Jess Lane: Comedian
Some Videos I'm In
Punks - Episode 1 - Episode 2
Mizz Miraculous - Must Love Dogs
Kindle 3.0
Chicks in the City - Episode 3
Jon and Jess Variety Hour - Ep 1 - Ep 2 - Ep 3 - Ep 5
Ikea Heights
Anne Frank: The Lost Pages
Teen Homicide - Episode 1
AND MANY MORE!
A Biography For Jess Lane
She wrote and starred in the web series Teen Homicide, Anne Frank: The Lost Pages, The Jon and Jess Variety Hour, Chicks In The City, Me and My Cat, and Punks for the website Channel101.com. In 2008 and 2009 she was awarded Best Actress at the New York Channy Awards.
She's been performing long-form improv for 8 years, and could be seen weekly at the Magnet Theater in New York with her house team Featherweight, and more sporadically at the UCB Theatre NY.
Her hour-long hip-hop musical Mizz Miraculous had a run at the Magnet in 2009, in which she played a 17-year-old British rapper who tries to kill her mother. She penned more than 6 songs and directed 3 music videos for the production, which featured 6 costume changes, including 3 pairs of sneakers.
She has also written for the Comedy Central Insider and Team Coco.
Posts
Hey Jess how are ya?! :)
January 15, 1977 — see The Complete Peanuts 1975-1978
OH GOD. SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? JUST, YOU KNOW!? GOD.
I wanted to be a puppeteer when I was 19-23 years old. I still kind of do, you know, because I love puppetry and all. Thank you for reminding me why, guy who I think is British based on the comments on your video (ans also you, Ryan Williams).
Still really want to do my idea for a puppet play: “Anne Frank 2.0”. You can ask me about it next time you see me. All I need is $100,000 and a year of free time.
AH HA. AH HA HA HA.
EDIT: Now that I’m not reading this at a red light in my car (shhh), I’d like to point out that it was sent to me by a Jamaican lady who I’m not friends with, which means I’m on some kind of secret comedian list that hacks are passing around - I’m doing it, you guys! Also, according to her wall she’s spamming the flier on random comedian’s pages, like Steve Harvey & Jay Larson. It’s good to know that getting spammed by Eddie Brill’s minions is the new “getting tagged as shoes”.
I definitely found this hilarious at first glance. But I also want to stop and ask: “What is this man supposed to do now?” - He just lost his long-held job, and may arguably have a tough time finding another similar job, or jumping back into another line of work. What would you do if you were in this situation? Dude is just a little wack is all - not a crazy person, pedophile, or murderer.
Counter-point: Spam is totally bonkers dude, knock it the fuck off.
Breaking Celebrity Relationship News of the Day: It’s official: Love is over.
TMZ is reporting that Seal and Heidi Klum are splitting up. According to sources, Klum will file divorce papers next week, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
Married since 2005, the couple share three children. They have also been raising Klum’s daughter from a previous relationship with Flavio Briatore.
A now-not-so-cryptic update was posted to a Twitter account supposedly affiliated with Seal yesterday. It read, simply, “the end.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I am for real upset. Almost Tim Robbins/Susan Sarandon levels here!!!
this right here makes Twitter worth stalking.
LOL
I’ve been working my way through Boy Meets World and tweeting about it and all that jazz. (In fact, Charisma Carpenter tweeted at me after I mentioned spotting her in an episode. Turns out, it was her first gig.) I have also been obsessed by the opening credits and how they change each season. I am only in season 3 and they have all been pretty awful. Well, season 2 was short and animated.
ANYWHOZITS, this exchange is great.
Things like this and the Sarah Silverman/Mia Farrow exchange are what makes Twitter worthwhile.
THIS IS JUST THE BEST THING IN THE WHOLE BOY MEETS WORLD!!!!!
Uhhh… haha - someone just brought this to my attention. Go to the Coachella line-up page and click on the YOUTUBE icon listed after “M83”
It’s crazy how the Internet works. Pretty sure this is going to get Dave added to the permanent lineup… And into a lot of wacky hijinx.
THIS IS AWESOME.
Happy Moonrise Kingdom Trailer Day!
Looks more Rushmore than Darjeeling, so fines by me!
Yes.
my body is one big goosebump. my eyes are one big tear.
my body is one big BONER! Wait, that came out wrong… I meant giant erect phallus.
Last September, The Pleasure Chest celebrated their 40th Anniversary by making all shows that month free, which included Performance Anxiety. The final show that month had Sarah Silverman as a guest drop-in. T.J. Miller and I agreed to stack the line-up with an even split of established,…
Hate hate hate drunk driving, especially in LA.
No one is responding to my twitter or Facebook posts about hanging out in NY. Is everyone really gone? So many people stay in LA for christmas. I already forgot what NY is like during the holidays. Apparently abandoned?
I am literally going to get a room at the Ace Hotel and camp out there all day today and tonight. If you want to hang out, I will be there, pretending
to be cool and rich.
Michael Caine in glasses.
In keeping with the grid theme of all the art in my apartment, I would like a large print of this to hang above my futon please. Thank you.
Just signed up for Sketch 101. FINALLY I’ll be eligible for Maude teams yo!
Which brings me to:
WILDLY AMBITIOUS 2012 ACHIEVEMENTS WISHLIST
- get on a Harold and/or Maude team
- get back into Channel 101 prime time
- finish a fucking spec script son
- submit a short film to some film fests
- make a web series that is NOT for Channel 101
- travel to a foreign country for the first time ever
- add money to my savings account instead of taking it away
- get the last of my stuff out of Stacy’s basement in Williamsburg
- get my family to come visit me in LA
- read more books
- work harder
- stop making excuses
- do not let this tumblr post activate the part of my brain that feels accomplished just by saying you will do something before you actually do it…
Word.
EDITING TO ADD: Draw more shit you dummy!
I took this video on 8th Avenue this evening. It’s a box truck whose sole purpose is to advertise the Hustler Club. How is this legal? I’m not upset with what is being advertised. I just think it’s absurd that you’re allowed to drive a vehicle that is essentially an enormous television set through city streets. My iPhone didn’t pick it up so well, but there was loud audio as well.
If we’re going to ban hands free cellphone use because it leads to distracted driving, maybe we should also ban huge trucks with speakers and bright video screens that are solely on street to distract.
I should qualify this by admitting that if the truck was an art project instead of an ad, I probably would have loved it. A contradiction, I know, but I think advertising, which serves no public good, should be regulated more heavily than art.
Not to mention wasteful and wildly environmentally irresponsible.
And I’m sure it’s not the truck’s SOLE purpose, it’s definitely transporting cages full of sexy women, right?
This is my favorite thing of all of the internets.
Oh fuck man. This is just perfect. I was squealing!
In some ways, comedy is fortifying its place in New York City culture: Theaters are busy, offering niche shows ranging from Andy Kaufman–esque character showcases to all-Asian long-form improv. In other ways, the scene is stagnating. Stand-up is still the city’s saving grace, going strong in three of the five boroughs, as energized comics display a level of thought and creativity that the improv and sketch scenes currently lack. While it’s great there are many more venues to provide stage time, it would be better to feel performers justifying the attention of audiences by pushing boundaries, or, at the very least, playing from their hearts rather than playing to a hypothetical agent.
TimeOut NY’s summary of comedy in New York in 2011. Hm. Interesting. (via iamachilles)
Hm.
(via benjaminapple)
You want to talk about agents and stage time, why aren’t we talking about LA comedy?
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Wesleyan is the best. Send your hipster cousins, hipster nieces and hipster nephews to this school.
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