SKG backing Brown →
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That thud you just heard was Gavin Newsom getting hit in the stomach by a gunnysack full of thousand-dollar checks.
October 2009
September 2009
Old Jews Telling Jokes coming to Los Angeles on October 19th
Do you know an old Jew who likes to tell jokes? Send me an email. ericspiegelman at the gmail. Minimum age: 60.
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“Bush isn’t the only one whose quirks are outlined in the book. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to edit his own entry on Wikipedia — or, as he called it, “Wika-wakka.”
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TPM. Oh, Rummy, you’re so adorable! Your pet name for that other thing was cute, too: “torture-schmorture.”
No, YOU’RE a schmoopie!
The Annotated White House Flickr Stream over at The Awl is consistently my favorite thing on the Internet. →
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“He’s just cold visitin’ every goddamn landmark in the country, like he’s crossing them off his bucket list, or something.”
“It’s like there’s that one room in the White House where a David Lynch movie is constantly happening.”
Oh yeah, we got a book deal.
For Villard Trade Paperbacks, Jill Schwartzman has acquired OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES by Sam Hoffman with Eric Spiegelman, based on the very popular online video series and website of the same name (created by Sam Hoffman and produced by Jetpack Media, Tim Williams and Eric Spiegelman). The book will feature hilarious, irreverent, and sometimes bawdy jokes told by “old Jews” (both men and women, all over 60, including Ed Koch, Daniel Okrent, and Harry Macklowe), and the fascinating stories behind both the jokes and the tellers. A DVD of their first season was released 9/15 by First Run Features. The North American Rights book deal was negotiated by Kate Lee at ICM.
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Peter Kafka writes about Old Jews Telling Jokes for All Things Digital.
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Ottawa’s classic rock station CHEZ 106 reviews Old Jews Telling Jokes, the DVD (released today by First Run Features).
They call it a “movie.” But we all know it’s homegrown Internet entertainment, produced by Jetpack Media (yup, that’s we call this company), hosted by blip.tv and published on tumblr.com.
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