{"id":4237,"date":"2005-06-18T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/httpblogslawharvardeduceerock4\/2005\/06\/18\/comedians-of-c"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T16:25:03","slug":"comedians-of-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2005\/06\/18\/comedians-of-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedians of Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a3463\"><\/a>  <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ceerock\/kerrybenefit001.jpg\" \/>I have a thing for funny guys. I always have. So I just watched a film that for me is like porn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2005\/films\/comed.aspx\">The Comedians of Comedy<\/a>. I am now in love with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zachgalifianakis.com\/index2.htm\">Zach Galifianakis<\/a>, who is a fucking genius, and the kind of guy I know I should stay away from but which still unfortunately draws me like moth to fire, flies to honey, insert cliche here. He is at this moment sitting a few yards away from me on a comedy panel along with Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt, whom I also now have crushes on. But Zach, oh Zach, he&#8217;s got the crazy charismatic magic. He does a bit dressed as a white-wigged 18th century dandy who has lines like &#8220;Is this thing on? What is this thing?&#8221; or &#8220;Am I the only one who&#8217;s sick of Ben Franklin? Electricity? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?&#8221; I have pictures too, but they&#8217;ll have to wait until I can get home and upload them.<\/p>\n<p>The film is no brilliant concert film&#8211;in fact I was a bit disappointed that it didn&#8217;t get into the darker side of comedy and of comedians. Zach a few times mentions that he thinks he has a mental disorder, that they all do, but the film doesn&#8217;t seem interested in getting any deeper than that. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because these are just very happy and well-adjusted comedians (there&#8217;s no such thing) or that the filmmaker just didn&#8217;t want to go there. Probably the latter. But as a showcase for some fantastic and really creative comedians, it&#8217;s definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a thing for funny guys. I always have. So I just watched a film that for me is like porn: The Comedians of Comedy. I am now in love with Zach Galifianakis, who is a fucking genius, and the kind of guy I know I should stay away from but which still unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,1227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies","category-silverdocs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-16l","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}