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Posted on 28th July 2009
It’s Tuesday and I’m still coming down from about 36 action-packed hours at San Diego Comic-Con 2009. That is a picture of me above with MC Supersized, the creation of the great artist Ron English, whom I had the pleasure of meeting on Friday at Comic-Con. He gave me a cool signed alien he made. It’s staring at me right now as I type this.
Other Comic-Con excitement included running into the Mighty Boosh guys at JFK. We were on the same flight to San Diego. I had a couple beers with Julian and Rich Fulcher and they were super nice guys. As a huge fan of the show, it was a delight to sit and drink stuff with them and talk about how we were all about to fly to San Diego on a plane. Since we are all professionals in the field of comedy, the amount of amusing things being said by the three of us was significantly higher than when totally regular people hang out together and the photo above is just further evidence of that fact.
Once I got to San Diego, the excitement continued big time. I met my dear friend Tig Notaro in the lobby of the Hilton, the classy hotel I stayed at in San Diego, where she had already been partying super hard for several hours, drinking beer and eating Bugles, the popular snack food. I dropped my bag off and then we went over to the W hotel to continue partying super hard with my soulmate Lucy Lawless, whom you no doubt know from such programs as “Xena,” “Battlestar Galactica,” and the upcoming “Spartacus,” a show on which you can see her boobs I understand. That is a photo of Lucy and me having a really great time together above. Lucy and I agreed that hanging out together in each others’ arms was pretty much our favorite thing to do in life.
At the W hotel, I drank a bunch of Negronis, the popular Campari-based drink that makes me feel like I have a job. I had too many of them, but that only added to all the fun Tig and I had together though I’m not sure if anyone else saw it that way. That is us above really enjoying each others’ company. Tig plays Joan Jett’s mother in the upcoming Runaways biopic. She wears a wig in the movie.
On Friday, I went to the Con itself and interviewed the f@#k out of people for MSN. You can find some of the videos from that day here. More will be posted as the week goes on, so check back or something. That is a photo of me interviewing Wario, Mario’s evil twin above. It was fun.
Speaking of Tig, here is a video of the two of us having a great time at Comic-Con. It was fun to party super hard with her the night before and then have a perfectly reasonable conversation on camera the next day, something that famous people like us do all the time.
Things with Tig turned weird later that day back at the hotel though. One second we were having a really great time and the next she was just sitting in the window and was just a million miles away. I couldn’t reach her. This went on for about six hours until she finally snapped out of it and we got back to partying super hard. As it turned out, she had just found out that her entire family had just been killed and she was briefly in a weird mood about it. I’m glad she didn’t continue making it my problem.
Once Tig snapped out of it, we got back to fun, fun, fun. We went our separate ways for dinner and then met up later for more partying, something we like to do most of the time. Things got so nuts that at one point me, Tig, and television’s Rob Huebel broke into the stadium where the San Diego Padres play and just continued partying super hard. That is something we will be talking about for a long, long time- the night we broke into where the Padres play. If I know the three of us, this is just the first of many professional sports facilities we will be breaking into at night in the years to come. Maybe my soulmate Lucy Lawless will come with us next time. Sure, we fight sometimes, but I just can’t stay mad at her.
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