Avery Edison (humor writer, comedian)
Avery Edison is a comedian and humourist who has written and performed extensively about (among other things) her experiences as a transgender woman. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Toast, and she's told jokes on stages across the UK and Canada. She maintains a popular Twitter account, @aedison, where she makes terrible puns and talks too much about her genitals.
Latest work (read my things on other websites)
I'm a huge fan of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, so it was a proud moment for me when they accepted my piece, A Notice Of Author Obviation.
The Toast, another of my favorite Internet publications, does important work running regular essays by transgender writers. I recently contributed to this series with Sorry About The Stuff I Did While Figuring Out This Trans Thing.
Framed Egg Magazine (my little folly)
In an effort to better package my comedy for you, the average person-on-the-street, I've been producing these small humor magazines and putting them out into the world.
Each issue Framed Egg is twenty pages long, and so far there have been eight issues. More are on the way! Probably!
PDF copies of every single issue are available at the super-easy-to-remember averyedison.com/framedegg. Again, they're free. Right there. For you. Read them, why don't you?
Jesus and Judas
Imagined dialogues between Judas Iscariot and his best friend in the whole world.
Proud Nature
Three-panel comics with some of the cutest animals saying some of the weirdest stuff.
Stories
Pieces of flash fiction, basically short vignettes (usually with little twists at the end).
The Small Picture
Back when The Big Picture was hot thing, @nostrich and I would caption the photos.
Answering Yahoos
Yahoo Answers is full of the stupidest questions on the web. I treat them with scorn. Because I'm a jerk.
Commonplace
A lot like The Small Picture, but with photos from Flickr's Commons archive. Also with @nostrich.
I have a bunch of projects in various states of maintainance:
Print Is Over (something from a little while back)
A few years ago I made a sort-of prototype of Framed Egg, and released it as a thank-you to various fans and friends who'd donated to buy me a new laptop.
Print Is Over is still up, and I think it's still pretty funny.
I've written a bunch of stuff for some great websites.
The Bygone Bureau
Right Body, Wrong Junk is a series of pieces about my experiences as a transgender woman. They can be heavy, but I try to inject humor into them.
In Defense of Saturday Night Live's "The Californians" Skit, because I'm the one person in the world who likes The Californians.
Embracing Uncertainty with BitTorrent is a short humor piece about wrangling existentialism thru file-sharing.
Slacktory
Wayne Enterprises Fire Sale is a flyer for a bunch of hi-tech junk.
Barack Obama Grants Interviews to Other Websites is my attempt to cope with the fact that the President interacted with Reddit.
A Timeline of Aaron Sorkin's Women extrapolates the writer's misogyny.
Breaking Bad as a Kickstarter Project is either a takedown or endorsement of crowd-sourcing, I can't decide.
A Timeline of George Clooney's Pranks is 100% true.
Cracked
6 Awful Jobs That Must Exist in Video Game Universes introduces us to six jobsworths from gameland.
Dispatches from the Mushroom Kingdom is another look at video games, this time more focused on the world of Mario..
Infinite Summer
I was lucky enough to be one of the guides for Matthew Baldwin's summer-long reading of Infinite Jest. All my posts about the difficult experience are archived here.
People have said nice things about me:
clearly, you are criminally insane
-Paul F. Tompkins, Comedian, Spontaneanation
funny as hell
-Mike Sacks, Poking A Dead Frog
a gem. a price above rubies. as kind as she is clever. which is to say: very and very
-Adam Lisagor, Sandwich Video
a fearless little bitch
-Mike Monteiro, Mule Design
You can find me on those social internet places:
twitter.com/aedison
Short jokes and only short jokes. You might think I'm Twitter-famous, and you'd be so 100% right.
blog.averyedison.com
My tumblog, where I post new humor pieces and links to new projects or work elsewhere on the internet.
youtube.com/averycedison
A collection of stand-up sets I've performed recently, along with some weird sketches.
vimeo.com/averyedison
Early experiments with video, including my embarrassing attempts at a topical web-series.
facebook.com/averyedison
For some reason, nobody ever goes to my MySpace page anymore. Try my Facebook instead.