This isn’t news to some of you people, because you’re coming to the blog exactly because of this kind mention on Tuesday’s episode of G4’s Attack of the Show. But here it is for the rest of y’all.
I’m going to play catch-up today on my blogging - writing about a couple of things I would have written about earlier. I probably will be a little behind all week. On Sunday, I cut my right index finger, needing five stitches. It didn’t look like this, but it sure felt like it:
Not one to be self-promotional, but it was cool to have Dead-Frog featured on TV, specifically on Monday’s “Attack of the Show” on G4. Here’s the segment:
If you’re familiar with Dead-Frog, you may have noticed I put a new dress on this pig earlier in the week. The site is definitely prettier but there’s a bit more to it than that. There’s some additions and some adjustments to hopefully bring some stuff up you may not have noticed was there before - the iTunes top 100 comedy albums, the news archive, and the radio playing comedy clips (pop-up). But the biggest part of the new site is a project I’ve been working on since January called the Stand-Up Comic Database.
The Stand-Up Comic Database has over 150 comedians in it so far, with more to come. Here’s some of the features of it:
A list of works from each comics divided into comedy albums, specials and books by and about. If the work can be bought on Amazon or iTunes, there’s a link that takes you directly to that page.
Video automatically pulled in for YouTube for each comic.
Sample jokes for each comic - if available. Some don’t translate well to just text. But there’s multiple jokes for many of the comics in the database. If you refresh, you’ll probably see a different one.
The ability for members to rate a comic on delivery and material, along with their comment on the comic. These ratings are compiled into an overall rating for each comic, along with rating for delivery and material.
Members can also mark their favorite comics, which creates a list of favorites for other users to surf through to find other comics they might like if they think a user has a similar taste. If you comment on a comic and he’s one of your favorites, that comment will appear on your list to. The favorites are compiled into a master list of favorites for all the members.
There’s more to come - biographies for each comic are next. I would have had them for launch, but it’s a big project and I want to get them right and in a format that’s best for the site. I have a couple of other additions in mind as well, along with some expansions of what’s already there. But it’s ready for playing with, to reference and, in classic Internet fashion, to argue/dispute over. You can get started at the Stand-Up Comic Database home page (which will be tweaked in the next week or so) or on the full archive of comics. are more than welcome.
Most of the more interactive functions are member based, so if you haven’t already, please register with the site. If you’ve already commented before on a blog post, you’re already in the system. Request your randomly-generated password by telling the system youforgot your password and giving your email address.
There’s also a new forum section, in case you want to talk about something comedy related that I haven’t posted about yet. It’s member driven as well. For you non-joiners, blog commenting will still not require membership at all. Non members can comment on anything they like. If you are a member though, you’ll be able to select a little avatar to sit next to your comment.
Anyway, I’m very excited to finally get this out to the world… this idea was like Brain Crack to me and it’s finally good to be off the pipe. I hope you enjoy.
I must apologize for the lack of entries this week. I came down with a 101.6 degree fever earlier this week that I just got over late yesterday/today and have been playing catch up with other biz ever since. I’ll update some later and all this weekend. Thanks so much for your patience.
You may have heard that bloggers using Movable Type have been the victim of comment spam as of late. To circumvent the spam, I adopted some measures that should allow users to comment whether they are registered or not. If you’re registered, you’re comments will appear immediately. If not, they await for my approval. If you’re a spammer, you should hopefully not reach the site at all (unless you want to read some opinions on comedy in between pimping mortgages, poker and erection pills).
I suppose I should just jump right in. But I have too much Charles Foster Kane in me to not start up with some variation of a Declaration of Principles. But I draw the line at making the final entry in this blog, “Rosebud.”
This is about comedy. I’ll aggregate any of the comedy news and give some commentary, along with news/reviews on funny ha-ha movies, TV shows, CDs, DVDs, books, mags and video games (I consider Grand Theft Auto to be a work of satire… a very good work of satire). I’ll cover some comedy history - like the long lost zine Army Man created by George Meyer during the writer’s strike—kinda like my favorite column on comic books (see I’m not just a comedy nerd. I’m a regular nerd too.) Every Friday I hope to throw up a little humor piece of my own for your amusement and to provide fodder for people who think I have no idea what I’m talking about. All this kids and much, much more. Or less. I haven’t decided yet.
A little note on the quote from the initial entry… I originally though Mark Twain said it. See the benefits of a good Google search. I picked it to acknowledge to you, gentle reader (or more likely - abusive skimmer), that I understand that looking too closely at comedy, like an eclipse, can burn out your retinas. So I’ll try to not be pedantic when talking about humor, but if not, I’ll be humorously pedantic (but not in a Ben Stein way).
Reportedly: SuperDeluxe to be folded into AdultSwim. SuperDeluxe did some brilliant stuff - hopefully some level of web content will continue under the AdultSwim brand.
Comix publicist Kambri Crews foils a scammer posing as stand-up Todd Barry. Con man, as Barry, claimed he needed money to get his car out of the impound lot. Barry does not even own a car.
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