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See You in Toronto!
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It’s happening, it’s really happening! We’ll be back in Toronto this weekend for the fifth annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Each year, our neighbors to the north (or rather, “neighbours”) dish out their finest comedy delights and privilege a few groups from the USA to join their North American comic affair. We’re incredibly honored to have been accepted for a third year in a row (or rather, “honoured”). If you’re in Toronto, don’t pass it up – something killer is happening every night from the 10th to the 15th! For a full festival schedule and ticketing, go here (or rather, “hereur“).
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We’ll be performing full sets at the Comedy Bar on both Friday and Saturday:
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Friday @ 9pm [tickets]
with Free Love Forum,
Hot Thespian Action,
and Approximately 3 Peters
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Saturday @ 7pm [tickets]
with Free Love Forum,
The Skinny, and Frenzy
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And for you fellow sketch troupes, we’re planning on being in the midnight Sketch-U-Bator as well.
Thanks Funny or Die!
Just two weeks ago we joined Funny or Die, and today, much to our surprise, we were featured on their front page! Coal, our coal industry parody, received a big push thanks to it’s placement among the top five featured videos. So this is our note of appreciation to you folks at Funny or Die, it was an awesome welcome from an awesome video community!
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Thanks!
A-Side/B-Side, vol. 9
This Friday, comic visionaries, Aaron Kheifets and James Eason, have once more wrangled three sketch troupes to perform for your pleasure in their comedy masterclass, A-Side/B-Side. The show sees each group perform one sketch that’s a proven audience fav (an A-Side), followed by one sketch that’s strange, new, or unproven (the B-Side). If that hasn’t got you setting your gCal to remind to your iBerry, I should note that the bunch of us, Free Love Forum, have been asked back to join Adam and Trevor and Party Central USA! The details:
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Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Friday, November 6, 2009 @ 11pm
$5 [make your reservation here]
Vote For Reform (and us)
Hey everybody, got six minutes? Our video, Serve & Protect, made it into the top 20 of the OFA’s Health Reform Video Challenge! If the video wins, it’ll air on national TV. The polls have opened, and now you could give us a real boost. Click here, then hit the “start voting” button. You have to rank all 20 videos for your vote to count. Don’t worry, they’re only 30 seconds each. Together we can bring comprehensive healthcare reform, and get us on TV!
Adobe Creative Pros
A little while ago, Adobe – the maker of Photoshop and the Creative Suite of any serious creative professional – invited us to make a web series for their site, AdobeTV. Thus we made “Creative Pros,” our glance at the individuals who make up the advertising, publishing, and entertainment industries. Here’s the whole series:
Creative Pros: Self-Photoshopping Models
Creative Pros: The Life of a Typographer
Creative Pros: The Life of a Freelancer
Creative Pros: The Life of a Documentarian
Creative Pros: The Life of an Audio Engineer
YouTube Comment of the Week
This week’s comment comes from Jaymotox from the UK in response to our video MS Paint
“I don’t get it? Is this supposed to be a pisstake video? :S”
If by pisstake Jaymotox is suggesting that we are taking a piss, the answer is yes; we are for sure taking a piss.
For any American readers out there, see below for a definition of taking a piss.
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To be essentially fucking with someone or to be condescending to someone by implying that they are stupid.
Refers to when someone says “Don’t piss in my pocket and tell me its raining, jerky…” Tom: “Thanks for the CD, I like rap music..”
Sue: “Are you taking a piss?” Tom: “Yes, I hate all music” |
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Sketch Fest NY See Ya’
Exactly once a year we have the all too brief pleasure of meeting our regional and national sketch comedy brethren at a three day event they call “Sketch Fest NYC.” In the evenings – after extensive seminars where we sketch troupes talk shop, share tips, and watch demos featuring the latest in sketch comedy technology – we perform incredible shows for insanely reasonable prices (consider the quality, folks).
Above all, check out the fest. While you’re there, join us as we perform with comedy duo, B.O.F (Best of Friends). They’re a lady and a gent with a great webseries.
TICKETS: $10 [buy]
DATE: Saturday, June 13th @ 6pm
LOCATION: The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
307 W. 26th Street / New York / NY 10001 [map]
A-Side/B-Side @ UCB
Our NYU intern, Ben, is apparently slacking off on something called “summer break”, leaving us to do all the posting ourselves. I had to log into my own profile just to write this update, unbelievable. Anyway Ben, wherever you are, don’t be long.
Right, so we’ve got a gig this Saturday. We’re part of a show called “A-Side/B-Side” at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater here in New York City. We’re joining renowned NYC sketch groups, New Exc!tement and Murderfist. The evening will find each group performing a popular sketch, followed by a newer and/or more unusual sketch.
In case you were concerned, our B-Side will not be the infamous Equus sketch that had us banned from Harvey’s Laff Lounge in Sheboygan back in ‘03.
TICKETS: $5.00
DATE:
Saturday, May 30th @ Midnight
(also known as Sunday morning)
LOCATION:
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
307 W. 26th Street / New York / NY 10001 [map]
We’re on Facebook!
Apparently it’s all the rage.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Love-Forum/79045363381?ref=mf