The late great Norm Macdonald on being alive: "Man, it's the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny's, wear a hat, whatever you want to do"

'I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters' Mitch Hedberg would have been 57 today. What a unique comedic talent. And I love that if you gather comedians and ask them for their favorite joke of all times (Esquire did), Mitch shows up often

To all the SXSW-attending folks digging chamber of commerce skies, free booze and free shows, who in turn move here…looking forward to your ‘how it’s going’ skeets in August

I saw where George Lowe passed and this isn't a story fragment I share very often, but in the wee days of the internet—for about a minute—I ran an entertainment site, and managed to dig up his management. A few days later, he called me....as Space Ghost. I don't recall all of that conversation

If you're in Austin for SXSW on Thursday March 6th, and up for hanging a bit with some borderline affable folks, might I suggest joining us for an east side cocktail? partiful.com/e/4rStpf5bfN...

Of course he had little idea at the time that comically punitive leadership would make the Canada feuding thing real

It is for the moment (I think for the week?) super gorgeous here and everyone has whatever the opposite of seasonal effective disorder or Stockholm syndrome is

Now that we’re past it, seems it should be well established that a hippopotamus for Christmas is, at best, ill advised

Happy Thanksgiving, people of Bluesky, for the reminder that sanity is still a thing

One of the great things about Bluesky is it feels like walking into a party with people who haven’t heard my regular rotation of bits yet. Pardon if we play the hits

Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

I learned today that apparently Canada has its own Family Feud and I can’t shake the idea that that country seems way too polite to feud

I have a friend who used to work with a lady who he said showed up to work every day looking ‘like she got dressed by standing in front of a fashion shotgun’ and I think about her every time it freezes and Austinites get into our coat closets

As someone with a soft spot for community stuff and a certain degree of shitposting and a weakness for observational anecdotes, let me just say that this year’s Austin City Limits fest is kind of all of that