Nerve.com’s “Crush of the Week”
Two weeks ago, our Scanner cohort Nicole sent us this hilarious piece from McSweeney’s. It’s called “Whoops.” We’d read it before, but we read it again. Actually, to be perfectly honest, we have a hard time reading it the whole way through, because we get to laughing too hard, and that hurts. It’s like performing a tickle […]
The Joke’s On You
Writer’s Bloc
In-Your-Mother-Grabbin’-Face: The Mike Sacks Interview
After the unlimited success of our first guest-editorship by Opium’s bestest friend, Pia Ehrhardt, we couldn’t resist doing it again. Where Pia brought a clean and moving literary voice, the new guest editor, Mike Sacks, brings whorling whimsy, sly wit and slapstick sensibility. In droves. Here’s what he had to say when we asked him […]
The Mike Sacks Interview: Slightly Less Than Twenty Questions
Today’s interviewee knows the way to my heart, and that’s by sweet nicknames, frequent emails and constant laughter. He is prolific throughout the internet, is currently the guest editor on sweet, sweet Opium Magazine, and was the former editor of the late, great Freedonian. When you read him, you are guaranteed to laugh and have your […]
Comedy Today
Larry Gelbart, who died on Friday, was a driving force behind the TV show M*A*S*H and the movie Tootsie, as well as a great Broadway musical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and a very good one (City of Angels). He wrote for Sid Caesar in the ’50s, and he even wrote several pieces for […]
