A Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not Laughing
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we've been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Streeter Seidell Loves Dogs, Re-animation of Dead
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Streeter Seidell (CollegeHumor) takes us down his twisting path of pet ownership, from the truth of how horrible cats are to the inevitable dark magic ritual that...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Adam Wade and Peter Aguero Tag Team Their Pants
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: The narratorial tag team of Adam Wade and Peter Aguero form the beast with two butts to double down on the old number two. It's a poop story, okay? Two poop...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Scrapes the Bottom of the Sex Barrel
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Fresh off bombing her stand up set, Ophira Eisenberg was desperate to turn a bad night into a good one. How to do it? By sleeping with the weird, sad headliner,...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Michael Hartney Gets a Lesson in Sketch Comedy From Rosie...
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Comedian Michael Hartney was a fresh-faced writer's assistant eager to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning gay and lesbian sketch comedy television industry....
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Pat Baer Fights Wolves, Finds Love
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Pat Baer, creeped out by an awkward drug party around an unfamiliar campfire, escapes into the forest along with the beautiful, straight-edge subject of his...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Brantley Brice Discovers Himself, Matt Lauer, and the Power of...
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Brantley Brice didn't so much struggle with his sexuality as much as he gleefully did the breaststroke in a river of denial of it. His closet was a palace of...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Melanie Hamlett Nearly Seduced by South American Stilt Clown
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Melanie Hamlett, yearning for the endless, intoxicating adventure of South America found herself couch surfing into a house full of clowns. Literal clowns....
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Takes Over the Show
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Christian Capozzoli is your new host of A Funny Thing. Listen as he takes the reins in our first ever studio session and leads the story carriage right over a...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Nick Kanellis Wets the Bedbug
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Christian talks with Nick Kanellis about one horrible night when Nick suffered the perfect storm of bedbugs, robot vodka, human urine on an air mattress, and...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Kim Kutt is the Beauty and the Beast
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Comedian Kim Kutt was enamored with the Spanish handsome, Gaston. But their earliest dalliances hit nothing but snags, and when Kim went the extra mile she found...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Caitlin Brodnick Loses Her Mind to Lose a Few Pounds
by A Funny Thing Caitlin Brodnick thought diets were fun. Really. But then she made herself a lab rat in the cult-like laboratory of the Great American Infomercial. Cast as a "Before" in a meal-plan...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Lisa Kleinman Says Come On, New York
by A Funny Thing Lisa Kleinman moved to New York for the big dreams, the bright lights, and the infinite possibilities. She ended up with a secret life, pregnant legs, and a roommate named White...
View ArticleMichelle Markowitz No Longer Likes You as a Man
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: Sideburns, zoot suits, and Fred Savage, these are the three omens that signaled Michelle Markowitz's late blooming into a wonderfully awkward young woman....
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Cammi Climaco Can Has Cat Puke
by A Funny Thing Our story this week: cats. They are the worst. This is inarguable, timeless wisdom. As if we needed further proof (we didn't), Cammi Climaco investigates just how much of the worst...
View ArticleKurt Braunohler Tells the Story of His First Barfight, Which Involved Him...
by Bradford Evans Here's the latest episode of the Comedy Central storytelling web series, This Is Not Happening. In it, Kurt Braunohler retells his first and only barfight, which was basically just...
View ArticleTalking to Mike Birbiglia About Retiring 'My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend' and...
by Joel Arnold Mike Birbiglia isn't in love with standup comedy, and he's not exactly hot on the one-man show either. The workman-like storyteller says he's more interested in blending his favorite...
View ArticleMike Birbiglia and the Importance and Power of Jokes
by Philip Stamato Mike Birbiglia has a very unique ability: the ability to tell any story, like the story of jumping out of a hotel window in Walla Walla, Washington, and make it relatable. To a...
View ArticleStandup, Storytelling and Radio Hosting with Ophira Eisenberg
by Lara Zarum Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comic, the host of NPR’s live quiz show Ask Me Another, and a regular host and contributor to the popular live storytelling series The Moth. Somehow, she...
View ArticleA Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not Laughing
Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we’ve been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in the lives of the...
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