A great big welcome to everybody coming from ifc.com, where we have been named one of the top 5 independent comedy websites.
So, to show you that we know how to take a compliment, so we’d like to invite you to take a scroll on down the page and check out a player we’ve set up containing a few of our favorite sketch comedy videos, including our newest, posted today, called “Poetry by Kerosene Jack”. There’s more where that came from over at our videos page, and if you want to be updated about our upcoming videos and live shows, you can enter your email address into the box on the right-hand side of the page. Enjoy!
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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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For us, tonight’s show felt really good. The crowd was mid-sized, but warm to us, and it was a real blessing for us to be able to go only second in a three-hour show, before people got sketched out. Also, the theatre itself is just a really interesting place with nice possibilities. In our humble little opinions, the new stuff debuting tonight (A Farewell to Arms, and Joe Virtue) worked pretty much as it was supposed to, and probably need only a very small amount of messing with. The tried and true ones (Late Night With James Joyce, and Hilldairy Farms) kept on being tried and true.
Ok, here’s something new we’ll try just once, on the off chance that it might not be abused. We will now solicit constructive criticism regarding our April 7th show. Anybody who was there who has an idea for how we could have done that set better, or anybody who noticed something they liked that they wish we’d do more of, here’s a good place to tell us about it. Try to keep the comments on-topic, or at least funny. If you guys are good, we may bring back this feature for subsequent shows.
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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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