Top Comedy Twitter-ers

Comedy Central Insiders just released its top 100 Twitter accounts for funny times. Was I on the list? No. Did I want to be on the list? Of course. Should I have been? Not even a little. Still, there were some glaring omissions and some horrible inclusions. (I won't get into it but some people haven't updated Twitter since they signed up for the account and got on because they are funny in real life.) 

I feel that Twitter is a great place to write some funny short thoughts and the following people take it beyond just a what-they're-doing-right-now tweet and should be recognized. If you don't follow these people, you should.

• Pete Holmes
• Liam McEneany
• Kurt Braunohler
• Sara Schaefer
• Aparna Nancherla
• Rob Lathan
• Dan Fontaine
• Adam Wade
• Mo Diggs
• Mike Drucker
• Diana Saez
• Sara Benincasa
• Michael Somerville
• Donald Glover

If you think, well these are just your friends, of course you put them up, you should know that I don't really know most of them. Some I've never even met. If you know of anyone else that I should be following, leave a comment.

ECNY 2009: Please Keep Your Eyes

The nominees for the 2008 ECNY awards came out and I was psyched to see people that I have become friends with over the last year on the list. Especially, Sara Benincasa and Diana Saez. They deserve it. Take a moment to vote for them here.

Now onto more me-centric things. I wrote up a quick paragraph asking all of you fine readers to keep me in mind for next year's ECNY awards. I am going to push to have a good comedic 2009 so I figured I should start campaigning now. And to prove that I was serious about this, I decided to translate my paragraph into German because that's a real serious language. But then I thought, who's going to be able to read it? So I translated it back and then I thought why not put it in Hungarian because that's a funny language as well as the origin of my last name? But then I wasn't sure if that country even still existed. So I translated it back and decided to just leave it in English. I thank you in advance for your consideration. Here's my paragraph:

I'm very fond of ECNY fee. I know that I am in the outer, but I now have a good year for me. I plan to continue. If you have a display, and would like to, please let me know. I do (with the exception of Yankee Stadium, never played.) Please keep your eyes, because I am in each category can be. Sketch Group? This can happen. Thank you to all at the beginning of the train. Take care of yourself and we will examine shortly.

#1 Featured Comedy on U.S. YouTube

First Canada, now my own country. It looks so nice like that. I really can't say enough about Ces and Sara and all the wonderful comments I've gotten. Thanks to the guys at YouTube for featuring it. It means so much.

As Ron Burgundy suggests, I will "drink it in."

Zachariah and Millicent Make a Fornication Talkie

Do you ever wonder what would happen if Kevin Smith made movies in the 30s and not today? Well, then you're obviously not me...or from Jersey.

If I could ever have something labeled a passion project on YouTube, this would be it. I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan and I hope through the magic of the internet, he will see this one day. I write comedy because of him.

Special thanks to the amazing Sara Benincasa (who is so much more than Sarah Palin) and the incomparable Francesco Marciuliano (who is not capable of being compared to things).

Written by Kevin Tor
Directed by Francesco Marciuliano

Adele's Bro

I was recently given the chance to be in a Sara Benincasa video and I jumped at the chance. Sara is bringing a new character to the world, Adele Marie Rankles. She's Haw Creek's finest aesthetician and just a real joy to listen to. In the second video of the series, I play Bobby Mac Rankles, Adele's brother (the straight one). There is no word on whether this will be a recurring role or, even if it is, whether I will be playing him again or get replaced (a la a soap opera) by someone with actual talent. Regardless, it was a lot of fun (except for two moments) and watching Sara improvise it all is retardedly impressive. She is going to be a star.

Here is the first Adele video:

Here is the second one that I'm in:

Funny Stuff That Ain't Mine: Sarah Palin on 23/6

My friends, Sara Benincasa and Diana Saez, have been making these awesome videos depicting VP candidate Sarah Palin if she had a vlog on youtube. Well, since you can't keep good things down (I think I'll start doing some good things for just that reason), they have been picked up by the Huffington Post to make the videos for their amazing site. I can't be prouder of the two of them. I've tried. Check out the first video below.