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July 28, 2006

Man and Cat!

Dances with Wolfshirts was beyond sold out this week! Thanks to all the fans and newcomers who made that happen! Tell your friends! For those of you who haven’t seen the show yet, make your reservations. We’d like to think that this pace will keep up!

Alright, we let The Apiary borrow this video for a week, and now we’re taking it back. Looks like they treated it with care. No scratches and very few stains.

Anyway, here it is, back in its rightful home, our newest video, “Man and Cat.” You can see this short film featured in Dances with Wolfshirts, for which you can see an awesome review here, and for which you can make reservations here.

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July 23, 2006

Man and Cat

Introducing our newest video….”Man and Cat.”

Only you can’t see it here. For a short while it’s going to be exclusive on The Apiary, a neat blog about the New York comedy scene.

As of this writing, it is the most recent entry, and is on top of the front page, but just the same, the permalink is here.

Go, thee, and laugh! It’s a little bit different from a lot of things we’ve done.

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July 22, 2006

Dances with Critics!

We just got the word about a very positive review of Dances with Wolfshirts on nytheatre.com by reviewer Kyle Ancowitz. If you were waiting for a second opinion about whether you should catch this show, look no further. Here’s the first paragraph and a half.

Dances With Wolfshirts, the latest sketch comedy offering from the three-man troupe A Week of Kindness, is a spirited, scabrous, and totally beside-the-point exploration of the post-capitalist trend cycle. Mike Still, Nate Kushner, and Dan Hopper have conceived and perform their fifth show as an amusingly unenlightening tribute to our restless consumerist whims and they handily succeed in being very funny.

Fans of sketch classics like Mr. Show with Bob and David, The State, or even good ol’ Saturday Night Live should feel right at home with A Week of Kindness’s blend of antic live skits punctuated with (what they describe as) “innovative, often-demented short films.”

And also, later on, he says “I left the theatre wondering if I could bid for wolfshirts on eBay.” which is the best compliment that anybody has ever given anybody.

Read the rest of it here.

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July 18, 2006

Bright Eye-dea, guys…

Working Script for the Turnaround Skit

This is the schematic to an anti-drug skit meant to be performed to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler

* Druggie: The main character. For some reason, the skit works best if the Druggie is female.
* Friend #1: The friend who stays.
* Friend #2: The friend who leaves.
* Friend #3: Optional, if you have enough people. The friend who doubts.
* Drugs: 3 to 10 of the remaining people are Drugs. While their appearance is inconsequential, the best effect comes from a “Chorus Line” of many different appearances. There must be at least 3 people to play Drugs.
* Trees: All of the remaining people are Trees. They form a motionless, emotionless backdrop for the rest of the skit. You can eliminate the Trees if you don’t have enough people.

I love the judgement implied in the main character being called “Druggie.” And I love the line “You can eliminate the trees if you don’t have enough people.

And I love some of the other lines of this taken out of context:

Tips
Here are a few useful tips for performing the skit.

* The absolute minimum number of Drugs is three. In this case, you need to make a total of 6 signs, and have each Drug wear one on his or her back and one on his or her front. Then, once the Druggie has taken a Drug’s first sign, the Drug moves the other sign around to his or her back, turns back around, and the Druggie makes another trip along the line. I would suggest doing this if you have less than about 5 Drugs.

* Having more than 10 Drugs can throw off the timing in the skit and make it “feel” long as well.

Like most 7-minute skits, I wish it was shorter and I wish it wasn’t called a skit. But that’s just the sketch comedian in me talking (Many of us in sketch comedy are irritated by the word “skit”. It’s not rational, but it’s a fact.)

Anyway, basically, what I’m saying is…COMING SOON TO A PERFORMANCE OF Dances with Wolfshirts NEAR YOU!

If this skit leaves you with reservations about drugs, then at least this link will leave you with reservations for the show.

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July 16, 2006

Remembering Syd Barrett

This does not count as an AWOK sketch, and it will never be in an AWOK show. I just wanted to pay my respects. I think it accidentally turned out a little disrespectful:

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July 10, 2006

The Profane Gourmet, Simmered Down!

It’s not a new video or anything, but we’ve made a snappier version of the Profane Gourmet that we like a little better. Enjoy!



If you’d like to see some new videos, don’t forget…Dances with Wolfshirts opens tomorrow and runs for the next 8 Tuesdays at 9:30. Make your reservations here!

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July 04, 2006

Warmest Regards…

One of my favorite stupid curiosities about history is the REGARDS ring. This was apparently a very popular model of engagement ring to give in the Victorian era.

It’s a ring with these jewels across it in this order: Ruby, Emerald, Garnet, Amethyst, Ruby, Diamond, Sapphire.

regards ring

It spells “regards.” As in “I regards you, darling, will you marry me?”

Ruby-Emerald-Garnet-Amethyst-Ruby-Diamond-Sapphire?
More like Ruby-Emerald-TOPAZ-Amethyst-Ruby-Diamond-Sapphire!

retards ring2

I am proud to say that I have wasted our 100th blog post on this.

Dances with Wolfshirts, though. I mean it. Come and see our show, because it’s shaping up really nicely. Reserve for it here. 8 performances, so there’s no excuse.

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