I just got to this part when I saw this on Tumblr. And I laughed out loud. As you all should.
“It’s the maze, bro! You’ll never get out of the maze!” - Some filthy hippie on the new episode of Analyze Phish.
My sketch team, Neighbor Boy, was mentioned in this New York Times article(along with other fellow Maude team Fambly and of course SCF). Oh look a picture of our own Kate Hess in a sketch written by Melinda Taub. Are we famous yet?
Jim Santangeli drew this portrait of me. Unfortunately I think he got it dead on. MY LIFE!!!
Already got. Buy this shit!
For the rest of the week you can stream our new split LP via theneedledrop. You must then purchase said LP.
A double reminder to listen to this episode AND the new Analyze Phish. Thanks Fogelnest
Get the new episode of my podcast on iTunes or download it directly here.
I’m very excited about this week’s episode with Guest Seth Reiss. Seth Reiss is not only the head writer of The Onion, he’s also the man behind the “Studio 60” twitter account @MattAlbie60. I sat down with Seth to watch an episode of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” called “The Friday Night Slaughter.” Find out why Seth is tweeting about a show that hasn’t aired in five years, hear about his love/hate relationship with Aaron Sorkin, and learn the similarites between “Studio 60” and The Onion.
This is the first podcast I will listen to today. Before WTF, before Comedy Bang Bang and before the long awaited new Analyze Phish, I will download the musings of @MattAlbie60.
(via brettgelman)
Look. I love Craig. I love Seth. I love Jake. And i love Studio 60 aka the greatest show ever created. This episode has got the goods…i assume.
It’s That Episode Preview - Seth Reiss
Here’s a preview from my talk with Seth Reiss (Head writer of The Onion). We watched an episode of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” which has a special place in Seth’s heart. If you don’t know, Seth created the twitter account @MattAlbie60, an account for one of the main characters from “Studio 60.”
If you want to watch the episode of Studio 60 that we watched, called “The Friday Night Slaughter,” you can check it out on youtube here, or get it on iTunes. Even if you don’t watch it, you’ll enjoy the podcast.
The full podcast will be up Monday. Subscribe on iTunes.
A rare glimpse behind the tweets! Seth is the greatest. Craig did one of my favorite bits ever and both of these guys really have ‘the Studio 60 sensibility.’ Seth creating @MattAlbie60 and my instant idiotic reaction to make @DannyTripp60 is one of the dumbest, greatest Internet things ever. Here’s the whole story of how that came to be.
Can’t wait to hear this on Monday!
This is a classic episode of Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip from 1991.
(Source: whispertoariot)
My sketch group Neighbor Boy is doing a comedy show about Kickstarter. We have a Kickstarter for it. To be clear: The Kickstarter show and the Kickstarter for the show are both very real. You can for real give us money.
Our Project: Neighbor Boy’s Kickstarter is for funding a 30-min sketch comedy show about Kickstarter. So this is a Kickstarter for a Kickstarter show.
The show will take place Monday, February 13 at 9:30pm at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York along with the troupe Fambly. (You can make reservations here.)
We love performing original sketch comedy, but we need your help in order to write, rehearse and produce this show! Otherwise, the stage will just be empty for 30 minutes where our show should be.
Why We Need Your Help: Producing last month’s show cost us almost $200, and that was with minimal props and costumes. For instance, a sketch about a rollerskating Great Gatsby was not able to use authentic Jazz Age costumes. We could not afford music clearances for our sketch about two Mick Jagger clones who run a law firm together. A sexually confused unicorn was portrayed by an actor in a white sweatshirt rather than an actual unicorn costume. Plus, we only rehearsed like twice, because rehearsal space is really expensive.
Who We Are: Neighbor Boy includes six writers (Beth Appel, Caitlin Bitzegaio, Geoff Garlock, Matt Moskovciak, Melinda Taub, Erik Tanouye) six performers (Joanna Bradley, Tim Dunn, Kate Hess, Davram Stiefler, Shannon Taing, Rob Webber) and one director (Will Hines). We have a lot of credits, but do not have anyone who can assemble them into one nice list with links, like a press person would. If we had more money, we could probably do that. For now, you’ll have to google us all individually.
When Is That Show Again? Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 9:30pm at the UCB Theatre in Chelsea (on the corner of 26th St and Eighth Ave). You can make reservations here. You’ll get to see both us and Fambly, who produced last year’s hit Maude Night show “Brand New Day.”
How We’ll Use the Money: Since we’re still writing the show, we’re not sure what our exact expenses will be. Definitely we’ll need to rent space for rehearsals and readings. So far we’ve met in a bagel shop and a law firm’s offices after hours. In terms of props and costumes, based on the material we’ve written so far, we may need: a radio call-in show set, the board game Taboo, an astronaut costume, rights to use the theme song from “That’s So Raven”, an authentic Oval Office set, an ounce of gold (for a sketch about the gold standard), a dragon costume, and period attire from Victorian England.
I Don’t Have Money But I Still Want To Help: Sorry to hear about your financial difficulties. You can still:
- Like Neighbor Boy’s page on Facebook.
- Like our Kickstarter link below and share it with your friends and also family members and acquaintances and people whose email addresses you have even though you don’t remember who they are or why you know them
- Spread the word!
- Attend the show. If you can’t afford the $5 ticket, but you’re a sketch student at the UCB Training Center, you can attend the show for free.
- Spray paint “Neighbor Boy Feb 13, 2012” on buildings, cars, and babies in your neighborhood.
Thank you! This project means a lot to us and we’re really grateful to all of you for taking the time to read this and be a part of Neighbor Boy’s Kickstarter Comedy Show Monday February 13th at 9:30pm.
For whatever reason there were two posters made for this tour. I already talked about the show. What can I say about the poster? Well it’s not my favorite AND some how we ended up with 20 copies of it in the van. It reminds me a lot of going to Lollapallooza in 1993 where I ended up buying not one but TWO Lollapalooza shirts. The official one and then some crazy bootleg that was rice paper thin and had a disgusting design on it. But I had to have it because they used the actual logos of the bands with the actual font. This poster is the bootleg Lollapalooza 93 shirt of posters.
It also bums me out because much like on the official tour poster that was made for the entire tour, which I am staring at currently, the Panthers logo is not our font. Everyone else had their official font. And I still wonder if I missed some email where they wanted us to send an official logo for the tour poster, or maybe Vice dropped the ball. Or maybe it was both of us. But every other band had their official looking logo and not only did we not have our logo/font used. They also somehow picked THE WORST FONT EVER.(no offense whoever picked it. i am sure you are a beautiful person). They might as well have picked Cowboy or Wingdings. Will irk me till I die.
WE’RE BACK!!!!! You know like Youth Of Today. But instead of talking about a lame reunion I am talking about lame shows in the past. Back to talking about all these old band posters related to my life that I have found.
Today we have another show from the High On Fire/Panthers/Mono/Coliseum tour, and this is the show we played at Emo’s in Austin, TX. Let me start off by saying, I am a grumpy man. I don’t love being around “people” a lot of times. Thus festivals are hard for me. Maybe even being in a touring band and/or doing comedy. But that is my life. But suprisingly. I really love SXSW. See lots of bands you would never see and you can check off your list, like Big Star or Metal Urbaine? check. Get free clothes somehow? check. Lots of free food and if you drink beer, but if you don’t you die of dehydration? check. Be able to run into all your friends in other bands from all around the world but only have to talk to them for the first fun 5 minutes and not all the annoying minutes after in what is known as a “conversation” because everyone is running somewhere? check. I like it.
This was NOT at SXSW. And these are the times I am not as in love with Austin. I know a lot of people who really love the place. And maybe I need to go when I am not playing in a band. But without the insanity of SXSW, Austin and the surrounding area of Emo’s just feels exhausting to me. I have no interest in keeping Austin weird. I don’t want to keep any place weird. We can keep every place normal as long as I don’t have to see Jester hats and old burnouts. And yes Austin is the music capital of the world. But what that seems to translate is every bar and tiny club has some bastardization of Stevie Ray Vaughn bar rock that I am not interested in. But I digress.
So this was one of the larger shows on the tour. We were playing the back area of Emo’s which I believed held 800-1000 people who all looked like they were former members of Nashville Pussy. I remember playing fine. But I also remember selling possibly the smallest amount of merchandise for the entire tour this night. Nothing like selling 1 cd and MAYBE 1 shirt to over 800 people. Makes you really question your choices and the fact that you bent over backwards to get on that tour. Those can be the hardest nights of tour. You are really missing your significant other, the conversation has run dry in the van, but the stink of 4 dudes has increased tenfold. Music itself is starting to sound like the worst thing in the world, and all you are looking for is one person to give you 10 bucks for a CD to put some sort of justification on all the choices you have made in the past 10 years of your life.
Suffice it to say I was in a bad mood the entire time. This was also one of the nights I ate alone like a sad man, walking to the one Mexican restaurant that I eat at every time, so I could wallow in both my crapulance and in cheese enchiladas with green sauce.
on the up side I really liked this posters design. Big fan of darker prints on black paper(Orchid once made black printing on black stickers which was both the biggest dick move and one of the more awesome stickers) and it is one of the multiple posters from this tour that I still have hanging up in my apartment.
