What the hell is the Wall Street Journal?

The talented Richard Morgan wrote an article on comedian Dave Hill for the Wall Street Journal and was nice enough to include a paragraph or two on me. Here is a link to the ENTIRE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE as well as my section copy and pasted below.

"More and more people are realizing it helps a great deal to have a finger in every pie,” says Ben Schwartz, an Emmy-nominated 27-year-old comedian who runs RejectedJokes.com – the very premise of which means that none of his ideas are wasted anymore. Just a few years ago, Schwartz started off the old-school route: wearing a tie and sneaking into the MTV president’s office with his résumé, faxing in 15 to 20 new jokes a day (every day for two and a half years) to David Letterman for $75 a joke (if the joke aired), or SNL’s Weekend Update, wishing and hoping.

Then YouKnowWhat happened. And for $60, Schwartz made a funny short film that got 10 million hits. Now he has a book out and another out in August, a movie with Sarah Silverman and Rainn Wilson, a TV pilot with Richard Dreyfuss and Mary Steenburgen, and that Emmy nod.

“You can’t have downtime,” Schwartz says, “that’s how we feel these days. At least, that’s how I feel. You have to use every part of the buffalo.”