John Roy

Great Bits: Learning from Standup Comedy’s All Time Best Performances John Roy (Conan) goes in depth on a selection of the greatest comedy bits, examining what unique lessons comics can take from them

Chicago! Come to my three hour class on the best bits of all time at Lincoln Lodge. This Sunday! www.eventbrite.com/e/great-bits...

Thanks! Was planning on writing about someone else and then I went down a Fleming rabbit hole and had to do this one.

Chris Fleming’s Bitmoji-Filled Tour de Force In one of his best bits, the comedian ensures that every moment he’s onstage, something is actively entertaining the audience.

New piece in @vulture.com about Chris Fleming www.vulture.com/article/chri...

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2023-10-23 | Comics Kingdom Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from October 23, 2023, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

Rereading Flash Gordon by @danschkade.bsky.social from the start and I am yet again struck by the perfection of the comic strip form, the combination of art, color and text. The dialogue is flawless. Here is the first strip, bookmark and read later. Trust me. comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...

If you’re having trouble telling them apart, Geese sounds like the members of the Strokes were drafted into Pavement against their will, and Goose sounds like 4 CPAs were hired to form a jam band sponsored by Whole Foods.

Trump takes credit and says it’s because of ICE in 3…2…1…

WEDNESDAY EVENING BONUS: My designs for the dragonman uniforms. At first I played around with a more 70s American GI look (green clothes and gear, etc) but that almost immediately turned into Rogue Trooper, so I pivoted into the dark fantasy Kira vibe instead. It's where they're from, after all.

Laurie Kilmartin Gets Away With It Her 2017 Conan set shows what truly edgy comedy looks like.

New Piece in @vulture.com on Laurie Kilmartin www.vulture.com/article/laur...

This is my favorite comic strip of the last several years. Do yourself a favor & get onboard!

Alright Pitt O'Clock, shut da fuck up

Dune and Star Wars have elaborate world-building reasons why they fight with swords in a hyper-advanced tech society, but FG’s simple one makes more sense to me : Mongo is just a highly martial culture that values personal combat and dueling.

Watch me tonight on CBS after Colbert on Comics Unleashed!

Whole Mar-a-Lago set up and ambience is so desperately dated, and trying to resurrect the cocaine 70s/80s.
A scream of petulance as these rich boomers claw at the lives they lost decades ago.

Marc Maron’s Misdirection Master Class His 2010 bit on a near-death experience is stand-up at its best.

New piece on @marcmaron.bsky.social on @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/marc...

Marc Maron’s Misdirection Master Class His 2010 bit on a near-death experience is stand-up at its best.

New piece on @marcmaron.bsky.social on @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/marc...

Who the fuck assumes we go on a social website to hear opposing viewpoints. If you hate Oasis and James Gunn, your opinions are the opposite of entertaining for me. Why would you assume I would ever want to read them in my free time?

This one goes out to all you Nebraska soybean farmers out there

There’s two years of stories and they’re all great.

OpenAI admits that you will NEVER be able to trust their product.

But let’s stick it into everything anyway,

YouTube video by Fabian Kntl The Rapture - No sex for Ben

Remember, Christians, The Rapture is not in the Bible. It’s a concept from New York City and It dates back only to 1998, when Mattie Safer and Luke Jenner formed a dance/punk band and became popular during the “electro” craze with songs like “No Sex For Ben”

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Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Fine. I’ll call you “Deacon Blues”

(Jerry Lewis voice): GROYPERS

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Oh wow. He's coming for the NRA.

The original Conan the Barbarian stories are the same premise - a poor thief travels the world meeting lesser ethnicities and besting them because he’s white

Trump was told by Xi and Putin that all three should control their “local sphere of influence” - so Ukraine goes to Russia, Taiwan to China, and so he wants to control Greenland, Canada, and S. America because they’ve convinced them he deserves to. It’s the new world order he wants to replace NATO.

And on threads it’s just randoms asking if they’ve seen Superman and challenging them with hot takes about how Be Here Now is actually a classic.