Day: March 7, 2014

What’s more impressive, having a million Twitter followers or having your own comedy mixtape? If you’re Joe Mande, then both. But really the latter. Because you can buy a million Twitter followers — as Mande as openly acknowledged doing to play with our notions of the importance of social media — while getting NBA players Blake Griffin and Roy Hibbert, rappers Fabolous, The RZA and “Jeopardy” champion Ken Jennings to shout you out on a stand-up comedy album is very real and impressive. Mande turned his stand-up recording into a full-on mixtape complete with mid-joke voiceovers and sound effects....