June 25, 2007

Tonight - Jem & The Holograms Live


Monday, June 25th @ 7pm
The UCB Theatre
307 West 26th Street at 8th Avenue
$5.00

Written & Directed by Amanda Allan

Glennis McMurray - Jem/Jerrica
Eliza Skinner - Pizzaz

Holograms
Aja - Becky Yamamoto
Shayna - Jaime Skinner
Kimber - Amanda Allan

Misfits
Stormer - Jen Hammaker
Roxy - Erin Rose Foley

Synergy - Jeff Hiller
Lin Z - Liz Black
Rio - John Flynn
Eric - Greg Burke
Doctor - Kristina Sepulveda
Orphan - Jen MacNeil

Costumes by Angela Harner

The SMUT stops here.

Tonight will be the last SMUT at Galapagos.
After three wonderful years, Desiree Burch’s dirty-funny reading series will be ending its run at Galapagos. Don’t let this occasion go by without some sort of fanfare! Stop by for some CHEAP DRINKS and some amazing fun FREE performances.

Michael Cyril Creighton (VH1 Best Night Ever, Rip Me Open)
Erin Markey (Joe’s Pub, Guggenheim Museum)
Elon James White (Shades of Black, Brooklyn Comedy Co.)
Fritz Donnelly (”To The Hills,” “How to Fight […]

June 22, 2007

Any Way You Want It.

It’s officially the first friday of summer. Blow it off with Michelle Colyn and her ode to Steve Perry!

June 19, 2007

Banj-aid, Tonight

Sara Schaeffer and Adira Amram will both be appearing - selflessly and altruistically - at Banj-aid tonight. Banj-aid is a benefit show for honky-tonk band, The Defibulators, who recently lost their banjo in a tragic hit and run. (For those of you who have never priced a banjo or been a musician in NYC: that shit is expensive!) Now they’re raising money to buy a new one, with some great comedy & roots […]

June 12, 2007

Ball & Chain tonight!

Comic Jenny Rubin has some talented friends - which helps when you need to pay for a wedding. Tonight at Mo Pitkins a stellar line up of New York comedians are getting together for a wedding benefit for Jenny and her man, Jasper. Carolyn Castiglia! Baron Vaughn! Ann Carr! Plus, any time we see Michelle Collins on a line-up we know it’s a show worth seeing.
If you love love, don’t miss this show. If you are […]

June 8, 2007

The Kissing Booth’s Anniversary Prom

Hey, remember prom? Well, then you’re one ahead of me. I remember the pre-show peach schnapps and “champagne” and throwing up in an alley sometime in the morning, but in between there - your guess is as good as mine.
But now we have a chance to right the wrongs of the past - or at least relive them. This Saturday night The Kissing Booth is hosting an Anniversary Prom. If you’re not sure that enough happened […]

June 7, 2007

Step 1 - get published, Step 2 - rule the world

You’ve got to get started on that world domination plan some day, right? This could be just the ticket! –

Dorothy Von Irony’s Journal of Literary Humor and Humorous Literature
(which is, in fact, exactly the thing it sounds like)
is seeking submissions for its inaugural issue

We are seeking submissions of humor writing, as written by and for the highly literate. Fiction and nonfiction are both acceptable, although fiction should seek to be especially humorous. Maximum legnth is 5,000 […]

June 6, 2007

It Is Here, YAAAAAY! - Countdown to SFNYC

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SketchFest NYC starts tomorrow!!! YAY!!! I really hope you can catch a show or 21. If you wanna come out and support the all lady groups like the ones I’ve mentioned, here are their scheduled dates,

Two Girls for $5 - performing on a bill w/ Tybrus. – Thursday, June 7th, 11pm
MEAT – Friday June 8th, 10pm
Becky & Noelle – performing on a bill w/ kevINda – Saturday, June […]

Tonight, Jess Wood! “Anything but a White Girl”

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Tonight Jess Wood begins a new run of her one woman show, “Anything but a White Girl”

“Some kids wanna be president,
Some kids wanna be rock stars,
Jess Wood always wanted to be;
Anything but a White Girl”

Wednesday’s in June @ Laugh Lounge 151 Essex St. (Rivington/Stanton)
$7 bucks 7pm
Presented by Gettin’ Wood productions presents;
www.jesswood1/myspace.com
www.laughlounge.com
212.614.2500

This woman is on fire. I […]

June 5, 2007

Linkies - bites from the Roll Call

Carolyn Castiglia explains the comedy ghetto and why she can say it, but you can’t.

Brandy Barber breaks your heart recounting her history of ill-fated obsessive crushes.

Catie Lazarus has started looking for a sugar daddy.

And Amy Rhodes got a job and an email.