In the spirit of Christmas or something, Gothamist interviewed me and I spent a very long time preparing casual-seeming but actually carefully considered joke answers. Make my efforts worthwhile by reading it, won’t you?

What was your reaction when your video was linked to by Radiohead? I think of all of us were a bit awed at the idea that Radiohead had maybe sat around and laughed at that video in their studio. It was a pretty cool feeling. But then the flirty MySpace messages from the band turned from harmless to relentless and stalkerish. I literally just got a message from Colin Greenwood saying “wherez yr house i wanna meet your mouth” and it’s like, enough, you know? We get it.

I can barely stand me! JK, I’m being fake modest.

[Gothamist: Max Silvestri, Comedian]

Guys, my brain is already on Christmas break. For real.

[VH1 BestWeekEver.tv]

Hi friends,

So PopRally is throwing a comedy short film screening and reception at The Museum of Modern Art. It’s going to be something else! This is kind of a once in a lifetime thing (museums should never be funny) so you should really come. There is an open bar reception and it’ll be neato. I am crazy excited for it. Check out all the hilarious people involved.

Details from MoMA’s website:

Silent but Deadly: An Evening of Comedy Shorts
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
7:00–10:30 P.M.
MoMA
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Watch a selection of silent comedy shorts from MoMA’s collection, followed by short videos made in response by some of today’s finest comedians. Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, along with his colleagues Steve Massa and Ben Model, have selected some “cruel and unusual” slapstick comedy shorts from the silent era that explore social, cultural, and political subjects in rude and shocking ways. PopRally has invited contemporary comedians to react with their own video creations. MoMA silent film accompanist Ben Model will be at the piano.

Comedian Max Silvestri will host this unique evening of historic shorts and comic creations by Nick Kroll, Joe Mande, Gabe & Jenny, ThunderAnt (Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein), You Look Nice Today, and more. A reception follows. Doors and bar open at 7:00; show starts promptly at 8:00.

Tickets ($10 in advance, $12 at the door) are available online and at the MoMA information desks. Please note that ticket sales are limited.

Time Out New York just came out with their annual Best of the Year issue. Your favorite Thursday night comedy show is in it!

Best new variety show:
Big Terrific is gaining a following of fans and comics. Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate and Max Silvestri might make Sound Fix the new Rififi.

Thanks, TONY! Remember when Rififi smelled like a cat had just gotten sick all the time? Well, Sound Fix will be like that pretty soon. I cannot wait.

[Time Out New York - Comedy Best (And Worst) of 2008]

I did another Top Chef recap for Eater, and sadly they cut my favorite animation ever. Please don’t let it die.

TV is getting outrageous. There should be some sort of governing body that makes decisions about what is appropriate to show on it, I think. I’m going to write a letter.

[VH1's BestWeekEver.tv]

The fine folks of Details.com have put up another episode of me and Gabriel Delahaye’s very serious web epic. This one is about cooking and stuff. Do enjoy and tell thousands of your closest friends!

Hi reindeers,

Jenny is still on “vacation” (having a baby) so it’s another pepperoni bake at Big Terrific this week. It’s our last show until January 8th, so we are making it a holiday party. There will be drink specials and decorations and holiday themed stuff. Probably? Look, let’s not make write any blog post checks our free comedy show butts can’t mouth-cash. (Huh?)

Also celebrating the holidays:

PATRICK BORELLI & MATT HALL (wizards)
HANNIBAL BURESS (Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson)
WYATT CENAC (correspondent on The Daily Show)
BRENT SULLIVAN (mouth wizard)

This show especially will have a spectacular after-party, so please stop by and say hello before you leave for France.

BIG TERRIFIC Christmas Party!
Thursday, December 18th 2008 @ 8pm
Sound Fix Records
110 Bedford Ave., at N. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Map)
Free!
RSVP on Facebook

The cover story this week in The L Magazine (not to be confused with Elle Magazine or Spanish for “the magazine”) is called “Bright Young Things: 13 New Yorkers Working Way Ahead of Schedule.” They were nice enough to include me! They put my picture in a frame! Personally I think I am behind schedule, but who am I to argue with journalists. (The schedule I wrote for my life when I was 12 years old apparently has all of last year blocked off for something called “playing with hover boobs,” so I am probably totally wrong anyway.) And they are right on in that in middle school I was not “athletic or good-looking” or “in possession of a furnished basement with a pool table.” That would have been Mike Marrazzo. Dude threw killer sleepovers.

Thanks, The L Magazine!

[Bright Young Things: 13 New Yorkers Working Way Ahead of Schedule]

Hi friends,

Thanks to everyone who has been coming out to the shows at Sound Fix each Thursday. We really appreciate it. Next week is our last show before the new year (no show on Christmas and New Year’s day, obvs) so we are making it a special holiday party show. Come out and celebrate! It will be very merry, I promise. More details on Monday.

In the meantime, here is a nice picture my friend Robert took of Zach Galifianakis at Big Terrific last week. The first time he performed he drank a candle. He didn’t this time. He did however make fun of Pratt.