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May 9, 2008
Colours
Billy Scafuri and Tim Bierbaum, creators of the webcomic The Librarianist, take you to the strange town of Colours every Friday on The Apiary.
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GIVEAWAY | Indie Rock Trivia Night with Zach Galifianakis
On May 21 at the Highline Ballroom, New York Magazine presents Indie Rock Trivia Night hosted by Zach Galifianakis. The winning team will take home $500 in cash and prizes. ROCK OUTFIT Les Savy Fav performs a full set after everyone's brains have been exhausted. Tickets are $25 and include a complimentary subscription to NY Mag. We have two pairs of passes to give away.
Indie Rock Trivia Night with Zach Galifianakis
HOW TO BE A WINNER
1) Put "Indie Rock Trivia Night" in the subject line of an email addressed to theapiary@gmail.com
2) Send that email before SUNDAY @ MIDNIGHT (5/11)
3) If you win, tell your friends via blog/MySpace/or Facebook bulletin that this site made you a winner.
Two people will be selected at random and notified of their winnings shortly after. You must be 21+ and live in the NYC area to enter.
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Going as Far as These Crooked Legs Take Me
--We caught a preview of Adult Swim's exceptionally funny upcoming series Fat Guy Stuck In Internet, or FaGSII as the insiders are calling it. The EYE POPPING special effects will likely inspire a new generation to learn computers.
--REAL ESTATE: "Mo Pitkins was one of the premiere performance venues in New York City; it has hosted headliners including The Strokes and Moby. Lease is being offered at 21k per month. Approximately 3356 square feet; 1678 street level bar and restaurant and 1678 cellar. All recently renovated. No key money, transferable liquor license, current owners in very good standing with the board." Talk to Magnolia about it.
--With the Late Night move to LA just over a year away, it will be interesting to see which of Conan's staffers stay here (without jobs) in NY and which will go West with him. We learned that the folks on Leno's crew will have to reapply for jobs on Conan's staff and that none of the current Late Night staff gets an automatic free ride to Jimmy Fallon's crew.
--SketchFest NYC just announced their biggest line up yet. In addition to hosting the country's best sketch groups, this year's festival includes a panel with the creators of The Onion News Network and a LIVE broadcast of The Sound of Young America.
--We met author/one of Julie Klausner's writing partners, Rachel Shukert, last night at a social for cupcake aficionados/tech bloggers/angel investors. (We were representing the angel investors.) She tells us her reportedly funny new book Have You No Shame? is racing up the Amazon charts and that she's excited about her and Klausner's upcoming live soap opera at Comix called Wasp Cove.
--In related free cupcake news, Sara Benincasa will be giving them away at tonight's Ultimate Gossip Girl Summit at The PIT. Should be fun.
--WHERE WILL SLIMJIM ADVERTISE NOW?: Like so many video sites before it, Super Deluxe is about to embark on its slow path into the great unknown. It should be noted that Super Deluxe will not be joining This Just In nor DotComedy in the Internet afterlife because both of those sites are in Internet Hell. Super Deluxe was a rare bird because they had a great eye for talent and they paid their artists really good money. It sounds like it took a lot of people by surprise. Any details going around?
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The Honey Shot
Human Giant's Bobb'e J. Thompson and his stunt double | Photo: Paul Scheer
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May 8, 2008
Character Sketches: Ruhbin Mehta
By: Neil Padover
There's no shortage of talented performers putting on great comedy shows every night of the week in New York City. The trouble it seems comes in filling all those seats in the house. Ruhbin Mehta has played plenty of small rooms. He knows what it's like to do his act for a sparse audience, to keep morale high among crowds of four, five, six people. For Ruhbin, a show is a show and it's just another reason to get up in front of someone who is willing to listen. For the native Canadian, there's a special aura that comes with doing a New York room even if it's barely populated. It certainly helps with crowdwork. "When you're playing to a crowd of five you get to talk to every person individually," he says.
When Ruhbin, who's been doing stand up for four years now, takes the stage, he seems ready to have a conversation with the audience, like old friends teasing each other over dinner. When I went to see him perform at The Laugh Factory back in March he immediately launched into a playful rant about every segment of the audience (the group from Texas, Mexican tourists, the drunk girl, two kids named Matt). And they ate it up, mostly because it seemed so natural. The ability to relate jokes and stories without so much as breaking a sweat is something Mehta has aspired to ever since watching Bill Cosby at a young age. "So much work goes into just a ten second bit and Cosby could just make it seem effortless," he tells me.
Continue reading "Character Sketches: Ruhbin Mehta
By: Neil Padover"
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The Honey Shot
Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie lie on a rotating bed of flowers | Photo: mushupig
QUOTABLE
(via Pat O'Dea)
Pat: "Hey, can I get a photo of you guys?"
Jemaine: "Sure." (Raises camera) "Well ... don't you want to be in it?"
Pat: "That's ok, I'll just get you guys."
Jemaine: "Nah, you have to be in it. We can't just be standing here. That'd be weird."
Pat: "Ok."
Jemaine: "I'm gonna hold this pillow thing behind your head."
Pat: "Ok."
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May 7, 2008
Dear O.J.: A Real Letter Written to The Juice in 1994 -Livia Scott
NVW DOESN'T HAVE TO END YET
McCain Vows to Replace Secret Service With His Own Bare Fists - Onion News Network
The 13th Story - Adam Newman, Trevor Williams, Ed Mundy
Think Different - Kevin Allison, Heather Fink, Rob Lathan
Apocalyptic Exercises - Rob Kutner
Omega Point III - The Jokeaholics
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A Story from This American Life - Chris Ware
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Sexx Talkk - Rachael Mason, J.B. Rote, Tony Carnevale
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New Video Wednesday!
Amazing the Lion - The Upset Triangle
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The Honey Shot
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (r to l) present Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! at the Highline Ballroom in New York | Photo: Jon Q.
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May 6, 2008
Daily Bee-log
--Breaking up is easy with Tumblr. [Rob Huebel]
--Louis CK was SPOTTED at Rock N' ROFL doing a 20 minute set. [Brooklyn Vegan]
--Sarah Schaefer needs a job upgrade. [Sara Schaefer]
--Jordan Carlos would like one as well. [Gawker]
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The Cody Rivers Show @ The UCBT - 5.5.8
Perennial favorite from the Pacific Northwest, The Cody Rivers Show, is at The UCBT this week with Stick to Glue, a collection of some of their most popular sketches and performance art rewritten into a new set.
NOTES
--In this effort, the Cody Rivers duo Andrew Connor and Mike Mathieu perform with interrobangs painted on their faces. If the punctuation is to be taken as a reflection of the viewer's deconstructed thoughts throughout the show, "What the?!", then it's simple and effective.
--One thing we've always liked about them is how the audience gets cast as unintentional participants in their twisted worlds. Much like Celeste Pizza for One, Cody Rivers' "Theatre for One" is equally as weird looking and uncomfortable when it's pressed up against your face.
--They perform again this Wednesday at UCBT, so if you missed it, THERE'S STILL TIME. The boys are actually on a long summer tour to various fringe festivals and comedy theatres right now. The East Coast is the first leg.
--We had a chance last week to ask Andrew Connor via email what motivates them and how they approach the writing process. He responded:
The primary thing that guides our creative process is a desire to make material that is unlike anything that we have seen before or done before. That is a challenge that sometimes feels like it is getting perpetually more difficult, since we are always doing and seeing more (although of course, sometimes it seems effortless...sometimes...).It occurred to me recently that I don't think we are usually writing comedy. Our approach to creating is fundamentally about cultivating ideas that are unusual and interesting and weird, and then sprinkling in a little dash of funny to justify calling it a comedy show.
Some recent collaborations with other folks have really highlighted that, where Mike and I might say something like: "What about something with our arms waving around like this?" And these joke-writing comedians are like: "What the hell are you talking about? What is funny about that?" Which is a good question, for which we often don't have an answer. And sometimes there's nothing funny about it. But sometimes it is piercingly hilarious for reasons no one understands.
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The Honey Shot
Peter Grosz and TJ Jagodowski perform at the Phoenix Improv Festival | Photo: Lindsey Gemme
FUN FACTS
TJ performs with Dave Pasquesi in the eponymous "TJ & Dave" and also with Harold team "Carl & The Passions" at iO Theater in Chicago. Pete performs in TwoSquare and ASSSSCAT at the UCB, and writes for "The Colbert Report."
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May 5, 2008
Comedy Village To Cease Existing
The Comedy Village on West 3rd is closing this weekend. Dave Chappelle was there Saturday night for a half-marathon apparently. The following is a memo we received concerning the venue's imminent closure:
*The Last Hurrah...* *The **Comedy** **Village** Closes May 10th *It's Big Red, PJ Landers from the ComedyVillage. I wanted to share some news regarding the club. Our building has been sold and we are going to move. For the past 25 years our spot has been a comedy club. We've been running the ComedyVillage for the past 3 years, before that, the Great Boston Comedy Club and before that the Paper Moon. Although the Comedy Village will be continuing, this stage will cease to exist. It is truly a sad day. for all of us and the thousands of fans we've had the pleasure of serving up the gift of laughter for over 25 years. *Thank you...*
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The Sting
Pork Provides Sustenance For a Young Adam Wade
New Harold Teams Assembled at The UCBT
NBC & The PIT Sign Accord to Offer Diversity Scholarships
Lost State Script Found From Record That Was Never Made
THIS WEEK: Cody Rivers Returns to New York
No Dogs Allowed? Let's See Your Landlord Try and Deduct 'Pet Cemetery' From Your Security Deposit
Blogger Sticks it To Movie That Made 100 MILLION DOLLARS
FOX and the NYTVF Want Your 30 Minute Comedy Script ASAP
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The Honey Shot
The Perfect Storm: Gloucester's Premier Trance Band and Music Sensation! The Perfect Storm is (l to r.) Patrick Borelli, H. Jon Benjamin and Larry Murphy | Photo: jinners
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May 2, 2008
Colours
Billy Scafuri and Tim Bierbaum, creators of the webcomic The Librarianist, take you to the strange town of Colours every Friday on The Apiary.
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The Apiary Has Been Online For 3 Years
We checked our mailbox this afternoon and found ZERO birthday cards despite us quietly turning 3 today. That's okay, nothing's gonna bring us down on our birthday. Although... the lack of cards has given us more time to reflect on how old we are.
SOME INCISIVE THOUGHTS ON AGING
Jeez, that was an unexpected downer! In all seriousness, birthdays are great and we're glad to be spending them with you and the rest of this faceless mass of anonymous lurkers. Thanks for reading for THREE YEARS. We think we're accomplishing something here still. At any rate, here's a fun birthday song about how things could've been so much different if we weren't aborted.
THEN AND NOW
The Apiary's first month of existence
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GIVEAWAY | Brooklyn Vegan & Klaus Kinski Present Rock n ROFL
Brooklyn Vegan & Klaus Kinski present Rock n ROFL, their popular monthly Pianos party mashing stand up comedy and alternative rock music. The next show is Monday and features Max Silvestri, Greg Johnson, The Acorn, The War on Drugs, FREE! Newcastle, and more. We have 2 pairs of passes to give away.
HOW TO BE A WINNER
1) Put "Brooklyn Vegan & Klaus Kinski Present Rock n ROFL" in the subject line of an email addressed to theapiary@gmail.com
2) Send that email before SATURDAY @ MIDNIGHT (5/3)
3) If you win, tell your friends via blog/MySpace/or Facebook bulletin that this site made you a winner.
Two people will be selected at random and notified of their winnings this Sunday. You must live in the NYC area to enter.
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The Honey Shot
An SNL scribe rewrites a cue card for Will Forte, who plays fringe-presidential candidate Larry Budge of the North American Man-Boy Love Association | Photo: kiranfrye
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Q: What happens to SNL cue cards after the show?
A: "Old cue cards are placed on a giant pile backstage. Then, the art department uses them to cover the floor so when they paint the new sets, paint doesn't drip on the floor. Pretty anti-climactic. There's talk of trying to burn them as biofuel, but I don't think it's gonna go anywhere."
Q:We thought we'd see at least one on eBay...
A: "While a set of original cue cards from the 'More Cowbell' sketch might go for a lot of money on eBay, it would almost certainly mean termination once NBC finds out."
--Matt White, former SNL cue-card writer
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May 1, 2008
Inside With: Lonny Ross
By: Keith Huang
By his own admission, actor Lonny Ross says his alter ego, Josh Girard of NBC's 30 Rock, is not so different from himself: "We are both dudes who do weird voices, make funny faces and enjoy wearing hoodies." But stripped to their cores, Lonny and Josh are simply two young actors-slash-writers who appear on a popular weekly-televised comedy.
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Perhaps more coincidental is that roughly seven years ago, Ross worked behind-the-scenes for Sex and the City at the Silvercup Studios, the same soundstage in Queens where much of 30 Rock is shot. A native of Wantagh, N.Y. ("The Gateway to Jones Beach"), Ross also spent a number of years as a production assistant for Late Night With Conan O'Brien, followed by a few roles in comedy flicks "College Road Trip" and "Good Luck Chuck."
The Apiary recently snagged Ross for a hot minute to ask him about getting booked for the show, his celebrity-impersonation skills and what it's like to make Tina Fey laugh.
The Wikipedia entry for Josh Girard is twice as long as the entry for Lonny Ross. What do you make of that?
Tina and I were talking during one of the first episodes we ever shot about who would be more popular in the real world, Josh Girard from TGS with Tracy Jordan, or Lonny Ross from 30 Rock. Because essentially, we are both actors on comedy shows. But being that 30 Rock is on in primetime, and TGS would be on Friday night, we assumed it would be Lonny Ross ... but perhaps that is not the case. And Wikipedia would know, too. After all, they are the most trusted and well respected faux encyclopedia on the net.
Maybe it's because Josh is an easy character to relate with -- most of us want nothing more than to avoid our boss's glare. Are there elements to Josh's character that are your own creations?
Well, I was the one who decided that he be devilishly handsome. So I take credit for that. I think when Tina was casting for the show, I just really fit the profile of what she was looking for in the character -- energetic, young actor who could be believed as being a cast member on a sketch comedy show. But I really did go into the audition just being myself. So in that case, I guess there aren't many differences -- we are both dudes who do weird voices, make funny faces, and enjoy wearing hoodies. I do, however, like to be believe I'm not as dimwitted as Josh. I guess I'm not because Josh might not know what the word "dimwitted" means.
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By: Keith Huang"
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The Honey Shot
It's no surprise Fred "Fericito" Armisen plays drums (seen here with Les Savy Fav). After all, he's one of those rare comedy mavens who truly walks to the pace of his own beat | Photo: unflappable
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April 30, 2008
Michelle Collins Interviews the Guy Who Got Stuck in an Elevator for 41 Hours - FOX News, Michelle Collins
FOOTNOTE
The thrilling history of elevators comes alive in The New Yorker
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Ask Bobby: Marriage - Rob Lathan
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New Video Wednesday!
The Zoo - Jon Friedman
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Grand Theft Auto IV Burgles Our Mind With Its Exceptional Humor
We've been playing Grand Theft Auto IV pretty much nonstop since Monday night. We're taking this short break to mention that a reader wrote in confirming what we thought we might have figured out already: Liberty City is populated by some funny people.
Just thought I'd let you know that there's apparently an assload of NYC comedians in GTA 4, including Chelsea Peretti, Patrice O'Neal, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Bryan Tucker, and others. Mostly on the radio stations.
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The Honey Shot
SNL digital-short maven Andy Samberg recently held a "fireside chat" at Northwestern University | Photo: Lauren C. Virnoche
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April 29, 2008
Del Close Marathon X Now Accepting Submissions
The UCBT's Del Close Marathon celebrates its epic 10th anniversary this summer. The DCM website has been redressed and applications are now being accepted for the biggest improv show IN THE UNIVERSE.
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is proud to announce the dates for the 10th Annual Del Close Marathon!This year's marathon will be the weekend of August 8-10, and will take place on multiple stages. We'll also have awesome special shows during the week leading up to the marathon (August 4-7)
And all week long we'll be offering special workshops. Details TBA.
If you'd like to submit your group to be a part of the DCM, please see our submission guidelines and complete an application at www.delclosemarathon.com.
Also - again this year we're looking for more out-of-town groups to submit late-night shows - shows like last year's Cosbyprov!, Pajama Jammy Jam, Star Wars Bounty Hunter Prov, etc. If you have a great idea for a late-night improv show you want to do - submit it and make a note in the submission that you're submitting it for a late-night slot!
And remember - if you'd like your show to be considered for a primetime slot, and we do not already know you or your show, you should send us a DVD or videotape of the show.
The deadline for submission is May 12.
PREVIOUSLY
Del Close Marathon 9 coverage
Del Close Marathon 8 coverage
Del Close Marathon 7 coverage
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The Honey Shot
SNL founding cast member and comedy stateswoman Jane Curtin was a recent guest on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" | Photo: Chion Wolf
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April 28, 2008
Daily Bee-log
--Harvard Sailing Team prepares a party. [Harvard Sailing Team]
--Improv Everywhere takes over the world. [Improv Everywhere Global]
--Julie Klausner kisses and tells. [The New York Times]
--Amy Poehler is pregnant. [Daily Intelligencer]
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The Honey Shot
Al Franken speaks at an endorsement rally at the Minnesota State Capitol | Photo: Al Franken for Senate
QUOTABLE
"Because when you assume, you make an ass out of Uma Thurman. Isn't that a cute joke? Isn't that clever?" --Stuart Smalley
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April 25, 2008
Colours
Billy Scafuri and Tim Bierbaum, creators of the webcomic The Librarianist, take you to the strange town of Colours every Friday on The Apiary.
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Attention Human Resources at NBC and Jimmy Fallon:
The Internet is full of predictably whiny ding-dongs! Jimmy Fallon, look at these words without blinking: We think you'll make a great host of Late Night and we want to work for you and your show. Please accept this blog entry as our application for any and all staff positions including but not limited to positions such as: writer, music director, researcher, script supervisor, production assistant, assistant production assistant, and paid intern.
SOME OF THE MANY REASONS TO HIRE US
--We have coveted "new media" experience!
--Interning at Late Night 5 years ago has prepared us for a career in television.
--Our references will only say good things about us.
--Showing up to work on time and staying late is not a problem.
--Our skill set will obliterate your fucking mind. Fortunately for you, we are also skilled at putting minds back together.
In all seriousness, we'd like to take the skills we've developed and apply them in ways that can help Late Night with Jimmy Fallon achieve ratings victories night after night. We'd be happy to come in and talk about any opportunities you have. Please contact us at your earliest convenience. Thanks for your time.
Best,
The Apiary
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Reviews and Appraisals: Walk Hard on DVD
By: Nathan Smart
Did too many Walk Hard wieners wilt the mood for Nathan Smart and his funtime friends? Find out below!
REVIEW WITH WORDS
Dear Judd Apatow,
There are three dick shots in your movie Walk Hard, now out on DVD. I was watching this movie with some conservative Christian friends. I love your movies but this was one of the most uncomfortable things to have to watch in front of them. Thanks a lot Judd but I'm going to have to call you on this one.
Kind Regards,
Nathan Smart
PICTURE REVIEW
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The Honey Shot
Michael Showalter and Eugene Mirman cast shadow puppets at Tearing the Veil of Maya | Photo: Bryan Bruchman
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