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I love the Comedy Central Show @Midnight. I feel like it’s our generation’s Match Game. My favorite episode was on September 11, 2014. (an unfortunate date)

“Ask your parents for Hodgmaproops for breakfast!”
-A Funny Line You Need To Hear In Context

The guests that night were Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Greg Proops. It was the fumiest thing I’ve seen in a good long while. Sadly, the episode doesn’t look like it will be available online much longer…like today might be the last day.

So for the love of all that is holy, watch it right now while this link still works.

If you don’t have the time to watch the whole show, you can just watch the part that made me laugh the hardest. It was the middle section of the show and Paul F. Tompkins keeps flubbing a joke he’s trying to make. Here’s the link to that segment (Who knows how long THAT will work)

If you really REALLY don’t have time, here’s the clip from YouTube of just the flubs. (But I think the whole segment is much more fulfilling)

I have no ironic or insightful commentary for this. I basically wanted a place to park all these links forever so I can always find them.

Before I get to the point of this blog, I want to point out that I have been enjoying this new season of Doctor Who. I know many of my past blogs have been very critical of the show, so I don’t want this blog to be viewed as coming from a “hater’s” perspective.

In fact, I’ll actually preface this blog with talking about why I like the new season. I’m enjoying the Doctor character much more this season. I don’t know if it’s Peter Capaldi’s age, his Scottish accent, or if they’re actually writing the character different…but he seems much more like a douche now. That sounds like a dig, but it’s really not. The main character from House (I forget his name) was a douche and I loved him and that show. But the Doctor has always been kind of a douche and I haven’t liked it and I think I know why. David Tennant and Matt Smith were too damn likeable. Whenever they were douchey, it broke my little heart (Especially David. Oh David, my latest man crush). But when Peter is douchey, it just works better. I don’t know if I’m doing a good job of explaining this (Especially since it sounds like I’m saying Peter Capaldi isn’t likeable). So I’ll just stop and say I like his take on the Doctor and I’ll move on to the point of this (now overly long) blog.

Is it me, or does Clara look super goofy in this pic?

I finally watched last week’s episode, “Kill the Moon,” and I really liked the first 90% of it. Warning…

I’m definitely getting my money’s worth from that gif

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It’s around 1am as I write this blog on my iPad…while laying in bed.

You know how you always get your best ideas in the middle of the night? Then you have to either try and remember them the next day (which never works) or get your tired hiney out of bed and write it down.

Well I was hoping to capture some genius bit of inspiration while laying here awaiting the warm embrace of slumber. So far, nothing. But I can’t leave you with a blog complaining I have nothing to blog about, so here’s an article I saw that annoyed me.

If you don’t want to click through, it’s called, “Apparently California Doesn’t Want Dads Changing Diapers.” Here’s how it starts…

Last week a woman gained national attention for changing her 16-month-old’s diaper on a dining table at a Chipotle restaurant. She would have used a changing table, you guys, but they didn’t have any and her burrito was getting cold.

Wonderful snarky comment, but doesn’t seem to have much to do with the title of the article. Jumping to the third paragraph, we will find that is still the case.

This isn’t the first time a public diaper disaster made national news. Last August, a Texas woman was booted from a pizzeria for changing her baby’s diaper on a chair in the middle of the restaurant…

Ok first of all, “diaper disaster” is strong. There is a risk of spillage when changing, but if your smearing poop all over the table when your changing a diaper, you’re doing it wrong. Second of all, both these stories involve women, not men. Also, neither took place in California. What does this have to do with the title of this dumb article?! Read the rest of this entry »

Hey weather, can we knock of the crazy s***?

First of all, it’s October. You have no business being 90 degrees during the day.

However, for the sake of argument, let’s just accept that you want to have a hot day. Fine. You’re the boss. You want us all to sweat our butts off during autumn, fine. Be that way.

…but then why are you making it drop into the low 50’s at night? Are you having mood swings? What’s wrong with you? Hot or cold, pick a side. Now those idiots wearing Uggs and shorts have a valid reason to justify their schizophrenic wardrobe choices. Are you proud of yourself now.

Get it together, weather!

This week, Tim and Noah talk about their broken laptops, Andy “loses” his keys, Noah’s roommate is attacked by an Uber driver, and the boys reveal their “High 5” favorite movie sequels.

00:00 – 01:40 Preshow & Intro
01:40 – 13:19 How the F*** Was Everyone’s Week(s)
13:19 – 14:11 Technical Difficulties
14:11 – 23:42 Noah’s Roommate attacked by Uber driver
23:42 – 26:52 Mock You (Making Fun Of Random People We’ve Encountered)
26:52 – 31:41 Steamin’ Pile of Steamin’ (Streaming Content reviews)
31:41 – 38:51 New Fall Television Reviews
38:51 – 82:18 High 5 “Favorite Sequels”
82:18 – 84:57 Wrap up
84:57 – 85:53 ????

[CONTENT WARNING] TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.
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So..Facebook clearly doesn’t want me to have any more friends.

I didn’t Photoshop the faces out of that. Their suggestions for friends to add were…no friends.

“Look man, just stop. The people who are your friends already aren’t that fond of you. Just give it a rest, okay buddy?”

This isn’t a blog so much as it is a blatant plug for comedy. But not my comedy, for a change. A guy I knew when I lived in LA, Jerrod Carmichael, has an HBO special premiering tonight.

Not only is this guy super funny, prolific, and dedicated…he’s also an amazingly nice guy. So please support by watching the special and then raving about it on social media. I thank you and you’re laughter will thank you later.

Side note…I used to perform on that stage during the Comedy Store’s “Pot Luck” shows on Sunday and Mondays when I was in LA. Man…I miss LA. But that’s another blog for another day.

I’m scrolling through my Facebook feed the other day and I see this…

That’s a great ad for a website that sells t shirts with goofy slogans on them…except it doesn’t show the damn t shirt!!!

Unless maybe the point was to show off the superior necklines these shirts have? Why else would they have the photo cropped like that? Or maybe they’re saying if I put on the shirt I’ll look like pretty eyes up there in that photo? I just don’t get it.

What’s worse is that not one of those 30 comments you see there are, “WTF?! What does this shirt even say?”

I feel like I’m the only one who noticed. The rest of the comments were people saying how they were going to buy some shirts from there. Don’t do it, people! Don’t reward this company for such sloppy advertising strategies. If you need to buy some goofy t-shirts, I know just the place for you…

Ulterior motives for the win!!!

I loved the movie Taken. The speech from the trailer is still one if the most bad as monologues ever. I had the movie on my DVR forever (until Comcrap made us change DVRs).

Then they made Taken 2. I never did see the sequel. It seemed like an odd thing for the movie to even have a sequel. I mean they came up with a fairly plausible premise; someone wanted revenge on Loam Noeson for all the people he killed in the first flick. But as I recall, the reviews weren’t that great.

Well, now they’ve made a third movie, “TAK3N.” (Oy) The trailer dropped the other day and it features one of my least favorite things sequels do…

Why did they have to kill off Famka?! I hate that! I hate when they kill off characters just to make the story more “dramatic.” I hated it in X-Men 3, Alien 3, Star Trek: Generations, Terminator 3 Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and tons of other movies that I generally disliked. I even hated it in movies I liked such as Rocky Balboa, Star Trek 2, Avengers, and Skyfall.

If you have to kill off a major, well-liked character just to keep me interested in your plot…you need to write a better plot!

There…it had to

Okay, ladies, I apologize. That graphic is a bit much. Once I finished making it, I debated even using it. I wanted to use a horror movie with “3” in the title for this month of blogging (Since I’ve already done it twice). Piranha 3DD just seemed like the funniest. But then I had to come up with a graphic. I was going to just slap “Blogtober 3DD” on the poster and call it a day, but then I thought if it was animated, it would be funnier. So I searched for animated gifs from the flick and came across (Absolutely no pun intended) that piece of genius you see above you.

What can I say? It made me laugh. And that’s what I was going for. Then it struck me how funny it is that this blog…and all the blogs this month…are not likely to have anything to do with boobs or really anything sexual. That just made it irresistible as a misleading way to advertise this month of blogging.

That being said, I hope it doesn’t offend anyone. I really hope it doesn’t put you off from reading the rest of this month’s blogs.

Wait..where are you going? Stop! Come back! What if I keep it “fair an balanced?” Check this out:

I’m just making it worse aren’t I?

Well, all of this was to announce that I’m blogging everyday again this month. So…yeah.

…awkward