I Declare Myself President of the Ellie Kemper Fan/Insane Jealousy Club

The other day I was watching Get Him to the Greek and I noticed someone in a brief, line-less role and thought it might be Ellie Kemper (Erin from The Office).  A quick IMDB search later, it turns out it was Ellie Kemper and it also turns out that I'm insanely jealous of Ellie Kemper.

Look at her here,

is she not delightful?
Is she not what anyone has ever meant when they used the term "fresh" (about people, not produce)?

Did you know, in addition to being the cutest gal around and actually funny on The Office, she's a writer who has written for The Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency among other things? Oh, hello, my dream life, how does it feel to belong to Ellie Kemper?

She's written "conceptual humor" pieces.  I barely understand what conceptual humor is, but I wish I did and I wish I wrote it.  I tried to write something to submit to McSweeney's but I'm pretty sure it sucked.  It was about Marcel Duchamp making a You Tube haul video.  It was definitely concept-y but it was not at all "funny."

Just watch this and read this and if you're not as smitten as I am, I totally don't get you at all.


[Photo from Princeton University in 2002]