Friends being funny. Funny, funny friends. [Can you tell I’ve been reading a lot of children’s’ books lately?]

First up, Paula Poundstone has just released her first ever CD, available here. What? Her first CD? Yes. My sense is that she was waiting to make sure that it wasn’t some kind of fly-by-night technology. She was understandably cautious after her disastrous 1984 stand-up release, available exclusively on View-Master disks.

Also, my friend Victor Varnado’s movie, “The Awkward Kings of Comedy,” is coming soon to a method-of-seeing near you, and the trailer is now online. Yes, finally a film featuring the comedy stylings of Victor and several other black nerd comedians. Oh, they’re very “street,” but it’s a street populated by muppets. They’re the kind of guys who spent the 70’s annoying everybody by riding the subways carrying around those giant calculators, noisily figuring stuff out while you were trying to read your newspaper in peace. Something something something “deft jam” (note - build a bridge to hilarious “deft jam” joke before publishing this entry…).

Watch this space (or, yes, that website) for more on the movie as it develops.