Yay or Nay: Should You Go to College?
Ahhhh education schmedication. Thats a word right?
My favorite Yay or Nay yet.
The Exquisite Corpse Project screening at UCBeast tomorrow night →
If you missed our movie’s premiere NYC screenings, guess what? You have one more chance to see it live, in the theatre, and laugh your head off with a bunch of other comedy fans. And believe me, laugh you will! I have been to the previous screenings, and laughing is what audiences do when they see this peach of a movie.
But you don’t have to take my word for it! Check out what extremely nice guy Dan Gurewitch said about the movie:
It takes a clever hook (the members of a comedy group each write 15 pages of a feature film, only privy to the previous writer’s last 5 pages, and the movie intercuts between the resulting hodgepodge film and interviews with the writers), and spins it into a hilarious, touching look at the trials and tribulations of friendship, creativity and collaboration. It’s funny on a ton of levels, from immediate to super-meta.
But more than that, it perfectly and genuinely explores the process of working creatively with friends when you’re young and your intense passion is rivaled only by your relative inexperience. It made me nostalgic for the years I spent in my college improv group, bonding with best friends and engaging in hyper-opinionated disagreements without a clear leader or direction, but with boundless enthusiasm.
It’s a real feat of creative editing, charming and engaging. You’ll love it, especially if you’ve ever made stuff with friends. Congrats to everyone involved, and everyone else, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Listen to Dan Gurewitch! See the Exquisite Corpse Project live tomorrow night at UCBeast at 7:30PM, or download and stream it for just $5, any old time you’d like!
The ten sweetest words in the English language: I was a guest on the Wendy Williams Show today.
Yay or Nay: Should Everyone Have a Gun?
New Yay Or Nay! Man do I work with some funny people.
A few weeks back I got the chance to act opposite Amy Schumer in the above CollegeHumor video directed by Paul Briganti and written by Pat Cassels and me. Check it out! It turned out great.
We did this interview for Splitsider where we talked about The Exquisite Corpse Project and Olde English, →
so check it out if you are interested in those things. I like this interview a lot, even though I’m a little embarrassed by how much I talked (and how much I swear). Also, never before has the phrase “[They all laugh.]” been used so many times to imply, “You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the words they are saying, but these people actually like each other!”
The screenings in New York and Boston this week were a lot of fun. We have more screenings coming very soon: New York on Tuesday, LA ON WEDNESDAY!!!, and Philadelphia on Thursday, as well as many more soon to be announced.
Most importantly, YOU can now watch The Exquisite Corpse Project from the comfort of your own home, thanks to the good people at Splitsider Presents! Just five dollars to stream or download — what are you waiting for?!
It’s been totally surreal reading people’s reactions to the film these last few days. After sitting on the movie for so long (besides a few festival screenings), I love finally getting to see what others take away from it, what their favorite parts are, what surprises them most. I mean, I knew that I thought the movie was good, but to get so much love and support from so many long-time friends and fans as well as complete strangers all at once?
Well, fuck my face.
I love how this interview came out. I think the most representative quote from it is “[They’re all still giggling.]”
Today is the big day! You can buy our movie and stream or download it for just $5. Below are some of the nice things people are saying about the movie:
Watch This: Splitsider Presents ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project’ | Splitsider
Comedy website Splitsider just launched a new digital distribution label ‘Splitsider Presents’ and their first release is the hilarious feature film ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project.’ Available for $5 over at their website.
Director Ben Popik gathered together his former comrades from the legendary sketch group Olde English and tasked them with writing a movie. The catch: each of the five writers wrote 15 pages and only saw the previous five pages of the script. He then shot the movie they wrote, as well as documentary footage of the writing process and all the drama that it entailed, and put them all together into a unique comedy.
I had an opportunity to see the move last night and it is really something special. Besides being extremely funny and charming, it speaks volumes about the creative process, collaboration and friendship. The way the documentary aspect mirrors the narrative they wrote is fascinating. The film becomes much more than a silly project, but rather evolves into a statement about human nature and relationships. You definitely haven’t seen anything like it.
I saw this last night, and you should see it as soon as you can. It’s a very, very good movie that starts with a neat gimmick (a movie written in turns by writers who haven’t read the earlier parts, intercut with documentary interviews of the creators themselves) and takes it to places both extremely funny and sincerely touching.
Meeting the writers one by one and watching them speculate as to what this movie is about or where it’s going feels really special and fun, in the same way that watching good live improv does. It’s super funny, but the way the patchwork, this-should-not-work movie at the heart of things rises above insanity and becomes a mirror for the writers’ own feelings on friendship and collaboration is really pretty special. See it!
How can you argue with that? Get the Exquisite Corpse Project now for just five bucks! And if you’re in New York, come see it live with us on April 30th!
On April 30th, the Exquisite Corpse Project screens publicly in New York for the first time.
If you like comedies, you will like this movie. If you like emotional satisfying documentaries, you will like this movie. If you like seeing what creative people do with few resources and a lot of limitations, you will like this movie. If you are passionate and curious about the creative process, you will like this movie. We really surprised ourselves with this thing — it’s one of the best and most interesting projects I’ve ever been involved with. Please come and see our movie with us — I know you’re going to love it.
We’ve been looking forward to visiting Boston on our tour, and yesterday’s tragic events haven’t changed that.
Our Boston Premiere is scheduled for next Wednesday, but we need to sell 15 more tickets in the next 20 hours or else the event won’t happen! All proceeds from ticket sales to this screening will go to the Boston branch of the American Red Cross.
Our hearts go out to everyone in Boston. We hope to see you next week.
As for other cities, check our website to see when we’ll be coming to you. (Tickets are now available for New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.)
Hey Boston, we’d love to see you.
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