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BP Coffee Spill

By Erik | Published: June 9, 2010
We came up with this idea during a writers’ meeting for the sketch show Beneath Gristedes. We liked it so much we decided to make it right away and shot it on Memorial Day. Pete Schultz and Brandon Bassham did a great job directing and editing it, and the whole cast was hilarious and fun. [...]
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Alas, poor Yorick! He was a zombie, Horatio.

By Erik | Published: April 26, 2010
I recently rediscovered this valuable contribution to zombie literature that I wrote during National Sketch Writing Month last year: EXT. GRAVEYARD - MORNING A GRAVEDIGGER is preparing a new hole. HAMLET and HORATIO sneak up upon him. The gravedigger pulls out a skull. GRAVEDIGGER (to Hamlet) A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think [...]
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Otto Preminger

By Erik | Published: April 23, 2010
A year or so ago, I got into a discussion with Will Hines about the greatest American directors. I argued for Billy Wilder, who was not, technically, an American director, but did much of his best work in our country and represented our embrace of European immigrants in a wonderful way. Now I’d like to talk [...]
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Nuclear War Comedy

By Erik | Published: March 2, 2010
As a child who lived through the tail end of the Cold War, I had my share of nuclear war themed nightmares. The scariest part was always that hour I imagined we’d have between finding out a bomb was coming and when it actually arrived. What would you do in that last 60 [...]
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My First Internet Hit

By Erik | Published: February 15, 2010
My friend Megan sent my Toyota Recalls Everything video to a friend who works on a car blog. He got it linked to their front page, and then it got linked to the front AOL for a while. It got up to 24,000 views within a week. That means it is 420 percent more popular than [...]
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This site has been relaunched

By Erik | Published: February 7, 2010
Hello. I have changed this site from Drupal to WordPress. Sorry for any problems this causes you. I am in the process of updating themes and posting content.
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