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Ari

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in Blackjack.

About Me

I'm 31 years old. I live in New York's delightful and comparatively crime-free Lower East Side. I'm married to a very pretty lady and have a very handsome dog. I am from Boston. I get paid to teach and perform comedy for a living, so even at its worst, life is pretty damn good.

My Interests

Comedy, baseball, politics, keepin' it real.

I'd like to meet:

If I could chose one person, living or dead, to have lunch with I'd pick Anne Coulter, dead.

Music:

Hip-hop (mostly old school and turntablist), punk, Tom Waits

Movies:

Goonies

Television:

The Wire, Daily Show, Colbert, BattleStar Galactica, Ghost Hunters, Happy Hour, Nature, Jim Lehrer, and (ahem) America's Funniest Videos, which is awesome no matter what you say.

Books:

Current: Microthrills (Wendy Spiro)

Heroes:

Aquaman

My Blog

Last day of voting!

It's the last day of voting in the Great Sketch Experiment. If you haven't done so, please go to jibjab and vote for Small World.I'll totally be your BFF. For real this time....
Posted by Ari on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:07:00 PST

VOTE FOR MARK & ARI!

Okay, so if you haven't heard, my comedy partner Mark and I wrote a very short comedy film, and John Landis directed it. Yeah, that John Landis. It's up against five other Landis-directed shorts in JI...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:48:00 PST

A spirited defense of Happy Hour

Listen, screw Variety. Let me explain to you, real quick, why Happy Hour is a good sitcom.(Disclosure: Jamie Denbo -- far right, looking bitter -- is my B.F.F.)First of all, it's a funny damn show. Se...
Posted by Ari on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:14:00 PST

And what a week it was

Los Angeles continues to sing her sweet siren's song, which for years has lured careless sailors to death on her rocky shoals.And yet.The town enjoys the company of a winner. And this has been an incr...
Posted by Ari on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:00:00 PST

Happy Hour debuts this Thursday!

Hey cats and kittens,If you're a Neilsen family, or just like awesome things, watch the season premiere of HAPPY HOUR Thursday at 8:30 PM on Fox.I'm not in it or anything. But Wicked Fuckin' Queeyah c...
Posted by Ari on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:50:00 PST

Link of the day

Stephen Colbert gets it done yet again. I've seen every show since Day One and this is top three.
Posted by Ari on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:54:00 PST

Link of the day

Been looking for a simple, online Flash game about killing zombies that's based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft? Look no further.
Posted by Ari on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:27:00 PST

Stuff on my cat

There's a fascinating little culture war going on at the delightfully strange Stuff On My Cat website. If you've ever owned a cat, you'll understand the impulse to just, you know, put some stuff on it...
Posted by Ari on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:51:00 PST

The Daily Show

Okay, so you know how there's so much hand-wringing over the fact that more 18-24 year olds get their news from the Daily Show than from anywhere else? I know this drives Cordds crazy, and I think it ...
Posted by Ari on Wed, 10 May 2006 04:52:00 PST

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Those are a few of my favorite things. Another of my favorite things these days is The Douchebag Hall of Fame, which is an archive of the country's lamest band promo photos, with commentary.Easy comed...
Posted by Ari on Sat, 06 May 2006 05:58:00 PST