not have seen that way. I couldn’t take it anymore and asked God to forgive me and I repented for what all I had done and I feel that everything is right now.
I was very hesitant about sending this message out, because I had an idea of how many of my friends would react, but I’d rather have you dislike me then like me and have me not say anything.
I believe that Jesus is coming very soon, and that we all must repent and ask Jesus to forgive all of our sins that we’ve done in our lives (Also, we were all born with sin because of Adam and Eve) so that we will be ready for when we die or when Jesus comes. I’ve been reading the book of Revelations in the bible, and the prophecies are being fulfilled more and more. The rate and specificity of things that are happening right now I cannot believe are being ignored. There are people who are not very religious that are even admitting situations that have been happening lately and are supposed to be happening very soon can not just be coincidences.
I care for everyone, and if this bothers any one at all in a bad way I apologize and you can of course just ignore this. But if it speaks to even just one person than it’s worth it.My reactions were:
1. Good luck with your new life. All the comics forgive you.
2. Everybody who drops out of show business should be forced to publish an essay about it.
3. Wow, Evangelicals really believe in those late night History Channel “Book of Revelations Revealed: Rapture is Nigh” docs.
4. I’m a little jealous. Where my succor at!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I’m a little bummed. The guy’s name is Tim Hammer, and he was an excellent joke writer, and a really nice guy. I just did a set with him last night, even. He’s mixed up with the Apostolic Faith Church (fundamentalist pentecostals, they have a gigantic compound by my house), but whenever I asked him about his faith he seemed rather casual about it. I never knew he was such a fan of the church doctrine. This comes as a shock to most everyone who knew him in comedy. Also, he bought me wendy’s fries a little while ago.
The Texas wildfire on the rampage. Via Alex Ogle.Photo by Mike Stone (Reuters)
This is so upsetting. :(
No, this is not upsetting. This is nature. Texas, and a lot of the midwest, has what’s called a “fire environment”. The trees, due to heat or lightning, catch fire and burn, thus creating rich soil for the next round of plants to grow. Settlers that moved to these areas were probably unaware that their surrounding’s ecosystem depends on everything catching on fire, as it has been doing for thousands of years.
This isn’t a natural disaster, this is just nature. This is one way the world works.
Sharktopus
I feel a small sense of pride as I see the creature known as the “sharktopus” slowly enter the social comedic hivemind. Two years ago, “sharktopus” was one of my stronger punchlines. In some ways, it pains me to think that perhaps I would start thinking that I’m totally ahead of my time and in ten years people will start liking what I’m doing in a more broader sense.
