August 10, 2005

The Inter-sketch-group Rap Battle Treaty of 2005

Thanks to all who attended our show at West Bank tonight, and we hope you enjoyed all the surrealism that occured therein. If you like rap battle sketches, then you really missed out tonight. If you don’t like rap battle sketches, then you were probably in a figurative hell, and we apologize.
I will attempt to speak for Elephant Larry, Dawghaus, and ourselves, when I say that from now on, we should fully disclose to each other our intentions next time we think about including a rap battle sketch in a set.

Let’s not have another repeat of the disaster of the 1922 New York Sketchfest, when more than 44 audience members* lethally overdosed on Teapot Dome Scandal sketches.








*45 audience members.

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June 17, 2005

Items of Note of Interest of Import

Well, after almost 4 months of this site being up, aweekofkindness.com is finally the number one Google result for the phrase “A Week of Kindness.” This is definitely a good thing, unless you are a Dada scholar, or someone who’s actually trying to start a National-Week-Of-Kindness-kind-of-thing thing.

More interestingly, however, A Week of Kindness is also now the number one Google result for the phrase “Pick Withers.”

Yes, that’s right, somehow I have made the most popular Pick Withers site on the Internet. Thanks to everyone who made these two things possible.

Also, I’d like to share a snippet of conversation I had with Stefan from Elephant Larry at a Sketchfest after-party this past weekend.

Me: Why is every sketch comedian I’ve met tonight so damn nice?
Stefan: We have to be, because we’ve chosen an art form that nobody likes.

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May 30, 2005

Achtung, Baby.

Last Saturday, I had the fortune to participate in a mission, with Improv Everywhere, a group dedicated to putting on pranks that confuse and delight (at the same time, usually) New Yorkers. This particular one had people running around the Penn Station area on the night of U2’s Madison Square Garden show, trying to spread the rumor of a free U2 rooftop pre-concert near the intersection of 29th and 8th Avenue, and then trying to get people to follow us to that spot, where, sure enough, on the rooftop, was a U2 cover band fronted by a Bono impersonator, who got to play for about half an hour before the police shut the whole thing down.


(Digital photography is so advanced these days that it can tell that I was looking at that red-haired girl a couple people to my left.)


Click here for the full story. I called myself Agent Bruise for some reason. The New York Times also did a write-up.

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April 19, 2005

Stories from Sketchworld

I was in the Times Square subway station just a few minutes ago, waiting on a train to take me home from AWOK practice.

And who should be exiting the same train car that I was trying to enter but Adam Conover and David Segal, from Olde English?

At this time of night, if you miss a 2 train, there won’t be another for half an hour, so I didn’t have time to do much except tap Adam on the shoulder, ask him if he was the Olde English guy, and then shake his hand briefly when he said yes. I must have seemed like some kind of spastic stalker.

Seriously, though, what are the odds that these two guys and the only person on the whole subway platform who would ever recognize them would all be trying to use the same subway door on the at the same time, on the one night when they’re in New York?

Anyway, that was pretty cool for me, only because checking for a new OE sketch is something I look forward to most Mondays.

In unrelated news, check out the home page if you haven’t, as opening acts for May 7th have been announced, as well as the dates that we’ll be competing in The Funny. Photos from April 7th are also available now on the photo page.

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