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Hey everyone,

I’m launching a newsletter (This Daniel O’Brien - The Newsletter). It’ll have some jokes and book/song recommendations and a few instances where I just get real, ya know? Sign up for content you won’t find anywhere else. I won’t bombard you with emails, it’s totally free and should be fun.

Oh, and the first 25 people who sign up will get a free, signed advanced copy of my new children’s book Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team.

(Also FYI if you haven’t seen the first issue show up in your inbox, check your spam filter. Apparently that’s a thing that happens a lot.)

Subscribe to my Newsletter (and win a free book)

Hey everyone,

I’m launching a newsletter (This Daniel O’Brien - The Newsletter). It’ll have some jokes and book/song recommendations and a few instances where I just get real, ya know? Sign up for content you won’t find anywhere else. I won’t bombard you with emails, it’s totally free and should be fun.

Oh, and the first 25 people who sign up will get a free, signed advanced copy of my new children’s book Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team.

I Have a Book Coming Out Soon and I Forgot to Tell Everyone

I’ve adapted How to Fight Presidents into a children’s book called Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team and it’s coming out in like two friggin’ weeks and I keep forgetting about it. You can buy it here or anywhere else books are sold. It’s an adaptation, so it’ll be very familiar to people who’ve read HTFP, this one will just be more appropriate for children and there will be some new info, mostly about first ladies. And some BRAND NEW ART by Winston Rowntree that’s really dope.

Here’s what some early reviewers are saying:

“The pictures are black and white.“ (4 Stars)

“My son likes reading about presidents.“ (4 Stars)

“As a senior citizen, I found this fascinating reading.” (5 Stars)

HOT HOT HOT!

I’ve been pretty quiet about this book because I feel conflicted asking the same people who supported the first book to also support THIS one when so much of the material gets repeated, but I’m legitimately very proud and excited to get a whole new generation of little nerds excited about presidents. Here’s that link again.

Too Many Words Devoted to the Simpsons

Too Many Words Devoted to the Simpsons:

Five years ago, I wrote about my favorite episode of The Simpsons and included a dumb little pet theory I hate. Last week, I got to talk to Jeff Martin, the writer behind that episode (as well Mike Reiss, another Simpsons Writer Legend) for a podcast wherein Jeff assured me that my theory was fully wrong. Between interviewing Stan Lee live on stage and making Mike Reiss and Jeff Martin laugh, I’m quickly running out of heroes to embarrass myself in front of, but go ahead and give the podcast/dream come true a listen to hear me live out my childhood dreams.

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Opening deaths from “Dude Bro Party Massacre III” (2015)

dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon

HEY COOL

I get recognized for my work at Cracked every once in a while, but last night in West Hollywood was the first time someone said “You were great in that movie Dude Bro Party Massacre!”

Huge moment.

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This was one heck of a thing to drop on me at 3:30 AM, Google.

On Writing

Without context, you won’t be able to answer this question (and, to be absolutely clear, I super don’t want strangers to even try to answer it), I bring this up just to present one of the many stupid things writing can be. Sometimes comedy writing means spending several days idly wondering if the line “I hate Clint also” is funnier than “I also hate Clint.” 

So that’s been this guy’s week.

THE TED CRUZ PHOTOSHOP PROJECT: DAY 3[Ted Cruz’s face is very...

THE TED CRUZ PHOTOSHOP PROJECT: DAY 3

[Ted Cruz’s face is very interesting to me. I’ve decided to do an apolitical photoshop to it once a day, every
weekday, from now until I don’t do this anymore. I will post the
pictures, as well as what I learned about myself in the process, here
exclusively on tumblr as well as via the US Postal Service for anyone who has signed up to my snail mail newsletter on AT&T’s new exclusive comedy app, Jokescayp, available only at the Apple Store. “Jokescayp- It’s 4 U.”]

Today I woke up earlier than usual and felt great and refreshed. I took my dog Jackson to the dog park and ran around with him and some other cool dogs for a while, then I did some casual apartment cleaning, had a simple breakfast of peanut butter on toast, and worked out at the office with this app I like called Sworkit. Then I had the usual meetings that I have in my 9-to-5, and then I started working on the Ted Cruz Photoshop Project.

First I thought this one was going to be about his hair. I started graying the sides of his hair a little bit and subtly thinning out the hair on the top of his head, but after about three hours, I scrapped all of the hair-relayed meddling I’d done. It just wasn’t speaking to me. It wasn’t until I took my headphones off that I decided to focus on making his eyes blue. This will sound hokey, but I truly believe in my soul that the Great Muse was trying to whisper inspiration to me but simply couldn’t get through the headphones. Once I’d made the pathway to my mind clear, the Great Muse was able to speak and move through me and this is what she did.

Those are his eyes. I didn’t import someone else’s eyes, I just isolated his and… hold on, I need to go back. I just eyesolated his and switched Hold on, I need to go back. I just eyesolaTed his eyes and switched the colors through a variety of photshop filters. Then I tried making him paler everywhere else because I thought he was going to be a White Walker today, but then I ultimately decided to scrap the pale idea, too, and just stick with the blue eyes. Christina, my post supervisor, said “I can see that his eyes are blue.” The only other thing I changed was his two front teeth, which I switched. I don’t think it added much.

I really don’t like Ted Cruz with blue eyes. I really don’t like it. I don’t like how he looks with them, I don’t like that I know he can see more now, more than he could see before. I wish I had done something else instead. I wish with every part of my body that I just gave him a face tattoo or something, but I also recognize that the decision was never mine to make and I think the various false starts can attest to that. I was always going to photoshop Ted Cruz’s eyes blue. That was true the second I woke up this morning. That’s why I woke up feeling so great, that’s why I got an early work out in; I needed to be prepared and a little bit stronger to face the inevitability of today’s face.

What Did I Learn Doing This:

Making this took me to a different place. I saw behind the curtain, I saw through and beyond God, and even if I had the words to describe what I saw there, I know in my heart that I am not supposed to share it with you. You will see it for yourself when it’s time, at the end.

Did This Make Me Like Ted Cruz More:

Not particularly, no. It did not.