"Of the 88 players who started on [NFL] championship Sunday, 19 were undrafted. Countless megabucks first-round draft choices sat at home drinking blueberry wheat microbrews and munching genetically modified maize chips while watching undrafted gentlemen perform on the big stage. Kids -- never give up!" -Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN, Jan. 26, 2009
Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons had guest Dave Attell on his podcast last week. It was pretty sweet listening to one of my absolute favorites, Attell, discussing his thoughts on one of my other absolute favorites, Nick Dipaolo. Click here for podcast (go to 'Greg and Dave Attell'), fast forward to 47:10.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -Bertrand Russell
I can take out the word 'mathematics' in that quote and replace it with 'logic' (and hence, 'jokes'). To me, perfect jokes have perfect logic. And logic is a function of math if you think about it really. So it's all connected. Russell's original quote was spot on and here I go trying to tamper with what ain't broke. God, I'm annoying.
Still trying to figure out balance with life and comedy. Just writing that last sentence weirds me out; with all that life encompasses, I weigh it equal to comedy. Like there are only those two things. THAT has got to be imbalance in and of itself, no?
Here's a video I linked to long ago, but its more relevant than ever...
