Thank god someone made this. Agreed. Why do we even bother writing? We should have just been born cats.

Some nice parody work from Mike Diva. Because seriously, if each State Farm customer essentially had their own genie, you KNOW people would get greedy with that…

I saw him do a version of this lecture in college. Entertaining, but also a remarkably useful touchstone on storytelling.

My main takeaway from having heard him speak was this maxim: “You have been put on this Earth… to fart around.”

The first thing you need to understand about me is that I’m structure boy. You people can all go have fun with your “characterization” and your “jokes” and and your “flourishes of spectacle” and all those other ingredients that go into a great comedy. I care about the plot having the right shape, and everything tying nicely into a satisfying bow.

So “Blue Cheese” was a stretch for me. It was an experiment with absurdism, a place I almost never go. And I’ll be honest: I never wanted to write this sketch. But the thing is, when you’re the showrunner (that word always feels too grand for the scope of what we do, but it’s the most apt for my role with Brevity) you often get into these times when you can’t do enough writing because you’re too busy producing. And it had been the end of a long one like that for me, so I promised myself I would get up early on the day of our meeting and make sure I had four new sketches to present. Well, twenty minutes till meeting time, I had three. Knowing I could never finish another, I gave myself permission to doodle this strange little semi-poem.

And I didn’t really love it, and I wasn’t really confident in it. And the writers’ table ate it up. So we presented it to the whole group, and the whole group really liked it. And I’m like, seriously people? You have to like the stuff I slave away hard on. You can’t like the stuff I just sort of spew onto the page. Oh well… along came uber-producer Claudia Perea, and the omnitalented Meghan Brown to direct, and the omnitalented Mike James to shoot, and of course our awesome actors… so now we have this catchy little piece that everyone seems to like. It grows on me every time I see it. I LOLed the cat images, and I couldn’t be happier with “Sad Face, Sad Face, Sad Face, Grah.” I hope it becomes a new international idiom.

If anyone asks, I took days and days to get it just right… Especially the structure.

Wow. Some nice work from the FunnyOrDie team.

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Wow. If only all women were selective this way. Darwinism would up our collective IQ in only a few generations.

That’s for ruining Airbender.