2005 Jokes / Recent Jokes

AOL gave me a week to write, produce, shoot, and edit this fake local news show in the summer of 2005. They never wound up using it--for their own convoluted corporate reasons. Someone at AOL thought the #5 in the title was offensive to quintaphobes maybe. Anyway, it stars me, Nick Stevens from the Shark Show, and Becca Greene and Will Nunziata from the Royal We. My pal Alan Harris, who directed the 2005 Emerging Comics of New York Award Winning shorts "I Am Drugs" which are now airing on FUSE, paved our way through this one too. Note: Presumably all the comics that are going to emerge have done so because there doesn't seem to have been a ECNY 2006. I'm glad I emerged in time. Hate to be stuck in whatever open mic limbo all those "unemerged" comics are to live in forever. a DRINK AT WORK production

A hip young man goes out and buys the best car available: a 2005 Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It is the best and most expensive car in the world, and it sets him back $1.24M. He takes it out for a spin and, while doing so, stops for a red light. An old man on a moped (both looking about 90 years old) pulls up next to him. The old man looks over the sleek, shiny surface of the car and asks, "What kind of car ya' got there, sonny?"The young man replies "A 2005 Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It cost $1.24M."That's a lot of money" says the old man, shocked. "Why does it cost so much?"Because this car can do up to 320 miles an hour!" states the cool dude proudly.The moped driver asks, "Can I take a look inside? "Sure," replies the owner.So, the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around. Leaning back on his moped, the old man says "That's a pretty nice car, all right!"Just then, the light changes, so the guy decides to show the old more...