We're in a movie! It opens in Michigan in January and then in select cities. Details below. Also, look for us to return to Detroit's Comedy Castle in June 2010.
Check out 1:30 "Nailed It."
The World Premiere is set for Jan. 5, 2010 at the Emagine Theatre in Novi, MI. The movie opens in theatres Jan. 8, 2010 in the Detroit area. The event took place March 16-21, 2009 at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle. This Jim Dudek Film captures what it was all about not only for the audience but also for the comedians. For more Information or for tickets to attend the World Premiere Event, Visit: ArkDistribution.com
Our final college show of the semester was at Lyndon State in Lyndonville Vermont on 9/12/09. That makes 37 freaking shows in one semester: KAPOW!
For this show, we shared the bill with our best buddy Michael Kent, and even merged the two shows for the 'questions from the audience' segment. Both shows went great, and it couldn't have been a better way to finish the season.... Except I did injure myself.
I went up to Vermont a couple days before the show to visit a friend in Burlington, and while I was there I visited the Magic Hat Brewery, maker of fine craft beers. I made a little video about it- check it out.
I also made a video about my favorite part of the Detroit Airport.
This was a really great show that we got to perform with comedian Rob O'Reilly! Make sure you check out his stuff; it's pretty funny.
Other highlight: they served snacks!
Also, Jonathan decided it was a good idea to rip a phone book in half.
I bought a Flip Camera right before the show, so it makes it easy to create fun little videos like this, so you can look forward to more of it in the future!
10/28/09 was our third time performing at MCLA, and it's always a pleasure! The school's mascot is "the Trailblazers", which is basically a hiker.... Yep, a fearsome dude with a hiking stick and boots.... go team....
We love MCLA, those kids are the best and we hope they continue to bring us every year for forever!
RHIT is another engineering school with a grossly disproportionate ratio of guys to girls. Basically, they are the smartest geeks you've ever met, and they are a lot of fun to perform for. The highlight of this show was during the questions from the audience segment of our show, because they asked a really fun question, "Have you ever gotten hurt during a show?" I got to launch into all my stories of almost getting hurt, and Jonathan helped me act them out in slow motion 3D (sort of). I'm not going to tell you those stories here; you'll have to come to one of our shows and ask that question yourself during that segment.
Knox College is one of those schools that takes the "Liberal" in Liberal Arts College to heart. It's the kind of school that has a football team whose players can't remember the last time they won a game (yet somehow sponsored by Nike), but boasts an intramural frisbee team that will destroy you with amazing hippie athleticism the likes of which you didn't know existed.
The girls on the activities board had entertaining reactions to the stunts in our show. They were terrified of my juggling props, especially the knife. Pre-show, I was trying to demonstrate that it's not sharp or fearsome and held it up to my neck, at which point one of them about had a heart attack due to her complete phobia of anything having to do with necks... Even talking about something touching anyone's neck makes her squirm and go pale. I made a bunch of inside jokes during the show for these girls because I thought their reactions were funny.... Jonathan's contortion tricks made them cover their eyes... what can ya do?
The audiences at Vincennes have a reputation as being pretty raucous, and they didn't fail us when we did our show there on 10/22/09. We were a little worried that nobody would show up to the show because they were presenting us in a space that was brand-new to the campus, and none of the students seemed to know where it was, but we had a nice sized audience anyway.
For some reason there was a baby in pumpkin costume out in the audience... It wasn't weird that it was in a pumpkin costume (it was close to Halloween), it's just that we don't get many babies attending our college shows. Jonathan threatened to do juggling tricks with it. I was sort of disappointed that he didn't.
Freaking amazing show except for one thing: my shirt got stolen! Yeah, some girl stole my shirt! If you have seen either my solo show or The ShowOff Show, you know that the rules of my skateboard catapult trick are that every time I miss the trick I have to remove a piece of clothing. Most of the time, it takes me four attempts and I have to take off my long sleeved shirt, at which point I use the oportunity to wrap it around a spectator's neck, and then towel whip another guest, and ocassionaly I throw the shirt at a third audience member. I have ALWAYS gotten the shirt back... but this time the girl kept it. I didn't realize she had claimed it as a trophy until after she was long gone... Oh well, what can ya do?
The show at IUS turned out to be an unexpectedly fun show where we made some great friends. We didn't expect much because the advisor of the activities board had told us she would be surprised if we had 10 people show up. There wasn't really a dinner hour at this school for some reason, so we couldn't do much of a teaser... In fact, I had to hunt around campus and do tricks for study groups tucked away in corners of hallways to drum up an audience for the show. But man, it turned out to be great! Although it was a modest sized audience, it filled the room with laughter and energy and made us feel great. It's shows like these where we feel like real professionals in our field of entertainment.
