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A Funny Thing
July 11, 2013
A Funny Thing: Cammi Climaco Can Has Cat Puke Our story this week: cats. They are the worst. This is inarguable, timeless wisdom. As if we needed further proof (we didn’t), Cammi Climaco […]
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June 26, 2013
A Funny Thing: Melanie Hamlett’s Winter Was Coming Our story this week: Melanie Hamlett was a gung-ho feminist out to pave the way for strong women everywhere, but a crippling handicap in the […]
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June 19, 2013
Michelle Markowitz No Longer Likes You as a Man Our story this week: Sideburns, zoot suits, and Fred Savage, these are the three omens that signaled Michelle Markowitz’s late blooming into a […]
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June 12, 2013
A Funny Thing: Lisa Kleinman Says Come On, New York Lisa Kleinman moved to New York for the big dreams, the bright lights, and the infinite possibilities. She ended up with a secret life, […]
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June 5, 2013
A Funny Thing: Caitlin Brodnick Loses Her Mind to Lose a Few Pounds Caitlin Brodnick thought diets were fun. Really. But then she made herself a lab rat in the cult-like laboratory of the Great American […]
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May 29, 2013
A Funny Thing: Kim Kutt is the Beauty and the Beast Our story this week: Comedian Kim Kutt was enamored with the Spanish handsome, Gaston. But their earliest dalliances hit nothing but snags, and […]
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May 22, 2013
A Funny Thing: Nick Kanellis Wets the Bedbug Our story this week: Christian talks with Nick Kanellis about one horrible night when Nick suffered the perfect storm of bedbugs, robot vodka, […]
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May 15, 2013
A Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Takes Over the Show Our story this week: Christian Capozzoli is your new host of A Funny Thing. Listen as he takes the reins in our first ever studio session and […]
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May 1, 2013
A Funny Thing: Melanie Hamlett Nearly Seduced by South American Stilt Clown Our story this week: Melanie Hamlett, yearning for the endless, intoxicating adventure of South America found herself couch surfing into a […]
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Apr. 24, 2013
A Funny Thing 4/20 Special: Amey Goerlich Smuggles Up Our story this week: In honor of 4/20 we bring you international intrigue, body cavity bingo, vagina lips like hot dog buns, and so much more, […]
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Apr. 17, 2013
A Funny Thing: Brantley Brice Discovers Himself, Matt Lauer, and the Power […] Our story this week: Brantley Brice didn’t so much struggle with his sexuality as much as he gleefully did the breaststroke in a river of […]
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Apr. 10, 2013
A Funny Thing: Pat Baer Fights Wolves, Finds Love Our story this week: Pat Baer, creeped out by an awkward drug party around an unfamiliar campfire, escapes into the forest along with the […]
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Apr. 3, 2013
A Funny Thing: Michael Hartney Gets a Lesson in Sketch Comedy From Rosie […] Our story this week: Comedian Michael Hartney was a fresh-faced writer’s assistant eager to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning gay and […]
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Mar. 27, 2013
A Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Scrapes the Bottom of the Sex Barrel Our story this week: Fresh off bombing her stand up set, Ophira Eisenberg was desperate to turn a bad night into a good one. How to do it? By […]
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Mar. 20, 2013
A Funny Thing: Adam Wade and Peter Aguero Tag Team Their Pants Our story this week: The narratorial tag team of Adam Wade and Peter Aguero form the beast with two butts to double down on the old number two. […]
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Mar. 13, 2013
A Funny Thing: Streeter Seidell Loves Dogs, Re-animation of Dead Our story this week: Streeter Seidell (CollegeHumor) takes us down his twisting path of pet ownership, from the truth of how horrible cats are […]
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Mar. 6, 2013
A Funny Thing: Julia Wiedeman On Abuse and Not Laughing Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we’ve been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which […]
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Feb. 27, 2013
A Funny Thing: Abra Tabak Goes to Bummer Camp Our story this week: Abra Tabak thought she was headed for the idyllic American summer camp experience. She’d be the fun counselor, with rugs […]
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Feb. 20, 2013
A Funny Thing: Joe Mande Loses His Religion and a Whole Lot More Our story this week: Ambivalent Jew, Joe Mande (Kroll Show, Parks and Rec, Best Week Ever) was looking for God in all the wrong places, […]
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Feb. 13, 2013
John Flynn Cheats and Slap Fights His Way Off the Basketball Team Our story this week: John Flynn was the sort of guy who cares more about the Oscar noms for Les Miserable than sports, until he discovered that […]
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Feb. 6, 2013
A Funny Thing: Eliot Glazer and Jackie Mancini Uncover the Cultish […] Our story this week: Eliot Glazer and Jackie Mancini’s mutual friend mysteriously disappeared, only to resurface later, wedding invitation in […]
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Jan. 30, 2013
A Funny Thing: Sean Canady Owes Elijah Wood an Apology - Here it Is Our story this week: Sean Canady was a lovesick nerd in the heady, wild west days of the early internet. Looking for love in all the wrong chat […]
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Jan. 23, 2013
A Funny Thing: Diana Spechler Swears That’s Not Her Blood, but it Totally […] Our story this week: Diana Spechler was really just one of the guys, perfectly content to hang in the dorm, get high, and pine for Thai food. […]
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Jan. 16, 2013
A Funny Thing: Adam Wade Tells Dan Marino Where to Stick It Our story this week: Adam Wade, friend of the show, fearless speaker of truth to power, idolized in his youth the great Miami Dolphins […]
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Jan. 9, 2013
A Funny Thing: Nicole Byer Swears She Isn’t Dirty Our story this week: Nicole Byer, she of the Bushmills, she of the floor-pizza, takes us on a charming tour of the mind and predilections of […]
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Jan. 2, 2013
A Funny Thing: Our Favorite Stories of 2012 Every week on A Funny Thing we bring you the best, strangest, and often filthiest stories told at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. We […]
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Dec. 26, 2012
A Funny Thing: Jon Gabrus Is Sorry He Farted in Church Our story this week: Jon Gabrus, your typical hipster, douchebag, Atheist and host of Guy Code on MTV2 overcomes the joys of mocking the […]
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Dec. 19, 2012
A Funny Thing: Ophira Eisenberg Beds Half a U2 Cover Band Our story this week: Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR’s Ask Me Another, is torn between two members of a highschool U2 cover band called B4. How […]
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Dec. 12, 2012
A Funny Thing: ‘30 Rock’s Anthony Atamanuik Celebrates a Lifetime of […] This week on A Funny Thing, Anthony Atamanuik, one of the Writers Who Never Talk on 30 Rock, reveals a lifetime of sexual endeavors that veer […]
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Dec. 5, 2012
A Funny Thing: Christian Capozzoli Dresses Up Like an Old Man and Bleeds […] Ever showed up to a costume party to find you are the only one in costume? Imagine that, then add blood. Lots of blood. You won’t believe how […]
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Nov. 28, 2012
A Funny Thing: Hayley Bing is Drinking Pee and Taking Names Hayley Bing was dating a nice boy who happened to be friends with the biggest asshole in the world. One time he gave her a beer that was really […]
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Nov. 21, 2012
A Funny Thing: Kate Tellers Gets Handsy During Thanksgiving Dinner This week on A Funny Thing, a story from comedian and storyteller Kate Tellers about the time she put on a corset, impersonated an Astor, and […]
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Nov. 14, 2012
A Funny Thing: John Flynn Fights One Enormous Testicle Comedian and storyteller John Flynn awoke one morning to discover one of his testicles had swollen to the size of an ambitious nectarine. Only […]
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Nov. 7, 2012
A Funny Thing #34: Yowza with Jiji Lee This week we bring you a two-fisted double feature from storyteller Jiji Lee. First, an ode to the indignities and vagaries of the New York […]
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Oct. 31, 2012
A Funny Thing #33: Losin’ It with Dan Harmon We’ve been a little scrambled by Hurricane Sandy here at A Funny Thing headquarters. But Kelly and Taylor are safe and sound and now you get to […]
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Oct. 24, 2012
A Funny Thing #32: The Old College Try with Jon Gabrus Jon Gabrus lived the quintessential Hollywood college experience, if Hollywood was the name of an alternate world where everyone thought it was […]
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Oct. 17, 2012
A Funny Thing #31: A Stupendous Job with Adam Wade Adam Wade was young man, a fragile asthmatic, unprepared for the rigors of band. He needed a place in the world. Until that is, a kindly, but […]
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Oct. 10, 2012
A Funny Thing #30: Tumbleweave with Nicole Byer This week, Nicole Byer sidles up to the Genius Bar and walks away with a plate full of hot mess. A whole bottle of Georgi, a tight weave, and […]
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Oct. 3, 2012
A Funny Thing #29: The Period Piece with Halle Kiefer This week, Halle Kiefer yearns for the day when everyone wore a shirt around their waist. A blowout on the L train sends Halle down the crimson […]
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Sept. 26, 2012
A Funny Thing #28: Wrong Place, Wrong Time with David Smithyman David Smithyman wanted to lay low and avoid attention, to pass as a phantom over the choppy waters of an awkward adolescence, but the universe […]
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Sept. 12, 2012
A Funny Thing #26: Killer Moves with Jim Santangeli This week, a 10-year-old Jim Santangeli dances face first into murder. Only by surrendering himself to the rhythm of life and summoning the […]
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Sept. 5, 2012
A Funny Thing #25: I Come From You with Christian Capozzoli Parents. They’re supposed to be our rock, our paragons of sure-handed, stoic capability. Oh, but aren’t they all too human? Maybe no one ever […]
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Aug. 29, 2012
A Funny Thing #24: Downtown Dinner Party with Sam Dingman Just how far will you go to get what you want? How high a price for fame, for love, will you deduct from your dignity to deposit on the […]
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Aug. 23, 2012
A Funny Thing #23: To the Dogs with Mike Guild Do you like dogs? Before you answer, let Mike Guild tell you what he’s seen. While the rest of the world coos over and preens their puppies, […]
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Aug. 15, 2012
A Funny Thing #22: Monkey Shines with Jim O’Grady On this week’s A Funny Thing Jim O’Grady goes tete-a-tete with a clever little monkey. The prize? Romance! The complicating factor? Horror […]
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Aug. 9, 2012
A Funny Thing #21: Code Brown with Andrea Rosen Paper plates, salad bowls, the unwilling folds of a boyfriend’s testicles. What won’t our intrepid heroine squeeze her excreta into/onto? Not […]
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Aug. 2, 2012
A Funny Thing #20: The Swing Set with Jenice Matias This week Jenice Matias, born of Spanish Harlem, raised on Father Knows Best, aspiring social climber, is led along the primrose path with […]
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July 25, 2012
A Funny Thing #19: If You Show Me Yours with Aileen Clark Aileen Clark is a woman of the world, but when the body images of the next generation are challenged by her own family will she step up and […]
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July 19, 2012
A Funny Thing #18: Step Five: UNKNOWN with Laura Willcox Scoliosis! Flat chests! The unknowable, occult mysteries of the nefariously inscrutable STEP NUMBER FIVE! What obstacles won’t the universe set […]
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July 11, 2012
A Funny Thing #17: I See You In a Cape with John Flynn John Flynn is off to see the wizard! But what will the wizard give him? A pretty hot pink cape, a believable sexual alibi, or perhaps the […]
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