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I'm hooked on "The Ointment," a wickedly funny daily video that you can watch online at www.theointment.com . Each weekday, a new three-minute show is created by writer/stand-up comedian Steve Tatham. It's quite an undertaking, considering he already holds down a full-time gig as a writer at Disney. So far, 175 episodes have been webcast since the show's February 2006 launch. Happily for all of Tatham's efforts, "The Ointment" is quickly growing into a pop-culture phenomenon. The website receives 150,000 hits per month, has been featured on CNN, and has more than 14,000 fans on Myspace (www.myspace.com/applydaily ). The topical (hence "The Ointment") show is an iPod-sized late-night TV comedy show and Tatham, with his quick wit and easy manner, is the wise-cracking, politically-savvy, razor-sharp host at its sarcastic center whose barbed punchlines are aimed at favorite targets such as powerful politicians and narcissistic celebrities. The show is enlivened by skits where his dangerously-talented actress wife, former Groundlings sketch comedy performer Mary Manofsky, a graceful blonde, appears as the sole actor in the Ointment troupe. Each Wednesday he interviews a guest on the show. Comedians like Rick Overton, Maria Bamford, Cathy Ladman and Bil Dwyer as well as Seinfeld's The Soup Nazi (actor Larry Thomas) and musical act Supafloss, singing a hilarious musical homage to Chuck Norris, have all appeared recently. If you've missed these shows, it's not too late to catch up, because they are all in the archive at The Ointment. I look forward to more shows and "applying daily."

-The Tolucan Times

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