Alex Ringgaard

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I’m only saying this to rub it in, but I’ve just seen The Avengers a second time, and it was just as awesome. I’ve reached the conclusion that it could definitely use more Hulk, but I have also reached the conclusion that every movie could use more Hulk, so it’s still really awesome. Hope you also had an at least okay weekend compared to mine.

Hey guys,

I made these DVD-covers with the intention of making you laugh, or at the very least smirk. I hope you like them. 

So today i was looking in the archives of this blog, and it hit me how cool it was to see some of my earlier post. Not because they were meaningful blog posts, but because they were memories in some weird way. Sure most of them were stupid, some of them were good, and some were just embarrasing, and I deleted those right away. 

But it also made me realize that this blog has most of the stuff that I have done on the internet, ever since I discovered internet comedy with Collegehumor back in 2009.

I remember finding Collegehumor through a video called First, and spending the rest of my day looking through all the videos. A few days later I discovered the articles, and I discovered that they accepted submissions from anyone, which opened a whole new world for me. It sort of all came together in my head, and I felt like this was something that I had to try and do. 

Through CH I discovered a lot of other comedy on the internet, and I learned about American comedy in general whether it was stand-up, tv-shows, movies or a sketch-group on the internet. Add to that a general interest in movies and tv-shows and it comes out as a lot of time spent reading about and consuming stuff that is made in the US, primarily for a US audience. 

Since April 2009 I’ve done a lot of things, some great some insignificant, as one tends to do over a three year period, but this interest has been a major part of my life for those years, and I like that. I like spending my time on the internet reading about comedy, and watching new comedy videos everyday. I like that when I open up twitter there is a stream of tweets from people that are all trying to be funny and make me laugh, and most of the time they even succeed, and I like that I can hopefully do the same to someone else every once in a while. 

It has also been frustrating to me, because I have always felt like I was stuck at this same level. I’ve always had the barrier of not being an American. I will always be a Danish guy, trying to write funny stuff in English for people on the internet that are primarily from the US. And how can I ever do that properly when I am not a part of that country. When I write the language decently enough, but still with a lot of grammatical/spelling errors, which you probably already know from what I have written so far. When all my knowledge of the culture and the world that the people I’m trying to write for and as, comes from reading about it in blog posts, tweets, movies, TV-shows and the occasional news story, and not from experiencing it myself or talking to the people that are in it.

And sure, reading about it gets you a long way, and there will always be stuff that resonates on a global level, but I can’t help but feel like I’m a few hours behind in this internet world where being up to date and relevant is key. 

For me, Collegehumor is the root of all this, and it is sort of my base on the whole internet comedy thing. I think it will always be the place that I will need to test myself in to realize that either i can or can’t do this as a living. I often sit around with the feeling that if I could just get an internship at Collegehumor then I could definitely make it work from there. Maybe not instantly, but at least it would get me in contact with people that want that are interested in the same things as me, and then I could take it from there. I certainly don’t meet these people where I am right now, and sure there are lots of other people that have an interest in comedy in America, but I have yet to meet one that is also interested in creating comedy in English for a living. Unfortunately getting an American internship is not that easy to get for foreigners, or at least it is hard for people in Denmark. I’m still hoping though. 

Writing comedy is at the top of my secret Things I Want To Do For A Living If I Could Choose Myself List. Sometimes it switches places with writing and making movies, but that depends on whether I watched a comedy video or a movie most recently. I think it will continue to be at the top of the list until I one day hopefully get the chance to try myself in the field, and say “okay, maybe I wasn’t cut out for this” or “I was so happy I did this.” 

I don’t really know how to finish this very very long blog post, and I don’t even know if it is coherent at all, but I guess that is how it goes when you try to write down your thoughts at 3 am in the morning without reading it again. I fear that I come across as somewhat whiny, but I hope not as this was not my intention at all. I don’t know if anyone but myself will actually benefit from this, and I can’t decide if a blog should only exist to benifit yourself or if it should exist to benifit the ones that are reading it.

I might wake up tomorrow and edit this/delete it.