Made a promo video to introduce Diamond Lion’s new show theme. Apologies to my girlfriend, who was trying to sleep while I did the “little immigrant boy” voiceover this morning.
This week with special guest D’Arcy Carden! Who is wonderful!
Friday at 9pm, UCBeast. Reservations here.
I spent the last two days in a recording studio in Brooklyn, helping improvise musical thank you notes for 500 of AT&T’s Facebook friends. Here’s the link to the rest of the videos.
They wrote each person’s info on a whiteboard just beyond the camera. We got to look at it for 10 seconds or so before they started filming, then the music director would recap the details, and we’d start singing. In the video above, the wrong person was described on the whiteboard.
This is what it looks like when my brain explodes.
(Thanks for posting about the audition, Pat!)
Eliza Skinner is sitting in with Diamond Lion tonight! 9pm (NEW TIME), at UCBeast.
If you’re in one of the musical improv groups I’ve coached, you’ve probably heard me drop Eliza’s name in notes along the lines of, “Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t do it as well as Eliza Skinner.” She’s basically the Michael Jordan of musical improv, you guys.
Except, if Michael Jordan was still playing, and at the top of his game. So, whoever’s really good in basketball right now. Who would that be? LeBron James? I don’t really watch basketball.
I’ve finalized my invitation list for the “dinner party where you get to invite 10 famous people who were born within one month of you” thing (that I just invented):
Apologies to Shalom Harlow and Frank Caliendo.
I wrote this video for Langan as part of Get Paid’s Secret Santa Project. Just watched it again for the first time in a while, and, damn, she does an awesome job. I especially love the disturbing baby puppeteering.
A fully improvised song for piano and voice. In my introductory remarks I claimed to have studied composing at the Eastman School of Music for a semester and a half. Which is not true. I don’t know how to play the piano.
Bonus points to @BritaJames for understanding that my call for “requests” was actually a cue for someone to yell out a made-up title. Thus, “The Elephant That Lost His Trunk” was born.
Recorded on my unflatteringly-angled iPad, at Tesla’s Cinco de Mayo show, 5/5/12.
Horse + Horse has moved into reality TV. Hello, Bravo, funds, please?
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN AUDIT?
This Tax Day, check out the hottest new reality show featuring one of America’s favorite validity evaluation procedures: auditing!Director: Luke Koz
Writer: Kristy Lopez-Bernal
Featuring: Nadia Quinn, Morgan Phillips, Persephone Whiteside-McFadden, Dan Black, Jackie Jennings, James Dwyer, Hal Phillips, Phil Wolff, Leslie Hanson and Melissa Sheehy
Director of Photography: Patrick Mahoney
Editors: Chris Chuang and Kent Kincannon
Graphics: Chris Chuang
Producers: Luke Koz and Kristy Lopez-Bernal
Sound: Luke Koz
Special thanks to Julie Smith and Virtual Office Solutions — Capstone Executive Offices for allowing use of their facilities: http://tinyurl.com/79ktpmaBrought to you by UCB Comedy.
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Timely and funny! And I’m in it! And I’m wearing fancy clothes!
Tonight! Diamond Lion! UCBeast! 7:30pm! Special guests Fran Gillespie and Tim Martin, and Hallie Haglund (writer for the Daily Show) on monologues!
If you’re all, like, “I love Diamond Lion, but they have a weekly show now, I’ll see it eventually,” but then you never get around to actually seeing it, this would be a great week to be Johnny Follow-Through. 100% guaranteed laffs!
Elvis Costello & the Brodsky Quartet - Taking My Life in Your Hands, Jackson’s, Monk & Rowe
For what it’s worth, THIS was the beginning of my Elvis Costello fandom. First album I bought, and I remember watching this appearance on TV and thinking “yes, I am going to buy all of his other albums.” Weird, considering that this is the only album of his that actually sounds anything like this…
One of my absolute favorite albums.
This made me remember that one of my secret fantasies is to record an album with a string quartet.
Also acceptable: A cello trio.
Make it happen, universe. Thanks in advance.
In March of 2011 I was sitting behind my friends Kelly and Langan in the audience at UCB. They were talking about how awkward it is when somebody asks to be part of an existing indie improv team.
I interrupted them and mentioned that, funnily enough, I’d recently seen their team “Get Paid” perform and had wished I could join it. I knew most of them from classes, had been on teams with one or two of them before, and thought everyone seemed cool and fun. Nobody was on a house team at UCB, but everyone was super talented.
Fortunately for me, they let me join.
One year later: Every single member of Get Paid is now on a UCB house team of some sort (Harold, Maude, Beta, Diamond Lion). Hell, the ladies are on two each.
In celebration, I used my new iPad(!) to draw creepy, unidentifiable pictures of everyone.
We have a show this Saturday, by the way.
Special 9pm Diamond Lion tonight!
Zhubin Parang (writer for the Daily Show) on Monologues! Special guest performers Molly Lloyd (Airwolf) and John Murray (Death By Roo Roo)! With Ari Scott on the keys! Also, Ari took that photo of Zhubin and the doggy! Synergy!
Reservations here!
