February 2012
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MDMW Rides Again Tonight
Keith Huang took these excellent pictures of the premiere of My Daughter, My Wife two weeks ago: http://improvisgoodforyou.com/2012/02/20/my-daughter-my-wife-the-pit/
There are only two more chances to see the play this run (tonight and next Tuesday @ 8:00).
Get your tickets now!
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SV!'s "My Daughter, My Wife" Premieres Tonight!
Tonight’s a special night for SidViscous!.
Firstly, it’s the premiere of our play, the first real, rehearsed, scripted thing we’ve ever done, entitled My Daughter, My Wife. Written by our members Phil Wells and Desireé Nash specifically to be performed by us, this thing has been gestating for a long, long time. Tonight, it finally comes to a head.
This little improv group...
January 2012
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Lynch On Coffee
“Coffee became tied to what I called “The Art Life.” I loved to go to diners and drink coffee and try to catch ideas for the work. Coffee has always seemed to facilitate thinking and catching ideas. Not only that, but the flavor of coffee is beyond the beyond good.”
My favorite of all favorites, David Lynch, in the HuffPo, on coffee and creativity. Plus a...
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Desireé Nash's "Check Please"
I created this poster a little over a year ago for the first run of Desireé Nash’s outstanding solo show, Check Please.
She’s bringing it back to The PIT again THIS VERY NIGHT, so it seemed like a good time to post it.
And it’s also her birthday, so, you know. You should definitely go see this hilarious show.
Happy birthday, Dez!
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Morning Show with Hobart and Grace: A Brief Word... →
morningshow:
Photo by Keith Huang
Last night was a great time! Thanks to everyone who came and to all who took part!
I want to acknowledge something, however, that went unaddressed during the show itself. You see, last night’s will be the last Morning Show to feature Beowulf Jones, our longtime…
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Jen Kirkman - comedian: What I Would Have Said... →
jenkirkman:
**I wrote this last night but was shy about publishing it. But I feel good about it today. Please forgive any grammar or spelling errors. I’m not the best editor. ** - Jen Kirkman
I was supposed to talk to the Larry Mantle show on NPR this week. They wanted to talk to me about the recent…
A very funny person named Jen Kirkman wrote this about the Eddie Brill...
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WatchAlright Tumblr, I don’t ask you to do things for me very often, but I feel we’ve become pretty good friends over the past few months, right? So maybe it’s okay to ask you for a little favor?
Check out the above video. It’s a trailer that I made for the first-ever, real-live, fully-scripted play by my long-running improv team, SidViscous!. It was written by our...
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Another SOPA Post
So, everybody’s talking about SOPA today, and if you’re reading Tumblr, you’re probably already aware of what the big deal is. If you’re not, watch this short, pretty video that does a nice job of summing it up:
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
I’m contributing to the deluge because I think this is important. Take a...
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Morning Show with Hobart and Grace: Morning Show... →
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Hey gang! Morning Show is back!
Grace is out of town for a few months, and you know what that means in the daytime world: Celebrity guest co-hosts! For our first Grace-less edition, our own Phil Wells steps up from his role as sidekick-cum-fake-stage-manager to fill in at the table…
December 2011
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Your Final Reminder
The 38th Annual J Hobart B All-Star Christmas Spectacular is TONIGHT and ONLY TONIGHT, at 8PM, at The Peoples Improv Theater.
Featuring ventriloquist Carla Rhodes, guitar virtuoso Shonali Bhowmik, extreme sketch comedy troupe FUCT, and jazz/pop ensemble The Pendulum Swings, Featuring Jason Trachtenburg!
Plus special appearances by some of my best improv buddies, short films by Kevin Scott and...
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Ho-Ho-Hobart! →
Oh yeah! You better believe this is happening again!
morningshow:
Hey, Morning Show-keteers!
There’s no Morning Show in December, but you can still get your monthly fix of Hobart in The 38th Annual J Hobart B All-Star Christmas Spectacular, coming up at The PIT on Friday, December 16th at 8PM!
The classic Christmas special will also include a number of familiar faces to Morning Show fans,...
November 2011
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Tomorrow Night!
Just a reminder, your favorite thing in the world is about to happen again.
morningshow:
Morning Show returns with Baratunde Thurston (The Onion, How to Be Black), Leslie Guyton’s Movement Workshop Group (dancing!), and musical guests The Spring Standards! Plus the usual tomfoolery.
Don’t be the idiot who misses this show!
Tickets available now at...
The Next Batch of Episodes Is Here!
inthesewoodsimprov:
Season Three resumes tonight @ 9:30 PM at The PIT. Further episodes the next two Sundays (11/20 and 11/27).
Come check them out, if you want to be able to keep up with the water cooler chats the next morning.
October 2011
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What Should I Fake Next?
I’m going to do another Fake Criterion for November, but this time it’s an actual contest, with prizes, and you’re only allowed to submit one. The theme is sequels.
So tell me, Tumblr, which of the following would you most like to see me design:
Return to Oz Babe: Pig in the City Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Bride of Frankenstein or Honey, I Blew Up the Kid?
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Fake Criterions
Here are my submissions for the current Fake Criterions initiative, “Faked from the Dead.” The assignment was 80’s horror films, and I chose these two mainly because I couldn’t believe no one else had done them yet.
(Of course, the day I get around to finishing them has to be the day someone ends up beating me to Nightmare, but no matter, the more the merrier).
^ I...
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New Episode Tonight
inthesewoodsimprov:
TONIGHT (Tuesday, October 18th) at 9:30 PM at The Peoples Improv Theater. 123 E. 24th Street, between Park & Lexington. Five bucks.
Get tickets in advance here, and catch up on the season so far over here.
Tonight marks the return of In These Woods, the improvised third season of Twin Peaks, featuring myself and some of my best impro buddies.
This show is one of my...
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Friday, October 21st
You are going to shit yourself when you hear who’s going to be on Morning Show with Hobart and Grace next Friday.
Or, better yet, you’re going to shit someone else, through someone else.
morningshow:
We’re back! Did you miss us?
Come see us next Friday at 11PM, when our guests will be Human Centipede star ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS, expert mime GREGG GOLDSTON and musical guest CORN MO!...
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"SidViscous!: The Fever Dream" Postcard
Grindhouse-style postcard design for SidViscous!’s signature longform, which we’ve now been performing (in one incarnation or another) for about three damn years! Sweet Christ.
This was the beginning of our long and glorious relationship with Jeremy Bales, who took the original photo on the front side. Color correction and all the other stuff are by yours truly.
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Daphne Brown, 1996-2011
A.K.A. “Daphnuts,” “Daffy Doozer,” “Daffy-Dill,” “Dill Pickle,” “Susan,” “Lucy,” “Doggins,” “Sweet Thing,” “Lovedog,” the list goes on…
This was one special dog — Remarkably sweet, smart, full of personality and, believe it or not, a great sense of humor. It’s not gonna...
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September 2011
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Well, This Is Embarrassing.
I never thought I’d start a blog. A year, even months ago, had you so much as suggested the idea to me, I’d have scoffed.
Me? A blog? Please. That’s for other people. Blog people.
Blog people are different from the rest of us. They live in public. They thrive on the perceived attention of anonymous strangers. To a blog person, the minutiae of his or her own day-to-day...