Writer. Vanity Fair/The New Yorker. From MD/DC/VA. Author 13 books/audio comedies. 3 NY Times best-sellers. New audio comedy w/ Chris Elliott coming in 2026!
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This is my black-velvet painting of Chris Elliott with David Letterman. Chris is involved with my next audio comedy project, playing a successful surgeon who gives it all up to go back into showbiz.
It'll be out in 2027 from the great @thesonarnetwork
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I went down to New Orleans to profile Twisted Teens
Come for the answers to those pervasive questions (How do you write three addicting albums in one year? Who even are they and where did they come from?) stay for their stories as lifelong vagabonds
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I’ve been taking Duolingo Yiddish for the past few years. All of my grandparents spoke it. Anyway, here’s a list, all true, of my favorite phrases from the course.
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BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!
My new comedy audio is called “The Return of Sno Topp,” and it’ll star Chris Elliott and his real-life daughter Bridey as his fictional daughter. Absolutely hilarious together.
It will also co-star Lauren Adams, Jon Hamm, Rhea Seehorn, and others.
2027.
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Set a course for sanitized adventure! New piece on @McSweeneysApp with Jason Roeder
Aboard Your Disease-Free Late-Summer Cruise mcsweeneys.net/articles/all-…
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From never-ending torment inside Red Beast's lab to loving homes—Leo, Galileo, Tinkerbelle, Poppy, Ivy, & Walter are finally getting the lives they've always deserved 🥰✨
We worked tirelessly to help shut this hellhole down, and now these survivors are free to just be dogs!
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This week 20,000 pigs burned to death in a factory farm fire in Ontario.
They haven't let photographers inside. But here's what another pig factory farm looked like after it burned.
It's hard to imagine the suffering of these intelligent, sensitive animals — trapped, without any means of escape or hope of help, as the flames engulfed them.
It's harder to imagine the greed of an industry too cheap to even install sprinkler systems.
It stuns me that we let farmers confine 20K sentient pigs inside a single factory farm—just imagine their terror at burning alive inside a miserable warehouse. Please take a look at your food choices and consider opting out of this system.
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It's the middle of baseball season so I did some important and very serious research into the Baltimore origin story of yelling "O" during the National Anthem...baltimoremagazine.com/sectio… – at Baltimore, MD
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🐾 GREAT NEWS: Another 135 beagles are being released from Ridglan Farms this week, and BFP will oversee the placement of 68 of them as they begin their journey to loving homes!❤️
Check out this video from the Ridglan Release earlier this month: youtube.com/watch?v=k3lI5Z_q…
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New piece in @NewYorker with Jason Roeder
“You handed me your yearbook, and I will write something nice out of obligation.” From New Yorker Humor, read more realistic high-school-yearbook inscriptions: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/F0…
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40th anniversary of Chris Elliott's Hands to the Moon.
youtu.be/OBVaETHEXRw?si=IP2L… Thanks again, @thedonz5! cc: @michaelbsacks
The 35th anniversary of Hands Across America is a good day to remember Chris Elliott's Hands to the Moon project. Thankfully, @thedonz has preserved it. At the 24:38 mark. youtu.be/OBVaETHEXRw
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“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor.” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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New piece in this week's print @NewYorker , co-written with Jason Roeder. "Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions."
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From my high school reunion page on Facebook. This tracks. “Who?! Mike Sacks?! And he was in our class?! Are you sure? Mike Sacks?! Was he the shut-in who stayed in his room and read and listened to Kate Bush? Mike? Sacks?”
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A real oldie!
In 2001, I submitted Nabokov’s short story “Torpid Smoke” to seven online manuscript evaluation services. I changed the title and Nabokov’s name but left the piece unaltered. My hired online editors had some suggestions.
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Thank you, @ScottDikkers
A Medium Almost No One Uses for Comedy
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Dearest Annie,
Happy Heavenly Birthday! You are in my heart forever and ever… miss you my friend…xoxo❤️
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"I’ve always dreamed of writing and drawing a popular comic-strip. If I had to list my favorites, they’d be Zits, Funky Winkerbean, Snuffy Smith, Momma. Momma reminds me of Mam-Mam. Just the way she looks, her attitude. Oh, and I fucking love Andy Capp!"
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