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Good afternoon gentle readers! The holidaze are truly upon us, which for us means holiday parties (and overserving oneself at them), frantically buying parents last minute gifts online whilst at work, and doing arts and crafts. We have, however, had somewhat of an opportunity to, you know, see (but mostly read) about comedy in our fair city. Here is some linkage and info for you should you find yourself with some down time today.
Chicago ex-pat Andy Ross alerted his MySpace friendsies to some fun blogs that could be found on The Onion's MySpace page, especially, as he said, "Mentoring Young Beauty Queens, Writing A Children's Book Is Harder Than You'd Think, Christiane Amanpour Must Be Cheating At Fantasy Football, Does Anyone Know How To Collate?, Flats Have No Place In The Workplace, and Somebody Tell My Son There's No Future In Entertainment Journalism". Keep on keepin' on, Andy!
Emily Dorezas wants everyone to know that currently you can download a free episode of Sports Action Team from iTunes. Simply visit the SAT Web site and click on the link for "Suspended in Mid Air", and be prepared to howl.
We received an email from the Lakeshore Theater with a deal too juicy to pass up: $5 tickets to see Reggie Watts this Wednesday, December 19. Send an email to scott@lakeshoretheater.com with the codeword WATTAGE in the subject heading and the number of $5 tickets you would like to set aside under your name. We know you won't regret that decision!
We got some fly shots of Three Dumb Men at the Annoyance Theater last Wednesday, and were treated to DVDs of all of the shorts that played during the show. Don't fret if you weren't there, you can still see the shorts at filmmaker Steve Delahoyde's YouTube.
Jared Logan, Robert Buscemi, and Steve Delahoyde. Photo by Krystle Gemnich.
--Kristy Mangel
--Chicago author Claire Zulkey continues to flirt with the dark side (AKA comedy) with some of her writing, including a recent interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls, who have been responsible for more fashion-related zings than you can find in seven hundred viewings of Mean Girls. According to Fug girl Jessica: "I think it's no secret that we really don't like formal shorts. I feel like, if you look cute in shorts, you will look CUTER in a skirt, so why not look as cute as possible?" Claire also recently wrote a funny article about Amazon Wish Lists of the Rich and Famous for Radar magazine. Can you believe Kimora Lee Simmons has the nerve to ask anyone to buy her anything?
--Chemically Imbalanced Comedy softly says 'raise' and stacks twice the bet in the center in an all-day poker tournament this Sunday; part of the proceeds will go to benefit CIC. Visit Chicago Poker Live to sign up.
--Metromix is running a special on i.O.'s TV Show this Friday, and Allison Bills was kind enough to give us all the deets on the show: "We do a completely different network every week that we take a bunch of pot-shots at and make fun of their programming. Last week, for the Learning Channel, I played a 6th grader who had won my school science bowl, so I'd been picked to teach a studio audience how to make natural disasters in a bottle. It ended with a recreating of Hurricane Katrina -- I made an audience member hold the "levee" on top of a Diet Coke bottle then asked the audience what level Katrina was. When they said '4', I said that I'd better use 4 Mentos..." Sufficed to say, everyone took a Coca-Cola bath that evening all in the name of learning...
--Tonight is the final night for Cork Lounge Open Mic, a short-lived but fiercely loved room that is sure to see quite a hurrah tonight and will reopen under a new roof shortly. But will it have the same energy as the old room? More importantly, will there be ventilation or at least windows in the new room? We'll discover the answers to these soon.
--Last but not least on this bright Tuesday morning, the Promise Keepers have announced that it'll be a wrap for them after a six-month run at i.O., with their last show tomorrow night at 10 p.m. in the Del Close Theater. The Chicago Reader once said of the group, "Art-house improv . . . With their quasi-mystical "Japanese" aesthetic, minimalist pacing and blocking, and character-driven humor, the expert Promise Keepers mold the paradigmatic Harold to their sophisticated sensibilities . . . Kinky and seductively offbeat." The Promise Keepers are Tim Baltz, Katy Fullan, Ben Johnson, Holly Laurent, and Chris Lee.
- Kristy Mangel
Poor? Like to laugh? Be sure to check out the show at the Lincoln Lodge tonight and/or tomorrow, where your $8 admission will not only get you a night of hilarity in one of the top alt stand-up rooms, but it will also get you generous samplings of a great restaurant in the city, as tonight and tomorrow the segment, “Off the Eatin’ Path with Monte” will be featured. Not only is this multimedia presentation hysterical, complete with audience participation, but after the presentation the entire audience gets to sample the delicious wares of the featured restaurant. If you haven’t been “Off the Path” with Monte yet, this week is your chance. Also featured will be Jeb Cadwell's 400th stand-up performance in ten months. Yikes!
This weekend, local comedians, including Paul Sigwerth, Adam Burke, Chad Briggs, Frankie Benevedes, Lee Kapranas, Mike Cody, Tony Blanco, Bradley Fojas, Rudy Ascot, Dan Sullivan, Emerson Dameron, and Eric Strom, will be on hand at the Around the Coyote arts festival during the festival’s first Critic’s Cinema, “an interdisciplinary show of literary performance, and video, with some of Chicago’s leading satirical personalities from stand up comedy, spoken word, hip hop, and established authors doing live critiques of winning films from the Chicago Short Comedy Festival at Dulcenea on Saturday night.” Each performer is paired up on stage with a film and will give their subjective, uncensored opinion immediately following the screening of each movie. The movies include “Must Like Magic”, by David Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, and Steve Stein, “Time Traveler”, by Consortium Productions, “Divorce Lemonade”, by Justin Hayward, “Contract Killers”, by Craig James Pietrowiak and Louis Coty, “Auteur”, by, Bill Palmer, and “There Aren’t Enough Lights in the World”, by Justin Hayward.
Bastion contributor Mackenzie Condon’s show, “Drag Kings,” is closing this Saturday, midnight in Donny’s Skybox. As she said, “Come see us perform in the creepiest level D class ever.” How could we resist!?
Ticketmaster is offering an Internet presale for David Sedaris at the Chicago Theatre on April 8. Visit Ticketmaster with the password FRANCE.
- Kristy Mangel
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