Whenever I see a stand up comedy skit or some funny video on internet, I think I can do better than this. And this affects my job as I'm not satisfied with it. I am unable to mingle with people and keep going to depression as I can't focus on my job properly. Am I a narcissist?

Whenever I see a stand up comedy skit or some funny video on internet, I think I can do better than this. And this affects my job as I'm not satisfied with it. Am I a narcissist?

So my dad has been slightly deaf my whole life (for whatever reasons from when he was younger) and he’s been getting deafer. It’s been difficult because I’m constantly having to repeat myself or he even pretends he heard and doesn’t react/reply properly.
He never wanted a hearing aid and only recently got one because he could see how it was starting to get worst than usual. But now he doesn’t wear it… -_-.. he still has us repeat ourselves and he can’t hear how loud he is when he basically screams “huh?!” In our faces. So sometimes I repeat myself too loud and he’ll say “don’t yell at me!” And I’m thinking am I in a fricking comedy skit???? YOU can’t hear but I have to guess which volume is good for you every other time I repeat myself??
I noticed my mum has more patience as time has gone on and even with my uncle who’s much more deaf and for longer. She calmly repeats herself and doesn’t seem to get angry and she’s generally an easily angered person. So I’m wondering, am I being an AH about this?? He’s the type of person who would tell me to pray, do something productive towards healing, be disciplined etc but he buys an expensive hearing aid and doesn’t use it, makes us repeat ourselves, gets mad if we’re too loud but everyone else in my family (siblings, aunts, uncles etc.) don’t get angry?

I know this has been asked a million times on this sub but check this out. I've herd from various people to post anywhere between 3 to 6 times a day but then I've also have herd from people not to post that much. But the thing is...what if your content doesn't allow you to post alot. Like I do comedy content. I put alot of thought into my material (I have scripts, notes with a million ideas). There's no way I can post 6 videos of me doing different skits without being burnt out. Maybe if my content was just talking or fashion. But comedy videos is alot of work and takes long to make. Titkok seems to like when you post ALL the time. But that just doesn't seem realistic for the type of content I have. My goal is to eventually post everyday and even THAT I'm like...idk. I am a fulltime college student and I have various freelance jobs. So when school starts again I'm going to be very busy. Maybe I can get to 2 times a day but 6?! Holyshit like how? Lol

Please help me remember this quote! The movie was a skit comedy released in theaters from the late 70's or early 80's. I think it was more of a National Lampoon type project. I believe Michael O'Donoghue was involved with the movie.

The part I do remember is a moving shot in a dark bar, with a roving flashlight turning on various adult dolls (yes, those kind) sitting at the tables. I don't remember if there were other humans sitting next to them.

Then the narrator says:

"Women, put a bag over their hearts and they are all the same."

I really liked the both the humor and the actual statement.

I remember this skit that I think was on YouTube. I know I saw it in the early 2010s but it was probably already a few years old. It was a comedy version of the old army ads, where somebody asks a young guy something like “have you ever been part of something bigger than yourself” and the young guy looks away and they cut to army stuff, cut back to the guy and he says “yeah, I have.”
In this comedy skit he keeps doing that but for more and more outrageous reasons until the last time is something like “do you like cake” and it cuts to him in a battle with cake.
I’ve searched and searched and I cannot find this video. Please help!

There's a comedy skit I literally remember was important enough to get on the news because I'm pretty sure it was controversial, where someone who I think was a news reporter after saying something he shouldn't have or something like that is forcefully taken away by security guards where he's thrown out of a window that's near the top of a skyscraper. This was in either 2013 or 2014.

The time has come.

Our first official trailer is live and the community Discord is open, and of course this was only the beginning! As the foundations are laid we want to make two policies very clear, Content Creation and Dev Comms, and they’re not as scary as they sound.
Read on!

Content Creation

This policy is for 3D Art, 3D printing, AMVs, API Tools, App Development, Archive Curating, Artwork, Audiobooks, Blogs, Bonsai, Chainsaw Sculptures, Comedy Skits, Cosplay, Crafting, Digital Art, Drink Recipes, Educational Materials, Fan Merch, Fan Products, Fanfics, Food Recipes, Gif Making, Graffiti, Guides, Index Building, Infographics, Interactive Apps, Knife Wood Carving, Let's Plays, Live Content, Live Crafting, Lore Readers, Memes, Modding, Music, Music Remixes, Podcasts, Pre-Recorded Content, Programming, Sheet Music, Slice of Life Skits, Story Analysis, Story Writing, Streams, Traditional Art, Tutorials, Videos, Voice Acting, Websites, Wiki Makers, Zen Gardening, and pretty much anything you can think of…
There are only 3 rules:

1. It’s original content you made.
2. There is a point back to Volok Games and/or Chimera CUSTOM XG.
3. No NFTs or AI generated content, ever.

Some examples:

• Heather designed some really cute pins and sold them online. It is her artwork, her storefront, and in the item description she has “from Volok Games”. This is totally fine.
• Alex made traditional art from the game’s weaponry and turned it into a print to sell at a convention in their Artist Alley booth. It is their artwork, at their booth, with the price sign saying “Chimera CUSTOM XG’s [weapon name]”. That is completely acceptable.
• Parker traced the community emotes from the Discord server and put them on stickers to sell. This is not okay since technically he didn’t make the artwork himself.
• Tina took The Team profile artwork, cut out the characters in a program, and put them on shirts to sell. This is also not okay since it is still official artwork. Not cool, Tina.

It’s really that simple. You make it, you share or sell it, you point back. The justification is that it gives fairness across the board, we don’t want to stifle creativity in the least. Why does a streamer or youtuber not have that many restrictions but artists are met with rules and limitations? Not here, not with us. More than likely we’ll be picking up fan merch on our own here and there, we might even work alongside creators in the future, who knows!
That’s it, that’s the whole policy. So go forth, go create.
If you still have questions don't be nervous! We have a channel in our Discord specifically for Content Creation related questions.
Join us by clicking here!

Dev Comms

This is not as scary or as limiting as the title makes it out to be, this policy is simply a guideline for how player to dev and vice versa interactions should go.
“The devs are to be treated fairly and respectfully in all forms of communication. Personal attacks, belittling, purposefully redundant questioning, unwarranted negative comments, threats of any nature, doxxing, and all other forms of abusive communication will not be tolerated in any form, duration, or aspect regardless of the player’s community standing, social media follower count, stream/youtube subscriber count, game hours played, products purchased, ect.”
Note that “being passionate” is never a good excuse for this kind of behavior. This same stance is taken for player to player interactions, to ensure we’re building an inclusive, positive space from the start. That is our gold standard because we value the mental health of our dev team and the general health of the community in its many facets
There is no space for toxic behavior and anyone who brings it will be removed.

Epilogue

The launch of the beta of course doesn’t mean we only fix a couple things, fully launch, and then never touch the game again. We want you, the community, to come on this journey as the game continues to grow. This isn’t the only chapter of Chimera Custom XG either so now is the perfect time to get in on the ground floor.
Don’t forget to wishlist on Steam!
Welcome aboard, CUSTOM soldier.
Sincerely, ~Team Volok

For Tea the Sam Collins one or TruScum
And for comedy AITA for turning my friend gay one especially when Leo does the rupaul skit 😂😂😂 And Willys react to JoJo hate comments had me creasing.
Saying I was here from the beginning feels good. Know they will blow up! Good vibes from them!

George kisses Elaine goodbye unwillingly shaking his head (see Jerry in The Pie)
"i dont want to do this Lainey""
*giggles bye Georgie" (Elaine waves) and Jerry walks in and thinks love is afoot and George defends himself "its the classic goodbye kiss Jerry not sex!"
"well Costanza the thing is a kiss is a inherintly love filled act is it not? i think your trying to start a spark with Elaine"
HO HO GEORGE IS GETTING EMBARRASED!
just face it your crushing hard George
i havent gotten over Elaine does the upper west side god she was gorgeous
she was doing a pretend porn comedy skit calligula NOW GET OUT OF MY APARTMENT AAAH!

Old YouTube channel around 2010 that did short skit comedy via dubbing over video game characters. These sketches were made in games like black ops, smash bros, fable, and halo to name a few. One voice actor often yelled in the mic and would cause distortion in his voice (think psychic pebbles type of sound) I vaguely remember a sketch where Luigi was singing something funny. I believe there’s 2 voice actors and I remember that there intro had anime style characters with the creators names.

So italianbach and camelskits are two accounts that post comedy content, I believe they're both on tiktok primarily but I only watch on instagram, anyway Italianbach is one of my favourite comedy accounts to watch and I recently saw a video from camelskits and I just thought how similar the humour and vibes were between the two accounts as well as the type of skits and stuff. Idk if it's just british humour or something, but I was just wondering if anyone else who's familiar with the two has noticed as well, cause they're both pretty large creators with over 100k and I just thought it was a cool observation.
edit: also not really sure which flair to put on this post so if someone could let me know which would be appropriate
edit 2: spelt comedy wrong 😑

What's your go-to platform for scrolling through memes, stalking your ex, or just killing time when you're supposed to be working? Personally, I can't get enough of the 'Gram. There's just something so satisfying about endlessly scrolling through aesthetically pleasing pics and double-tapping like there's no tomorrow. But hey, I get it, not everyone's about that Insta life.
Maybe you're more into the fast-paced world of Twitter, where hot takes and memes collide in a glorious dumpster fire of opinions. Or perhaps you're a Facebook aficionado, keeping up with family drama and sharing cute animal videos like it's your job. Then again, there's always TikTok, where you can lose hours watching people dance, lip-sync, and perform comedy skits in 60-second bursts.
So, spill the tea, folks! What's your favorite form of social media, and why? Is it the memes, the drama, the endless stream of cute animal content, or something else entirely? Let's hear it!

PLAYBOY Interview With Conan O'Brien Interview by Kevin Cook For Playboy Magazine February 1998
A candid conversation with the preppie prince of "Late Night" about his rocky start, his show's secret one-day cancellation and how David Letterman saved the day.
He was polite. He was funny. He gave us a communicable disease.
At 34 Conan O'Brien is hotter than the fever he was running when we met in his private domain above the "Late Night" sound stage. A gangly freckle-faced ex-high school geek he is "one of TV's hottest properties" according to "People" magazine. The host of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" has become his generation's king of comedy.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Congested too, but O'Brien has far more to worry about than his head cold. A perfectionist who broods over one bad minute in an otherwise perfect hour of TV, he worries he might be anhedonic, "I have trouble with success," he says, "I was raised to believe that if something good happens something bad is coming." Sure things look good now "Rolling Stone" calls "Late Night" "the hottest comedy show on TV." Ratings are better than ever, particularly among 18- to 34-year-olds, the viewers advertisers crave.
But O'Brien only works harder. Despite his illness he taped two shows in 26 hours on three hours' sleep. He smoothly interviewed Elton John then burst into coughing fits during commercials. Later in his crammed corner office overlooking Manhattan traffic Conan the Cool gulped Dayquil gel caps. He coughed spewing microbes.
"Sorry, sorry," he said. Of course O'Brien can't complain. He came seriously close to falling to being banished behind the scenes as just another failed talk show host.
At his first "Late Night" press conference he corrected a reporter who called him a relative unknown, "Sir I am a complete unknown," he said. That line got a laugh, but soon O'Brien looked doomed. His September 13, 1993 debut began with O'Brien in his dressing room preparing to hang himself only to be interrupted by the start of his show. Before long his career was hanging by a thread. Ratings were terrible. Critics hated the show. Tom Shales of "The Washington Post" called it as "lifeless and messy as roadkill." Shales said O'Brien should quit.
Network officials held urgent meetings discussing the Conan O'Brien debacle. Should they fire him? How should they explain their mistake?
In the end of course he turned it around. The network hung with him long enough for the ratings to improve and the host of the cooler-than-ever "Late Night" now defines comedy's cutting edge just as Letterman did ten years ago.
Even Shales loves "Late Night" these days. He calls O'Brien's turnaround "one of the most amazing transformations in television history."
O'Brien was born on April 18, 1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, a doctor, is a professor at Harvard Medical School. His mother, a lawyer, is a partner at an elite Boston Law firm. Conan, the third of six children became a lector at church and a misfit at school. Tall and goofy, bedeviled with acne, he tried to impress girls with jokes. That plan usually bombed, but O'Brien eventually found his niche at Harvard where he won the presidency of the "Harvard Lampoon" in 1983 and again in 1984 - the first two-time "Lampoon" president since humorist Robert Benchley held the honor 85 years ago.
After graduating magna cum laude with a double major in literature and American history he turned pro. Writing for HBO's "Not Necessarily The News." O'Brien was earning $100,000 a year before his 24th birthday. But writing was never enough.
He honed his performance skills with the Groundlings, a Los Angeles improv group. There he worked with his onetime girlfriend Lisa Kudrow, now starring on "Friends." But Conan was not such a standout. In 1988 he landed a job at "Saturday Night Live" - but as a writer, not as on-air talent. In almost four years on the show O'Brien made only fleeting appearances, usually as a crowd member or security guard. His writing was more memorable. He wrote (or co-wrote) Tom hanks' "Mr Short-Term Memory" skits as well as the "pump you up" infosatire of Hanz and Franz and the nude beach sketch in which Matthew Broderick and "SNL" members played nudists admiring one another's penises. With dozens of mentions of the word that hit was the most penis-heavy moment in TV history. It helped O'Brien win an Emmy for comedy writing.
In 1991 he quit "SNL" and moved on to "The Simpsons" where he worked for two years. His urge to perform came out in wall-bouncing antics in writers' meetings. "Conan makes you fall out of your chair" said "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening. O'Brien's yen to act out was so strong that he spurned Fox's reported seven-figure offer to continue as a writer. He was driving for the spotlight.
By then David Letterman had announced he was turning shin - leaving NBC taking his ton-rated act to CBS. Suddenly NBC was up a creek without a host. The network turned to Lorne Michaels, O'Brien's "Saturday Night Live" boss. Michaels enlisted Conan's help in the host search planning to use him in a behind-the-scenes job. But when Garry Shandling, Dana Carvey and almost every other star turned down the chore of following Letterman, Michaels finally listened to Conan's crazy suggestion, "Let me do it!" Michaels persuaded the network to entrust it's 12:30 slot which Letterman had turned into a gold mine to an untested wiseass from Harvard.
O'Brien was working on one of his last "Simpsons" episodes when he got the news. He turned "paler than usual," Groening recalled. The Conan moseyed back to where the other writers were working, "I'll come back with the Homer Simspon joke later. I have to go replace Letterman," he said.
NBC executives now get credit for their foresight during those dark days of 1993 and 1994. They snared the axe and now reap the multimillion-dollar spoils of that decision. In fact, the story is not so simple. We sent Contributing Editor Kevin Cook to unravel the tale of O'Brien's survival, which he tells here for the first time. Cook reports:
"His office is chock-full of significa. There's a three-foot plastic pickle the Letterman staff left behind in 1993 - perhaps to suggest what a predicament he was in. There's a copy of Jack Paar's 'I Kid You Not' and a coffee-table book called 'Saturday Night Live: The First 20 Years.' His bulletin board features letters from fans such as John Watters and Bob Dole and an 8" x 10" glossy of Andy Richter with the inscription: "To Conan - Your bitter jealousy warms my black heart. Love and Kisses Andy."
"Of course it's all for show. From the photos of kitch icons Adam West and Robert Stack to the framed Stan Laurel autograph, from the deathbed painting of Abraham Lincoln, to the ironic star taped to Conan's door - they're all clever signals that tell a visitor how to view the star. Lincoln was his collegiate preoccupation: stardom is his occupation. Somewhere between the two I hoped to find the real O'Brien.
"As a Playboy reader he wanted to give me a better-than-average interview. I wanted something more - a definitive look at the guy who may end up being the Johnny Carson of his generation."
"Here's hoping we succeeded. If not I carried his germs 3000 miles and infected dozens of Californians for no good reason.
O'Brien: Yes, this is how to do a Playboy Interview -- completely tanked on cold medicine. I'll pick it up and read, "Yes, I'm gay."
Playboy: We could talk another time. O'Brien: (coughing) No, it's OK. I memorized Dennis Rodman's answers. Can I use them?
Playboy: You sound really sick. Do you ever take a day off? O'Brien: No. The age of talk show hosts taking days off is over. Johnny Carson could go to Africa when he was the only game in town -- "See you in two weeks!" But nobody does that now. I will give you a million dollars on the first day Jay takes off for illness.
Playboy: Do you ever slow down and enjoy your success? O'Brien: If anything, the pace is picking up. Restaurateurs insist on giving me a table even if I'm only passing by, so I'm eating nine meals a night. Women stop me on the street and hand me their phone numbers.
Playboy: So you have groupies? O'Brien: Oh yes. And other fans. Drifters. Prisoners. Insomniacs. Cab Drivers, who must watch a lot of late night TV, seem to love me lately. They keep saying, "You will not pay, you will not pay, you make me happy!"
Playboy: How happy did your new contract make you? O'Brien: Terrified. The network said, "We're all set for five years." I said, "Shut up, shut up! I can't think that far ahead." Tonight, for instance, I do my jokes, then interview Elton John and Tim Meadows. We finished taping about 6:30. By 6:45 my memory was erased and my only thought was, Tomorrow: John Tesh. And I started to obsess about John Tesh. Sad, don't you think?
Playboy: Not too sad. You got off to a rocky start but now you're so hot that People magazine recently said, "that was then, this is wow." O'Brien: I try not to pay much attention. Since I ignored the critics who said I should shoot myself in the head with a German Luger, it would be cheating to tear out nice reviews now and rub them all over my body, giggling. Though I have thought about it.
Playboy: Tell us about your trademark gag. You interview a photo of Bill Clinton or some other celeb, and a pair of superimposed lips provide outrageous answers. O'Brien: We call it the Clutch Cargo bit, after that terrible old cartoon series. They saved money on animation by superimposing real lips on the cartoons. I wanted to do topical jokes in a cartoony way -- not just Conan doing quips at a desk. TV is visual; I want things to look funny. But we're not Saturday Night Live; we couldn't spend $100,000 on it. Hence, the cheap, cheesy lips, You'd be surprised how many people we fool.
Playboy: Viewers believe that's really the president yelling, "Yee-haw! Who's got a joint?" O'Brien: It's strange. You may know intellectually that Clinton doesn't talk like Foghorn Leghorn. Ninety-eight percent of your brain knows the president wouldn't say, "Whoa Conan get a load of that girl!" But there are a few brain cells that aren't sure. When Bob Dole was running for president we had him doing a past-life regression: "My cave, get away." And then back further, "Must form flippers to crawl on to rocky soil," he says. There may be people out there who believe that Bob Dole was the first amphibian.
Playboy: Do you ever go too far? O'Brien: The fun is in going too far. It's a nice device because you get Bill Clinton to do the nastiest Bill Clinton jokes. We'll have Clinton making fart noises while I say "Sir! Please!"
Playboy: Are you enjoying your job now, with your new success? O'Brien: Well, there are surprises. I hate surprises. Like most comics, I'm a control freak. But I am learning that the show works best when things are out of control. Tonight I ask Elton John if he likes being neighbors with Joan Collins. He says he isn't neighbors with Joan Collins. He lives next door to Tina Turner. So I panic -- huge mistake! But Elton saves the day. "Joan Collins, Tina Turner, it doesn't matter. Either way I could borrow a wig," he says. Huge laugh, all because I fucked up. Later he surprised me by blurting out that he's hung like a horse. The camera cuts to me shaking my head: That crazy Elton. What can I do? Of course, I'm delighted that he went too far.
Playboy: That "What can I do?" look resembles a classic take of Jack Benny's. O'Brien: There's an old saying in literature: "Good poets borrow; great poets steal." I think T.S. Eliot stole it from Ezra Pound. Comics steal, too. Constantly. When I watched Johnny Carson, I noticed that he got a few takes from Benny and Bob Hope. When a comedy writer told me how much Woody Allen had borrowed from Hope, I thought, What? They're nothing alike. Then I went back and watched Son of Paleface, and there's Hope, the nervous city guy backing up on his heels, wringing his hands and saying, "Sorry, I'll just be moving along." Now look at early Woody Allen. You see big authority figures and Woody nervously saying, "Look, I'll just be on my way." Of course Woody made it his own, but he must have watched and loved Bob Hope.
Playboy: Who are your role models? O'Brien: Carson. Woody Allen. SCTV. Peter Sellers. When Peter Sellers died I felt such a loss, thinking, There won't be anymore of that. There's some Steve Martin in my false bravado with female guests: "Why, hel-lo there!" And I won't deny having some Letterman in my bones.
Playboy: You were surprise as Letterman's successor. At first you seemed like the wrong choice. O'Brien: I didn't get ratings. That doesn't mean I didn't get laughs. Yes, I had a giant pompadour and I looked like a rockabilly freak. I was too excited, pushed too hard, and people said, "That guy isn't a polished performer." Fine! But it isn't my goal to be Joe Handsomehead cool, smooth talk show host. Late Night with Conan O'Brien is supposed to be a work in progress, and now that we've had some success there's a danger of our getting too polished and morphing into something smoothly professional. Which would suck.
Do you know why I wanted this show? Because Late Night with David Letterman played with the rules and it looked like fun. Here was a place where people did risky comedy every night for millions of people. We had to keep this thing alive. There should be a place on a big network where people are still messing around.
Playboy: How bad were your early days on the show? O'Brien: Bad. Dave left here under a cloud: his fans and the media were angry with NBC. Then NBC picks a guy with crazy hair and a weird name. And the world says, "Harvard? Those guys are assholes." I sincerely hope that the winter of December 1993, our first winter, was the worst time I will ever have. I'd go out to do the warm up and the back two rows of seats would be empty. That's hard to look at. I would tell a joke and then hear someone whisper, "Who's he? Where's Dave?"
Playboy: You had trouble getting guests. O'Brien: Bob Denver canceled on us. We shot a test show with Al Lewis of The Munsters. We did the clutch cargo thing with a photo of Herman Munster. Unfortunately, Fred Gwynne, who played Herman, had recently died, and Al Lewis kept pointing at the screen, saying, "You're dead! I was at your funeral!"
Playboy: For months you got worried notes from network executives. What did they say? O'Brien: They were worried. The fact that Lorne Michaels was involved bought me some time. But Lorne had turned to me at the start and said, "OK, Conan. What do you want to do?" Now television critics were after me and the network was starting to realize what a risk I was. Suggestions came fast and furious. I kept the note that said, "Why don't you just die?"
Playboy: Did they suggest ways to be funnier? O'Brien: They were more specific and tactical. The network gets very specific data. Say there was a drop in ratings between 12:44 and 12:48 when I was talking to Jon Bon Jovi. I'll be told, "Don't ever talk to him again" Or they'll want me to tease viewers into staying with us: "You should tease that -- say, 'We'll have nudity coming up next!'"
Playboy: You did come close to being cancelled. O'Brien: We were cancelled.
Playboy: Really? You have never admitted that. O'Brien: This is the first time I've talked about it. When I had been on for about a year, there was a meeting at the network. They decided to cancel my show. They said, "It's cancelled." Next day they realized they had nothing to put in the 12:30 slot, so we got a reprieve.
Playboy: Were you worried sick? O'Brien: I went into denial. I tried hard not to think, Yes, I'm bad on the air and my show has none of the things a TV show needs to survive. We had no ratings. No critics in our corner. Advertisers didn't like us. Affiliates wanted to drop us. Sometimes I'd meet a programming director from a local station where we had no rating at all. The guy would show me a printout with no number for Late Night's rating, just a hash mark or pound sign. I didn't dare think about that when I went out to do the show.
Playboy: Are you defending denial? O'Brien: How else does anyone get through a terrible experience? The odds were against me. Rationally, I didn't have much chance. Denial was my only friend. When I look back on the first year, it's like a scene from an old war movie: Ordinary guy gets thrown into combat, somehow beats impossible odds, staggers to safety. His buddy say, "You could have been killed!" The guy stops and thinks. "Could have been killed?" he says. His eyes cross and he faints.
Playboy: How did you dodge the bullet? O'Brien: There were people at NBC who stood up for me. I will always be indebted to Don Ohlmeyer, who stuck to his guns. Don said, "We chose this guy. We should stick with him unless we get a better plan." He was brutally honest. He came to me and said, "Give me about a 15 percent bump in the ratings and you'll stay on the air. If not, we're going to move on."
Playboy: Ohlmeyer started his career in the sports division. O'Brien: Exactly, his take was, "You're on our team." Of course, it wasn't exactly rational of Don to hope I'd be 15 percent funnier. It was like telling a farmer, "It better rain this week or we'll take your farm away."
Playboy: What did you say to Ohlmeyer? O'Brien: There wasn't time. I had to go out and do a monologue. But I will always be indebted to Don because he told me the truth. Wait a minute -- you have tricked me into talking lovingly about an NBC executive. Let me say that there were others who were beneath contempt -- executives who wouldn't know a good show if it swam up their asses and lit a campfire.
Playboy: Finally the ratings went your way. Hard work rewarded? O'Brien: Well, I also paid off the Nielsen people. That was $140,000 well spent.
Playboy: Ohlmeyer plus bribery saved you? O'Brien: There was something else. Just when everyone was kicking the crap out of the show, Letterman defended me.
Playboy: Letterman had signed off on NBC saying, "I don't really know Conan O'Brien, but I heard he killed someone." O'Brien: Then I pick up the paper and he's saying he thinks I am going to make it. "They do some interesting, innovative stuff over there," he says. "I think Conan will prevail." And then he came on as a guest. Remember, this was when we were at our nadir. There was no Machiavellian reason for David Letterman, who at the time was the biggest thing in show business, to be on my show.
Playboy: Why did he do it? O'Brien: I'm still not sure. Maybe out of a sense of honor. Fair play. And it woke me up. It made me think. Hey, we have a real fucking television show here.
Of six or seven pivotal points in my short history here, that was the first and maybe the biggest. I wouldn't be sitting here -- I probably wouldn't even exist today -- if he hadn't done our show.
Playboy: The Late Night wars were hardly noted for friendly gestures. O'Brien: How little you understand. Jay, Dave and I pal around all the time. We often ride a bicycle built for three up to the country. "Nice job with Fran Drescher!" "Thanks, pal. You weren't so bad with John Tesh." We sleep in triple-decker bunk beds and snore in unison like the Three Stooges.
Playboy: You talk more about Letterman than your NBC teammate Leno. O'Brien: I hate the "Leno or Letterman, who's better?" question. I can tell you that Jay has been great to me. He calls me occasionally.
Playboy: To say what? O'Brien: (Doing Leno's voice) "Hey, liked that bit you did last night." Or he'll say he saw we got a good rating. I call him at work, too. It can be a strange conversation because we're so different. Jay, for instance, really loves cars. He's got antique cars with kerosene lanterns, cars that run on peat moss. He'll be telling me about some classic car he has, made entirely of brass and leather, and I'll say, "Yeah, man, I got the Taurus with the vinyl." One thing we have in common is bad guests. There are certain actors, celebrities with nothing to say, who move through the talk show world wreaking havoc. They lay waste to Dave's town and Jay's town, then head my way.
Playboy: You must be getting some good guests. Your ratings have shown a marked improvement. O'Brien: Remember, when you're on at 12:30 the Nielsens are based on 80 people. My ratings drop if one person has a head cold and goes to bed early.
Playboy: Actually, you're seen by about 3 million people a night. Your ratings would be even higher if college dorms weren't excluded from the Nielsens. How many points does that cost you? O'Brien: I told you I'm an idiot. Now I have to do math too?
Playboy: Do you still get suggestions from NBC executives? O'Brien: Not as many. The number of notes you get is inversely proportional to your ratings.
Playboy: What keeps you motivated? O'Brien: Superstition. We have a stagehand, Bobby Bowman, who holds up the curtain when I run out for the monologue. He is the last person I see before the show starts, and I have to make him laugh before I go out. It started with mild jabs: "Bobby, you're drunk again." Bobby laughs, "Heehee."" Then it was, "Still having trouble with the wife, Bobby?" But after hundreds of shows, you find yourself running out of lines. It's gotten to where I do crass things at the last second. I'll put his hand on my ass and yell, "You fucking pervert!" Or drop to my knees and say, "Come on, Bobby, I'll give you a blow job!"
"Ha-ha. Conan, you're crazy," he says. But even that stuff wears off. Soon, I'll be making the writers work late to give me new jokes for Bobby.
Playboy: Did you plan to be a talk show host or did you fall into the job? O'Brien: I was an Irish Catholic kid from St. Ignatius parish in Brookline, outside of Boston. And that meant: Don't call attention to yourself. Don't ask for too much when the pie comes around. Don't get a girl pregnant and fuck up your life.
Playboy: Were you an alter boy? O'Brien: I wanted to be an alter boy, but the priest at St. Ignatius said, "No, no. You're good on your feet, kid," and made me a lector. A scripture reader at Mass. He was the one who spotted my talent.
Playboy: What did you think of sex in those days? O'Brien: I was sexually repressed. At 16 I still thought human reproduction was by mitosis.
Playboy: How did you get over your sexual repression? O'Brien: Who says I got over it? My leg has been jiggling this whole time.
Playboy: What were you like in high school? O'Brien: Like a crane galumphing down the hall. A crane with weird hair, bad skin and Clearasil. Big enough for basketball but lousy at it. My older brothers were better. I would compensate by running around the court doing comedy, saying, "Look out, this player has a drug addiction. He's incredibly egotistical."
I was an asshole at home, too. My little brother Justin loved playing cops and robbers, but I kept tying him up with bureaucratic bullshit. When he'd catch me, I'd say, "I get to call my lawyer." Then it was, "OK, Justin, we're at trial and you've been charged with illegal arrest. Fill out these forms in triplicate." Justin was eight; he hated all the lawsuits and countersuits. He just cried.
Playboy: Were you a class clown? O'Brien: Never. I was never someone who walked into a room full of strangers and started telling jokes. You had to get to know me before I could make you laugh. The same thing happened with Late Night. I needed to get the right rhythm with Andy and Max and the audience.
Playboy: So how did you finally learn about sex? O'Brien: My parents gave me a book, but it was useless. At the crucial moment, all it showed was a man and a woman with the bed covers pulled up to their chins. I tried to find out more from friends, but it didn't help. One childhood friend told me it was like parking a car in a garage. I kept worrying about poisonous fumes. What if the fumes build up? Should you shut off the engine?
Playboy: For all your talk about being repressed, you can be rowdy on the air. O'Brien: The show is my escape valve. When I tear off my shirt and gyrate my pelvis like Robert Plant, feigning orgasm into the microphone, that shows how repressed I am -- a guy who wants to push his sex at the lens but can only do it as a joke.
Playboy: Aren't you tempted to live it up? O'Brien: I always imagined that if I were a TV star I would live the way I pictured Johnny Carson living. Carousing, stepping out of a limo wearing a velvet ascot with a model on my arm. Now that I have the TV show, I drive up to Connecticut on the weekends and tool around in my car. I could probably join a free-sex cult, smoke crack between orgies and drive sports cars into swimming pools, and my Catholic guilt would still be there, throbbing like a toothache. Be careful. If something good happens, something bad is on the way.
Playboy: Yet you don't mind licking the supermodels. O'Brien: At one point a few of them lived in my building, women who are so beautiful they almost look weird, like aliens. To me, a woman who has a certain approachable amount of beauty becomes almost funny. It's the same with male supermodels. They look like big puppets. So while I admire their beauty I probably won't be "romantically linked" with a model. I'd catch my reflection in a ballroom mirror and break up laughing.
Playboy: The horny Roy Orbison growl you use on gorgeous guests sounds real enough -- O'Brien: Oh, I've been doing that shit since high school. It just never worked before.
Playboy: Your father is a doctor, your mother an attorney. What do they think of their son the comedian? O'Brien: My dad was the one who told me denial was a virtue. "Denial is how people get through horrible things," he said. He also cut out a newspaper article in which I said I was making money off something for which I should probably be treated. So true, he thought. But when I got an Emmy for helping write Saturday Night Live, my parents put it on the mantel next to the crucifix. Here's Jesus looking over, saying, "Wow, I saved mankind from sin, but I wish I had an Emmy."
Playboy: Ever been in therapy? O'Brien: Yes. I don't trust it. I have told therapists that I don't particularly want to feel good. "Repression and fear, that's my fuel." But the therapists said that I had nothing to worry about. "Don't worry Conan you will always be plenty fucked up."
Playboy: When a female guest comes out, how do you know whether to shake her hand or kiss her? Is that rehearsed O'Brien: No, and it's awkward. If you go to shake her hand and her head starts coming right at you, you have to change strategy fast. I have thought about using the show to make women kiss me, but that would probably creep out the people at home. I decided not to kiss Elton John.
Playboy: Do you get all fired up if Cindy Crawford or Rebecca Romijn does the show? O'Brien: I like making women laugh. Always have, ever since I discovered you can get girls' attention by acting like an ass. That's one of the joys of the show -- I'm working my eyebrows and going grrr and she's laughing, the audience is laughing. It's all a big put-on and I'm thinking. This is great. Here is a beautiful woman who has no choice but to put up with this shit.
But it's not always put on. Sometimes they flirt back. Sometimes there's a bit of chemistry. That happened with Jennifer Connelly of The Rocketeer.
Playboy: One guest, Jill Hennessy, took off her pants for you. Then you removed yours. Even Penn and Teller took off their pants. O'Brien: Something comes over me. It happened with Rebecca Romijn -- I was practically climbing her. Those are the times when Andy and the audience seem to disappear and it's just me and this lovely woman sitting there flirting. I keep expecting a waiter to say, "More wine, Monsieur?"
Playboy: Would you lick the wine bottle? O'Brien: It's true, there's a lot of licking on the show. I have licked guests. I have licked Andy. Comedy professionals will read this and say, "Great work, Conan. Impressive." But I have learned that if you lick a guest, people laugh. If I pick this shoe off the floor, examine it, Hmmm, and then lick it, people laugh. I learned this lesson on The Simpsons, where I was the writer who was forever trying to entertain the other writers. I still try desperately to make our writers laugh, which is probably a sign of sickness since they work for me now. Licking is one of those things that look funny.
Playboy: Johnny Carson never licked Ed McMahon. O'Brien: We are much more physical and more stupid than the old Tonight Show. Even in our offices before the show there's always some writer acting out a scene crashing his head through my door. A behind-the-scenes look at our show might frighten people.
Playboy: One night you showed a doctored photo of Craig T. Nelson having sex with Jerry Van Dyke. Did they complain about it? O'Brien: I haven't heard from them. Of course I'm blessed not to be a part of the celebrity pond. I have a television show in New York, an NBC outpost. I don't run with or even run into many Hollywood people.
Playboy: You also announced that Tori Spelling has a penis. O'Brien: I did not. Polly the Peacock said that.
Playboy: Another character you use to say the outrageous stuff. O'Brien: Polly is not popular with the network.
Playboy: You mock Fabio, too. O'Brien: If he sues me, it'll be the best thing that ever happened. A publicity bonanza: Courtroom sketches of Fabio with his man-boobs quivering, shaking his fist, and me shouting at him across the courtroom. I'm not afraid of Fabio. He knows where to find me. I'm saying it right here for the record: Fabio, let's get it on.
Playboy: Ever have a run-in with an angry celeb? O'Brien: I did a Kelsey Grammar joke a few years ago, something about his interesting lifestyle, then heard through the network that he was upset. He had appeared on my show and expected some support. At this point my intellect says, "Kelsey Grammar is a public figure. I was in the right." Then I saw him in an airport. Kelsey didn't see me at first: I could have kept walking. But there he was, eating a cruller in the airport lounge. I thought I should go over. I said hello and then said, "Kelsey, I'm sorry if I upset you." And he was glad. He looked relieved. He said, "Oh, that's OK." We both felt better.
....See my other post with the last third of the interview

Don't get me wrong I love a good meme and Tiktok, especially when I was in early stages of learning that I wasnt an awful failure, I was just neurodiverse with a lot of comorbidities. I've used Tiktok to relate to others out there like me, and I've used memes to help unpack my childhood trauma. I've been on the Internet for a decade, I was around for the golden age of Troll face and The Game and Salad Fingers. My teenage years were filled with me and my undiagnosed neurodivergant friends just communicating via quoting these memes in school and in our free time. It's so important to have a shared language when you struggle socially and with recognizing emotions.
But now I'm 26, I've been on mood stabilisers for about 6 months after a Bipolar and BPD diagnosis, I take ADHD meds, I feel like my arrested development has healed a bit and I feel like I can finally focus on education and learning things that I just haven't been able to care about and prioritize since I was about 8 years old. Not saying all people who like memes are still 'traumatised' or something, I've just noticed how I don't seem to care for them as much now that I've done a lot of healing myself. I don't feel less autistic, but I feel a different kind of autistic. Before I was a struggling autistic who only cared about making and keeping friends, now I feel like a mostly healed autistic (and ADHD but I'm medicated so not relevant here really) who is ready to hunker down and try and make something of my life to the best of my ability.
All of my friends are neurodivergant and they still for the most part communicate via memes and Tiktoks about things that we've discussed 100's of times and I just, don't have the time and don't care, and honestly they go in one ear and out of the other. But then I feel terrible because they're like 'did you see that thing I sent' and I'm like uh, yeah no, maybe idk. I did watch it but you send a lot and my brain doesn't have the space to remember them. It feels like useless information! But I feel guilty. I'll look at a meme if it's sent to me on it's own or it's a reaction meme like it's relevant to what we're discussing, and I'll chuckle but like, yeah I'm just noticing I view them differently now. Or maybe it's the kinds of memes and I'm growing apart from these specific people.
But even so, I can't imagine whoever I'm friends with, wanting to sit and watch your 10 Tiktoks that they've sent me unless I'm burned out and need to just spend a day in bed scrolling on my phone (which is a gamble because it either makes me feel better or worse) but even then I'm just like, yeah, there's nothing new, they're all just renditions and spin offs of some previous video or meme I've seen. Content is poor. I already worked through that issue. Oh another cute dog in Japan having a massage. yada yada. Only exception is actual comedy skits like ItalianBach or someone, can't even name more than one person lol. But even then I'll watch like 3 and then I'm like okay thats enough.
Even when I try and engage with memes of the topics I am starting to become interested in pursuing careers in, I just don't really care, the most it gives me is a chuckle. I've never really been that bothered about what other people are doing, and when I have it's been in an unhealthy way. I realised I only got social media as a kid because everyone else did and I had FOMO.
Am I just getting older? Am I depressed, or actually not depressed at all for the first time ever? I feel like I'd prefer to be off my phone trying to actively engage in the world now (that's not unique to me at all) because for so long I've been really ill and unable to LIVE. I've lived through my phone and laptop for years having to learn about my disabilities and differences and I feel like I could pass a degree just from the amount of info I've had to digest to understand myself. Who knows if I can actually go into further education, I may just get overwhelmed because I'm autistic and have to accept I can't do it, but I'm enjoying travelling around visiting University Open days and things I wish I'd be able to do at 18, and living a relatively quiet life where I just discover what MY opinion is and what I want. I still am on Reddit way too much though. My brain feels different, and I feel the desire to connect to actual humans in my life instead of through these images and videos that people online have made.
Also not saying I'm better than anyone AT ALL I'm just noticing my perspective shift on the topic of memes and Tiktoks in particular, not just overall Internet usage, and wondering if anyone else feels like this

SFW
I like watching stuff on the internet from comedy skits, weird Avant Garde art, music videos, etc. I felt like chatting and sharing stuff we thought was interesting back and forth - chatting about it a bit, then moving on to the next thing. Thought it might be interesting to see what other people are into.

About an hour and a half ago, I watched "The Angry Video Game Nerd is not good anymore." by JHXC64 which had got recommended to me. This guy is aware of certain taglines and markets his take as being a staunch fan of both old and new Cinemassacre, even in the 'Screenwave' era. His video was fascinating, but there was a huge point I disagreed with at the end where they had claimed that My Horse Prince could just be a bad bump in the road as his 20th anniversary Castlevania episode was 'alright' as they found it engaging. Personally, this was a huge eye roller because my own personal viewpoint was that the Castlevania video was less interesting and more half-assed than the My Horse Prince episode. I feel titling a video "What is the best Castlevania game?" as an addendum for his four-parter Castlevania retrospective needs more than adding one game you haven't looked at as well revisiting three games, especially when it's basically just talking about how good Super Castlevania IV is by the end of it - it's such a waste of an episode... how is this piece of shit better than My Horse Prince?
Despite that it can take about a month to make a video like this, that Castlevania episode has the misfortune of feeling like a huge course correction from My Horse Prince. To me, this shows that the main audience will eat anything 'retro' up regardless as to the quality. I think the reason people dislike that Horse episode has less to do with the writing and comedy being shit, which it is, but more of the gimmick of "the Nerd reviewing mobile games" and talking about how odd it feels in practice. Okay then, so where was this backlash when that Life of Black Tiger episode came out? How is this experimental episode for a Nerd video worse than a green screen waste with a celebrity cameo? Is it really just because how it's packaged? - keep in mind that both the Life of Black Tiger and My Horse Prince are videos that play out as 'noting what happens how it happens' with skits revolving around the theme of "being out in the jungle with Fred Fuchs" and "being in my room on a new modern phone I've never used".
I feel like I'm losing my damn mind! Of all the videos to get people to start critiquing the AVGN series on a mass scale, while this is the most obvious entryway, it's certainly not the most horrible. Episodes have certainly been more boring and uninspired, like the Game Gear VHS episode, more skit-heavy like the Jurassic Park Trespasser episode, and more experimentally flat like the Vegas Stakes episode. I think that just because this video takes these elements together doesn't make the episode worse, in fact the previous episode "The Goonies 1 and 2" was boring for the reason that it felt way too long. This video, at the very least, was much more interesting and fascinating of an application of the character than reviewing shit and now obscure NES games... like seriously, this episode's faults lie in its writing being way too shallow in his reaction, and way too gimicky on its setups like how "he has a new phone and he has never used it", which has been done several times like on the AVGN games episode - not to mention that this character devolving backwards in technology is dumb as hell and breaks continuity from old episodes to new episodes, something that James autistic brain should care more about. What a shit load of fuck.
Is there something I'm not getting about this uptick with the reaction? Is it just because it feels so left-field with reviewing mobile games that he should never touch the phone games? Why is this episode considered the worst episode when plenty before had the advent of being more boring, more non-sequitur in comedy, or more poorly written than this episode? The worst part of this episode is that it's mediocre, but it's certainly more interesting and experimental than the previous couple of episodes that are really boring and long-than-needed videos about game libraries he is slowly running out of choices of.

I moved from Seattle and have lived in the West Loop area for a month and I have no regrets. I can't stop eating at restaurants, I sold my car 3 weeks after moving here, and bought a bicycle the same week. Riding the El and taking public transportation is pretty awesome though I'm sure that novelty will eventually wear off. I also got to meet tamale man the first time I visited Chicago during St. Patricks Day week.
People are generally very friendly and the city is very clean for how populous it is. Thank you to the group of people who helped me with getting my cat stroller through the State/Lake Station ticketing station. Learned the hard way that not all stations are handicap accessible / friendly for those with strollers.
After spending my first few weeks here exploring I ended up choosing the DePaul / Lincoln Park neighborhood as my next home. Looking forward to experiencing more as time goes on and meeting others!

Neighborhoods

Lakeview:
Seattle equivalent: A much larger Wallingford.
Very busy area with a younger 20-30'ish crowd. Lots of dog owners and plenty of restaurants, bars, and businesses to hang out at.
Lincoln Park:
Seattle equivalent: Ravenna
Close to Lakeview which is nice but appears to be a more affluent area. Seems to have a very slightly older crowd (25-30) than Lakeview but that makes sense given the cost of living there. Centrally located between Downtown and Lakeview while still close to the Lake makes it a nice destination for those who don't mind paying a bit more of a premium.
Wrigley Field:
Seattle equivalent: University District
Seems much more affordable while still being reasonably close to the rest of the Chicago neighborhoods. Hence it makes sense that it appears to draw a much younger crowd of college age kids.
Logan Square:
Seattle equivalent: Ballard
A bit hipster-ish but feels like a mini Lakeview with less crowds. Nice area if you like to live in the city but don't like to feel like you're surrounded by the city.
Fulton Market
Seattle equivalent: Fremont
Neat little area with lots of restaurants and bars but not much else outside of the Fulton Market itself. I don't see any particular reason to live there since you can commute to Fulton Market when you want to hang out there. Commuting anywhere (e.g. Lakeview or even Logan Square) is a bit of a ride as everything requires a transfer to another line.
West Loop:
Seattle equivalent: Northgate
Not much to do here other than going to Fulton Market. This area is also where you start to notice signs of gentrification as there is a good mix of new modern apartments mixed with older and abandoned lots. There really isn't a sense of physical danger living here other than petty level type crimes.
The Loop:
Seattle equivalent: Downtown Seattle
Not sure why anyone would personally want to live here unless they cared about distance to work. Nothing to do here after business hours and everyone goes home.

Activities:

Beach Volleyball:
I got to sub for a team in beach volleyball which was a blast. Highly recommend trying to find a league to join. Personally still looking to join a volleyball or kickball league.
Walking: There are so many parks and trails in Chicago that are beautiful to walk through in the summer. You'll find people walking or hanging out in the nice summer weather. The Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo is one of my personal favorites. There also appear to be a lot of running clubs but that's not my kind of thing.
Bicycling:
There are plenty of places that you can rent a bicycle and the 606 is a highly popular trail though I personally haven't been on it myself yet. Since this region is so flat, it makes biking a breeze.
Lincoln Park Zoo:
A free zoo that is very large and plenty of fun to walk through. No pets allowed though.
Riverboat Architecture Tour:
Super fun and awesome to learn about all the buildings along the river. Learn some fun facts that you can impress your friends with when they visit.
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary: So many cool birds that you can see while you walk through a very peaceful and secluded park that almost makes you forget that you're in the middle of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago:
Cool museum if you're into that kind of stuff. The surrounding area is definitely worth checking out although you cannot see the Bean at this time.
Comedy Clubs:
Visited the Laugh Factory and got to see a skit. Seems fun and there are lots of amateur classes where you can meet others.

Restaurants (Link to Google Maps):

My favorites are in bold

• Al's #1 Italian Beef
• Annette's Italian Ice
• Banh Mi City
• Bonci Pizzeria
• Breakfast House
• Cafe Jumping Bean
• Chicago Philly Stop
• Crave Kebab
• Fatso's Last Stand
• Gangnam Market (Food Court)
• Greek Islands
• Harold's Chicken Shack West Loop
• Homeslice Pizza + Patio
• JARS by Fabio Viviani
• Jam 'n Honey
• Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
• Johnny's Beef & Gyros - Lincoln Park
• Kanela Breakfast Club
• La Casa Del Pueblo Supermarket (Hot food section)
• La Casa Del Pueblo Taqueria
• La Michoacana Premium
• Levain Bakery – West Loop, Chicago
• Lula Cafe
• Lulu's Hot Dogs
• Margie's Candies
• Mario's Italian Lemonade
• Mild 2 Spicy
• Molly's Cupcakes
• Nando's PERi-PERi
• Portillo's Chicago – Canal and Taylor
• Prost!
• Selam Ethiopian Kitchen
• Siri Indian Restaurant
• Small Cheval- Fulton Market
• Standard Pho
• Taco Max Mexican Grill
• Tapicozza West Loop
• The Soul Food Lounge
• Yolk - Test Kitchen

Edit: People have fairly called out that I haven't been to any places in South Chicago yet so I've created a new list of places to eat that include some places there. Thank you for the suggestions!

Like imagine back then in the early days of YouTube Gaming related content he becomes well known, loved, and successful like so many others. Then after he does some impersonations for his videos some acting studio calls him and asks for a voice acting role. And success, both on YouTube and Voice Acting.
There's plenty of YouTubers who done some voice over work before. I can name Egoraptor of Game Grumps had a cameo in Marvel's Ultimate Alliance 1, Matt Sloan voiced Darth Vader in SW games after doing some SW parodies on YouTube called Chad Vader, ProZD from comedy skits on YT to anything anime related and video game dubs, Jon Bailey the Honest Trailer guy voiced Optimus Prime and YongYea ended up voicing a lot of roles "sigh" and yes famously getting the role of Kazuma Kiryu in the new Yakuza games (he did his best)
Guess not.