Tag Archives: comedy

When the Truth is Suddenly Exposed!

Posted on March 26, 2025 by mitchteemley

I could wish this wasn’t a true story. But it is. A high school friend and I argued constantly. We had Gym class together, and one day we argued all the way to the showers and back to our lockers. … Continue reading →

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Here’s Why Being Funny Matters

Posted on March 20, 2025 by mitchteemley

How to Be Funny Whether you’re a writer, teacher, politician or mortician, this three-part series will help you be wittier — or I’ll refund every penny you’ve paid! My first career was about funny. I spent 13+ years in sketch … Continue reading →

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In a World Where…

Posted on March 13, 2025 by mitchteemley

I love doing voice-overs. And fortunately have gotten to do a lot of them. As a member of the comedy trio Isaac Air Freight, I did my first voice-over as Little Joe in Prodigal Joe. Then went on to perform on … Continue reading →

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Five Years Ago This Month

Posted on February 6, 2025 by mitchteemley

Five years ago, my wife and I took a spur-of-the-moment Valentine’s Day trip to Florida. We had no idea it would be our last vacation before something called a “coronavirus” was re-labelled COVID 19 and turned the world upside down. … Continue reading →

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Come on Baby, Do the Notzilla!

Posted on January 16, 2025 by mitchteemley

Images above are from both the feature film and the graphic novel Notzilla (P.S. My publisher has just commissioned me to create a new Notzilla graphic novel!) Music From My Movies As I mentioned in the previous Music From My Movies, … Continue reading →

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35 Years Ago Television Evolved Into This

Posted on December 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

This very week in 1989, civilization took a giant slouch forward with the arrival of the most dysfunctional family ever. After two years as a featured short on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons crawled out of Ullman’s fertile comedy … Continue reading →

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My Life Was a Farce

Posted on October 15, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image: Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire My Real Memoir I had the worst employer ever: Me. My micro-career in directing musicals for dance studios had produced exactly nada buckaroos, and my micro-career in producing rock bands had resulted in precisely zilcharooney. My dad, who’d … Continue reading →

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My Homemade Horror-Thriller

Posted on August 15, 2024 by mitchteemley

A Filmmaker’s Journal One of my earliest efforts at filmmaking, this little 5-minute horror-thriller was a family production, with my wife as “the Mom,” our youngest as “the Star,” our oldest as “the Crew,” and me as “the Mogul.” Shot … Continue reading →

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Monster Movie Night (Funny Edition)!

Posted on July 12, 2024 by mitchteemley

What’s that, you’ve never seen the “cult classic comedy” (MovieWeb) Notzilla that I wrote and directed? Inconceivable! Or only once? Not enough! Round up your family, friends and pets to watch the least-scary (but possibly funniest) monster ever to roar across … Continue reading →

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50 Years Ago This Month

Posted on June 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

Movies That Have Moved Me As a kid, I loved the Three Stooges, and then, as I acquired a smidge of subtlety, moved on to Laurel & Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. Mark Twain mentored me as an aspiring writer (my … Continue reading →

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