Hi. I am Max Silvestri, friend and confidant to the Smith family. Noah asked me to guest blog, and I'm a people pleaser, so I will.

Why me, no one might ask? My resume speaks for itself. First, I am a tremendously accomplished comedian. In three years of doing standup, I've spent over three thousand dollars on beer at comedy clubs, and I've made about one thousand dollars actually performing standup. That is an impressive ratio. Also, I run an insanely popular website over at MaxSilvestri.com. Did you know that my website got over 20 hits yesterday, and that 9 of them were me checking to see if anyone had commented? I bet you didn't. Also, the remainder of the hits to my website were people searching for the term "racist puerto rican jokes". True story.

I've been trying to think of what I should write for this that is in line with Noah's normal blog themes. But when I tried writing a new musical (newsical!) to the tune of Into the Woods about She-Hulk working as a waitress at Alice's Teacup, I realized I don't care about any of these things and I fell asleep on my typewriter. (MAXFACT #1: I blog with a typewriter.)

Noah and I do share a love of comics, though. Also, we both enjoy hanging out with his brother, Abe, which brings me to a few weeks ago, when I stayed in Brooklyn for the weekend with Noah's brother. At one point, we were all overtired and delirious and things got WET AND SILLY!!! (MAXFACT #2: they did not get wet.) Abe started making his hair look like Wolverine and then he put chopsticks in his hands and then I started snapping "digital pictures"!! I thought I'd share them with you.

For reference, here is a picture of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine:



Now here is Abe as Wolverine.



Who makes a better Wolverine? YOU DECIDE. Sometimes, the pictures didn't look very intimidating, because Wolverine doesn't wear an oversized Club H20 t-shirt when he fights Sentinels; also, Abe occasionally looked like a very sad child on Christmas morning who was painfully showing off his only Christmas presents, six chopsticks.

After that fun, we got sillier and I dressed as Cyclops and Molly dressed as Jean Grey and we had a mutant brawl.



(I'm kidding. These people are serious nerds. Not like us.)