The Apiary

Tonight at Invite Them Up , Bobby Tisdale will be proudly showcasing his much ballyhooed video titled "The Pleaser Twins." Recently, this short caused 500 college students at Cornell to erupt into a chorus of deafening boos . Hopefully, the vid will make its way to the internet, but until then, see it first on the BIG SCREEN at Rififi. Invite Them Up Lineup

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NY Post reporter and Tale of Two Cities ' fantasy lover, Maureen Callahan, plopped out a nice feature about the burgeoning NYC comedy scene and its relation to indie rock. While The Apiary doesn't quite envision the same crowds you'd see at Invite them Up as you would at say on Last Night's Party.com , we concede that the cool kids are starting to catch on that there's tons of amazing comedy performed every night in NYC for FREE or for POCKET CHANGE. However, perhaps M.I.A. being booked on Conan this week is some sort of overarching testament to the synergy. Read The NY Post article here! http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/24370.htm (Registration required) Tip via: Rachel Kramer Bussell See also: Brooklyn Vegan's special report

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Last Sunday at Saturday Night Rewritten--a weekly sketch comedy performance set up just like SNL--the musical guest, Joshua Grosvent , nearly stole the show with a couple of fun songs. One was about how NYU girls wouldn't talk to him if he were on fire and had a bag of money. He followed it up with an improvised piano tune about pizza and sex (audience suggestions, mind you), and another about diddlin' old broads. Here are some of his recordings! Joshua's My Space page contains both of the above mentioned (non-improvised) songs He does Journey covers too!

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Tonight! --Fan favs and Screenhead darlings, Elephant Larry , square off against Cubicle in some sort of sketch comedy bloodsport at The Funny @ 8:00 PM - 9 Bucks -- Welcome to Our Week's site says Paul Scheer is gonna be there. Dunno if they update every week or not though. However, Nick Kroll and Jessi Klein are definitely on the bill. Rififi @ 8:00 PM - FREE Tomorrow night! --Saw in The Onion that there's a great show called Son of Here Be Monsters at the new Magnet Theater featuring DEMETRI MARTIN, SNL scribe Eric Slovin, musical guests, and more! @ 9:30 PM - 5 Bucks

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If you had to choose the Emerging Comics of New York Awards Best Comedic Website based strictly on the hilarity of the most current blog items/video samples, who would take home the ULTIMATE PRIZE? http://www.chriskula.com/2005/05/burger-king.html http://www.paulscheer.com/2005/05/2-fast-2-awesome.html http://www.channel102.net/view.php?epid=35 http://www.girlsarepretty.com/2005_05_01_girlsarepretty_archive.html http://youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com/2005/05/emerging-comedy-awards.html Look out for a mind-bending blog-crossover of one of the nominees in the Channel 102 vid.

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The nominees are in! Voting for the Emerging Comics of New York Awards begins tomorrow. Who will win? Who will lose?? Comedians--An ECNY will go great with your shelf of Daytime Emmys. Take time in the coming weeks to vote for your friends over and over until the site runs out of bandwidth. The Awards Ceremony is: Thursday June 23rd, 9:30pm @ UCB Theatre

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