What goes great with video games? TV and its many programs!
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And if there is one program TheDuoGroup loves (or at least I do) – it’s The Office.
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I had a chance to see BJ Novak, a writer for the show who plays the role of “Ryan”, perform his stand up live in Indianapolis. It was at Clowes Memorial Hall, on my Alma Mater’s campus, and all in all it was a pretty good show – for $5.
His humor was a bit surprising – not a whole lot like the show – much drier and a bit cheesy at times, but I think that was done on purpose and done well. A few of his jokes bombed (no shy puppet BJ) while others were absolutely hilarious (Mel Gibson pitching a movie).
The one thing I can say is that when going to see a comedian of any kind, don’t look them up on Youtube before you see them – you’ll hear all their jokes ahead of time, which ruined this for me.
I personally think it would be awesome to be a standup comedian and incredibly hard. BJ went to Harvard – so it must take some brains. In fact, it seems like a lot of writers in comedy have an Ivy League education (like his high school friend and co-star John Krasinski).
Maybe I’ll try and write some jokes for the blog – so stay tuned…and you can let me know if I suck…
