Cat Weddings

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A wonderful cat wedding by comedy pal and friend Andy Rocco!

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My friend Anoush is pretty darn cool. She’s a cartoonist, a performance artist and a fashion designer, and while she never stated what’s going on here, I am assuming that these are two cats on their honeymoon. You know, just hanging out in a laundry basket. That’s cat Hawaii.

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I had no idea my friend and Snap Impression co-creator Ramsey Ess was such a good artist. He sent me this, and I was like, “Zorp!?!” When I showed this to my dear fiancee, she said, “Whoa, can that be our wedding invitation?”.

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Hey, here’s a cat wedding that I asked Cloudfather to do back when this was still something I was doing with my old sketch group Wrestling Team. Two psychedelic cats just tyin’ the knot! 

More cat weddings coming in the future!

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This is JZT's cat wedding. I don't know John very well, but I think he's a funny guy. That's basically the bonds of our friendship. Once we got together and thought up some stuff we could do for Channel 101. The best idea was an action-packed detective series with a 70-year-old private eye. I'd still like to do that some day.

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Will Storie directed a musical a friend and I wrote in 2012, and while we were rehearsing one day, I saw some drawings of his in a notebook, and asked him to make a cat wedding. The male cat in this pretty much captures the existential fear that comes along with the acknowledgment of the fact that there's a possibility of change in all human endeavors and emotions, and we are helpless against the onslaught of this irreducible fact about our predicaments.

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Here's another older one from Jesse PS, host of the Podawful podcast. Jesse can be a somewhat controversial figure, but I like how his cat wedding was sweet. I want to believe these two cat-people were alone for a long time, and spied each other across the cafeteria at a hospital (he was there visiting his father who had a bladder operation; her first husband was in a coma). They comforted each other, and two years later, after her husband was declared permanently braindead, they decided to have a small civil service at the local courthouse.

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This is a "cat wedding" from improviser and artist Rocco Marrongelli. I should say, I asked him to make this while we were both at the party for the Del Close Marathon years ago when I was way too drunk, and apparently that, plus the loud party around us, made it sound like I was asking for a "cat writing". Let's just say that he's writing out his vows for his wedding this evening.

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Here's a fun one my friend Joe Stanton made! Joe's a stand-up and all-around funny dude, and you can check out his Tumblr here - and you should!

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This is a fun one created by Dan McCoy of The Daily Show and the great podcast The Flop House.

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This one was made by Shannon Dry, who was always one of my favorite improvisers around the scene, and for a time she kept a Tumblr of comics she was making. I dug them a lot, so I asked her to make a cat wedding. This, of course, predates all the Red Wedding/Billy Idol memes that were flying through the cybersphere, and hey, a Red Wedding/Cat Wedding mash-up wouldn’t be bad!

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This is a fun one from friend Anoush Froundjian. I really love Anoush's drawings, and she's done some really rad/weird art projects, all worth your attention.

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This is a cat wedding by Graham Mason of Sunset Television. This is actually the first cat wedding I ever commissioned. I think I had asked for a stabbing in the background, but maybe that was just Graham's addition. The true answer is lost to the sands of time.

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This is a cat wedding my friend Adam drew for my old sketch duo Wrestling Team. Adam's a great comic artist - you should check out his stuff!