AltCom is awesome

Firstly, I'd like to thank Steve Theo and the rest of Pirate for bringing me here. And Brian, who runs AltCom every year. Alternative comedy has been a pretty big part of my life since around 9th grade, so it's great to see a festival dedicated to something so wonderful.

It sucks that Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter had to cancel the first night of the festival, but they're busy in New York working on their new show, Michael and Michael Have Issues. If you're a fan of anything they've done (The State, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten......) then definitely keep your eyes open for this new show. I'm sure it'll be great. Despite the fact that they cancelled, Lafta Obscura, a sketch comedy show, were very funny. It was hosted by the founder of 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Ken Reid, which made it that much cooler.

Last night was the big one; the one I've been looking forward to for a while. There were two shows: Janeane Garofalo/Leo Allen/Myq Kaplan & Micah Sherman and Upright Citizen's Brigade/Rob Riggle/Ian Moore/Eugene Mirman. I got a bunch of pictures and got to meet a lot of cool people.

The funniest part of the evening, though, was before either show had started. I was standing out back and talking to Janeane Garofalo when a cop came up. He just started in, "What's your name?" "Janeane." "Janeane who?" "Janeane Garofalo." "You lost weight." Apparently he was patroling the area because there were supposed to be protests against something she said in April.

Her performance great. I've been a fan of her since I saw her on an episode of News Radio, so I might be biased towards her, but I wish I was married to her.

(apparently I can't rotate pictures! It's okay, it's blurry anyway)

The openers were great, too. Leo Allen had a pretty good quote that we should all remember: Radio: I hope you like Nickelback

The second show was just as much fun. Eugene Mirman, my favorite current comedian, opened. Delta Airlines recently lost his luggage, so he handed out postcards to the audience to send to them.

My name is ___________. I am a fan of comedian and actor Eugene "Horsedick"
Mirman (who you may recognize from his small,recurring role on HBO's Flight of
the Conchords.) Mr. Mirman flew your airline from Seattle to New York, where you
lost his luggage. Quick exposition: you delivered his luggage twice to the wrong
address in Atlanta, GA, refused to pick it back up, then said you would pick it
up, then never came, and then told him to file a claim and wait to hear back
within 10 weeks. Eugene described his traumatic incident with your terrible
airline on stage. As a result, I will never ever ever ever fly with you again.
Your airline is worse than someone dressing up like Hitler as a joke and not
understanding why that's offensive. If your airline was drowning, I would save
you, but give you look like, "I can't believe I'm saving such an asshole." To
make things right, if I were you, I'd formally apologize to Eugene on
television, give him controlling stock in Delta Airlines or $10,000 (whichever
is greater), and lastly make a video of yourself in the balls while going, "Why
am I hitting myself?" and put it on youtube.Yours Truly, _____

I have a feeling I'm going on with this way too long, and there are still two more days of shows, so I'll stop here. Rob Riggle was very funny, both alone and then again with the Upright Citizen's Brigade. Ian Moore was charming and British, and Myq Kaplan and Micah Sherman did an amazing job as the hosts of each show. I'll post more, and if you want to see pictures of me with all the celebrities, then you'll have to become my Facebook friend, because I'm not plastering my pictures everywhere. And I need a lot of internet friends to make myself feel joy.