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By: Mo Diggs »
October 23, 2007
The Benson Interruption @ The UCBT - 10.19.7
Though monthly in LA, The Benson Interruption is staged in NY infrequently enough so that each time it's a huge event. The premise: "Doug Benson invites his fancy, big-name, professional stand-up pals to the stage, but then interrupts whenever he feels like it."
NOTES
--The show sold out super fast and was OOZING WITH PRE-BUZZ. A line of Bensoniacs spreading ALL THE WAY TO THE HORIZON POINT queued up in the rain an hour ahead of showtime for prime seats.
--Marijuana-logues study Rob Cantrell told a story about how he was handcuffed and incarcerated for smoking reefer outside of Pianos. Keep the spliff blasting indoors ya'll.
--ONLY IN LA: According to Paul Scheer: The President of MTV, Human Giant, Pauly Shore, and Russell Crowe recently supped together at the elegant Beverly Hills Hotel!
--We've managed to reconstruct Doug Benson's day from the details provided: Morning: Doug embarks on journey to glorious Staten Island to shoot scenes for Human Giant Season 2. Evening: Doug ventures into seedy underbelly of FOX News Headquarters to appear on Red Eye. Night: Doug concludes travels in basement of value grocer Gristedes to do The Benson Interruption. Benson's whereabouts today however, are unknown.
--Benson had mentioned that there may be 5 comics on the bill (in order: Tony Camin, Rob Cantrell, David Cross, Paul Scheer, and TBA) but the 5th hadn't shown up yet. Sometime after 2AM, Doug interrupts Paul's set to read to the crowd a note that was passed to him which simply said, "Aziz is on the way." The announcement had such a strange affect because at that moment, everyone in the whole entire theater became acutely mindful of the time. 15 minutes of stretch comedy goes by and Doug, feeling the audience had cooled down, wrapped the show before Aziz' arrival.
Posted by The Apiary at October 23, 2007 11:48 AM
Comments
i spotted mr benson on sunday waiting in line to see xanadu.
Posted by: edan at October 23, 2007 3:21 PM
I was still downstairs long after the crowd had departed. Aziz showed up and, when he saw the empty room, had the best 'What the...?' face I've ever seen
Posted by: klaus_kinski at October 24, 2007 12:22 PM