February 2010
32 posts
“Dear All, As you know from the news and from looking out your windows, this snow...”
– There’s a very frustrated English major stuck working at our building’s management company.
Parenting
Me: So Dad, we go to Colombia next week, so if anything happens-
Dad: If anything happens, I get your apartment and I'll run the [UCB] theater.
REUBEN WILLIAMS: WHAT YOU MISSED (2/13/10)
1st Half: (Meteor Shower/Media Shower)
-When a girl gets abducted, the media obsesses over interviewing the people living next door who are not connected to the story at all except that they live next door.
-Chaos breaks out at a health club when a guy in the showers asks the guy next to him for a towel.
-A local newscast’s feel-good final story goes awry because their producer watched...
WatchNYC Beta Team, Diamonds Wow!, honors JD Salinger.
WatchLA Beta Team - The Fix - made a commercial for Chatroulette.
Study: Jazz Improv Cranks Up Brain's Creativity →
When jazz pianists are improvising riffs, their brains act much more like the dreaming brain, with inhibition turned down and creativity cranked way up, a new study finds.
This seems applicable to…something…
WatchThe Brig is funny AND fast.
REUBEN WILLIAMS: WHAT YOU MISSED (2/6/10)
1st Half: (Pickle)
-A married couple who get turned on by the struggle to get their lube jars open.
-Christian Cuddlers on a trip to Six Flags
-A Saw-like morality test conducted by a guy who had never seen Saw - and who hadn’t really thought through how his test would work.
-A guy introducing his date to his dead mother - who floats in a vat of “life gel” in his bedroom.
-A...
Quoted In the NY Times:
from You-Caught-My-Eyes as Creative Kindling
SINGALONG The Upright Citizens Brigade, an improvisational comedy group that is based at a theater on West 26th Street, has long trolled the Internet for humorous material. So when Anthony King, the artistic director, discovered the Missed Connections listings two years ago, they struck him as the perfect ore from which to create comedy sketches. They...
WatchLIVE FROM THE UCB THEATRE!
This is from the LOST: Dharma Initiative Company Picnic show on Monday.
Thanks to the hard work of Todd Bieber (and others), there are going to be a lot more LIVE videos like this. Very exciting!
justcraig asked: You were in a dream I had last night, and in it your first name was actually Ali, which was an acronym for something. What was the acronym for, and what does it mean that I had that dream?
halphillips asked: Hey dude. Someone was asking me about improv recently, and I paraphrased something you said: "my working theory is that it is the only artform that allows multiple artists to spontaneously create their art in immediate reaction to each other". His response: "That's not true. What about freeform jazz?" Good point. What's your take?
WatchI love this new video from The Brig!
csingel asked: What's the best thing about doing improv as opposed to more financially lucrative forms of comedy such as stand-up or writing?
