Dan Hirshon - Film Editor

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

I am so God Damned Topical

A 26-year-old Russian artist, Victoria, is claiming to have developed a new artistic form — painting with her breasts. Finally people can appreciate women for their breasts. When reporters arrived to look at the artwork, one painting commented “Um, I’m up here.” Once considered superficial, boob jobs are now seen as a means to artistic expression.


Mel Gibson’s rep denies rumors that the actor is fleeing to Australia as he’s investigated for domestic violence against ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, stating the actor is “focusing on work.” By “work” he means slandering the Jews, driving drunk, and making another movie where he plays a psycho.


A recent study found that students returning from studying abroad have both higher GPAs and higher graduation rates than similar students who stayed home for their entire college careers. Students are now racing down to spend a year in Cancun so as to raise their GPA. However, some students failed exams due to spending so much time on scrap-booking their pictures and talking about how like totally amazing it was to experience another culture.


A beer cooler is credited with saving two men from drowning in the Chesapeake Bay. Unfortunately most of the beer was lost as the men had to send messages in each bottle to attract search parties around the bay. Luckily Sting was there to find each bottle and send out an SOS. In other news, an eight-ball was credited with saving a cokehead from feeling the pavement when he jumped off his roof.


A woman in line at McDonald’s bought a sandwich and stuffed it down her pants, saying her order had been shorted and she deserved a free one. I like free food as much as the next drunk psycho who goes into a South Carolinan McDonald’s and screams obscenities at the employees, but I’m not about to tarnish some perfectly good faux meat between two crumbly, stale, white buns by sticking it down my pants. Authorities say it was the second fastest time a McDonald’s meal has ever made it to someone’s pants. When police questioned her, the woman said that the fast food had simply gone straight to her thighs. Claiming she needed to exercise it off, the woman promptly ran away from the police. The woman was fooled into revealing the stolen food when police asked her to show them her buns and meat curtains.


A Hungarian man was inspired to find a girlfriend after reading Romeo and Juliet. He added that the play also inspired him to kill his future girlfriend’s brother before taking his own life.


To help him with his quest he’s left fliers on 300 balconies with the message “Lonely Romeo looking for his Juliet and a serious relationship.” He also left a couple fliers stating, “Bernie’s furniture store now offering 20% off all items with the purchase of a Hungarian lunatic.” So far he’s received a few phone calls, most of them inquiring if he has Prince Albert in a can.


A man with a bulge under his shirt was detained at Mexico City's airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in pouches attached to his girdle. Another man on the scene allegedly shouted, “That ain’t nothing. You should see the alligator I smuggled in my butthole.” Police figured out what was going on when they offered a banana to his crotch. The record, however, was 19 monkeys so all he won was jail time and several news stories about how much of an idiot he was. Just before authorities arrested the man he said, “Curious Georges, now look what you’ve done.” When asked why he was smuggling monkeys, the man explained that the monkeys were smuggling drugs and he didn’t want them to get in trouble…sort of a Russian doll of drug muling.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Day 3 of Staying Topical

Day 3 of staying topical...Now I know why it's so hard to be CNN. You have to do a lot of reading and stuff. Anywho...


The Vatican issued new rules to make it easier to discipline priests for sex abuse cases. The discipline involves a spanking behind closed doors done by an alter-boy of their choosing.


John Daly hit the British Open with lavender paisley pants, a peach shirt, and a blue sweater, what he describes as “good luck start pants,” as in “good luck getting laid.” They provide good luck as every other player is too distracted to hit well. To increase his good luck, Daly plans to also wear a bedazzled headdress and clown makeup.


The Norwegian Epic, the 200 foot tall cruise ship, boasts 19 decks, three water slides, the ability to host 4,200 guests, is worth $1 billion…And is shaped like a middle finger for homeless people everywhere. James Cameron is already planning his sequel to Titanic.


The ship also offers three amusement park-quality water slides, a full-sized basketball court, batting cage, 33-foot-high climbing wall, spa, and Fitness Center. So you can do all the things you’ve wanted to do with the added benefit of sea sickness.


A Nestle SA subsidiary has agreed to drop advertising claims that its children’s drink, "BOOST Kid Essentials" prevents colds and flu. They added, “We’re not, however, taking back our statement that our candy bars can beat chicken pox and super villains.”

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

More on the topic of Today

Day 2 of topical jokes. I'm really beginning to get a perspective on world events. By the end of the week I should be able to run for president.

For the first time in 25 years, medical experts are proposing a major change in the criteria for Alzheimer's disease. Now if you forget to say "excuse me" after belching, you have Alzheimer’s.


A new report says child labor is widespread on farms that supply Philip Morris’s cigarette factory in Kazakhstan. Just goes to show two wrongs do make a right.

In all fairness, the company provides the children with free packs of cigarettes so they can feel cooler while working for 5 cents an hour.

You know what they say: smoke em if you got em, and by “em” I mean desperate migrant children who're willing to work for far below minimum wage.

They say the children are being exposed to tobacco which can lead to addiction. However, they do look cool during their smoke breaks.


The National League won the All-star game, snapping a losing streak that dates back to 1996. Oddly enough this is the same record my friend, Andy, has with women in every league.


Scientists recently published a report that people who sit more, have a better chance of heart disease. Luckily I was reading this article while lying down.


They said exercise does not undo the problems that come with sitting for hours at a time. Finally, an excuse to not exercise.



Web designer, Paul D. Ceglia claims that a 2003 contract with Facebook and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, entitles Ceglia to 84 percent of the company. Zuckerberg promptly defriended Ceglia just after tagging Ceglia in a nasty status update about his mom.



Whoopi Goldberg said on the View that Mel Gibson is not a racist. "He is however a huge anti-semite," she added, "which is why I told him my name was Whoopi Black."



The Environmental Working Group released its fourth annual Sunscreen Guide, citing that overuse of sunscreen could be responsible for low vitamin D levels. They also cited that slathering an entire bottle of sunblock on your nose could be responsible for your lack of sex.

They also discovered that vegetables will give you conjunctivitis and polio so as to make it impossible to believe anything is healthy.


Shares of Apple Inc. slid more than 4 percent yesterday after a poor review for its iPhone 4 from an influential consumer guide. The guide stated that the iphone 4 had signal loss when turned a certain way. Apple released a statement, “yea, but we have an application that allows you to fly so we should be even.”


UK researchers found that the chicken did officially come before the egg because eggs can only be formed through the presence of a protein found in chickens' ovaries. Next the UK is going to spend millions of tax dollars researching why the chicken crossed the road.

The UK researchers then confessed that they were serious and that this wasn’t an article in The Onion.

Kids with cancer everywhere were overjoyed to hear about this scientific breakthrough, asking, “Which came first, your years of wasted energy on a question that no one actually cared about or my extreme depression over having a life-threatening disease that doesn’t seem to be getting cured anytime soon.”

Unable to detect sarcasm, the UK researchers began working on an answer.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Getting Topical

In an attempt to get myself to pay more attention to the news and less attention to myself, I'm going to write a couple topical jokes every day.

In a newly released tape, Mel Gibson reportedly told his girlfriend “You need an f-ing bat in the side of the head.” His girlfriend replied “I’m getting too old for this shit” and the two laughed while shooting up bad guys. Then the Jews ruined everything.

Switzerland refused to extradite Roman Polanski to the US. The US replied by refusing to know anything about Switzerland except for its cheese and army knives.


A US appeals court recently struck down the FCC’s indecency rule. What is the world coming to when the mother-fucking indecency rule is overturned? Puritans everywhere were outraged. Janet Jackson’s already getting her wardrobe ready.


The doctor behind the famous Octomom disaster was recently caught implanting 7 embryos in another lady. He was reportedly trying to build a human centipede inside of her. I can't even get a woman to let me implant 1 embryo in her, let alone a royal flush.


Scientist, Erik Verlinde, claims that gravity is merely an illusion. He discovered this theory after falling out of a tree while reaching for an apple.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Marley & Me: The Twilight Years

Shot a video with my new group, "Grandma's Favorite."

For more of our stuff, check out www.youtube.com/user/GrandmasFavoriteNYC

Marley & Me: The Twilight Years

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Case of the Harlot Shore Nets

New Funny Cakes Video: The Case of the Harlot Shore Nets...
Producers: Funny Cakes
Director of Photography: Satra Wasserman
Editor: Dan Hirshon

Micah Sherman as Himself
Joe List as Himself
Dan Hirshon as Himself

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Checkspot

Here's a link to the podcast I did with the guys from The Checkspot. I did a lot of giggling. It was pretty awesome.

http://thecheckspot.com/2010/02/20/the-check-spot-22010--sean-crespo-and-dan-hirshon.aspx?ref=rss?results=1#SurveyResultsChart
 
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