New York is such a wonderful city to visit this time of year. The weather is perfect. The women are still all beautiful and summerfied. And the plane ride up is un-fucking-bearable.
Last night, we went to Ground Zero. Ground Zero of alternative comedy in New York City, that is. BOOOOM!!! OK, that’s not cool. There’s a lot of other places in Manhattan that probably would contest that they are the nexus of alt-comedy. But we weren’t at those places, were we? We were at Rififi’s in the East Village enjoying the crap out of Bobby Tisdale and Eugene Mirman’s weekly comedy show, Invite Them Up. If you love these guys’ Super Deluxe videos, chances are, Invite Them Up is where some of the original ideas for them were conceived and/or fleshed out. Or not. It’s a pretty “whatever the fuck goes” kind of night. Like when the multi-multi-talented Reggie Watts (seen here with fellow hair models) wrapped the evening up in a pretty bow with a beatbox-loop pedal-mindfuck improv performance that defies further categorization.
Here’s Super Deluxe stooge, Senatorturer, Bobby Tisdale and Invite Them Up co-producer and gracious hostess, Holly Schlesinger.
Of course, both Eugene and Bobby performed, as well as Adam Lowitt, Seth Herzog, Larry Murphy, and Chelsea Peretti. We got a ton of amazing footage of the performances that’s going up on the site and on the podcast soon. We also have to add that big, evil gentrification is threatening to shutdown Rififi, and consequently give Invite Them Up the boot. So, there’s going to be a special podcast about that.
And that’s not to mention all of the random folks that just happened to show up last night, like Zach Galifianakis (who was sporting those big headphones that everybody seems to be wearing these days).
Anywho, if you’ve made it this far down in our ramblings and you’re in Manhattan tonight, come and join us at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. The all-lady comedy revue that is the Variety Shac (Chelsea Peretti, Andrea Rosen, et. al.) is performing. And we’re going to be front and center and paying lots of attention.
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Wait, let me put it this way, I WISH I could watch ben masturbate all day; wink, ben, are you listening, I WISH I could, very soon.
only “real men” are able to jack off with their pants on looking at the Sky Catalog.
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