Chris Calogero

This Comedian Plays Every Cliché Movie Character And It Rules So Hard funnyordie.com/2019/4/15/1830… via @funnyordie

@PokhrajRoy Thank you friendo! Can’t wait for you to see it!

@RealChrisCal Congratulations and good luck!

Holy shit we did it!!!! We are completely funded and we are gonna make a fucking movie. Goddamn I love you all. Make what you want to make baby!

Politician gives tips on how to save money

ICYMI: VIDEO NIGHT, my first novel, is being re-released in a new “author’s preferred” edition by a big publisher (Union Square & Co.), an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones, with a new cover by Matt Ryan Tobin. Please preorder so the publisher thinks I’m popular.

Build a fucking park, bitch

Hi! I'm an unfamous and unknown comedian and I contributed more to the economy than AI. Take a second to think if you should be giving more money to the dumb bad computer or to me, looking at you Bezos.

We are 89% funded and everything is feeling real and fun and like we are gonna make a fucking dope movie!

One thing that’s funny to me is how we often act as if a QB isn’t very good if he is projected to be a “backup” in the NFL! This stuff is nuts to me… We are lucky to have 32 really good starting QBs in the league at any one time, being one of the next 32-64 best QBs in the world is incredible! QBs out there, many of us projected as “backups” & were ecstatic to be one, knowing we either had a great job or we were getting an opportunity to prove we could possibly be more! Every job has a #2 or #3 behind them, perfectly ok to at least start as one of those individuals!

Michelangelo did not lock himself in a room for years though. That is not how art worked in the Renaissance! He worked for wealthy patrons, including the pope, under a lot of stress. The issue is that wealthy patrons nowadays don’t value art, and don’t commission it.

Tech Bro taking about the future of humanity

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

2015 - tons of new discounted services subsidized by VC money - can stay at a company for 5+ years - gambling in physical casinos - not in WW3 2025 - every app monetized to the point where you have to pay to hear ads - Laid off every 2 years - App to bet on war - in WW3 Blew it

"It's the wrong business if you don't like taking risk." I think once Hollywood moves beyond this current stage, we'll see a new boom for smaller, original movies & attendance will skyrocket. "I'd love to see people under 30 get to have a camera in their hand & be left alone."

Fun news the pilot I co-wrote was selected for the @FilmmaticNews TV Pilot Awards! Tubular is about siblings who own rival river tubing companies but must band together when Corporate Tube comes to town. Read Tubular. Buy Tubular. Make Tubular. A Comedy Pilot that rules.

I can’t tell you how much I hate the raw milk thing. Pasteur is a genuine hero of biology! He established the germ theory of disease and made a thing that saved millions of lives public and free. And then you people were like, nah. Nevermind. Let’s die like idiots.

remember a couple years ago when a bunch of billionaire morons convinced us this would be the future

A reminder that you can watch my comedy special for free over on YouTube! It's called "Husky Boy" and it was a sweaty labor of love. Tell your moms and local deli owners. youtu.be/Eo36fjPsuJg

Guy in the movie who knows the hero is absolutely gonna kill everyone & there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him

Had a few tweets blow up so figured I'd reintroduce myself... I'm Zack, a comedy writer-director from the great state of New Jersey. I have a background in late night, and interest in haha-funny stories that blend absurdity with heart. Take a look: vimeo.com/824612192/563e…