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September 28, 2005

I got reviewed in the Village Voice!

As many people know, I participated the other week in The Aristocontest at the PIT, where I and many of AWOK’s friends in sketch told some tellings of that Aristocrats joke. Well, the damn thing got reviewed in the Village Voice by Michael Musto, and I’m in the review! Check it out Here or right below!

SCAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Dina’s opener, the female sketch comedy group MEAT, was one of the acts lining up to spew obscenities at the Peoples Improv Theater’s Aristocontest, where the stage figuratively added 80 to 90 pounds of body fluids. The illustrious event had comics telling their versions of the infamous joke where a family farts and fists and felches onstage, then calls itself the Federlines, I mean the Aristocrats. We were treated to every imaginable variation on the joke—including a folk song version—with the scatological references topically spanning Katrina, 9-11, the Bush family, and “shit coming out like a giant Mister Softee machine.” Several comics went on too long, forgetting that less is whore, but all of them were so gamely goofy that by the end there was even some real vomit on the stage. The punchline of the contest? The prize was absolutely nothing. (But here’s a free gift to you: Spies tell me The Aristocrats might be bound for Broadway—you know, the Great Brown Way.)

You know what they say…any publicity is good as long as they spell your name right.

Posted by Nate Kushner at September 28, 2005 04:26 PM

6 Comments

They don't mention your name, do they? I didn't see it...

Posted by: Mike Still at September 30, 2005 03:47 PM

I'm in the part where it says "some comics went on too long."

Posted by: Nate Kushner at September 30, 2005 04:27 PM

So I'm in the paper whenever I'm in a group that is mentioned? Like when it mentions alcoholics, I can say I was mentioned in the paper?

Posted by: Mike Still at October 1, 2005 06:13 PM

Yeah, so like whenever the New York Times calls someone a bunch of dicks, you can clip that article and send it to your mom for the refrigerator.

Posted by: Nate Kushner at October 1, 2005 06:29 PM

Also, I'm pretty sure I was the only one who did a 9/11 joke that night.

Posted by: Nate Kushner at October 1, 2005 06:29 PM

Now, Nate. Everyone (and I mean *everyone*) knows that Mike's Mom keeps all of her articles about dicks in the top drawer of her nightstand, not on the fridge.

Posted by: Phil at October 3, 2005 09:31 AM