When This is Spinal Tap came out back in 1984, it was either the first mocumentary or at least the first mocumentary to be widely recognized. Since then, we’ve seen a multitude of such creations; most notably, The Office. This begs the question: Has the mockumentary format been overdone? Is it a genre unto itself… — read more

My dad gave me an idea about the “light at the end of the tunnel.” It wasn’t quite this gag, though, but I’ll give him credit. My dad works as a supervisor to big development projects. While making his rounds one day, he struck up a conversation with one of the contractors. It went along… — read more

What is fake news other than yellow journalism? Yellow journalism seems to have seen a giant uptick with the advent of the Internet – click bait and what not. But there is something insidious behind it all. Click bait, in and of itself, isn’t necessarily bad as it’s nothing more than clever copywriting. What I’m… — read more

The closest I’ve ever been to a hockey game was playing the bubble-top game at the pizzeria or watching The Mighty Ducks. The latter has a pretty wide gap in the critics-to-audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (I loved it!). I grew up in a small desert town in New Mexico. Needless to say, there isn’t… — read more

If you’re a guy who is wondering how to get girls to like you, let me give you a thirty-second lesson that may be better than all those pick up chicks books: Pursue a worthy goal. That’s it. Simple, right? Yes. Easy? Not quite. In fact, worthy goals are rarely easy, which is why they’re… — read more

Few will get this gag. That’s the point. Is it better to have a humor that is only understood by a small group of people? It’s better, many would say, to appeal to many. Only a few would say to appeal to a few. I prefer the few. It’s the whole inch-wide-mile-deep idea. For instance,… — read more