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.
Wartburg College brought us in for Family Weekend entertainment on 10/10, and the show was delightful! Before the show, the Activities Board (or whatever they're called at Wartburg) took us out to eat at the local pizza place, and I had the special Octoberfest Pizza, which had bratwurst and sauerkraut on it- which was amazing and delicious! We learned that Wartburg was a castle that Martin Luther holed up in after refusing to recant at "the diet of Worms", (which is not what you think).
In the morning, we drove our rental SUV back to the airport and headed off for some much needed time at home. The SUV we had rented all week is worth talking about: the Toyota Seqoia is even larger than our past behemouth GMC Sienna. We had dubbed the Sienna "the GMC Elephant", and we are dubbing the Seqoia "the Toyota Aircraft Carrier". We think that it actually had another car located inside rather than a spare tire. The thing had two cupholders in every door, and three more in the center console. Also in the center console was a compartment large enough to store a small child, or at least both of our laptop computers. There were literally 8 compartments in which to keep your sunglasses, and two glove boxes. At 16 miles per gallon, it was 20% less fuel efficient than the GMC, and didn't have as many nice luxury features, like heated seats, a gate that went up in the back... the Toyota just wasn't as nice.
Saint Catherine's University, dubbed by the students "Saint Kate's", is an all girls' Catholic College in St. Paul, MN, complete with a convent! Saint Catherine is the patron saint of many things, including (my favorites): unwed girls, dying people, knife sharpeners, and lawyers.
When we arrived at the school, I broke out in hives and assumed I was having some kind of allergic reaction to something I had eaten earlier that day (I'm not allergic to anything, but who knows). The joke became that I must have developed an allergy to girls! A few days later, I learned that I had been bitten by bed bugs during my sleep at the hotel the night before. Ironically, someone had actually said to me "don't let the bed bugs bite" over Facebook Chat that very night. I had always thought that the whole bed bugs thing was just a saying, but it turns out they are incredibly tenacious little bugs that are a serious problem if you don't protect yourself from them. And it doesn't help to stay in high end hotels, they can and do infest even the best.
One interesting note: In our "balloon animals 101" segment, our recording says, "how about you sir, yes, you sir", which would have been awkward at the all girls school if it weren't for one young lady's fortunate boyfriend in attendance.
March 3rd was an Awesome show at Ferris State! Our good buddy Michael Kent picked us up from the airport the night before and we got to do another show together! We have pictures to show and Michael edited a couple videos to share. Enjoy!
The next video is posted on Facebook. To view it click here
On Jan 13, we logged our first show of the year at Mt Union College in Alliance OH. They booked us and our good friend Michael Kent on the same night, which is pretty fun for us. It happened to be the night before Michael's birthday, so we threw in a special little birthday bit into the show at the last minute.
The theater at Mt. Union is a beautiful old movie house with the original projector and some old movie reels still intact. While we were there they were in the process of updating it with a digital projector, and a nice surround sound system. Turnout to the show was decent even though it was snowing pretty hard outside, which made the walk to the theater a little slick.
After the show we all went out to dinner with the Mt Union activities board.
