Well as you know, it is officially ON.
(graphics by Rreeuq)
That’s right. This online feud has blown up to cinematic proportions! We are in NO WAY just two guys with the same name and a desperate need to seek attention and talk about ourselves. This is REAL LIFE!
To catch you up to speed, as Newsie Nate so aptly put I blogged him a new one the other day after I discovered that he had usurped me as the top Google result when searching for “Nate Smith Comedy.”
He has since responded to the new one that I blogged him, with what I will kindly refer to as the “whimperings of a little girl.” If you haven’t read it yet, you should read that before proceeding on with what is about to be a major blog whooping.
First of all, Newsie mentioned that the NYC comedy community is all a buzz talking about me. He says, and I quote,
He’s come up occasionally in the NYC comedy community- primarily when he started to follow the tweet’s or tumblrings of a peer who thought that that Nate Smith was this Nate Smith. Yes, it’s been confusing.
They’re talking about me!?!?!? I mean…psh! No big deal. I’ve got a real good thing going here in Portland…and on the internet. So yeah…I definitely don’t need to know who the heck these amazing New York comedy people are. I’m SO not combing through all the people I’ve followed in the last few years.
Moving on. Newsie postulates that URL’s aren’t important anymore and that the fact that I own natesmithcomedy.com is not a big deal. He claims this:
Honestly, URL’s aren’t important anymore. Neither are email addresses. Folks either click a pasted link or type the first two characters in their browser window and follow their stored URL’s to wherever their going. URL’s are utilitarian street addresses at this point. To think differently is BUFFOONERY!
And you know, he makes a great point. I can’t tell you how many times after a comedy show I’ve said to the audience, “And if you want to find out more about me go to http://goo.gl/S6xt4.” I would just say “Go to Nate Smith Comedy dot com” but that just seems so…wordy.
Newsie goes on to flaunt his Hollywood status. Not only has he been on 30 Rock, but he was incorrectly given credit for being on the show Portlandia, a sketch comedy show being filmed right in my back yard! (Not literally, my backyard is really small and my neighbors are really uptight)
What the hell? WHAT THE EVER LOVING HELL!?!?! It’s not good enough that you were Reporter #2 on Bronx World Travelers (seriously, what is that?) but you are now STEALING credit for shows neither of us have been on? Great, that’s what it has come to?
Oh and WHOOPITY DOO! You have an IMDB page. What does that, like, make you someone who’s been in a movie, or on the internet, or on a database? Well, I’ve got a special little page of my own. Wanna see it? Here: www.bestnatesmithever.com. Go ahead. Check it out.
I. AM. NOT. PETTY.
Finally you did a little name dropping in regards to your improvical expertise. Craig Rowin, eh? Pretty impressive. But you aren’t the only one who shares the stage with some amazing people. I perform with the following titans of comedy:
Bob Ladewig: He kind of looks like Craig Rowin
Stacey Hallal: Founder of the Curious Comedy Theater.
Garrett Palm: International man of comedy.
So yeah, I’ve got that going for me. Why don’t you bring your friend Craig Rowin out here so he and Bob can trade glasses, and the rest of us can have a big improv comedy face-off (which will be just like the movie Face-Off).
[And yeah, come on out here and we can hang out at Stumptown and get a slice at Apizza Scholls and you can take care of my baby while my wife and I catch a movie.]
