Nick Capodice
@capodice
Co-host of Civics 101, author of A User's Guide to Democracy, How America Works. I like to make long audio jokes for very very small audiences. I wore a washcloth on my head as a child.
It was either this Herblock or a Curb Your Enthusiasm sheet sex joke, so I opted to go the classier option. And also this guy needs three fewer phones.
I rewatched Desk Set this week, and what got through this time is that every single scene is designed to make you appreciate the imperfect, inefficient, rebellious, loud, clumsy, unpredictable creatures we all are that wham on stolen pianos and get things wrong and say I love you too often.
A long time ago I started to learn how to cook Sichuan food. And I always yearned to make a forever pickle crock but I never got my act together. But I just decided to try, and lo and behold I ate some beans and mustard greens out of this and hoo boy. I understand something that was scary to me.
What's your record time before pausing a movie to talk about what just happened for three hours
In 2002 I used to work in an office in a hospital, and I would kill time by editing Lockhorns cartoons. Later I would sleep in the office by wedging a pencil with a fat eraser into the keyboard, resting my head on the rubber.
The theme of the Bacchus floats this year was American History, and this one was titled "Give me your tired, your poor." I screamed "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" so hard my tonsils throbbed
*I* want to take a class on Helen of Troy. I read 'Menelaiad' whenever I lose my way. "'Helen of Troy taught me what love is,' I said," I said.
Haven't watched Spiderman in about 20 odd years, but showing it to the kid tonight and I got a New York history nerd SUPRISE. Hooooooo boy June 15, 1904. Who made this little joke???
My son, excited to play Hades II, shouts up the stairs at 7am, "can I close this snip? Do I have to save it??" "mmghngrn just delete it!" The snip in question. No more effing around on google maps at 3am and texting fears to my gf
Listening to conservative talk radio is like three hours of this guy and then two with this other guy and Jack Warden hops in for the local headlines
2026 will be the year of embracing all Fezziwigs, wherever they be. Old Fezziwig wouldn't have Gemini create a survey to assess the best way to generate revenue from a client base using demographically adjusted scripts. He'd give you a loan for your goddamn oven and rejoice in your bread.
What did old Mr. Fezziwig give us? Just a good time, love, a job we enjoyed. Merry reels and days off, celebrating our efforts. What does Mr. Jorkin give us? Wealth, at the cost of a sense of purpose, community, and humanity. The slithering viper who asks, "don't you want it to be EASIER."
I never tire of watching this, and last night I paid attention to the real villain in A Christmas Carol. It's not Scrooge, it's not money, it's not even the machines that will eventually replace all of us, it's MR JORKIN. "The machines are inevitable. You want to make money, don't you?"
Well, it remains Christmas, so time to watch the best Christmas movie ever made. When the production of Hamlet is falling to pieces, Joe shouts "what makes this FUCKING life worth living." Vernon says Rachmaninoff, Terry says thinking of his son happy. Molly says, "you. You're my brother."
Don't you ever sit there with your $17 airport beer and wonder where these come from? These bland salvos of pablum that bedeck every terminal, that shout at you above each baggage claim? That remind you that you, and only you, are responsible for making the world better?