My pals over at Thing X were kind enough to ask me to be in this post-apocalyptic radio show All Things Remaining. I play one of the hosts. Can you guess which one?

To celebrate the launch of the Onion News Empire on Amazon, here are a few photos I took on set. These will be marginally more interesting if you have seen the show, so if you have not already seen it then go see it dummy. 

Here is the Onion News Van which whisks away little Courtney Carter so the network can get a “missing girl” story. We did multiple takes of the girl screaming and being hauled into the van by two men in ski masks. The degree to which passersby were utterly unfazed was alarming.

One of my favorite locations in the show is the office for our lead anchor David Bryant (Jeffery Tambor). Our art department did an amazing job packing the room to the gills with various souvenirs from Bryant’s long career in journalism. Here is one detail that you can’t really see in the pilot: An oil-soaked bird that Bryant picked up while covering the Exxon Valdez disaster.

Another detail from Bryant’s office: The skull of his former secretary.

At one point in the pilot, reporter Cameron Grey (Cheyenne Jackson) has this microwaveable “Steamy Salad” for lunch. I have long thought that the idea of a hot salad was disgusting so I was excited to finally see that thought realized.

Toward the end of the pilot news director Ed Musgrove (William Sadler) refers to a bull being in someone’s office. We actually shot a scene depicting that in which this stuffed buffalo head, held up by a man hiding under a sheet, stood in for the “bull.”  For reasons that are probably obvious, the effect did not end up looking good enough to make it into the final cut.

Lastly, here is a photo of myself holding Helena’s crossbow and wearing the sunglasses Courtney wears when she is pretending to be blind. Ladies, I am single. 

“Onion News Empire” is now on Amazon! I co-wrote and co-produced the pilot and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.  The link is right here and the show is free so I encourage you to watch it when you have some time.  I know you’re busy. We’re all busy.    

Below are a few bits I wrote for the most recent issue “The Occasional” from Funny Or Die.

Last summer my longtime friend and Onion coworker Will Graham and I sequestered ourselves in a windowless office for several weeks and wrote a half-hour pilot about reporters and anchors at The Onion News Network. It was picked up by Amazon Studios and ended up getting a great director, Todd Strauss Schulson, and an amazing cast including Jeffery Tambor, Chris Masterson, and Cheyenne Jackson. We shot it toward the end of February and are currently in the process of editing. Here’s a New York Times article which just came out today that mentions the show. The whole process was a delight and I am excited for people to see the finished product. Below is a picture of myself in an ill-fitting sweater holding one one of the props from the show. 

Funny Or Die has begun publishing a bimonthly digital magazine (is that the term?) called The Occasional and I have written these “Celebrity Sightings” bits for the past few issues.  It’s fun and it gives me an excuse to read Us Weekly and People Magazine. 

I was recently lucky enough to write for Night Of Too Many Stars a Comedy Central special which benefits autism education programs.  The show was created by Robert Smigel and hosted by Jon Stewart and features appearances by a staggering number of celebrities including Sting and Paula Deen.  Above is a preview clip of one of the bits I pitched.

This is a video from a new web series I have been doing with Broadway Video called The Cool Kids Table.  We have done six of these so far and they have all been a lot of fun.  The series was created by Carol Kolb, Lang Fisher, and me.  I have directed four of them (including the one above) and written on all of them.  The rest of the videos can be found on Broadway Video’s Above Average YouTube channel. 

Here is a video I wrote for the UCB’s Sketch Cram.  Sketch Cram is an hour-long comedy show written and produced in a single day.  The video was directed by Adam Sacks and stars Brian Glidewell, a guy who looks and dresses almost exactly like me.

I wrote a piece for the new Adult Swim blog about a movie reviewer who is trapped inside a wall.  It is silly.  Here is a link to it.