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You guys, I love comedy. I live and breathe comedy. What I love most is that in this day and age comedy is becoming more and more honest. Comedians aren't just telling silly jokes anymore; they're also talking about their fears, weaknesses and faults.

Honesty in comedy is key and Tig Notaro is a prime example. After Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer she did the only thing she knew how to do: she took to the stage. With her opening line "I have cancer. How are you?" she started her set out in just the right tone. If a breast cancer diagnosis wasn't tough enough, sadly, days later Notaro went through a breakup and had her mother pass away. Most people would have let themselves be defeated by a string of events so heartbreaking but instead, Notaro performed (arguably) one of the best and funniest half-hour sets at Largo in LA.

Lucky for us, Louis C.K. attended the show and knows that Largo records a lot of their sets. Louis is another comedian I admire for his extreme honesty. The things he has been doing in the comedy industry, like taking control out of the executives' hands and placing it into the hands of comedians, is astonishing. He decided to release the half hour audio set on his website for only five dollars.

It's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you guys, and I know that I am often very silly and that I rarely take myself or my actions in life seriously, but I am saying this in the most sincere way possible: Please, buy this album, support a comedian who is willing to be real with you to make you laugh-- a comedian who instead of feeling defeated after not one, not two, but THREE life-changing events in quick succession, didn't just give up like she may have wanted to, but did what she loves to do to cope through some very tough times.

I love comedy. I love honesty. I love you all.

You guys, Twitter was down again yesterday for a whole hour. That's like a lifetime in internet years!

Luckily, My Damn Channel LIVE didn't go down and Junior Varsity premiered their new video "140 Or Less," which just so happens to be about Twitter. Imagine what life would be like if you could only talk in 140 characters at a time? Actually, life and people in general would probably be a lot less annoying. Hmm, I'm gonna go do science and create a disease.

1. Anne Hathaway got married! Wasn't she, like, sooooooo prettty? No, I don't know what that big thing on her head is. Yes, I know it's some kind of veil / headpiece / Beats By Dre headphone prototype, but it's still very pretty. Expect brides to start requesting this look when it's time to get "jacked up" on Say Yes To The Dress.

2. Hotel Transylvania won the box office this weekend! This is the biggest opening for an Adam Sandler movie in a long time. Of course, it's an animated film, so, maybe people are just trying to send Sandler a message about how they want to see him in future films: voice only.

3. Lindsay Lohan was the victim of a crime! That almost never happens! Usually Lindsay is the one in trouble! Unfortunately, all charges against this alleged perpetrator were dropped. Aw, damn. Still none for you, Lindsay Lohan.

4. Speaking of Lindsay Lohan, did you see the latest video from our friends at Barely Political? Our very own Grace Helbig and Beth Hoyt play Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes, respectively, who have teamed up to give the public some driving advice! And it's funny because irony!

5. Finally, today marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness month! Are you a lady? Make sure you do your self-examination! Are you the one out of every three women who are too afraid to do the self-exam? Ask someone to help! I'm sure you will have lots of volunteers.

You shared it, didn't you? You liked it, you commented, you posted it on your own wall. And your friends did it. And your mom did it. Everyone saw the picture of the guy on Facebook holding up the winning numbers to the Mega Millions jackpot where he said he'll split the money with everyone who shares the photo!

Super generous, of him, right? What an awesome dude! Not at all a scam with a photoshopped ticket that you and your mom and your best friend are all falling for, right?

Slacktory found him and asked him, "How, kind sir, can you be so magnanimous?"

We hope they also asked him how posting the color of one's bra as a status update helps to cure kids with cancer. Or how about asking him if the best way to stay socially relevant is giving your friends ultimatums to say publicly that you don't want to be defriended to "see who's really reading my facebook page!" This guy obviously has one of the keenest minds of the social media age.

And a really awesome copy of Photoshop.

Les Misérables premiered on Christmas Day to lines of teenage girls circling around the block. Obviously, I also went to see it, and since it’s THREE HOURS LONG I thought I’d write you a quick synopsis, so you can do something more productive with your three hours such as: anything. 

Some things to note before we begin: Most of the dialogue is sung. There are a lot of close ups, and it’s...set in France...if you didn’t pick up on that. 

We see several dudes dressed in rags with hipster beards. They’re slaves, but also singing, this movie is clearly going to be a downer. Look! There’s Jean Valjean! He’s going to be free today, but only after he has a staring contest with Russell Crowe where they both sing their names! He’s put on a life-long parole so he can’t work. He becomes a hobo, hipster beard still in tact. One day a priest kind of helps him out with some shit, so Jean Valjean abandons his life of crime/beards/poverty. There’s a lot of singing. It’s very dramatic

Twenty years later, still in France, still very dramatic, Jean Valjean changes his name to something more french and now owns a factory for....something. But OH NO! Russell Crowe shows up to hunt down Jean Valjean for breaking his parole! Then we put down that storyline for a second just in time to see Anne Hathaway being fired from Jean Valjean’s factory because....of a reason? I dozed off here. Whatever. Anne Hathaway really needs money though so she becomes a prostitute. That was the first thing she tried. Really, Anne? So she does that for a while, and then she dies from some curable disease, but not before she sees Jean Valjean and guilts him into taking care of her daughter, Cosette! Russell Crowe is in the background trying to kill Jean Valjean in between 20 minute closeups of Anne Hathaway’s face.

Then there’s an eight year jump and Cosette is grown up, and Jean Valjean is living in Paris with her. A bunch of goodlooking young french dudes are planning a revolution, and one of them, Marius, falls in love with Cosette, but even though she loves him she has to move away because Russell Crowe is becoming borderline obsessive compulsive about capturing Jean Valjean. The young hotties do their revolution but it goes like worse than you could ever imagine. Everyone is dead, lots of singing, dramatic, pretty much the same as the rest of the movie. Marius somehow survives and Jean Valjean drags him through literal PILES of SHIT, but then Russell Crowe shows up and has another 20 minute long staring contest with Jean Valjean (and lots of close ups). Russell Crowe then does the only logical thing and jumps off a bridge. Lots of singing. French. Marius and Cosette get married. Jean Valjean dies. Lots of close ups. Everyone lives dramatically ever after.