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In our quest to find the Funniest Person at SXSW, we interviewed Drew Curtis, creator of the insanely popular comedy news site FARK.com.
Curtis is also author of the bestselling It's Not News, It's FARK: How the Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News, but generously elected to use his interview to plug a friend's project instead.
THE PLUG
ZUG: Feel free to plug anything you like, but remember we're a comedy site.
DREW CURTIS: I'll actually plug Tucker Max's new movie, since I had a small part in it. I play a bartender. I only have one line, but I think they just wanted to give me a part in it. It was fun.
ZUG: A Tucker Max movie seems like it would be out of control. What was it like on the set?
DC: Surprisingly professional!
ZUG: So people weren't swigging liters of vodka and running around with nude donkeys?
DC: Well, it's a 12- to 14-hour shooting day, so you can't get hammered too early. I thought Tucker might have just done everything low-budget, but it was a full-blown production, pretty impressive.
From the set of the Tucker Max movie (from gawker.com)
THE STAREOFF
ZUG: This comes from a game in France. We hold each other's chins for 60 seconds, and you have to say or do something to make me laugh. I'm very bad at this game, so this shouldn't be difficult.
DC: Okay. I hold your chin, like this?
[The two of us hold each other's chins.]
DC: You say this game comes from France? I would love to see two dudes doing this in a French bar. [Fakes a French accent] "Oooh, Pierre, let me fondle your chin."
[I laughed.]
Time to laugh: 19 seconds
THE STORY
ZUG: Running FARK.com, which aggregates funny news stories, you must have some funny stories of your own.
DC: I've had a lot of funny things happen to me, but for some reason I always remember other people's funny stories more than my own, and this is one of the best. Some friends of mine had this party back in Lexington KY where they decided to see who could tell the funniest joke, and they were giving away a CD as a prize. So people are telling their jokes, but this one guy we know named "Mike" can't wait to tell his joke, right? So they get around to him, and he starts telling his joke, and it goes like this: Why did they wrap duct tape around the baby Jesus?
ZUG: Why?
DC: So when they Frosted him in the ass, he wouldn't explode! [Laughing hysterically] And this is Kentucky, right? So there are all these Sunday Christians in the room -- the kind of people you pretend not to see at the bar on Saturday night -- and they are all wanting desperately to laugh, but they can't. And the guy is so convinced that he has won this contest that he just grabs the CD, laughing like a madman, and runs out of the room.
ZUG: [Laughing] It's an interesting joke. I mean, why would a baby explode from anal penetration? And why would duct tape prevent the explosion?
DC: I don't know! Maybe someone should do some research.
ZUG: Well, thank you Drew for sending everyone within earshot to hell.
DC: And the people reading this! Don't forget the people reading this.
ZUG: Yes, they thank you too.
Remember to vote at the top of this article -- your votes will ultimately determine the Funniest Person at SXSW, who will win $1,000 worth of publicity services from ZUG.com!
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