Friday February 10th's Lineup:
Wil Sylvince from Comedy Central
Del Harrison from The Mo'Nique Show
Corey Rodrigues from national commercials
and a guest set from Josh Carter
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Black History Month at The Living Room!
We welcome some of the funniest African American comics in New York City to celebrate Black History with us!
Friday February 10th's Lineup:
Wil Sylvince from Comedy Central
Del Harrison from The Mo'Nique Show
Corey Rodrigues from national commercials
and a guest set from Josh Carter
Friday February 10th's Lineup:
Wil Sylvince from Comedy Central
Del Harrison from The Mo'Nique Show
Corey Rodrigues from national commercials
and a guest set from Josh Carter
Friday, April 25, 2008
Show 39: Party Like It's 1990
Photography by Aemiessence Fine Arts
We had an informal theme of the 90's (so informal, none of the other comedians knew about it), and the show was radical!
Carolyn Castiglia was a big hit as the host and Honey, she shrunk these kids:
Randy Epley
Del
Luke Thayer
Polly Pyne
Josh Homer
and improv by I Eat Pandas (Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner)
with special guest Marybeth Goodwinn reporting the news.
Abbi & Luke opened the show, and Abbi was decked out in her Kids In The Hall t-shirt, her tribute to the 1990s. Luke tried to explain that they started in the 1980s. She argued that she watched them growing up, and they, like Karate Kid, are as 90s as The Brady Bunch.
Carolyn Castiglia was in on the bit and played a musical tribute to Wilson Phillips.
She then went over the absurdity of flashback pop-culture shows. "Remembering the '90s is like reminiscing about YESTERDAY." Then she and Abbi parodied Frangela for no other reason but to give crazy looks to the audience.
We welcomed Randy Epley to the show for his first time, and he regaled us with the woes of his childhood. Not in the '90s.
Making her public debut, Marybeth Goodwinn spoke on being the only black member of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Then she alerted the room that their oracle is missing. If found please contact them at the eleventh wheat silo off Highway 10.
Del shook up the room with stories of relationships gone bad. Like Milli Vanilli.
Luke discussed the dangers of being lured into social work by posters that use reverse psychology.
Abbi returned with her fake one-woman show, "She-Lebrity", making a horrible attempt at accents and disguises. Here she is as J-Lo, nursing twins who only LOOK like cabbages in comparison to her beauty.
All the way from Europe, the lovely Irish lass Polly Pyne treated us to jokes and a workout regimen of 15 "press-ups"!
It was our first show with a toddler (Carolyn's), our first show featuring a girl in striped tights (Polly's), and our first to feature the quick wit of Josh Homer. He worked his magic by detailing "things that have happened in the show so far" and topped it off with the other stuff he's working on.
Completely having forgotten any notion of a theme for the show, Abbi shouted, "Pickles" as a suggestion for our very first visiting improv troupe, the immensely talented Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner of I Eat Pandas.
In a tiny space they created scenes of farmer's market sales-turned-one night stands, a park rendez-vous-turned-baby hunt, and a make-up refresher in a ladies room-turned-battle of the minds.
Perhaps it was this gift of invention that caused the Hat of Chance to randomly choose them as the week's winners! Listening to their Barbara Streisand record will inspire new improvised musicals with their pianist Frank Spitznagel!
Closing the show in her classic way, in such a manner that would make Queen Latifah proud, Miss CKC freestyle rapped while Abbi beatboxed.
Bring your Mom to our next show on May 9th, right before Mother's Day!
We had an informal theme of the 90's (so informal, none of the other comedians knew about it), and the show was radical!
Carolyn Castiglia was a big hit as the host and Honey, she shrunk these kids:
Randy Epley
Del
Luke Thayer
Polly Pyne
Josh Homer
and improv by I Eat Pandas (Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner)
with special guest Marybeth Goodwinn reporting the news.
Abbi & Luke opened the show, and Abbi was decked out in her Kids In The Hall t-shirt, her tribute to the 1990s. Luke tried to explain that they started in the 1980s. She argued that she watched them growing up, and they, like Karate Kid, are as 90s as The Brady Bunch.
Carolyn Castiglia was in on the bit and played a musical tribute to Wilson Phillips.
She then went over the absurdity of flashback pop-culture shows. "Remembering the '90s is like reminiscing about YESTERDAY." Then she and Abbi parodied Frangela for no other reason but to give crazy looks to the audience.
We welcomed Randy Epley to the show for his first time, and he regaled us with the woes of his childhood. Not in the '90s.
Making her public debut, Marybeth Goodwinn spoke on being the only black member of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Then she alerted the room that their oracle is missing. If found please contact them at the eleventh wheat silo off Highway 10.
Del shook up the room with stories of relationships gone bad. Like Milli Vanilli.
Luke discussed the dangers of being lured into social work by posters that use reverse psychology.
Abbi returned with her fake one-woman show, "She-Lebrity", making a horrible attempt at accents and disguises. Here she is as J-Lo, nursing twins who only LOOK like cabbages in comparison to her beauty.
All the way from Europe, the lovely Irish lass Polly Pyne treated us to jokes and a workout regimen of 15 "press-ups"!
It was our first show with a toddler (Carolyn's), our first show featuring a girl in striped tights (Polly's), and our first to feature the quick wit of Josh Homer. He worked his magic by detailing "things that have happened in the show so far" and topped it off with the other stuff he's working on.
Completely having forgotten any notion of a theme for the show, Abbi shouted, "Pickles" as a suggestion for our very first visiting improv troupe, the immensely talented Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner of I Eat Pandas.
In a tiny space they created scenes of farmer's market sales-turned-one night stands, a park rendez-vous-turned-baby hunt, and a make-up refresher in a ladies room-turned-battle of the minds.
Perhaps it was this gift of invention that caused the Hat of Chance to randomly choose them as the week's winners! Listening to their Barbara Streisand record will inspire new improvised musicals with their pianist Frank Spitznagel!
Closing the show in her classic way, in such a manner that would make Queen Latifah proud, Miss CKC freestyle rapped while Abbi beatboxed.
Bring your Mom to our next show on May 9th, right before Mother's Day!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Show 28: More Drama for Your Mama
Photography by Aemiessence Fine Arts
Alas! Poor Yorik...your friend Hamlet would have fit in nicely since we had a mime, sketch troupes, a short film, and poetry, all in the name of comedy!
Our twenty-eighth show marks the return of the fabulous Del! For her first time as the Living Room host, she led a remarkable lineup:
Mike Drucker
Impending Moustache
Abbi Crutchfield
Rick Younger and
Good Neighbor
with special guests Lukel Lukeau and Tim the Party Man!
Abbi opened the show with interpretive dance during the theme song. Unfortunately, her dance partner insisted on lurking in the shadows, and she was left to convey a singing duo all alone.
Del took center stage and outshined our new spotlight!
Mike Drucker is celebrating the glory of his new girlfriend and trying to erase the memory of bad roommates.
In honor of the recent passing of famed French mime Marcel Marceau, his protoge, Lukel Lukeau reported the entire week's current events by miming to the melody of Debussy's Claire de Lune.
Needless to say he did a bit of juggling when conveying Pam Anderson.
Impending Moustache delivered two sketches:
one about the helpfulness of crazy people...
...and the other about the craziness of helpful people.
There was laughter, tears, movement, and we're pretty sure everyone got hurt.
Abbi recalled the innocent days of middle school when she dated a guy who was nicknamed O.J. Simpson.
Love is blind, y'all.
Tim the Party Man rolled in with his list of the top 12 things that keep a party rolling.
With tips like pooping in house plants and calling the cops your party's sure to be reminiscent of the back alley in a bad neighborhood. Awww yeah.
As the last stand-up comic of the night, Rick Younger became our headliner and gave a spoken word tribute to a life he could have lived if only he had been born a woman.
Good Neighbor closed out the show with a sketch on life-saving techniques and a short film about roommate loyalty. Maybe they could help Mike Drucker...
The winner of the Funniest Comedian of All Time award went to Rick Younger! He won a small, decorative frame-type object that is sure to make reading the Sunday comics even more tedious than usual.
You can join Yorik's skeleton at our 2nd Annual
Halloween Scare-avaganza
on October 26th! There will be a prize for the best costume, so invite that funny-faced friend of yours!
Click here for more photos of the show by Aemiessence Fine Arts!
Alas! Poor Yorik...your friend Hamlet would have fit in nicely since we had a mime, sketch troupes, a short film, and poetry, all in the name of comedy!
Our twenty-eighth show marks the return of the fabulous Del! For her first time as the Living Room host, she led a remarkable lineup:
Mike Drucker
Impending Moustache
Abbi Crutchfield
Rick Younger and
Good Neighbor
with special guests Lukel Lukeau and Tim the Party Man!
Abbi opened the show with interpretive dance during the theme song. Unfortunately, her dance partner insisted on lurking in the shadows, and she was left to convey a singing duo all alone.
Del took center stage and outshined our new spotlight!
Mike Drucker is celebrating the glory of his new girlfriend and trying to erase the memory of bad roommates.
In honor of the recent passing of famed French mime Marcel Marceau, his protoge, Lukel Lukeau reported the entire week's current events by miming to the melody of Debussy's Claire de Lune.
Needless to say he did a bit of juggling when conveying Pam Anderson.
Impending Moustache delivered two sketches:
one about the helpfulness of crazy people...
...and the other about the craziness of helpful people.
There was laughter, tears, movement, and we're pretty sure everyone got hurt.
Abbi recalled the innocent days of middle school when she dated a guy who was nicknamed O.J. Simpson.
Love is blind, y'all.
Tim the Party Man rolled in with his list of the top 12 things that keep a party rolling.
With tips like pooping in house plants and calling the cops your party's sure to be reminiscent of the back alley in a bad neighborhood. Awww yeah.
As the last stand-up comic of the night, Rick Younger became our headliner and gave a spoken word tribute to a life he could have lived if only he had been born a woman.
Good Neighbor closed out the show with a sketch on life-saving techniques and a short film about roommate loyalty. Maybe they could help Mike Drucker...
The winner of the Funniest Comedian of All Time award went to Rick Younger! He won a small, decorative frame-type object that is sure to make reading the Sunday comics even more tedious than usual.
You can join Yorik's skeleton at our 2nd Annual
Halloween Scare-avaganza
on October 26th! There will be a prize for the best costume, so invite that funny-faced friend of yours!
Click here for more photos of the show by Aemiessence Fine Arts!
Friday, April 13, 2007
Show 20: Friday the 13th Spooktacular des Femmes
Alternative title: Luck Be a Lady Tonight!
It's ladies night, and the feeling's right...so who better to kick off the evening than a man with the hairstyle of Tatum O'Neal in the Bad News Bears?
Luke Thayer led the lineup as host and captivated another full house!
Our brave crowd chose to press their luck and put superstition aside this dark and cloudy Friday the 13th! They were not disappointed as the night rolled in the talent of:
Lang Fisher
Del
Robin Cloud
Becky Ciletti and
a sketch by Delusions of Spandex
Lightning struck twice as Lang Fisher made her second appearance on a Friday the 13th show! The odds were excellent that she’d give another solid set, and it tickled us pink. Then she turned into a toad and hopped away.
America’s least shocking shock jock Honest Warrd came out to support his fallen hero Don Imus. He tried his best to offend as many groups as he could, but in the end it was his plug for his advertiser that proved the most appalling.
Embracing her new neighborhood, Del reminisced about the horrors of her old one. Her musings on the evolution of bodies led to an impromptu booty-off with one of the Postmark staff. YES!
The blondest bombshell Connecticut has to offer, Marsha Peterson swung by to give her two cents about the latest current events. Then to prove she’s not out of touch with society, she left to hand the rest of her cents to “the poor people who eat at McDonalds.”
It was time for the no-nonsense wit of Jerri Beige, a bus driver with more sass than a mess of school kids. She shared her wisdom on race relations, and the room’s interracial couples were better for it.
Don’t cry for her unless you want to make out…Becky Ciletti is back, this time with a helpful visual to demonstrate her dating angst.
We closed the show with Phaea Crede and Becca Jones who comprised our first ever guest sketch troupe, Delusions of Spandex! Hey gals! Want a mascara that will last as long as your self-esteem in a high pressure environment? Then get hip to their new product!
The Hat of Chance selected Robin Cloud as the new Funniest Comedian of All Time! After a very emotional trip to the stage, she proudly accepted two tickets to see Donald Trump Live in November 2006 (time machine not included)!
From the Golden Box of Knowledge we picked the night’s Audience Trivia Question. One man knew the answer and took home FIVE delicious meals from Willie’s! He’s a regular at the show, so we’re glad to see a fan’s dedication pay off.
There was more trivia we didn’t get to read, so we're going to post the funniest questions here some day so you can laugh at them properly. We have more of EVERYTHING in store for the next show on April 27th. That’s a month before Abbi’s birthday. Celebrations, y’all! See you there!
Check out our photos of the event on Flickr here.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Show 2: The Kid and His Cap Gun
What a memorable show! The Living Room brought in another great crowd this week. Audiences like this make it fun to be a comedian.
This week’s performers were:
Matt McCarthy
JL Cauvin
Del and
Nick Cobb
Matt hit the crowd hard from the beginning summoning the essence of Lindsay Lohan with his own brand of Red Head humor that puts most Vikings to shame.
JL towered over the coffee shop crowd, Godzilla-style, and treated us all to a lesson in child-rearing.
Del proved that Big Stomachs Rule (her words--but we agree) while captivating us all with her acrobatic entertainment. Nick rounded out the show strong, despite a sore throat and kid outside with a cap gun. How many comics do you know who can perform so well at gunpoint?
No show is complete without the coronation of the “Funniest Comedian of All Time!” By a landslide, this week’s random winner was Matt McCarthy!
Be sure to check out another great show at The Living Room on July 14th. See you then!
This week’s performers were:
Matt McCarthy
JL Cauvin
Del and
Nick Cobb
Matt hit the crowd hard from the beginning summoning the essence of Lindsay Lohan with his own brand of Red Head humor that puts most Vikings to shame.
JL towered over the coffee shop crowd, Godzilla-style, and treated us all to a lesson in child-rearing.
Del proved that Big Stomachs Rule (her words--but we agree) while captivating us all with her acrobatic entertainment. Nick rounded out the show strong, despite a sore throat and kid outside with a cap gun. How many comics do you know who can perform so well at gunpoint?
No show is complete without the coronation of the “Funniest Comedian of All Time!” By a landslide, this week’s random winner was Matt McCarthy!
Be sure to check out another great show at The Living Room on July 14th. See you then!
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