November 2010
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WORKSHOP: Printing Out Your Sketch with Eddie...
Anybody can write a sketch. Only almost anybody can print out that sketch. In this class students will be exposed to different techniques for tricking your printer into thinking it has ink, finding blank sheets of paper around your apartment, and collating on a moving train. Students will learn how to save a Final Draft file as a .pdf file, email documents to themselves, and save money by...
December 2009
6 posts
WatchFlashback with Johnny McNulty
“Message Marked Apocalypse” - December 2006
I made this video for my final project in my college video class, 3 years ago this spring. This has several hallmarks of early-McNulty video: it was made in 2 days (despite having months to do it), way more ambition than was possible, and jury-rigged special effects.
If you look right at the end, my friend...
Open Call For Submissions
Hey party people,
Just a reminder that we are always accepting submissions of any old/outdated comedic material from years 2008 B.C. to 2008 A.D. (2009 coming soon!). So even if you’ve already submitted, if you or anyone you know has any great or terrible old stuff that needs to see the light of day send it this way. As ever, you may email us or submit directly. You may also...
FLASHBACK WITH *EDDIE BRAWLEY
Comedy Flashback Week 2009 - “The #1 Internet comedy festival on the Internet” - is once again underway, and I’m proud to kick off this week’s festivities. This is a festival to celebrate old and/or no longer relevant comedy. In that spirit here are some jokes that didn’t make it into a sketch/variety show I worked on in Fall 2008.
- Eddie Brawley
“Old Jokes”
On the...
Future Workshops
Hey Everyone!
We’re back! J. Marie dug herself out of that cabin and solved the case of the murdered Yeti! The comedians are all fine as well. As for that traveling southern blues band, well let’s just say that was the night they ate old Dixie down.
To start your comedyflashbackweek off right, we’re announcing this festival’s workshops! Sign up now, class spots are going...
Crazy Off Season!
We’re back! The all-week festival starting up again this Monday, and as always, the after party is at 4-4:15 Friday afternoon, on top of the Empire State Building.
I can’t believe the comedyflashbackweek festival off-season is already over.
Man, when I think back to everything that’s changed over the last 14 days, I can’t imagine what comedy from a long time ago is going...
November 2009
17 posts
FLASHBACK WITH *FRANK HEJL
* Performer/Writer for Tonight’s UCB Show Orson Welles’ Basement of Terror!
FRANK’S COMEDY FLASHBACK
Script created with Final Draft by Final Draft, Inc.
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FRANK HEJL ARGUES WITH "JANITOR" SKETCH BY FRANK HEJL By: Frank Hejl NOTE: I wrote the 'Janitor' sketch almost two and a half years ago. I'm a huge...
FLASHFORWARD TO COMEDY WORKSHOPS
Please register for this Comedy Flashback Festival’s upcoming workshops. Only a few slots left!
Flip Shades 201 - Emily Strachan (Thanksgiving at Bernie’s)*
Being hilarious in 1992 has never been easier with this four-hour seminar taught by the flip-shades guru Strachan. Techniques covered include: standard surprise, one-up-and-one-down, flip-up-then-pull-down, the flipper-flutter,...
FLASHBACK WITH *ALEX KANE
“I wrote this while interning for a comedy magazine in 2005. I submitted it and was given detailed notes on why it was not up to their standards. I believe instead they printed someone’s long rant about being given a jaywalking ticket. This magazine no longer exists.” - Alex Kane
I was Martha Stewart’s Bitch
By Dot “Stewart” Frye
As told to Alex Kane
When I first arrived at...
FLASHBACK WITH *JILL MORRIS
“I was once very upset this sketch wasn’t picked to be in a sketch show. That’s how funny I thought this was. This is my first commercial parody. It is untouched. It is in mint condition from the first draft. I re-read it a month ago and I realized it would have been the worst comedy ever performed onstage if it’d gone up.
I wrote this is in a frat house computer lab I snuck into in...
FLASHBACK WITH *BRIAN GLIDEWELL
“One of the first sketches I ever wrote, back in the fall of 2007. In my sketch 101 I had an hour before class and no sketch. Whipped this out in that time.”
-Brian Glidewell
Pixar’s Scraps of Wood Brian Glidewell INT. PIXAR OFFICE GRAPHIC: The Pixar logo is on a black screen. Logos of Pixar movies appear as the announcer mentions them. Announcer (V.O.) The wizards at...
FLASHBACK WITH *JOHNNY MCNULTY
“I wrote this essay in July or August of 2007, back at the very beginning of the financial crash that preceded the recession. I remember after a couple months thinking “oh my, the economy is so much worse it seems kind of dated.” hahaha then the world ended, and the cousin mentioned in the essay got sacked from Goldman.
I think I wrote it to perform at the very first of Mike...
FLASHBACK WITH *KRISTIN HILLERY
“This was the first story I wrote when I joined The Texas Travesty, the University of Texas at Austin’s humor publication.
I remember being really proud of myself for working in the “bitch” part. Anyway, I secretly hoped that the UT men’s basketball team would show up at my dorm room after reading this and ask me out. Of course, I’d only be able to pick one of...
FLASHBACK WITH *BRETT WHITE
“This is the pilot I wrote for my sitcom based on my tenure as a concessionist (apparently that’s a regional term) at a Carmike movie theater. I wrote this in 2004, I think, after I became obsessed with the UK Office and before they even thought about adapting it for America.” - Brett White
READ A 2004 SITCOM PILOT - Caldecott Octoplex 16, 1x01
*Festival Performer
FLASHBACK WITH *NICOLE DRESPEL
“This was probably less comedic and more me dealing with…stuff.”
- Nicole Drespel
Rejected McSweeney’s Open Letter from October 2007.
Dear Jonathan Taylor Thomas (JTT), What have you been doing for these last few years? As long as it isn’t violent or racist I might still have feelings for you. You may remember me from that time I sent you a letter covered in fish stickers made by...
“Yes, it’s true. Comedy Flashback Week ‘09 is the #1 Internet...”
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