I thought it would be fun to do a self-congratulatory anniversary-type celebration for what's only the 4th episode of my show. It takes well over a month to pound an episode out, and considering the fact that I do literally everything, including but not limited to writing 15 pages of jokes, shooting 5 to 7 individual sketches, drawing as many as 70 pictures for the cartoons, editing 22 minutes of video, acting, and driving three towns over to hand in the completed DVDs to the TV station, sometimes it really does feel like I've done enough work to warrant this kind of thing, although it's still purely sarcastic when it's done on the show. Still, I feel like I deserve some kind of medal for doing over 4 months worth of comedy work without saying "fuck" on camera once.
But honestly, saying that I create 22 minutes of comedy is a bit of a misnomer, seeing as how so much of the show is stuff I've already made, or repackaged material from a different medium. For example, the piece on the Atari 5200 is essentially a slideshow set to a segment from a book I wrote about video games a year and a half ago. Since about 90% of any TV show starring a stand-up comedian is rehashed older material, I think I'm on the right track.
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