Friday Free-For-All
Metblogs Chicago informed us that our fair city's Ambre (who needs last names?), who was featured in the Blewt!-produced Timekeeper Willis Fitness DVD (currently in rotation at WGN), is also a contestant on this season's "Rock of Love." Yeah, that means the same chick who did liver squeezes with Earl LaRue and Kelly Paynes also likely did liver-soaking exercises with Poison's Bret Michaels. It would sort of make sense, if she were traveling backwards through time.
The deadlines for the Chicago Short Comedy Video & Film Festival entries are coming up, and if you get it together, you can show off your cinematic genius. The deadline for The 2008 Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival is March 14, and the deadline for The 2008 Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition is March 7. The two events will be held in July of 2008. The TV Pilot event features a $5,000 prize (wow!). Chicago-area residents and Chicago area-based production companies may enter. More information available at witsendshorts.com.
You can check out the Lincoln Lodge's Comcast "Open Mic Comedy" clips on the idiot box. Check out Chicago stand-ups mugging for the camera by going to Comcast OnDemand, choosing "Get Local" and then choosing "Comedy Open Mic".
Chicago sketch duo kevInda were invited to perform at NBC's 2008 Nationwide Sketch Showdown. We don't know if this involved Wild West style shootouts for the love of saloon prostitutes with hearts of gold, or what, but we're glad kevInda gets to go somewhere warm and sunny for awhile.
Big Dog Eat Child's "Boozelegger's Ball" got a write-up in the Sun-Times today. The show, at the Gorilla Tango Theater, is described as "not Second City...not by a long shot," and is praised for its high energy, whereby "unbridled obnoxiousness becomes a minor art form."
And hey, while we're at it, TJ Miller on Letterman!:
