John, Paul, George, & Ringo. Mark Twain. Groucho Marx. Richard Pryor. Bill Murray. Stan Lee. The Force. Whiskey.
TV Shows
Not Just Another Cable News Show. It's on CNN's Headline News. GUNPLAY: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling (HBO) - Yay! An HBO credit! It’s not for comedy, though. And I’m 11 years old in it because it was made a thousand years ago. I get shot in the head - hilarious! It won an ACE award. Do they even still give out ACE awards? I think they stopped giving those out when they invented color TV.
Oh, I’ve been on NY1’s THE CALL. NY1! More than once. Beat THAT.
Films
School Ties
Benari's Interests
General
Music
The Beatles. Radiohead. The White Stripes. Pixies. Elvis Costello. The Kinks. Nirvana. Kanye West. Big Band, Swing, & Jazz. A lot of other music.
Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, (the ORIGINAL) Star Wars, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, The Matrix, Citizen Kane, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, Anchorman, The Blues Brothers, The Front, Casino Royale, Duck Soup, Goldfinger, The Fisher King, A Hard Days Night, Ghostbusters, Bullets Over Broadway, Annie Hall, High Fidelity, The Producers, Better Off Dead, Superman, Superman II, Spider-Man, FailSafe, Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Fight Club, Stripes, most Bill Murray movies, classic Mel Brooks, Harvey, School Ties
Television
BSG. 30 Rock. Heroes. The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. Friday Night Lights. The Venture Bros. Robot Chicken. Kids in the Hall. Mr. Show. The Muppet Show. Any show that will hire me to be a staff writer.
Books
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison. SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller. VALIS by Phillip K. Dick. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley. WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? by Budd Schulberg.
***Comics: WATCHMEN, V for VENDETTA, SANDMAN, James Robinson's STARMAN run, THE INVISIBLES, TRANSMETROPOLITAN, GLOBAL FREQUENCY, PREACHER, CASSANOVA, THE LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS...
Heroes
John Lennon. Bobby Kennedy. Mark Twain. Walter Bernstein. Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Reeve. Nick Fury. Superman. Indiana Jones.
About me: I am a writer and comedian in New York City, but I started out in Boston. I feel that's important to mention. I have a blog. I just graduated NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Dramatic Writing. Which makes me a Master of the Fine Arts. Which is worth about $100 grand in debt.
I'm a former Congressional Aide, a former staffer for the '04 Kerry campaign, a former almost-child-star, and I'm a Staff Sergeant in the Army Reserve.
I still don't know what I really want to be when I grow up.
Sometimes:
You are Superman
Superman
95%
Spider-Man
85%
Green Lantern
70%
The Flash
70%
Iron Man
70%
Robin
65%
Supergirl
65%
Hulk
60%
Wonder Woman
55%
Batman
50%
Catwoman
35%
You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.
And sometimes:
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
95%
Superman
80%
Hulk
75%
The Flash
75%
Robin
72%
Green Lantern
70%
Iron Man
65%
Supergirl
57%
Batman
50%
Wonder Woman
42%
Catwoman
35%
You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
Lets be honest, when we were at the met game a year and a half ago talking about what was going to happen in this election, we couldn't have been more wrong.
You're way past "last day" in Logan's Run. You better find sanctuary soon. There is no renewal Benari. But you don't have to die after 30. You can live....live!
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