thisdanobrien:

Hey Friends!

I don’t expect everyone to follow me on every little social media platform I have, so some of this might be news to you, but if you’ve been even tangentially following me on Twitter or Instagram, you’ve maybe heard a whisper or two about the following two items:

1.) I and a number of my talented coworkers are no longer working at cracked.com, a comedy website that was my professional home since 2007;
2.) I am now a shower-at-night person after years of being a shower-in-the-morning person;

Both of those things are true. I shower at night now, and then I sit around in my Parachute robe that I love so much and I go to sleep smelling and feeling great. I know that showering in the morning is a great way to wake yourself up, but honestly showering at night is just more pleasant and turns something that could seem perfunctory into some luxurious. Also, Cracked the site continues (and has my full support), but a bunch of its employees were laid off, and it was sad for a little bit. I was sad for a little bit.

Everyone processes sadness in their own way. The day after being laid off, I contacted the Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica and requested a slot to make a live comedy/variety show, because my instinct was to create a showcase for me and all of the other amazing people who were also laid off to create comedy and music and to say goodbye to (at least) our Los Angeles fans. I reached out to Westside to say “Everyone I know got laid off and we want to make comedy,” and they instantly responded “Sounds great. Does January 5th work?”

It does.

My instinct is to take something negative and build something positive out of it, so I’m taking advantage of the fact that a lot of my favorite comedy people suddenly have free time to make comedy and bring some magic into the world. It’s silly to think of comedy as magic, but I’ve always thought about comedy as magic, because I’m a pretty silly person. So I wanted to create a night that could only exist under very specific and unrepeatable circumstances, which makes it magic to me. It’s the only thing I know how to do.

The result is a one-night-only comedy event we’re calling:

Broked Dot Com Presents a Night of Legally Non-Disparaging Comedy

TOM REIMANN
KATIE WILLERT
CODY JOHNSTON
DAVID BELL
ADAM TOD BROWN
JACK O’BRIEN HAS PROMISED TO DO “SOMETHING”
TERESA LEE
ZORA BIKANGAGA
KATIE GOLDIN

LOTS LOTS MORE, SOME I CAN’T EVEN MENTION, IT’S GONNA BE NUTS

I’m hosting. We’ve got stand ups. We’re going to do some jokes. We’re going to do some music. We’re going to have some INSANE special guests. I will also try to arrange cupcakes or donuts or something. This isn’t going to be a bunch of jobless people sobbing or complaining; it’s going to be the funniest people I know making jokes and music for you. Whatever else, I promise that we are going to create a once-in-a-lifetime experience to celebrate an amazing website and the people who no longer work there.

(No filming will be allowed.)

Do you like Cracked? Do you want an opportunity to see some former Cracked folks and their hilarious friends make jokes and say goodbye?

Get tickets here:

http://www.westsidecomedy.com/events/event/booked-com-presents-a-night-of-legally-non-disparaging-comedy/

January 5th, 2018.

Westside Comedy Theater (Santa Monica, LA)

11:30pm-1:00am

Hahaha you beautiful babies I made a Tumblr post at night on a Wednesday and the show sold out in under ten hours hahahahaha you beautiful babies thank you..

The theater says if you didn’t get a ticket, you can get on the waitlist by getting to the theater early and hoping that people who bought tickets don’t show up.

Thank you thank you thank you.