On the Scene: Blerds at the Lakeshore Theater
Mike Burns as Movie Star Tom Berenger.
Last Friday, we joined the full house at the Lakeshore Theater for Blerds.com's monthly multimedia/stand-up showcase. With lingering fog from the night's previous show still wafting through the air, we got out our BYOflask and settled into the plush seats as host Prescott Tolk welcomed the audience with friendly nudging and his trademark grin. The show continued, with local alt phenoms Brady Novak and Nick Vatterott joining L.A. Blerds member Nate Craig and NYC Blerds member Mike Burns (both as himself and as Movie Star "Ain't No Fag" Tom Berenger). An editing snafu has put the debut of the webisode pilot, "Hung", on hiatus for the time being, so instead the short "Dungeons and Dragons", written by Jared Logan and directed by Steve Delahoyde, with Kumail Nanjiani and Robert Buscemi, was shown to uproarious approval. Mike Burns also brought a little tidbit with him, "The Adventures of Fat Superman", a film about wayward superheroes who get impossibly drunk and eat too much fried chicken, starring Eric Andre, Dan Curry, and Mike Burns, directed by Eric Egerton.
The next Blerds show at the Lakeshore (click for tix) will be November 17 at 8 p.m. In memoriam of the late Pat Brice, many special guests will be flying in to perform, including TJ Miller, Kyle Kinane, Shawn Cole, Jeff Klinger, and more. Brady Novak, CJ Sullivan, and Sean Flannery will also perform, and new videos by Jordan Vogt-Roberts featuring Pat will be shown (no pressure, but how we hope and pray for Air + Water Show to be completed by then, oh please oh please oh PLEASE). The Visitors Locker Room will also be presenting classic Brice moments in aural history, and as a long-time daily listener of the sports comedy Internet radio show, the Bastion can assure you these are moments you will want to cherish.
This is going to be a big one -- get your tickets sooner rather than later. We have our money on a sell out.
Photo by Krystle Gemnich.
