Charlie Todd

A new ad detailing the real reason why New Yorkers still...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:16:00 -0400

A new ad detailing the real reason why New Yorkers still can’t buy wine in grocery stores.

I don’t drink much wine, but our alcohol laws are so ridiculous. This statistic made me mad:

The No. 1 summons last year was written for people violating the open-container law; 132,225 were issued, almost a fourth of all NYPD tickets.

Why can’t I buy a tallboy and walk down the street? Doesn’t America like freedom???

Great Rocketboom profile on the UCB Theatre. (Featuring Anthony...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:29:57 -0400

Great Rocketboom profile on the UCB Theatre. (Featuring Anthony King)

Behind The Scenes - Close To Me (The Cure) Great video. Great...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:34:37 -0400

Behind The Scenes - Close To Me (The Cure)

Great video. Great song. Cool behind-the-scenes here.

Facebook is being a little racist with this suggestion, right?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:40:47 -0400

Facebook is being a little racist with this suggestion, right?

Collection: France

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:55:12 -0400

Collection: France:

I just put up three sets of photos from my trip to France on Flickr. A few of the funny (and less touristy) ones are below.

Full collection of France photos

This is the French keyboard layout. It is terrible for one big...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:52:40 -0400

This is the French keyboard layout. It is terrible for one big reason. You have to hit shift to get a period. Think about that. Semicolon is the default character on the button. Do the French just love semicolons or something?

Very Bad Trip is one of my favorite movies. Spotted in a FNAC...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:49:34 -0400

Very Bad Trip is one of my favorite movies. Spotted in a FNAC in Bordeaux.

Hanging out at UCB Bordeaux. For some reason all the improv...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:48:55 -0400

Hanging out at UCB Bordeaux. For some reason all the improv shows there were about banking.

I spotted this vintage 1977 Star Wars sticker on an old...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:48:16 -0400

I spotted this vintage 1977 Star Wars sticker on an old man’s luggage in park in Marseille, France. He was very confused as to why I wanted to take a picture of his suitcase.

After Kronebourg and maybe Heineken, this is the most popular...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:46:00 -0400

After Kronebourg and maybe Heineken, this is the most popular beer in France (based on my observations of its market share.) It is awful. It tastes pretty much like a Corona on the way down, but then it has a TERRIBLE tequila aftertaste. It’s brewed in France. I’ve never seen it anywhere else in Europe. If you ever find it and think it might be funny to buy one and try it, don’t. It’s not funny.

Comic-Con Counter-Protest of Westboro Baptist Church...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:41:00 -0400

Comic-Con Counter-Protest of Westboro Baptist Church Protest

This photo makes me very happy for a few reasons:

1. I love counter-protests at Westboro Baptist Church events.

2. The guy in the photo is my friend from high school Jon Sung.

3. He’s wearing a Starfleet uniform from the DS9 era.

This is hilarious. justcraig: The Dangers Of High-Fives A new...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:31:51 -0400

This is hilarious.

justcraig:

The Dangers Of High-Fives

A new UCBComedy Original I wrote. Starring Lennon Parham, directed by Mitch Magee and featuring a bunch of great UCB folk.

High-five handshakes are an epidemic.

Outtakes from the Star Wars Subway Car video.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:31:35 -0400

Outtakes from the Star Wars Subway Car video.

Hey deli on 14th and 8th, it might be time to refresh the...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:17:36 -0400

Hey deli on 14th and 8th, it might be time to refresh the posters in your window.

Now MSN is getting into the thievery game! They currently have...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:27:00 -0400

Now MSN is getting into the thievery game! They currently have the Star Wars Subway Car video featured on their front page (which gets a ridiculous amount of traffic.) They’re linking to their own internal MSN comedy site “The Bubble” where they’re embedding a stolen version of the video from StupidVideos.com

Does anyone know someone who works for MSN front page editorial, The Bubble, or Stupid Videos?

How hard is it to link to the people who made the thing that you like? You know, the people that actually went out and did something?

UPDATE: After sending a personal email to someone I was in touch with from Stupid Videos in 2006, he fixed the problem for me (and it turns out he is now working for the Bubble.) Still, I shouldn’t have to go around asking giant media companies to not steal my content after the fact. Lame! Also lame that Keith Olbermann played the video on Oddball tonight but didn’t bother to say who made it or where he got it from. No “courtesy ImprovEverywhere.com” or even “courtesy YouTube.com.” I mean, cool to be featured on Keith Fucking Olbermann, but why can MSNBC just take someone’s creative work and report on it without saying who made it? Just because you “found it” on the Internet doesn’t mean someone didn’t “work hard on it.” Keith, don’t you remember that we are old friends?

I promise to stop ranting about people ripping off this video from this point forward.

Gawker.tv Update

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:58:00 -0400

Update to this post.

Gawker.tv has changed their Star Wars Subway Car post in response to a request I sent last night. The post now embeds from YouTube and links to my site directly.

For now, the Rebel Alliance has won.

Also, Alyssa Milano thinks we’re funny.

So Gawker.tv posted about my Star Wars Subway Car video today,...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:39:00 -0400

So Gawker.tv posted about my Star Wars Subway Car video today, but instead of embedding my video from YouTube like the rest of the Internet does, they ripped it from YouTube and uploaded it to their own site without permission. So I get no credit for any of the views of the video on their site. How nice! Also, by uploading their own ripped version of the video, they can prevent me from seeing any AdSense revenue and focus on making their own money from the ads surrounding the post. Awesome! And they link to Buzzfeed at the end of the post rather than, you know, linking to the group that made the video they ripped off. Cool! Oh, and to top it off, they throw in a little snarky comment about this being an upgrade from our previous antics. Sweet!

Thanks Gawker.tv! It’s such an honor to have you take my content in full and use it for your own benefit!

UPDATE: Gawker.tv fixed this at my request.

See the original video here: Star Wars Subway Car

Busy day. Thanks Darth.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:08:53 -0400

Busy day.

Thanks Darth.

Star Wars + Improv Everywhere = fun Behind the scenes &...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:05:00 -0400

Star Wars + Improv Everywhere = fun

Behind the scenes & photos: Star Wars Subway Car

Gary Coleman on the train station in Cannes, France. RIP.

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:18:08 -0400

Gary Coleman on the train station in Cannes, France. RIP.