Tag Archives: comedy

Matchmaker’s Guide on Amazon

The DVD of The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements is now available through Amazon.com, which is very exciting, despite the insanely low royalty Amazon offers. Here’s what I recommend: buy the thing at the store on JohnMorogiello.com or JTBurianTheatricals.com (it’s the same price as Amazon, but my percentage is higher), then visit

Matchmaker’s Guide

Just in time to be too late for the holidays, I finally worked out all of the problems with the DVD of The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements. It is currently for sale here. At $10, it is the perfect gift for those you don’t want to spend too much money on,

Irish Authors scene

Martin Blanco and I–with the permission of the cast–have decided to put a few scenes from Irish Authors Held Hostage on the web, to interest potential investors/producers. Oscar Wilde is the first:

Last student film!

Glad to be done with this, finally. Though this is the last of the student films I’m posting, it was actually the first one I ever made. Another student had just spent a ton of money to make a full-color, sound synched film called No Girls Allowed, which was to be entered in

Second student movie

This was the second student film I made at Stony Brook, again in the style of Buster Keaton. (I’m a little obsessive.) The title is Girls Stink, and Martha Banta plays opposite me. She and I worked together a lot in college–or at least she humored my idiotic ideas. Martha went

A General Mess

I recently reconnected with an old college friend of mine named David Reichhold, who asked for a copy of a student film we both worked on in 1986-1987. So I dug it up, re-edited some of it, and put it on YouTube, so David can see it and torture his wife and children with