Casper Kelly's Blog

One Million Hits

Thank you everyone. The response to Too Many Cooks feels more surreal to me than the thing itself. 
(EDIT: I've changed this link to the higher res Adult Swim youtube rather than the first one posted by Tortoise5210 - who I will always be indebted to. Also hat tip to redditor setyourgoals.)
For those of you that are curious, I am currently busy prepping/writing/directing the last episodes of Season 2 of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell with my partner in crime Dave Willis. We are making 12 and I think they will air on Adult Swim in June. Please check out the first season here. Here's a still from unaired Season 2 (without effects) with Henry Zebrowski. And Jack MacBrayer as an angel.


I'd also like to thank Paul Painter (editor extraordinaire), Shawn Coleman and Michael Kohler (composers), Alex Orr, Adam Pinney, Vishal Roney, Mike Lazzo, Keith Crofford, Awesome Inc., Fake Wood Wallpaper, Dave Willis, Jim Fortier, Roger Black and Nick Gibbons. Aimee Holmberg who did the sets. The cast. Thank you to the person that posted this on Youtube. And so forth.
I also wrote a book of weird short stories called "More Stories about Spaceships and Cancer". Somebody just emailed me and said it was like George Saunders crossed with David Foster Wallace - far too kind and wildly inaccurate but I'll take it and enjoy the ride! You can buy it autographed here.
Also lastly my real name is Chris Kelly but since there's already a lot of Chris Kelly's on TV that write on shows like SNL and Girls I go by Casper. I think I got the idea of using Casper from the movie "Kids" which is a terrible thing to admit.

Something to See

I made a weird little thing airing on Adult Swim 4am every night (morning?) this week. Listed as "Infomercial". Do check it out please.

The New Yorker of Snacks

I'm a fan of Snacks Quarterly and am honored to have a story in the latest issue and with such august company.

My piece covers snack related dreams and yes, to answer your question, Chicken Pot Pie pop tarts, Clockwork Orange themed Marshmallow Peeps, and 3 Musketeers Penises are all covered. It's free! And well art directed! Enjoy!

Tattoos are the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Stranger, I salute you! This is the closest I've ever felt to having "arrived".


Also I wanted to share this awesome GIF from the incredibly talented Jack at http://jacksportfolio.tumblr.com/.

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell sightings

Hello all! I've been meaning to post this earlier but some fans dressed up in Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell garb at DragonCon this year, which I found pretty thrilling. There's no compliment like making something cosplay worthy!

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell!

Hey everybody! The show I co-created along with Dave Willis, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, is premiering April 18 at midnight on Adult Swim. Here's a teaser:



It's pretty thrilling to see something that was an idle idea in the shower all those years ago become a real thing, with sets, and actors, and human beings walking around, and props, and special effects! I'll post more later about all the great people involved. But for now, enjoy the teaser!

Also - in honor of the premiere I'm making my book of short stories "More Stories about Spaceships and Cancer" free on the Kindle from April 15 - 19. Check it!

And of course you can still buy a print version, autographed, here!

Sorry about all the exclamation points!

Nerdy Show Book Club Appearance + Austin Film Festival

The Nerdy Show podcast I'm on is up! Items discussed: aging, sex, the singularity, and going to the bathroom squatting on the toilet. Hat tip to Cap, Hex, Colin, and Brandon for a great show. Give it a listen! 
Also, is anyone going to the Austin Film Festival? I'm going to be there doing some panels and such. If you're around let's meet up and discuss our five year career plans and dream projects while sloshing beer and bbq sauce on each other.

Nerdy Show + WTF w/ Marc Maron

The great folks at the Nerdy Show podcast are featuring my book in their next book club episode. Hear  them kick it in the current episode 59 where they also talk about Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series. I think the book after mine is Ready Player One. So I'm in good company! This is a great freewheeling, far-ranging, fun-loving podcast and I'm proud to be a part of it. If you haven't heard of it yet gird your ear-loins for hours of listening pleasure. I also enjoy their many sister podcasts especially their music podcast The Real Congregation. Here's one of the hosts, Cap Blackard, on Orlando Weekly. I want to steal his glasses and wear them as my own.




Speaking of podcasts you've probably heard of WTF w/ Marc Maron, haven't you? Of course you have. Well, a lot of you just listen to the comedians you know or admire and I want to tell you you are making a big mistake! Some of the best episodes are the ones with the lesser knowns, the slightly troubled, the lonely, the angry. Here are my absolute three favorites:


Fred Stoller: He is so hyper sensitive, self conscious, self effacing, socially awkward, and second guessing that instantly relate to him yet at the same time feel better about myself that I don't have it as bad as him. Imagine the most socially awkward and self conscious person you can imagine, multiply it times ten, and now watch Fred Stoller make that person you imagined look like George Clooney. He is also endearing and funny. He is also the voice of Rusty the Wrench on Handy Manny. Among topics discussed is the concept of uninvited rejection: where you are invited to join something and when you do you are then rejected.

Matt Graham: Scrabble champion and comedian. He has a fast, intimidating, and searing intelligence that when not being funny he tragically uses to create fantastic illusions about his life to hide simple truths from himself. Which we all do on some level. Smart, funny, troubled, but luckily he appears to be doing better now.

Paul Gilmartin: He was the host of Dinner and a Movie and is seething with resentments towards Marc Maron and inner demons that he sold out his edgy comedic desires to host Dinner and a Movie. A good listen for anyone who ever worries they sold out.

I guess my three picks say a lot about me. On some level it's schadenfreude but on another level I relate to these individuals. My inner demons and their inner demons would all be good friends. There should be a word for both delighting in the misery of others while simultaneously commiserating. So get on that, Germans!

Jennifer Love Hewitt + Bibliomantics

Craig Rowin (comedian, writer, and actor in my new show) has a hilarious podcast called "It's That Episode" where he and a guest pick apart a specific TV episode. I had the honor of being a guest on his latest where we watch Jennifer Love Hewitt's "The Client List". Topics discussed include gratuitous subplots, gratuitous cutaways, gratuitous cleavage (even in the previous episode recap), and exchange tales involving Mark Hamill and bathrooms. Check it. I also recommend the Dana Snyder, Matt Besser, and my evil doppleganger the SNL Chris Kelly episodes.


Plus, Stephanie over at Bibliomantics put up an awesome review of my book that made my year and will surely be something I will cling to when I have those wake-up-at-2am-feeling-lost-and-failed moments. (You have those, don't you? No?) I have a secret crush on everyone that writes for this amazing site that is great for discovering new, weird books. Check that.

Spaceships and Cancer now at Powell's & Strand

Here's a photo of my book at Powell's in Portland. (Thanks to Kevin Sampsell for the photo. Creamy Bullets is awesome, btw.)

It says "Casper Kelly is the new king of goofball genius." You hear that, former king of goofball genius?!  There's a new king of goofball genius in town! This sign says so! But do not fear, former k.o.g.g., I am no Joffrey Baratheon and will permit you to spend your dotage peacefully on a modest estate on the coast of my kingdom of goofball geniusness.

My book is also for sale at the Strand in NY. Big thanks to Carson Moss.

Also huge thanks to the amazing Alex Barrett for the hook up. This has been a lifelong dream to have my book in a book store. To have my book in cool bookstores in cities I've always dreamed of living in, all the better. I am now envious of where my books get to live.