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Kirk Damato

@kirksays.bsky.social

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Comedy & TV Animation Writer, Cake From Outer Space, and this one time I won on UM ACTUALLY

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Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 2d

Nice! Whenever my friend group solves the puzzle with no hints we call it a

a cartoon drawing of the green day logo with clouds

Alt: a cartoon drawing of the green day logo with clouds

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Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmm good question! I think Cakey would want to be friends but accidentally use his eye lasers or something

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

Ahhh thank you!!!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Matt!!!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

OMG

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Jordan!!!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 3d

The #metazooa animal on your birthday predicts your year

Yesterday I got this:

A screenshot from the animal-guessing game Metazooa.

The animal is the American cockroach, along with a text description and photo of said insect.

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 4d

Today is my birthday, so I can FINALLY post this picture of Cakey for myself

An anthropomorphic Black Forest cake, actually the titular character from the web series Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space.

Cakey hovers on the edge of a bed and has two lit candles that are shaped like the numerals 1 and 3 atop his head.

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 6d

As if I couldn't love Mark Hamill more

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 6d

While others in the era were wearing your basic Hulk or Spider-Man, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social cemented his true comic book nerd cred by rocking a Howard The Duck t-shirt…

Late-1970s photo of Mark Hamill giving a thumbs up while wearing a Howard The Duck t-shirt

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 6d

OK but what shirt did you buy

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 8d

Oww oww rr

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 10d

A Griefzilla, if you will

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 13d

Love Nog!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 14d

Guess who got a shout-out from Prue!!!! #GBBO

A screenshot of an episode from The Great British Bake-Off. Prue Leith, a woman with gray hair and bright red glasses, looks off-camera as she says (in subtitles) "I mean, I love a milk loaf because it's a little bit cakey."

A screenshot from Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space, showing the titular character (an anthropomorphic Black Forest cake) sitting on a bed and smiling

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 14d

I know just the man to sort this out

A movie poster or key art or something for a movie featuring Hugh Grant (circa 1990s) smirking at the camera as Tara Fitzgerald leans in to kiss him on the brow. The title of the movie is at the bottom: The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came down a Mountain.

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 14d

@jamesgunn.bsky.social I know you can't legally read that Plastic Man script, but how about one for Howard the Duck pilot?

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 20d

Space babies need the most attention!

A screengrab from The Simpsons. Two social workers (a man and a woman) hold up Maggie, who has a sign taped to her that reads "I'm a stupid baby," but it's been poorly edited to now read "I'm a space baby."

For context, this moment accompanied the line "Stupid babies need the most attention."

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 21d

The return of Heavyweight is one of the best and most beautiful podcast episodes I've ever heard -- I laughed, I cried, I even looked up an IG link at the end. Give it a listen!

Heavyweight @heavyweight.bsky.social · 21d

And we're back. Today, a new episode of Heavyweight: Etta. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 25d

TV's JEFF HILLER! #Emmys

An pic of Jeff Hiller from the TV series SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE. He's smiling as he leans against the roof of a car, while wearing a long-sleeve blue shirt with yellow stripes.

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 26d

Alas, indeed

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prepay-blue.bsky.social @prepay-blue.bsky.social · 28d

Just read HOWARD THE DUCK on the Stunt List 2025 and I recommend you all do the same. As a fan of the OG movie and the MCU, I loved it. Nice work @kirksays.bsky.social
#scriptsky

www.officialstuntlist.com/stunt-list-s...

HOWARD THE DUCK — The Stunt List

After a curmudgeonly duck from another dimension crash-lands on Earth, his only hope of returning home lies with a well-meaning but clearly mad scientist.

www.officialstuntlist.com

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 26d

Waaaaaugh! Thanks for reading -- and for the kind words!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 27d

ahhh i love Clues by Sam!

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · Sep 9

FRASIER HIVE, do you think this line fits with the original show?

I feel it's exactly the sort of wordplay Niles would say for his own amusement (and would get a "How droll" reaction from his brother), but my partner disagees

Kirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · Sep 9

If Frasier were alive today...

Frasier (reading on his phone): Oh, well that's a shame.

Martin: What happened?

Frasier: They're removing The Comedy of Errors from this year's "Seriously Shakespeare" festival.

Niles: Yet another case of getting canceled for being too joke.

Frasier: Oh, Niles!