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Hey! Great news! My 1970s jazz-fusion group, Space Gravy, is finally reuniting!!! I’m in the middle.

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Just a nation of goddamn fucking idiots and/or the voracious rich, and the rest of us bending over backwards to try to understand them.

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Every idiot you see shopping at the Christmas Store in August.

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Know your history

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Love Andy and his show

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Novelizations are supposedly hot again. Who was there first. STINKER!!!!!!!! Only $11.99. C'mon! You can't buy shit for $11.99 these days. So buy some serious summer Stink!

www.amazon.com/Stinker-Loos...

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I interview author and PR Operative Phil Elwood about his new book, "All the Worst Humans," out this week from @HenryHolt. It's a terrific book. Also ... here is the full commencement speech I gave to my former high school in Maryland. True. Not a joke.

thesonarnetwork.com/doin-it-with...

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Last month I gave the commencement speech at my former high school. On this month's podcast episode, I play that speech, if anyone's interested. General theme: Don't be an asshole.
thesonarnetwork.com/doin-it-with...

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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

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This movie was very similar to my childhood in Maryland. Except I had no friends and was mostly alone in my room.

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Happy birthday to a publication that gave me my first shot and, for that, I'll forever be grateful. Thank you, Dave. Thank you, @crmonks.bsky.social. Thank you, @mcsweeneys.bsky.social.

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10th anniversary of this book's release. Can't believe it.

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Today is the two year anniversary of me picking up my daughter at middle school and being asked if I was there for the "custodial job"

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“And here you have your gluten-free foods, all your ecological friendly variety of legumes, your ultra-virgin Sicilian olive oil, you have your green teas from the Assam area of India, and, really, anything and everything to keep you happy and healthy and safe this winter!”

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An interviewer just said that I'm the John Cassavetes of self-published books and I almost broke down in tears

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As seen by Mark Rozzo in Brooklyn. Oh, please, let this be a reference to Stinker Lets Loose. And from my home state, no less!

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I guess when I die I'd just like to be known as a man who had a strange walking gait and a horrific temper that could flare at just the barest hint of provocation

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open.spotify.com/playlist/2JF...

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www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

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Sorry, I haven't dated in a good long while but is "Can you please pass me my bifocals, I need to read the Viagra instructions" no longer really appropriate?!

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Great interview with a terrific writer/artist

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Me? Nothing much. Just nude, in my treehouse, overlooking the pines, wondering how it all went so right.

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So birth control and women's health and emergency care for the pregnant are not in the Constitution but bump stocks to turn guns into killing machines with more power to eviscerate anyone in their path are good to go? Fuck off.

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What else would they dream about? Forgetting their high school locker combination?

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FREE!!!!!!!!!!!! With a LIVE performance from the SF Fest featuring John Hamm, Kevin Pollack, Andy Richter, Paul F Tompkins, Busy Phillips, and more!

www.amazon.com/Stinker-Lets...

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Spring 2024 mix. You'll love it.

open.spotify.com/playlist/110...

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Jefferson knew five languages, including Ancient Greek. Trump shits his pants.

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Fucking free. C'mon! You can't beat that price! LISTEN!

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My coffee table book, BIGGEST DOUCHEBAGS IN COMEDY, is coming along nicely!!!

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Not sure how this happened, but #1. Thank you!

www.amazon.com/Heres-Kicker...

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PLAINTIFF: Were you responsible for the gentleman in the blue velvet jacket who flew through the $2,500, five-tiered wedding cake?

DEFENDANT: As in: did I plan that? No way. Who in the hell would plan for that?

@mcsweeneys

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

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New piece up on @mcsweeneys.bsky.social!

I Was the Wedding Planner for the Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” Ceremony and Reception www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

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This made me laugh out loud. The great David Simon.

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It's really fascinating. There's almost a genetic or Darwinistic reason for many to think lowly of younger people. It's wired in us. In the Icelandic Sagas, written in the 15th century, about tales that take place in the 11th century, the elders thought of the younger generation as "lazy."

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Agreed

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thesonarnetwork.com/doin-it-with...

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Hail yes

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The great Paul Feig on "Freaks and Geeks"

"And Here's the Kicker"

@paulfeig

www.amazon.com/Heres-Kicker...

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“Hey Mike! Just circling back to those last 15 PR emails I sent you and you ignored. Still not interested?”

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Sometimes I’ll drive by my childhood home in Maryland, stop, scream out the window, “This house is haunted … with LAUGHTER,” and then speed off

#10321GainsboroughRoad

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OKCupid date not impressed with my "Freddy Got Fingered" crew jacket

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Interviews with David Sedaris, Dave Barry, Jack Handey, Bob Odenkirk, and other humor-writing pros: “Sure to captivate anyone who loves a good comedy.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

www.amazon.com/Heres-Kicker...

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I've been in various high school classrooms. Most students are checking their phones at all times. It's constant.

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I'm sorry, what? This is the asshole who bragged about eating cereal for dinner until he was 40.

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Good. Should have been done long ago.

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Attending my 20th high school reunion. Really want to impress. Rented RAV4 or Hyundai Sante Fe?

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Stephen Merchant, from "And Here's the Kicker"

www.amazon.com/Heres-Kicker...

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Summer memories. Me in Ocean City, Maryland with friends. 2009?

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Saw Brenda and Eddie at the Parkway Diner this morning. Didn't want to butt in, but things weren't looking so hot. Then again, things are okay with me these days.

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