Dave Hill is a very funny guy (videos)

I recently became acquainted with the work of NYC-based funnyman Dave Hill, by way of John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn's respective blogs. Dave has a metric dungload of videos up on Superdeluxe.com: here is a Link to his archive. I think my favorite is "Dave Hill Gets Schooled In Actor's Movement." I love it so much that I have recently begun muttering a certain phrase he uses in that video again and again. My friends and cow-orkers are sick of me saying that Dave Hill line now. I, however, AM NOT.

Dave's "NYC fashion week" videos (one, two) are also pretty fcking sweet. OMG, no wait, this dental services commercial is my favorite: Link.

Remember the Black Metal Dialogues? Witchtaint? The email exchange? Classic internet excellence. Dude, that was Dave Hill, too!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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marclar

I wondered what phrase you were saying, too. I figured you were calling people “sir majesty”.
george57l

Xeni
For a very long time I have been wondering how one goes about orking a cow. It happens every time I see the word ‘coworker’ – but never when I see ‘co-worker’. So I loved your ironic wink at the idiocy of ‘coworker’ by giving us ‘cow-orker’. Utterly brilliant! Well done!
Xeni Jardin

@george57L well it’s mostly a wink at Cory Doctorow, who coined the phrase! I am merely propogating its usage!
Nelson.C

Xeni @14: But what does it mean? I never got the “orker” bit, because the “cow” jams up my neurons, “cow” being a female-specific insult here in the UK. Why is Cory calling his co-workers “cows”? I keep wondering.
NaR

eh. not so much.
freeyourcrt

“Bag of dicks”
Adam Weiss

Interesting, I remember superdeluxe.com being someone’s vanity domain back during the dot-bomb frenzy. Now I guess it’s a tentacle of Ted Turner’s empire. I hope the guy who had it before was able to sell it, rather than losing it to a lapse…
Adam Weiss

ps. cow-orker has been part of Bay Area Internet geek vernacular since the late 90s.
Xeni Jardin

@Adam, oh, okay, cool! Someone better tell the cows.
randee

If his Thursday, Nov. 15 gig at Upright Citizens Brigade was any example, he’s much funnier on the Internet/in video. Live, there’s really not much there, and just about zero actual funny sensibility, just a willingness to run around the stage without his shirt on.

That may be enough for some, of course.
dolface

Hmm, it appears that blocking ad.doubleclick.net prevents the video from playing.

*shrug*
magicmerlyn

Please help me about one of these Dave Hill videos…

In the start of the “Dave Hill Gets Schooled In Actor’s Movement” video there is some instrumental music playing as he talks to the actor. I remember it vividly as the theme tune to an old BBC programme from th 1980′s called “A Round with Alice” I have always wanted to know what that music is called and where I can get a copy. Can anyone help, please?

Thank you for any replies!
cavalier

SUPERDELUXE.com is part of the TURNER ENTERTAINMENT NEW MEDIA NETWORK

Huh, so that’s why I kept seeing those spots on Adult Swim. Is SuperDeluxe the “new edgy” Adult Swim? My lord, is Adult Swim now the mainstream brand?! AYEeee…
archcvd

This guy is absolutely hilarious, what a great find!
kukumbered

I think this is the same guy from “King of Miami” on the MOJO HD Channel here in the OC (COX). Riot.
woid

OK, I watched the video… which line have you been repeating?
Xeni Jardin

It is “my goal in life to be pretty fucking sweet at everything there is to be pretty fucking sweet at.”
Joel Johnson

OMG Select Dental! Those commercials fucking creep me out.
alainsane

He seems inspired by Trigger Happy TV’s Dom Joly.
Doug Nelson

Wow, that was less than I expected. It didn’t even make me smile. Not even a little.
SAE Miller

Eh.
elNico

He comes from the school of the Borat, not of the Hicks…
GammaBlog

He grows on you. By the time, ‘Little Michael Jackson and Me’ ended the cycle of automatically played videos, I was laughing out loud. Thanks Xeni, it was worth watching the Navy ads, for.