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The Comedy Social for March 1st is cancelled. I will instead be performing at the same place and time, but on March 29th. Thanks.
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That’s right, we’re coming up on the one-year anniverary of our first sketch show. And we’re celebrating by doing what we do best: a sketch show.
On March 14th at 8PM
Dustin D’Addato, Shayna Ferm, and Nick Turner host Poker Night!
9 Great Jones St., between Broadway and Lafayette (Click here for subway directions.)
Cover is $5.
Featuring:
Andrea Rosen (Stella, Variety Shac)
Liam McEneaney (Premium Blend, Tell Your Friends)
Sean Crespo (Jest Magazine)
And the one-year anniversary show of A Week of Kindness!
Come and make it special with us.
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So there’s been this party going on, and you know how dumb you feel when you show up kind of late at a party and the height of its crazytude has long passed?
But also, you know how sometimes you show up kind of late at a party, and it suddenly becomes fun again because you show up?
I guess what we’re trying to say is be our Myspace friend:
www.myspace.com/awokcomedy
Because it’s about to become a party at Myspace again.
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Many thanks to Collegehumor.com and SketchfestTV for giving us nice plugs on the same day.
First, cheers to collegehumor for featuring our video “A Week of Kindness and the Last Crusade.” It’s right below here if you want to have another look:
A Week of Kindness and the Last Crusade
Written by A Week of Kindness
Featuring: Mike Still, Cody Lindquist, Phil Lamplugh, Dan Hopper, Erica Harsch, Nate Kushner, and John Constantine.
To download this movie in the format of your choice, including Quicktime and iPod, visit this video’s page at Google Video.
Also many thanks to the people at SketchfestTV for including us in this week’s episode of their podcast. Anybody who cares about comedy ought to subscribe to this thing. It’s a great podcast that contains three sketches every week from some of the best sketch groups from all around the country, downloaded automatically to your computer or iPod for free. This week, they’re using an old classic of ours, “The Thumblettes,” which is as of now available on Google video for faster load times and iPod loadability:
Written by A Week of Kindness
Directed by Mike Still
Music for theme song composed and performed by Allysha Powanda and Kendrick Strauch
Featuring: Allysha Powanda, Mike Still, Erica Harsch, Dan Hopper, and Nate Kushner
Graphics by Mike Still and Nate Kushner
To download this one in other formats, this one also has a Google Video page now.
We also encourage all of you to look around at all the videos that didn’t necessarily get big linkage today. There’s also some fun stuff in the archives of the blog, and on the right side of every page in this site, you’ll see a box where you can get on the mailing list to be notified of our show dates and new videos.
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We have just received a very nice link from The Raider.net for A Week of Kindness and the Last Crusade, which they’ll be counting as an Indiana Jones fan film (which is how we hoped it would be perceived anyway.)
Anyway, that site is an interesting place to visit if you want to geek out about Indiana Jones 4 speculation. (Which you do, cause it’s going to be awesome when and if it happens.)
Thanks for the link, and conversely, raider readers, I hope you guys take a second to look around on this site too. We have some great content that has nothing to do with Indiana Jones at all.
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It’s a little bit revisionist, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Graphics and voiceovers by: Dan Hopper, Nate Kushner, and Mike Still
Written by A Week of Kindness
To download this in a variety of formats, including an all-in-one file that plays in Quicktime, iTunes, and your iPod, visit this video at its Google video page.
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Many thanks to the PIT, and to Josh, and to Olde English for the good time that was had by all on Saturday night.
A Week of Kindness was unvictorious, but not by much. We lost the audience vote in a squeaker, and won the judges’ vote in another squeaker so it could have gone another way very easily.
Regardless, Olde English put on a great set and were very gracious winners, and there was a lot of beer provided for all of us backstage, and for all these reasons, this was one of our funnest shows yet.
On a non-sequitur note, these people (found via Websnark), have a really fun forum conversation going. The theory they’re trying to prove is that Garfield is a really funny comic strip, and all that needs to be done to make it so is to excise all of the titular character’s thought balloons. Jon becomes more of a deranged, darkly comic, even tragic figure, and the strip becomes more of a Pinteresque, surreal nightmare for him. What also becomes evident is how good the art actually is at showing its characters expressively. The strip may suck, but that aspect of it is beyond reproach. Anyway, enjoy that.
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It’s a work of parody!
A Week of Kindness and the Last Crusade
Written by A Week of Kindness
Featuring: Mike Still, Cody Lindquist, Phil Lamplugh, Dan Hopper, Erica Harsch, Nate Kushner, and John Constantine.
To download this movie in the format of your choice, including Quicktime and iPod, visit this video’s page at Google Video.
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It’s topical. No, it’s seasonal, really. Anyway, it’s our newest video.
Cupid’s Arrows
Directed by Mike Still
Written by A Week of Kindness
Featuring: Dan Hopper, Sarah Hughes, Nate Kushner, Ben Kintner, Matt Little, Sarah Hughes, Mike Still, and Mia Leopardi
Music: “The Debt Collector” by Blur
To download it in a single version that will play in iTunes, Quicktime, and your iPod, visit it at its Google Video page
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Or at least they were awesome enough to show this when I was about 7 or 8 and change my life. The time I saw this on TV was sort of a point of no return as far as my development as a “weird kid” was concerned. If you know me at all, try to imagine me at that age watching David Byrne act like a spazz for the first time. (Yes, I now know that that video was kind of meant as sort of a survey course of different kinds of religious trances from around the world, but until today I ooly remembered the part where David Byrne was a spazz. Either interpretation is pretty awesome, actually.)
Also, let’s do some math for a second. “Remain in Light” came out in 1980, and it was around 1987 that I saw this on MTV, meaning that there was a point in history where MTV would show an at-least-6-year-old video just because it was awesome. Can you imagine them ever showing a video from the year 2000 today? or even from 2004?
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We’d just like to remind you that our fourth brand-new sketch revue is going up at the PIT in a split show with a fantastic improv group going by the name of Possible Side Effects.
A Week of Kindness: Lords of Time And Space
Those two shows are at the People’s Improv Theatre on February 9th and 16th at 8:00. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased in cash at the door or online.
The People’s Improv Theatre: 154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
We are also appearing at the PIT on Saturday the 11th, in a Sketchfight versus Olde English. Also $8. Reservations here.
We will be screening a short film on Valentine’s Day at Galapagos, as part of a variety show hosted by Becky Yamamoto and Tony Carnevale:
“Geniuses of Love”
Featuring Rachel Kramer Bussel, Chelsea Peretti, Patrick Borelli, Lang Fisher, Michelle Collins, Carolyn K. Castiglia, Alan Fessenden, Joe Randazzo, Frank Philbrick, Mike Barry, Gabe Liedman, sketch group A Week of Kindness, and the band Ladystein.
At Galapagos: 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn. (By the Bedford L stop.)
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Appearing at High School Talent Show!
at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th Street, by 8th Avenue
Remember when you couldn't wait to graduate high school? If you forgot, let Upper Central Bay High's best and brightest refresh your memory during an evening of magic, dance, song, music, poetry, and comedy (and stilts, too!) as they take the stage for a show that will delight you in no way Zac Efron could ever imagine!
Tickets can be reserved here
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