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I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m not a fan of the film Man of Steel. The primary avenues I’ve used to vent these feelings are my entries into Cracked.com’s many photo manipulation contests. As we discussed on the last episode of the podcast, I’ve had a pretty good run of bashing Man of Steel. Some have made the final articles, some haven’t. But here is a glorious collection of ALL my anti-Man of Steel entries. Enjoy!

What Movie Characters Should Have Said

Things You Secretly Suspect About Famous People

Traumatizing Scenes From Lighthearted Movies Read the rest of this entry »

This week, Andy travels to California and the boys record in his hotel room (on his bed…aw yeah). Noah reviews Gone Girl, Tim reviews Muppets Most Wanted, and Andy sees Frozen on Ice. Then the boys do a poorly researched salute to Saturday morning cartoons.

00:00 – 00:32 PreSHow
00:32 – 03:20 Intro
03:20 – 04:47 Kicking Feet (“Cute” Stories About Our Kids)
04:47 – 08:42 How the F*** Was Everyone’s Week
08:42 – 21:40 TANflix (Movie Reviews: Gone Girl & Muppets Most Wanted)
21:40 – 26:54 Steamin’ Pile of Streamin’ (Streaming Content Reviews)
26:54 – 37:40 Remembering Saturday Morning Cartoons
37:40 – 46:26 Wrap Up (Including an Atlanta vs San Francisco TANgent)
46:26 – 50:14 Noah’s Crazy Dream

[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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Sometimes I understand why people hate nerds. That socially awkward thing is cute on the New Girl (I assume, I’ve never seen it), but in real life, it makes conversations suck.

I wasted way too much time finding this photo

I was stuck in a waiting room with this socially awkward lady. Which is fine, she can be awkward and I can leave her alone to have her space. What’s the point of having this smart phone if I can’t use it to ignore people?

But she kept insisting on starting conversations that she was clearly uninterested in finishing. She would ask a question and then stop paying attention in the middle of my answer.

Look, lady, I didn’t want to talk in the first place. Leave me be!

Heaven help me, I did it again. I did a show last night and during my set, I mention this video:

I talk about how funny the slip up is, but then I go into a bit about the mountain climber himself. The main part is…

My point was always that the blind guy wouldn’t be able to see the view from the top, so why go through all that work? It’s been one of my go to jokes for a while (you can hear it on my CD) and I’ve never really worried about it…and then came last night.

After the show I was waiting to say goodbye to the audience and pose for pictures with some of the folks. (What? Some people want to take a picture with me. Yes they do. Stop laughing. You know what, I’m just gonna go back to my blog) At one point, I noticed a lovely young lady standing to the side looking like she was waiting for someone. Then I noticed that she was carrying a cane. Not a “pimp walk” cane either. This was a cane you use when you have a visual impairment. …uh oh

She walks over to me and says, “You’re the comic who had the joke about the blind guy, right?”

Busted. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m typing this blog into my phone as I stand in the balcony of the San Jose Improv. I’m playing here all weekend. One of my favorite things to do at this club is to stand here as the audience files in down below. They don’t know I’m here, but I get to watch them. I quietly asses them as a crowd while they are blissfully unaware.

I stand here…watching…a silent jester…a comedic guardian…a dork knight

Tweet me or Facebook me if you want to be on my guest list for Saturday or Sunday.

The shows Saturday are 7:00pm and 9:15pm. The Sunday show is at 7:00pm. (Must be 18 or over for all shows)

I did a series of comedy shows recently where I was the middle act and a female comedian was hosting. (I’m not including her name, because I’ve seen enough of these types of blogs go viral to know that if it does, she will get negative blow back from this story. She absolutely does not deserve that)

During her set, she had a joke about having sex with a guy who turned out to be an idiot. A few jokes later, she brought me up. I thought it’d be hilarious to call back her joke in a way that made it seem like I was the idiot. So that’s exactly what I did with my first joke and the crowd loved it.

I was super proud if myself. I made up a joke on the spot and it totally worked. I mentally high-fived myself right there on stage and did the rest of my set.

After my set, I was talking to the host and, like the needy comedian I am, I asked her what she thought of my super clever little tag to her joke. Amazingly enough, she didn’t seem super excited.

Turns out, just about every time a male comedian goes on after her, he’ll make a joke about having had sex with her. I guess it’s getting kind of old.

I immediately apologized and promised not to do the joke again during the rest of our shows. But I don’t think that “fixes” it. Read the rest of this entry »

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!