22 5 / 2013
Our story this week: Christian talks with Nick Kanellis about one horrible night when Nick suffered the perfect storm of bedbugs, robot vodka, human urine on an air mattress, and being cast off from the summit of Mount Olympus, home of the gods.
Nick is a comedian and improvisor whom you may see performing with Trike at the Magnet Theater in New York Saturdays at 10:30 or tweeting under the nom de net @nickkanellis.
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15 5 / 2013
Our story this week: Christian Capozzoli is your new host of A Funny Thing. Listen as he takes the reins and leads the story carriage right over a cliff of fire fog, adolescent gore, unrequited tan-lust, sun blindness, and arguably the most nightmarish family vacation ever.
Welcome home, Christian. You’ll fit right in.
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01 5 / 2013
Our story this week: Melanie Hamlett, yearning for the endless, intoxicating adventure of South America found herself couch surfing into a house full of clowns. Literal clowns. Bipolar, uncicycling clowns. Always on the lookout for a safe haven from the lecherous man-pigs of the road, Melanie thought she had found her respite from constant sexual harassment amongst those bronze boys of the circus arts. But then came a clown called Blue Angel, and everything changed.
Melanie Hamlett is a comedian, storyteller, world traveler , and two-time MOTH storyslam winner who has written for Marie Claire, Nerve.com, and her book Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana. You can catch her performing in Adventures with Melanie Hamlett at the Under St. Marks Theater in New York on the 3rd monday of every month at 7pm, and at melaniehamlett.com. she told her story at the incomparable Nights of Our Lives.
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24 4 / 2013
Our story this week: In honor of 4/20 we bring you international intrigue, body cavity bingo, vagina lips like hot dog buns, and so much more, as Amey Goerlich smuggles us past customs and secrets us away in the most intimate storytelling crevices of her heart. Watch out for that yogurt.
Amey Goerlich is a comedian and founding member of the seminal improv powerhouse, Krompf. See her at Indie Cage Match every Saturday at 7:00 at the UCB East in New York City (tickets here).
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17 4 / 2013
Our story this week: Brantley Brice didn’t so much struggle with his sexuality as much as he gleefully did the breaststroke in a river of denial of it. His closet was a palace of men’s underwear models and sexual aids. But the truth, much like Brendan Frasier in a golden cod-piece, will always out.
Brantley Brice is an actor and comedian in New york. Seek and ye shall find him performing with The Bats, the resident theater company of The Flea Theater, or follow him on Twitter @brantleybrice. He loves dinosaurs.
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10 4 / 2013
Pat Baer Fights Wolves, Finds Love
Our story this week: Pat Baer, creeped out by an awkward drug party around an unfamiliar campfire, escapes into the forest along with the beautiful, straight-edge subject of his unspoken desire. But if there’s one thing that history teaches us, it’s this: journeys into dark forests produce narrative crisis points via confrontation with representations of the bestial self. Should have seen this one coming, Pat.
Pat Baer is an improvisor and all around great guy who has helped with the production of A Funny Thing since its very beginning. Thanks Pat! He also hosts 404ing it: Breaking Down the Internet, a surprisingly moving love song to all things online at the UCBeast theater. It is a great show, and if you like the internet (you do) then you should check it out.
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03 4 / 2013
Our story this week: Comedian Michael Hartney was a fresh-faced writer’s assistant eager to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning gay and lesbian sketch comedy television industry. Instead, he got a master class on whom not to f*ck with. Rosie O’Donnell, thats whom. Positive energy!
Michael Hartney is a comedian you’ve seen on 30 Rock and on stage at the UCB. He hosts the always funny character showcase Characters Welcome at the UCBeast, Friday, April 26th at 7:30pm. Click here for tickets. He told his story at the inimitable Oh, Hey Guys!
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27 3 / 2013
Our story this week: Fresh off bombing her stand up set, Ophira Eisenberg was desperate to turn a bad night into a good one. How to do it? By sleeping with the weird, sad headliner, of course. The guy “who’s entire wardrobe came from a t-shirt gun.” But how weird and sad can things get, really? Very. Things can get very weird and very sad. Mondays, am I right?
Ophira Eisenberg is a comedian and storyteller who hosts NPR’s Ask Me Another. She has a fantastic new book out this week, called Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Click on that link to see it on Amazon, and if you’re smart, to buy it. She told her story at Night of Our Lives, the wizened lion of New York storytelling shows, at the UCB theater.
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20 3 / 2013
Our story this week: The narratorial tag team of Adam Wade and Peter Aguero form the beast with two butts to double down on the old number two. It’s a poop story, okay? Two poop stories. Remember a couple of weeks ago when we had the story of comedian wrestling with the urge to contextualize her own abuse? Well, now we’re doing poop stories.
Peter Aguero is a storyteller and general bon vivant about town. You can find him at The Comedy Bar on the 22nd playing with the BTK Band, and telling stories at Bare (true stories with burlesque (naked people)) March 31st at the Red Room, both in New York. Adam Wade, friend of the show and MOTH Grandslam champion forty times over, hosts the Tales of the Cosmos storytelling show at the UCBeast, amongst other things about which you may read at adamwade.com. The next Tales of the Cosmos on April 19th has a surprise All Star line-up. You’re gonna wanna buy tickets here.
Photo by Spencer Ritenour.
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13 3 / 2013
Our story this week: Streeter Seidell (Colleger Humor) takes us down his twisting path of pet ownership, from the truth of how horrible cats are to the inevitable dark magic ritual that brought a colony of dead mice back to life. Only one of them came back evil!
Streeter Seidell is one of the pillars of internet comedy titan CollegeHumor.com as well as the man behind the hilarious collection of first world problems, WhiteWine.com. He told his story at Tales of the Cosmos at the UCBeast theater in New York, New York.
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