http://www.youtube.com/user/GetPaidVideo
My improv team “Get Paid” did a Secret Santa thing where instead of exchanging gifts, we wrote videos for each other. Then we nagged each other mercilessly until they were all recorded and uploaded. Then we had a virtual viewing party on Google+. Then we created this youtube channel.
2012, you guys! Futuretimes!
Extremely excited for this Thursday’s UCB CageMatch. (Reservations here.)
You know that thing they do in the end-of-the-year tournament, the live “locker room” interview, projected on the movie screen? In two days, that will be me, and a team I’m (lucky enough to be) on.
CRAZY.
Improv can be such a fleeting, intangible thing. I’ve been enjoying the hell out of doing Diamond Lion every week at UCBeast, but once the shows are done, they’re gone forever.
UNTIL NOW!
This Thursday at 7:30pm (Not Friday this week! Thursday!) the Upright Citizens Brigade will be videotaping our show. For publicity, for excerpting on the web, for our mothers, FOREVER!
Normally I just want you to come to the shows because I like you, and you work hard, and you deserve a fun time. This week I’d like you to come so that future generations don’t think we did shows in front of an empty theater.
Please come, and please laugh loudly. Do it for the children. That you and the cast of Diamond Lion will have together. Conceived in the UCBeast basement greenroom, after the show. Possibly.
(Note for superfans: The beautiful ring pictured above can be purchased on Amazon for $319.99; ownership will guarantee access to the post-taping Diamond Lion baby-makin’ session.)
This show is happening tomorrow at midnight. This show is being written and rehearsed tomorrow in the hours leading up to midnight.
I will be one of the actors. I hope the writers write stuff for me that mostly involves goofy faces and wacky noises, because I am not a strong memorizer.
I also hope I get to wear fake glasses for one or more of the sketches! I am a huge fan of wearing fake glasses. They make me feel smart and/or creepy.
This is going to be super fun, and you should attend!
Friday night, Lions roar with Dan Klein of The Law Firm and Pangea 3000 AND Abra Tabak of Grandma’s Ashes AND Ari Scott on piano. ROOOOOOAR.
Also, there will be very funny improv. Tickets by clicking on THIS.
This and every Friday at 730pm. UCBEAST.
Oh, the most fun ever? Okay, cool.
This is happening next Monday, 10/24 at 7.30, yall! Save your pennies and come support improv for a great cause! Spread the word …bring friends, co-workers, and your rich great-uncle, the shipping tycoon.
Poupak Sepehri is co-hosting the show, and she has…
Even if you’re pro-cancer, the raffle prizes make this event worth attending. (Watch SNL from the writer’s room? Sure, okay, I’d be willing to do that.) Part of me doesn’t want anybody else to buy tickets, so I can buy twenty or thirty and win everything.
The improv should be pretty great, too. When you see the team I’ve put together, you’ll be all like, “DAMN, Morgan knows how to put together a TEAM.”
Holy cow.
This week, Diamond Lion is joined by John Gemberling and Anthony Atamanuik of Death by Roo Roo and The Tony and Johnny Show.
Doesn’t get better than this.
Friday at 730 at UCBEAST (3rd Street and Avenue A): CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
(And for The Tony and Johnny Show, get tickets by clicking HERE)
OH YEAH.
Is there a way that this show will not be fun? No, there is not.
Only improv addicts will truly understand how deliciously nerdy my night will be.
Doing both class shows at UCB tonight, before and after Harold Night:
6:30pm - Anthony Atamanuik class in which he’s been emphasizing super-committed, realistic behavior and passionately arguing against an emphasis on premise.
11pm - Will Hines “Immediately Great” class, in which our opening and first beats are a variation of the “Premise Keepers” form.
I’m in love with both approaches, and can’t wait.
My imaginary arch-rival is on the cover of the Village Voice.
About thirteen years ago the internet informed me that there was a guy named Morgan Phillips who lived in my neighborhood (back then, the East Village), was approximately my age, and was also a musician interested in subverting pop culture.
I sent him an email, basically saying, “Hey, isn’t it weird that we have the same name and live right near each other and are doing some similar stuff.” His response was approximately, “So what, I don’t care.”
I decided to hate him forever.
And now he’s going to be The Famous Morgan Phillips, and everybody’s going to ask me about him, and I will dissolve into a pool of bitter witch-juice.
If only to enjoy this picture, taken by the phenomenal Cate Hellman, please follow DiamondLionNY.tumblr.com. We’ll update it with the week’s guests and other supercool stuff.
Also COME CHECK OUT THE SHOW. Fridays at 730 at UCBEAST, 3rd Street and Avenue A. We’ve added Ben Rameaka (Airwolf) and Connor Ratliff (the newest Stepfather!) for this week’s show. Will there be more guests? WHO KNOWS!?
Buy tickets here: http://east.ucbtheatre.com/performances/view/20782 (performers haven’t been updated on the website yet)
OK BYE. SEE YOU FRIDAY.
If I was not me, I would be jealous of me.
