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22 May

Unemployed 20-Something Totally Validated By Marginal Celebrity’s Fleeting Acknowledgement of Her Existence

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Preface: This actually occurred. Soon after it did, I wrote the piece below and sent it to Todd Hanson who responded with this:

–becca,
You are Really OVERREACTING. I am not even REMOTELY anything you could call even a MARGINAL “celebrity.” But thank you so extremely significantly for the compliment just the very same.
Your piece was funny.
good luck out there,
regards,
H

Amazing.

Unemployed 20-Some thing Totally Validated By Marginal Celebrity’s Fleeting Acknowledgement of Her Existence”

August two, 2010

CHICAGO, IL – In an atypical break from ennui, component-time babysitter, vintage apparel retailer, and occasional freelance writer, Chicagoan Rebecca O’Neal, 23, shared great news with her unimpressed Twitter followers early Monday morning: The Onion’s Todd Hanson had grow to be peripherally conscious of her insular existence.

Following stumbling upon O’Neal’s sycophantic and stylistically hilarious on-line evaluation of Hanson’s contribution to And Here’s The Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers On Their Craft, a book largely unfamiliar to non-comedy nerds, Seattle region man Peter Greyy posted its link to Hanson’s Facebook profile. Hanson, in what has been interpreted as an equal elements earnest and sarcastic response, replied, “I have made the decision beccaBeccaBECCA [Rebecca O’Neal’s on-line username] is my new preferred writer.”

Reflecting the indifference of the majority of O’Neal’s Twitter followers, @mallrat87 had this to say of Rebecca’s elation at Hanson’s acknowledgement, “@becca_oneal: Who is Todd Hanson?” Users of aspecialthing.com, the web forum on which O’Neal’s review was posted, equally rabid comedy fans and sharers of Rebecca’s apparently esoteric tastes in humor, bandied congratulations on their net peer. In a private message to O’Neal, AST user R-Rated wrote, “OMG! Todd Hanson saw your post! You are completely net renowned now!”

Rebecca, pleased to know a critique she had expected to go unread and ignored discovered its way to Hanson, expressed her surprise and joy to her mother, who beamed with confusion and pride. “Becky is so talented. I’m glad that Hanson fellow thinks so as well. He appears like an critical man. I see copies of The Onionat libraries sometimes. Perhaps now she’ll leave the residence much more typically.”

O’Neal assured reporters that there was a “fat chance” of that taking place as she blogged about her unlikely brush with celebrity.

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20 May

Patton Oswalt – Sad Boy

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This bit comes from Patton Oswalt’s My Weakness is Powerful. It’s phenomenal. In addition to that he describes what depression is like accurately and hilariously, what I adore about the Sad Boy bit is the dog analogy. For a lesser comic, the dog portion of this bit would have been a bit in and of itself, sovereign of a bigger context. Not so with Patton. He’s remarkable. Watch this and anything else he’s done…. professionally. I do not want to allow any stalkers.

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18 May

Chevy Chase – National Council for Mental Health

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…From a 1976 episode of the sketch show Tunnel Vision. It seems uncannily modern for its day, no? The sad factor is that the social ill this video is parodying – the marginalization of and undue shame connected with mental health difficulties – nevertheless exists these days.

So don’t go embarrassing your self with depression. Take a shower. Get oneself together.

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16 May

The Onion’s Funniest Depression Articles – Part 1

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They are funny because they are accurate! The Onion’s fake news is much more honest than any reporting I’ve ever witnessed.

Neighborhood Man May possibly As Well Just Give Up

Calling Ludauer’s existence “a hopeless situation from the begin,” Bulone named upon fellow community members to help the panel’s recommendation that he instantly surrender to the gnawing void he has for years tried to retain at bay.

Physicians Discover New Way To Prolong Meaningless Existence

“I utilised to be blissfully unaware of my pathetic, pitiable state,” said Klingbell, whose Noexitoxythalynucleothylinase remedies have restored her psychological faculties. “Now, the physicians say I can reside on devoid of any objective whatsoever for years, trapped helplessly inside the bleak prison of shattered dreams and blasted hopes that has been my life.”

U.S. Populace Lurches Methodically Through The Motions For But An additional Day

The populace’s minor victory of continuing to participate in the meaningless charade that is their lives, sources mentioned, was rendered all the a lot more futile by the inescapable realization that they must do it yet again tomorrow, and the next day, and so on and so on unceasingly until the day they inevitably die.

Study: Depression Hits Losers Hardest

According to the Stanford study, losers are five times much more probably to suffer from negative sexual self-images than non-losers, usually due to the fact they are fat and ugly, and nobody in their right thoughts would ever want to date them. More, negative feelings such as despair, self-loathing and hopelessness are 3 times as common amongst go-nowhere lowlife losers than amongst regular individuals who are not worthless as human beings.

Utter Failure To Devote Rest Of Day In Bed

Observers attribute Mayhew’s utter failure of a life to a selection of elements. His lack of any employable expertise can make him ill-suited for all but the most degrading menial jobs, number of of which supply a living wage, leaving him in continuous poverty and debt. His lack of health insurance, coupled with a diet program consisting nearly exclusively of Saltines and Tang, has contributed tremendously to the deterioration of his physical and psychological nicely-getting. And his substandard private hygiene, induced by his low self-esteem, as effectively as his enormous emotional neediness, make him incredibly unattractive to members of the opposite sex as a potential romantic partner.

Area Man Has Sad Little Routine For When He Needs Cheering Up

In spite of his passion for bizarre small rituals that apparently preserve him from tumbling into total despair, over time Mendic has been forced to retire some of his habits, such as, for the really like of Christ, playing Minesweeper.

Son, We’d All Like To Lie Around All Day Being ‘Clinically Depressed’

Justin, do you know what could make you really feel greater right off the bat? Raising your blinds and letting in some light. Due to the fact, I mean, I can think you really feel clinically depressed in that space of yours—I would, too! Any person would. It’s dark, it smells, and there’s mounds of clothes and books all more than the floor. Get out of bed, open the window, and do a little choosing up. Accomplishing a small job could do a lot to restore your self-self-confidence.

A lot more links to come…

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04 May

Mike Lawrence – Montreal Just For Laughs – New Face

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Mike Lawrence is hilarious and depressing and brutally honest about his life and shortcomings. Just the type of comic I adore. Examine him out.

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30 Apr

Gawker.TV guest contributions.

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3 so far:

A Contemporary Guide to Old Timey Comedy

Lost Comedy Pilot: “The Show” No One Ever Saw

Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk: an Interview with Author Mike Sacks

I’ll have yet another up some time this week known as I Want Laughs – A Week in the life of an NYC Comedian. It’s about a documentary by Matt Ruby.

And in the coming weeks, I’ll be contributing to an amazing comedy blog. Details presently.

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15 Apr

About The Depressed Humorist

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Me: Rebecca V. O’Neal is a Chicago-based comedy nerd and net addict, the latter of which she feels facilitates her increasingly sedentary life-style. Do not enable her obsession by going to her vintage style, comic book, literary, or comedy blogs or by following her on Twitter. She spends her time as a freelance writer, thrift shop and estate sale frequenter, and depressed homebody who knows not the joy of smoke and drink. No recognized photographs exist of Rebecca, as it’s purported that she is, in truth, a series of sophisticated holograms. She can make viral videos (1,2) in her spare time, as she has absolutely nothing else to do.

Comics I like: Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Mike Lawrence, Kyle Kinane, Sean O’Connor, Sean Patton, and Lucas Molandes. Rob Delaney’s more revealing materials is genuinely good as well – though he may be a bit well-adjusted for my taste (!)… and I’m acquiring into James Fritz and Beth Stelling. Todd Hanson’s stuff at The Onion is amazing and I’m warming up to Josh Comers’ materials. I also like Louis CK.

Why I like them: They are all the progeny of Lenny Bruce’s mordant wit: intelligent, a bit depressed, self-deprecating, misanthropic, honest, open, individual, introspective, self-mindful, and hilarious. (I Need MY COMEDY TO REINFORCE MY WORLDVIEW AND CONFIRM THE Factors I Already BELIVE!) I also like new, depressed Dave Chappelle even far more (if that is achievable) than I liked old, only cantankerous Dave Chappelle and believe Marc Maron is even more prolific when he’s just speaking than he is when he’s joking. If you know of any other comics who fit that profile that I really should check out, leave me a comment.

This weblog: Comedy is my treatment. I’m uninsured.

If that is the kind of thing you happen to be into, remain a whilst.

The Depressed Humorist

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13 Apr

Funny + Depressing Tweets

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And 1 from me:

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06 Apr

Mort Sahl in TIME – August 1960

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If there hadn’t been a Mort Sahl, there wouldn’t be a Jon Stewart. I’d add an “arguably” in there somewhere, but that statement feels like a thing I’d really feel cozy setting aside the time it would take to etch it in stone.

I won’t pretend that nowadays, Mort Sahl’s topical, frequently political material isn’t nearly impenetrably dated, but I also can’t deny that his attitude, cadence, candor, and wit transcend any specific bits that may possibly be lost in translation. I did not actually commence this blog to talk about political or topical humor (not that anything I do ever persists in the spirit or intention with which I began it), but Sahl’s irreverence and aversion to bullshit appeals to me.

Aaaannnddd… midcentury American (counter?)culture is an inexplicable interest of mine. I’m reading Gerald Nachman’s Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s (the introduction is available to read in its entirety on Google Books) appropriate now, and the way the hungry i (a San Fransisco comedy/music club) and its resident performers and atmosphere are described can make the spot appear like an estuary of budding cultural trends. Its proprietor, Enrico Banducci, found and nurtured some of the most influential comic talents of the final 6 decades – delivering an atmosphere where no subject was taboo and no censorship (or heckling) was tolerated. Sounds like any mic or room these days, but when you consider that Lenny Bruce’s undoing was his 1950s obscenity trial (he said cocksucker a couple of times on stage! I’m scandalized just typing it), the hungry i’s significance becomes evident.

In attempting to convince him to audition at the hungry i, Mort Sahl’s girlfriend told him that “the audiences are all intellects, which indicates if they realize you, great, and if they do not, they will never ever admit it.”. Pretentious hipsters have often and been and will constantly be. Say what you will about that mentality, when a hipster likes one thing, he or she (androgynously, with feigned disinterest) supports it… and supports it waaaay ahead of and in a a lot cooler way than you do. I know practically nothing of the place personally, but following listening to an interview with Rebecca A. Trent on The Comedy Nerds podcast, I really feel she and her comedy club, The Creek and The Cave in Lengthy Island City appear like the modern incarnations of Enrico Banducci and the hungry i.

Check out this 1960 TIME magazine profile of Mort Sahl and his contemporaries (Nichols and May – favorites of mine, Shelley Berman, Bob Newhart, Jonathan Winters, and much more): http://www.time.com/time/printout/,8816,939769,00.html

Everything’s there. His material is quoted sparingly, but the piece sums up every little thing about why I adore him. When I feel about the comedy of the 1950s and 1960s, I wonder if my perception is romanticized. Everything I know about the era is, I’m positive, component exaggeration, aspect creation myth… but that does not hamper my getting enamored of a location and time I can by no means go to, save through video/audio clips and in books.

Just needed to share that with my two readers.

* I could be writing a more in depth point about Seriously Funny on Splitsider at some point. Will post that link if it ever occurs.

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31 Mar

The Onion’s Funniest Depression Articles – Part 2

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The Onion just gets it.

(by way of)

Depression Sufferer Insufferable

Blanke, 28, an unemployed former gas-station attendant who has battled debilitating bouts of self-loathing and despair for most of his adult life, is reportedly so deeply immersed in his very own selfish tiny world that relatives and acquaintances discover it practically impossible to be around him for more than a few minutes at a time.

Manic-Depressive Buddy A Blast Even though Manic

“Tom’s got this net page he keeps, and sometimes a month or much more will go by where he does not do any updates, except for truly brief entries like ‘Peed in a jar today rather than leave bed,’” buddy Alicia Reynolds mentioned. “But then, sometimes he’ll get on these jags exactly where he’ll write, like, 20 pages in a single day—hilarious, over-the-leading stuff about how every one particular of us is a white-hot power supply extending to every single corner of the universe.”

Pharmaceutical Firm Says Its New Anti-Depressant Is ‘Worthless And Dumb’

According to reports, top BHP researchers began having doubts about the drug for the duration of the early development stages, when they realized they couldn’t do something correct ever ever ever, and that none of the pharmaceutical-business leaders cared regardless of whether they lived or died. But function on the project continued, in spite of BHP’s expanding conviction that Cyntrex would be the worst item in pharmaceutical background.

(Video): FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

Produced by Pfizer, Despondex is the 1st drug created to treat the signs and symptoms of excessive perkiness.

Pfizer Launches ‘Zoloft For Everything’ Ad Campaign

Pugh warned that Zoloft use may possibly trigger side effects such as agitation, erratic behavior, restlessness, difficulty speaking, or shaking of hands and fingers. He added that Zoloft can help these suffering from agitation, erratic behavior, restlessness, difficulty speaking, and shaking of hands and fingers.

Freshman Psych Student Diagnoses Roommate With Bipolar Disorder

Continued Wenger: “It can be pretty difficult to live with Chad, specially when he’s all clinically depressed more than some girl who dumped him. But it’s crucial to bear in mind that it really is not his fault: There are chemical substances in the bipolar sufferer’s brain responsible for the disturbances in mood. I can’t keep in mind the names of them offhand, but I’ll know them by following week’s exam.”

Sad Sack Purchases Screenwriting Computer software

Norgren, whose script concepts had been literally as well sad to print here, mentioned he likes films with wise dialogue and characters who overcome obstacles, such as Obtaining Forrester, A Beautiful Thoughts, and Juno.

Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Workplace

“If somebody complains about how negative it sucks to perform overtime five days straight, I just nod and agree,” stated Braxton, who spends his weeknights at parties, at concerts, and playing basketball in the park. “No point in rubbing in the reality that no matter how busy points are, I leave at precisely five p.m. each and every single day. If any person asks me to remain later, I just say my agency doesn’t let me do overtime.”… In spite of his happiness, Braxton mentioned he tends to make sure often to project an air of dissatisfaction, in each facial expression and posture, while in the office.

Greatest Years Of Location Man’s Life Apparently By no means Going To Happen

Shortly right after returning property, Videk, feeling himself inexorably drawn into a vortex of despair, created his way to the upstairs bathroom, where, regardless of acquiring no need to use the facilities, he sat on the toilet for around 20 minutes to steer clear of all human get in touch with. The last seven of these 20 minutes were spent trying to ignore the pounding and whining of his teenage daughter Robyn, who pleaded with him to unlock the door so she could “get [her] face on.”

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