May 2013
11 posts
Ray Mazarek said to me 1x, “you know that song… Do they know it’s Christmas” didn’t help the suffering Africans. Me, “and they didn’t know it was Christmas either.” #yourewelcomeYahoo
Yeah Tumblr. I MIGHT have figured you out. dates in a banner, twitter feed. I think I could have cured cancer the number of times I’ve put an hour into this nonsense. done!
Live Dork Forest and Standup in Dallas at http://a-kon.com/ May 30-June1st. Live Dork Forest and Standup in Bloomington IN at http://limestonefest.com/schedule June 6-8th Then back in Austin, TX June 19-22 at Cap City. JUST ADDED Portland, Oregon July 13-14 at The Hawthorne Theater LIVE TDF, Standup and I’m doing another Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction. heh.
tv-kitchen asked: Sorry, I just saw the rest of your previous post. For some reason, it was cut off halfway through before. And yes, that's the theme I was trying to hit, about how Hollywood and the media have a very narrow view. For what it's worth, I'm a big fan and again, I'm flattered to have you even read my little blog, let alone be able to chat here!
artlevine asked: Your insights on Marc are great! The previous master of opening up during an interview to encourage your subjects to do the same was Truman Capote. And you're very funny, look great and project a very warm personality on stage. Coming to DC W/Bammer?
tv-kitchen asked: Please know I meant that in the best possible way! I meant to say it in the sense that (from my perspective at least) you put comedy first, and that you don't give a shit about the hype around female comedians, you just focus on being honest and funny. I really intended for it to be a positive comment--I'm sincerely sorry if it didn't come off that way!
tv-kitchen asked: Hey! Thanks so much for the reblog! I couldn't figure out how to post a comment, but wanted to say I completely agree with your point about Maron being so honest in his podcast, and inspiring his guests to do that same. And I didn't mean to downplay Maron's role in WTF's success. There are obviously tons of podcasters who interview the same guests, but few do it with the same...
Comedy Round-Up: Maria Bamford, Jackie Kashian,...
My comment before interesting reblog: I’d say maron’s podcast appeal came before the big names. He, genuinely, opens a vein and invites you (whichever guest) to open one too. He gets people to be very honest because of how honest/ revealing he is. It’s a gift. A terrible, terrible gift ;)
tv-kitchen:
Big week for Chrissie watching comedy last week, both on TV and in person....
Negativity Festers: Top 11 Online Hogwarts Courses →
negativsteve:
Summer is coming, and since it is suicide to leave the house here in Phoenix, I decided to follow my dream and take some online courses in wizardry. Here are the eleven course I need to receive my BS in magic. 11.Geography 201 - Regionalism in the Wizard World: Why are all of the wizards from…
April 2013
9 posts
Alex Edelman: David Foster Wallace - The Dork... →
This week’s guest SO enjoys the works of DFW that he, postshow, answered a BOATLOAD of questions from a Ranger. Here are those answers. Listen to the show on www.dorkforest.com or itunes after/during or before reading this.
alexlikestowrite:
Guys, this is my first Tumblr post where I’m actually speaking directly to you, the people. Hello, people.
I’m doing that because I’m answering some...
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pushing hoops with sticks: Robert F. Kennedy: The... →
pushinghoopswithsticks:
Speech given at the City Club of Cleveland, April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated. Full text below:
This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the…
yes.
“Every generation you have to reteach people that there are certain rights that are inalienable.” #afriend Even if someone, clearly, deserves their rights to be violated… they have rights. You have to give them to them. If you deny rights to a person, to whom everyone might agree should be punished or hated… without due process… it’s a failure of progress. of...
Alright… in the nine places you can listen to the dork forest - allthingscomedy.com seems to be failing… the rss feed isn’t transfering… i manually uploaded felicia michaels (dirty! not) but didn’t notice it missed Diva Zappa, and, now, this very week’s ep.
Also - I turned off the comments on dorkforest.com bc o’ spam bots …so to talk about eps...
Andy, “I hope Margaret Thatcher & Annette Funicello don’t meet at the pearly gates.” Me, “I don’t think that will be a problem” Andy,”I wouldn’t want the Thatcher taint to get on Annette” #pollrewardpost
Comics: what did we buy this week?
IMAGE Great Pacific - Joe Harris/Martin Morazzo Fatale - Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips Mice Templar - Glass/Oeming/Santos/Guerra Skull Kickers - Jim Zub/Edwin Huang/Misty Coats
IDW Kill Shakespeare - McCreery/Del Col/ Belanger Locke & Key - Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez/Jay Fotos
AVATAR Fashion Beast - Alan Moore/Malcolm McLaren
ABSTRACT STUDIO Rachel Rising - Terry Moore
DARK HORSE Abe Sapien -...
March 2013
10 posts
(Interview) Jackie Kashian Is a Nice Host and a... →
Shocking! I did an interview. It was interesting questions tho :)
NOTES if you just get the show on iTunes and never get the links:
TDF EP 164 – Diva Zappa
Diva Zappa knits. She Photographs bands. She Acts. Yes, Frank Zappa is her dad. But, dang, she’s a GREAT first knitting dork!! Wow… do I not know about YARN. Ha@!
DONATE folks… I’m working over here. www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com (Show schedule, t-shirts, and standup CDs too).
Another way to...
Nobody asks, but everyone cares-What comics are...
DC Animal Man Batwoman Dial H for Hero BPRD FABLES
Image Invincible Chew Saga Marvel Fearless Defenders Nova Captain America Deadpool X-treme X-Men Daredevil Captain Marvel Dark Avengers Superior Spiderman Thor
and… my comic shop was out of X-Factor. I will check Meltdown when I go tonight.
From the receipt so no numbers, authors or artists. nap time.
You want to donate to The Dork Forest in a different way. You know how you buy stuff from Amazon? Yeah you do. We all do. I know… We’ve all read “The Second Sex, I know I’m responsible for my own orgasm” (Tootsie, 1982) I digress. So, when you’re going to buy something from Amazon, if you click the Amazon banner on jackiekashian.com and then place your order – I get some sort of kickback. I WAS...
Last night, hanging in the yard in Arkansas, where the
whole road tends to congregate, nicest guy in the world, who WANTS you to call him Polack, asked me, “you do any ethnic comedy?” I say,” just jokes about Polish people” and he turns to tell a guy who’s just sitting in his truck. In the middle of repeating that, Polack got the joke. “Robbo” (the guy in...
In AR to honor Andy’s dad-would have been his 71st yesterday. Bird dog trainer & slow talking hilarity, his ashes into shotgun shells & fired off - Clyde would have found my gingerly scared handling of a shotgun pretty damn funny.nodding,slowly,” Not your first time i take it? “knowing full well it was.
Dork Forest Starter Pack from 2012
TOP 25 Eps of 2012 TDF EP#129 – Live with Michelle McNamara (True Crime)
TDF EP#111 – Jim Gaffigan (obscure news personality)
TDF EP#117 – Corey Olsen (TolkienProf)
TDF EP#126 – Live with Greg Fitzsimmons (Rage mostly)
TDF EP#142 – Live with Retta, Rajskub, Kilmartin and Scovel (riffing ep)
TDF EP#94 – Mary Jo Pehl (reading and writing and more reading)
TDF EP#133 – Kira Soltonovich (Korean...
Hey! Dana Gould does this thing with HIS podcast (which is AWESOME) where, if you go to Amazon via HIS page, he gets a kickback from Amazon. So… if you’re going to buy from Amazon anyway - I’m gonna put that link on MY website. Eventually. Until then… here’s the direct link to Support The Dork Forest show, not costing any different, by clicking here: Amazon.com
I...
I’m raising all the prices in the next few days, whenever it gets done, to $25 for shirts (postage included) $50 for hoodies (postage included) $30/$60 for international… bc postage has been kicking my ass. the CD’s will stay the same as they are light and cost me less to produce. Email me for a price on a tshirt/CD combo price if you want jackie@jackiekashian.com
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YES. the first ten min (11:39im told) of this week’s The Dork Forest with Adam Rabbatoro about games is hard to hear. I thought I put that info in the notes but, I must not have. I was a bit rushed this week. Sorry! What happened is, using your lovely donations, I bought new mics (thank you). These new mics have ON/OFF switches. Adam’s mic was off for those first ten minutes while I...
February 2013
12 posts
It’s weird that I’ve turned into a tax and spend democrat since I’m against what my tax money is spent on. Ive never liked war…allow me to take a real stand on war here. ;) ….its a failure of politics that spend the lives of people who just want to be of some service to society.
But I love plumbing and roads and electricity. and i keep thinking, maybe drone money will trickle down to education...
The first time I flew I was 19 years old and I was going to NYC. It was back in the 80’s when they still fed you. They ran out of breakfast right when they got to me. The woman next to me said, “this is your first time flying? You can have my breakfast.” then she asked the stewardess if she could have tiny bottles of booze instead.
Heh. It worked. She got a couple tiny...
Okay, so Conan folk listed, what I call, my “curio shelf” joke as a joke about ‘marry a nerd because they won’t cheat on you.’
I’m talking to Andy and our friend Lee… and I say, “they keep saying that’s what the joke is but: when I WROTE IT, it was about how, if you marry THAT GUY, you have someone to play with.” Andy says,...
Negativity Festers: Top 11 JJ Abrams crossovers →
negativsteve:
With the announcement that JJ Abrams will be directing the highly anticipated Star Wars VII, he has a nearly complete collection of genre properties. With the announcement that he will be producing films in association with Valve games, that collection is now complete. Now that JJ owns all of…
Heh. fun game!
Busted 2 12yr olds behind my neighbor’s garage. They had imported a couple lawn chairs and were, totally, just sitting there. Not drunk or high… just hiding from being 12 I assume. I’ve been there. I felt bad afterwards… but the behind the garage would be a GREAT place to climb over the wall and get into her backyard to steal shit. But they seemed like perfectly nice, sullen, 12 year...
Again, We Ask That You Watch Jackie Kashian Be...
thecomedybureau:
Give a watch and a hearty laugh to the hilarious Jackie Kashian in her late night stand up debut and pick up her comedy albums to hear even more because you’re going to want to.
Awwww thanks Comedy Bureau!
Thinking about starting to listen to the dork forest? Here’s the faves from 2012 (searchable on www.dorkforest.com, ep#’s for your convenience)
THOUGH we all KNOW… they were ALL great.
PODCAST Faves from 2011: Your votes are in… Top 13 that you liked! (I went 13… eh) # 55 Greg Proops – Making Baseball interesting # 67 Hardwick/Palascak – Harry...
I held an entreating hand out to Andy this morning, while we were making breakfast. He said, “what’s wrong?” I couldn’t tell him in the moment, but, after, I said “I genuinely thought to myself - YOU’LL ruin the sponge!” and we laught.
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If you were on my email list, you could get off it and just read it here.
I have received this email thru the form on my website. It’s fantastic. Respected Madam,
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Comedian Dave Anthony: HERO →
comediandaveanthony:
Sometimes you have to bow down and accept that heroes exist and you have come across one.
A MAN caught having sex with a horse told police he was trying to make it pregnant with a “horse-man baby”.
Texan Andrew Mendoza confessed he “messed” with his neighbour’s horse, after he was stood up by…
Slings and Arrows, Netflix. 2 people mentioned it, then i was IN Canada and Sean Cullen in in the show, AND an upcoming ep of TDF
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387779/
It’s so good.
January 2013
10 posts
#whatIdidNotSaytoWomanIkickedoutofLastNightsSecondShow Her face lit up with her texting, I told her to put it away or go to the bar…she said it was her kids, I said, “then you should deal with it, for sure…but not in the showroom. No response. I said, you done? She said, very snooty voice, “in a Minute.” nope. Yer done now. They kicked her out. Thank you Crackers for...
Asked a guy about his folded up stick in the front row last last night #secondshow he said, “I’m blind” and, me, excited, “oooo, I have a blind joke” just me and him excited about it. He, also, only person to acknowledge that a lot is two words in my current contender for “longest bit ever” #crackers #indianpolis
only on tumblr… unless the dump onto twitter and fb works - which it HAS NOT the last two times… email me if you want free tix to the LIVE Dork Forest Monday, Jan 28th, 8pm, NerdMelt (Dork Panel with TJ Miller, Auggie Smith, Sue Costello) Standup by Dan Telfer closing… nice button on that convo - that’s what that’s gonna be.
jackie@jackiekashian.com is my highly...
Letter of support that I truly enjoyed, “I have been bugging the shit out of my local comedy club, (xxxxxxxx) to book you. So I guess I was wondering if you would actually come to Bumfuck TN. If not I REALLY understand otherwise I will never leave these people alone. RANGERS OF THE DORK FOREST UNITE”
My fan base is varied and awesome.
Live The Dork Forest w Sean Cullen & Deborah DGiovanni (sp) was great. Then, Toronto, soup dumplings. Hooray.
NYC updated shows
Monday, Tonight, Night Train 622 Degraw Street Brooklyn 8pm Whiplash, 307 West 26th St (between 8th and 9th) 11pm UCB
Tuesday, Tomorrow AfterLife Comedy 8pm - 94 Ave A Sidewalk Cafe Sweet, 9pm, Slipper Room - Orchard and Stanton
Wednesday, day after that Big Terrific, 93 N. 6th Street Brooklyn,...
Toronto
Here are the Show Details:
Live Recording of The Dork Forest Podcast with special guests Debra DiGiovanni & Sean Cullen! Thursday January 17th at Tranzac - 292 Brunswick Ave @ Bloor at 8pm. Tickets are $10 in association with Nerd Nite Toronto
Live Stand Up Friday January 18th at Comedy Bar – 945 Bloor St W (at Ossington Station) Show times are at 8:00 (7:45 door), and 10:00pm (9:45 door)...
Writer/Comedy/Journalist/New York | Steve Heisler:... →
steveheisler:
I don’t envy what Patton Oswalt had to do at one of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen. It was in 2007 at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago. The line-up began with a young John Mulaney, Janeane Garofalo, and closed with an unbelievable set by Patton Oswalt, paired with Janeane I assume to…
