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<p>Wednesday Jan 12 2011  INSIDE WITH: JARED LOGAN AND DAN ST. GERMAIN</p>
<p>Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 9:00AM  Jared Logan & Daniel St. Germain | Photo by Mindy Tucker, directed by Andy Ross</p>

<p>By: Meghan O'Keefe</p>

<p>There’s something really joyous about watching two brilliant performers work together when it’s clear they love the collaboration. Sometimes, though, it’s even funnier to watch two brilliant people together who loathe each other. Two of New York’s favorite stand up comics, Dan St. Germain and Jared Logan, tackle the humor of hatred in their new show, They Hated Each Other -- now playing at the UCBT-NY. The Apiary gave them a few Q's and they volleyed back these A's.</p>

<p>How did you get the idea for the show?</p>
<p>Jared: I really like history and Dan really likes horrible celebrity feuds and we wanted to do a show that reflected our interests. That said, I think I came up with the idea for the whole thing and should receive the credit for it.</p>
<p>Dan: Jared's first draft was filled with historical facts that were horribly incorrect. The first half talked about how Daniel Boone discovered the telegraph and pogs, the second half climaxed with John Wilkes Booth assassinating un-dead Harriet Tubman. Seriously though, I think striking balance between what your show mission is and putting in the laugh lines is tricky. It took us awhile to discover a balance.</p>

<p>When and how did the two of you become writing partners?</p>
<p>Jared: We started writing together pretty soon after I moved to the city in 2008. I found Dan was a great partner because he often behaved like a jack-ass and inspired lots of jokes that started "I have this idiot friend who...[does something jack-assy]." Though I don't think I even do any of those jokes now. But Dan got me writing! He inspired me!</p>
<p>Dan: I was looking for someone who was both fatter and more annoying then I was.</p>

<p>Did you really hate each other when you first met?</p>
<p>Dan: Definitely hate each other more now.</p>
<p>Jared: We didn't fight a lot when we first met but we do now. That doesn't mean we are not good friends. We are. Right, Dan? Maybe? God, I'm just not sure anymore.</p>
<p>Dan: Jared has only ever irritated me when I've spent time with him. I think we work better when we argue. It’s just our dynamic. I've had some partners where it works better when we don't, but we can both be stubborn as hell and I think forcing us to compromise has made a better product.</p>

<p>How did you decide which historic feuds to include in the show?</p>
<p>Dan: We consulted with our PR people.</p>
<p>Jared: We'd been writing and showcasing the show for over a year before we got a chance to do a run at the UCB. So there are lots of historic feuds in those early drafts of the show that didn't quite make the cut based on a staged reading or whatever.</p>

<p>What were some of the feuds that were cut?</p>
<p>Dan: Bank of America vs. Huey Lewis.</p>
<p>Jared: We had feuds between Stephen King & Dean Koontz, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, the explorers who set out for the South Pole: Scott and Amundsen ... and many others that never made it into the rough draft. Some of these were cut just for time. You might see some of these if we do the show for a while. We want to throw in different feuds to change it up and keep it fresh.</p>

<p>How did writing this show differ from how you approach writing stand up?</p>
<p>Jared: Instead of writing for yourself you have to write for your scene partner. Everything you do is for your partner! You must plunder the depths of your partner's mind and walk in your partner's skin! You must BECOME your scene partner. He must become you.</p>
<p>Dan: Yeah, I think writing for other people makes your stuff stronger because you get a better idea of what makes different comedic types distinctive. Writing for Jared has been such a treat. It’s like writing for a fancier Tim Gunn.</p>

<p>If you had to compare your chemistry/relationship to any other duo (real or fictitious), which would it be?</p>
<p>Dan: Posh Spice and Elton John.</p>
<p>Jared: Salieri and Mozart. Or maybe F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. I'm the Mozart and Murray Abraham.</p>

<p>Who's the Matt and who's the Ben in your relationship?</p>
<p>Jared: I'm the Ben Affleck because I think he's probably the more laid-back one. An uptight type-A personality wouldn't say yes to Reindeer Games.</p>
<p>Dan: Jared was a huge Reindeer Games fan so I'd guess he’d be Ben Affleck. As far as who's more of the type-A personality, I guess I'd say I was. Unless, of course, it involves dungeon mastering. It’s quite an accomplishment to treat your partner like a child yet still play with action figures.</p>

<p>* THE PLUGS: Don't miss "They Hated Each Other," happening THURS, JAN 13 @ 8PM (and JAN 20) at The UCBT-NY | $5</p>

<p>--Meghan O'Keefe is a comic, writer, actress and research assistant living in New York City. You can follow her on tumblr or Twitter (@megsokay).</p>

<p>keithhuang | 1 Comment | 3 References tagged Daniel St. Germain , Jared Logan , They Hated Each Other in Interviews Friday Oct 22 2010  The New Yorker Chats With Judd Apatow</p>
<p>Friday, October 22, 2010 at 3:26PM > "I don’t get frustrated by popular taste because I have popular taste. Even though it’s terrible, I can’t say I haven’t watched a thousand episodes of 'Dateline.' And I can’t deny the fact that I’m on team Danielle when it comes to the “Real Housewives of New Jersey.” I am completely shocked by, but unable to resist, getting sucked into the culture. I’m not as interested in the 'Real Housewives of New York City.' I don’t need neurotic. I prefer it right on the edge of fisticuffs at all times."</p>
<p>Judd Apatow on Comedy, Kids’ Books, and Why He’ll Never Finish “Moby-Dick | The New Yorker The Apiary | 1 Comment tagged I Found This Funny , Judd Apatow in Interviews Tuesday Oct 05 2010  Inside With: Leslie Meisel and Megan Neuringer</p>
<p>Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 3:23PM</p>

<p>By: Evan Watkins</p>

<p>Leslie Meisel and Megan Neuringer are no strangers to the New York comedy scene, Leslie performs with UCB Maude Team Thunder Gulch, and Megan performs with the Harold team DeCoster. They have combined forces for the first time for their character spectacular, Love Can Suck a Dick... and So Can I, which is currently playing at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre NY. I had the chance to sit down with both of them before they take their show to LA at the end of the month.</p>

<p>So how long have you been developing Love Can Suck a Dick... and So Can I?</p>

<p>Leslie: We started working on the show together in January.</p>

<p>What was the development process like? I know that both of you have improv backgrounds, so did you discover the characters through improv, or did Megan just bring in a bunch of written pieces?</p>

<p>Megan: There would be characters that Leslie had that she’d been working on, and I would have her improvise with them. So let’s say Leslie improvised something hilarious in the scope of the character, I would direct her in a way that would push her to follow a certain game, or tell her to do it faster, or make it shorter. We ended up transcribing a lot of it, finding out where the funny was, and then got the character on its feet. Then the process would start all over again. It was a lot of writing on your feet, rewriting, adding jokes, getting rid of things, and chipping away at it.</p>

<p>Leslie--how many characters did you bring to Megan for this show?</p>

<p>Leslie: I don’t remember how many I brought in, I think at one point I just performed a showcase for her.</p>

<p>Megan: During the rehearsal process, we found sort of a happy medium of which characters worked and which characters didn’t. And then we found a compromise of what was funny to both of us.</p>

<p>Did you test characters out in front of an audience?</p>

<p>Leslie: We did two characters at UCB’s School Night. I did "Wendy" because it pushed me out of my comfort zone. Right before I went onstage with it, I was nervous and scared and I thought, people could yell at me--someone could beat me up. I think what I learned from performing as Wendy is that, if you’re really nervous and fearful about a character, then just go for it. We also had a character that was a heightened, very confident version of me and Megan wrote a great piece around her. The character was this "I know everything about theater" kind of woman. The first time I performed it, I didn’t think it went that well.</p>

<p>Megan: I told her it went fine.</p>

<p>Leslie: Then we added her to the show, and we both realized she didn’t work in the context of the show, so we ended up cutting her. There is a version of her you'll see in the video piece of the show, it’s basically all of Lennon Parham’s lines.</p>

<p>Megan: It’s kind of amazing how the lines all work for Lennon in the video, but it just couldn’t sustain itself for an entire character monologue.</p>

<p>The show has a lot of audience interaction, have you noticed the different way that audiences respond to what’s happening onstage?</p>

<p>Leslie: There's definitely a difference. If you have a show that's full of out of towners or theater people, I think they’re just watching and getting into it, then there’s a moment where they start to get into it, and pretty soon they’re laughing. Then I think, "Oh they were just listening and watching until they were ready to come on the ride with you." If you have a younger audience, they're more willing to go with whatever's happening on stage at any given moment.</p>

<p>Megan: I think it helps to not be totally reactive to the audience during each show, but I can't help thinking about what the audience is thinking during each show.</p>

<p>How has this show been different from other shows you’ve worked on in the past?</p>

<p>Megan: I spent a lot of years believing that performing in shows was an experience that I did for myself and for my ego. I thought that going onstage and getting laughs was an experience "for me" and that has kind of shifted in the past couple of years. So, Leslie and I then had this epiphany and it all has to do with the artist known as Pink.</p>

<p>Leslie: So I got tickets to go see Pink, and Megan and I were talking after an audition, and I said "So I have these tickets to Pink, do you want to go?" and then Megan was like...</p>

<p>Megan: "I love PINK!" which was kind of a lie, I just wanted to go see a concert at Madison Square Garden with Leslie, I didn’t even own any of her albums.</p>

<p>Leslie: Well, it’s a good thing Megan lied. So we make our way over to Madison Square Garden and the moment we get in, Pink takes the stage--it was this perfect moment. There's this woman who's giving everything she has in this selfless, genuine, and strong performance.</p>

<p>Megan: It was like she was saying "I'm so psyched to be at Madison Square Garden, I'm so psyched I sold it out, this is a dream of mine, and thank you, thank you for being here with me." It made our vision of what we want to create, to like,"give the audience Pink," and thank them for coming to see you. I want to always give the audience Pink.</p>

<p>Leslie: Giving the audience Pink is about not settling. I think a lot of people think that once they have something good, they’re like, "Well, that's done." But we're still creating this show... and we know the potential of what's possible.</p>

<p>You can catch Love Can Suck a Dick... And So Can I at The UCB Theatre NY on Wednesday, October 6th at 8PM or if you live in the Los Angeles area, simply stay put and watch it there during its 2-show run at the UCB LA October 27th and November 4th.</p>

<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment tagged Leslie Meisel , Megan Neuringer , UCBT in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews Thursday Sep 30 2010  Lost Del Close Interview From the 80's Found</p>
<p>Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 12:28PM Via Justin Purnell:</p>

<p>> Check out this interview with Del, actually shot by Brian Stack in 1986 for a local Chicago public access channel. So sayeth Stack:</p>
<p>> I'm proud to say I shot this 'interview' the summer I first started taking improv classes at IO back in ‘86. I was an intern at a local public access cable company that summer. Due to my technical incompetence, I had the camera set on 'monitor' so it came out in B&W. I also cringe when I hear my dorky voice-over. I’m glad people enjoy seeing it anyway, and I’ll always be grateful to Del for doing it.</p>

<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment | 4 References tagged Brian Stack , Del Close , Improv in Interviews , Videos Tuesday Aug 31 2010  Pee Wee on the Foil Ball that is His Legacy</p>
<p>Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 11:47AM  Pee-wee Herman Show set | Photo: S.W. Johnson "It may sound corny and stupid, but I had an opportunity to come in under the radar and do something important. Sesame Street was already on, but it was very corporate in a certain way, and I just felt I had this opportunity to be entertaining, less 'we're going to learn the letter Q today.' They had that covered. I was going to be lighter and more specific, more like: All your friends got invited to a party, and you didn't. I was so lucky--I was presented with such an opportunity. And if I can pat myself a teeny-tiny amount on the back, I delivered. I was in a position to shape a certain percentage of kids who watched, teach them things that I think are important in life, like the golden rule, and wrap it up in colorful eye candy and make it seem like fun. It would be hard to do that at all today--and I got to do it for five years. And not only that, I can feel the effects still. I'm meeting people who say they are an artist because of my show. It's staggering. People say, 'Do you have any idea what a difference you made?' No, but I’m starting to." -- Paul Reubens in a recent interview with New York Magazine</p>

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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Paul Reubens , Pee Wee Herman in Interviews Monday Aug 23 2010  Inside With: Mike Sacks, Writer and Co-Author of "Our Bodies, Our Junk"</p>
<p>Monday, August 23, 2010 at 3:51PM By: Nate Sloan</p>

<p>Perhaps a sex manual--even a hilarious one--isn't public reading material. I kept inadvertantly flashing neighboring straphangers with the graphic words (Masturbation!) and imagery (malformed penises!) contained within Our Bodies, Our Junk (Available in book stores August 24th!). I'm lucky someone didn't take a grainy cell phone photo of me and alert some editor of Newsday about a hapless subway perv on the loose. Anyways, I sent some q's over to Mike Sacks, who you may know from the pages of Vanity Fair or last year's stellar interview collection, And Here's the Kicker. He's one of the book's five esteemed co-authors and is a top researcher for The Association For the Betterment of Sex.</p>

<p>Since you purport to be a sexpert in Our Bodies, Our Junk, I assume you'll be pretty open to answering some erotic gotcha questions to start us off: tell us Mike, what is your darkest sexual fantasy? What is the exact # of partners you've had? And who is the 'biggest' expert amongst the 5 of you (if you know what I mean)?</p>

<p>That would be me. Among the group I'm known as "Doc." Not for my intelligence, but because I legally had my name changed to "Doc." My darkest sexual fantasy would involve duct tape, a used Futon and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" blasting in the background. You have to admit, that's very sexy. As for my number of partners, I don't remember. But I did use to live in New Orleans and I've been to about ten Mardi Gras. So maybe the answer could be "a lot of middle-aged women from Houston, Texas."</p>

<p>How did you come to team up with the other writers? Are you all friends from somewhere?</p>

<p>We've written together for a few magazines, such as Esquire, Radar and Vanity Fair. But we wanted to work on a larger project like a book, and sex seemed like a, burp, juicy enough topic to cover. Collectively we call ourselves The Pleasure Syndicate. Individually, Todd Levin writes for Conan O'Brien. Scott Jacobson's a four-time Emmy winner for The Daily Show. He's now working out in LA, writing for a very funny new FOX show called Bob's Burgers. It'll debut in September. Jason Roeder is a contributing writer for The Onion, and the author of a hilarious book called Oh, the Humanity. Ted Travelstead is on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair. And then there's me, "Doc."</p>

<p>We've just started work on our next project, another book, which should hopefully be out in 2011. It's going to be about the workplace. Sort of Dilbert meets GG Allin.</p>

<p>Since the writing style seems to have one unified voice, I'm curious--how was the writing split up? Was there a meeting where one of you would go, "Me me me! I want to write about masturbation! I'll take that section."</p>

<p>We came up with a pretty detailed outline for each chapter. Anyone could really write on any subject they wanted. We sort of just fell into this voice pretty easily. I think we've all written in this dry manner before, either for advertising, or for academic journals, or for associations. For the book, we wrote in a very authoritative style, but needless to say, we don't know what the hell we're talking about. For instance, we're absolutely convinced that the clitoris looks like a plum left overnight in the rain. Also, we're 100% convinced that there are exactly five acts of sexual intercourse that take place on a daily basis across the globe. This sounds about right.</p>

<p>Is there a release party or a tour happening in support of the book?</p>

<p>Yes! There will be a few readings, but the main reading will be at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn on September 23rd. Also, there will be a reading in Los Angeles on September 15th at Book Soup. Andy Richter and Sarah Thyre (the husband and wife team who wrote the book's forewords) will also be appearing with us. All of the information is listed on our site: http://hq.ourbodiesourjunk.com/press_events/</p>

<p>Have you had a chance to compare and contrast your work with Kristen Schaal's Sexy Book of Sexy Sex? According to Amazon, the two are frequently bought together. You know, you could have combined your efforts and created one mega-textbook. Any Spy vs. Spy antics around that?</p>

<p>I haven't heard of that other book; I'm not familiar with it. With that said, if you buy our book before October 1st, you will receive a free beaver shot of all five of us authors, posing in a parking lot of a northern Virginia Wal-Mart.</p>

<p>Your last book, And Here's the Kicker--a treasure trove of deep dive interviews with the most influential comedic artists and writers of our lifetimes--is a must-read. Thanks for writing it. Did you have any takeaways or lessons to share from that experience?</p>

<p>Thanks. Yes, I learned quite a few things. First of all, I was just happy to talk with a lot of authors I've always respected. A few have since passed away, and I feel lucky to have been able to speak with them. I mean, talking to Irv Brecher about the Marx Brothers was like talking to someone about Babe Ruth. It was a real bridge to another time and place, long since disappeared. Also, Larry Gelbart was a real class act, as well as a brilliant comedy writer. He's really missed. He was the gold standard.</p>

<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment | 4 References tagged Mike Sacks , Our Bodies Our Junk in Books , EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews Monday Aug 16 2010  Migrations: Neil and Sarah Reynolds Cut Loose to LA</p>
<p>Monday, August 16, 2010 at 2:27PM By: Brian Perry</p>

<p>Boston, like any area that breeds a comedy scene, tends to be a bit of a transitory environment. People come, do great work, make connections, and some inevitably continue on their way. Recently joining the ex-Boston ranks were local favorites and real life married couple Neil Reynolds (Code Duello, ImprovBoston Mainstage) and Sarah Reynolds (ImprovBoston Family Show, Tiny Little Lungs, Harold Night). I had a chance to speak with them about their move days before they packed up their car and headed cross country. They've since settled in on the West Coast, but the spot they left behind in Boston still lingers.</p>

<p>How long have you guys been performing in the Boston area?</p>

<p>Sarah: I've been here ten years.</p>

<p>Neil: and I've been here six.</p>

<p>And you're moving to Los Angeles... what are your plans when you get out there?</p>

<p>Neil: The short term plan is that I'm enrolling in film school at USC's Peter Stark producing program. It’s a two year MFA program.</p>

<p>Sarah: I’ll be looking for work as a professional singer -- looking for opportunities to perform live and hopefully and do some recording in a studio setting. I’ll also continue to look for opportunities to teach music.</p>

<p>You have both improvised quite a bit in Boston -- are you planning on continuing out in LA?</p>

<p>Sarah: Yes. In fact, I think were both excited about being students again</p>

<p>Neil: We don’t know which of the theaters we'll be starting out at or what the time frame is, but it's</p>
<p>one of our priorities when we move out there. It's also one of the best ways we know to meet</p>
<p>people and make connections.</p>

<p>Looking back, what are some of the favorite projects you've done here?</p>

<p>Sarah: My two woman musical improv show Tiny Little Lungs has been a highlight. It's really liberating as a singer to step into the world of improv and suddenly have priorities outside of singing well technically. Also, there was The Wasteland...</p>

<p>Neil: We both worked on The Wasteland Comedy Hour with T.S. Eliot. That was a great, ambitious project. We worked with and met very cool people and pushed ourselves to create a very high volume of material -- sketch, standup, music, video, and live performance. That was in 2007. Since then I’ve mostly been proud of proud of Code Duello. We actually perform it in Boston less than we perform it anywhere else, but Matt Tucker and I met in Boston so I still think of it as a Boston project. Until now anyway.</p>

<p>Are you guys going to keep up with Code Duello?</p>

<p>Neil: Matt’s moving to New York and I’m moving to Los Angeles so we’re on hiatus for at least the summer. After that, we’re just going to become a touring show. We've had an offer to become part of the UCB TourCo -- they are going to sell us alongside of their house shows. It remains to be seen how interesting our show is to something like a college audience, but the touring model seems sustainable enough that it is something we can hopefully do on sort of an as requested basis.</p>

<p>What will you miss about this city?</p>

<p>Neil: The people are the thing we’ll miss the most. Our comedy community remains our strongest pool of friends and the people we see the most. A lot of people are splitting off and doing new things, but for the time I've been here there has always been a core community of cool people doing cool shit.</p>

<p>Sarah: Having such a supportive venue like ImprovBoston has been a blessing as well. You can have a creative idea and know you have a space for it even if it is a project that reaches outside of the core ImprovBoston community -- Neil got to premiere his pilot Unbalanced at ImprovBoston and we screened our recent 48 Hour Film Project entry there as well. Hopefully we’ll meet a new pool of collaborators in LA but we’ll definitely miss what we had in Boston.</p>

<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Code Duello , ImprovBoston , Neil Reynolds , Sarah Reynolds in Boston , Interviews Tuesday Aug 10 2010  INSIDE WITH: CHRIS KELLY</p>
<p>Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 1:00PM Chris Kelly</p>

<p>By: Lucas Hazlett</p>

<p>Chris Kelly is the consummate comedic-renaissance man. He is a staff writer and director for The Onion News Network and is a contributing writer for The Onion's new show on IFC. He has penned and appeared in sketches for numerous sketch teams at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York, and has delivered monologues for the theater's flagship improv showcase, ASSSSCAT, in New York and Los Angeles. His newest show, "Oh My God, I Heard You're Dying," opens tomorrow at the UCBT-NY. It's a dark comedy that explores the social awkwardness that often follows a tragedy. I spoke with Chris about his new show and his comedic philosophy.</p>

<p>Tell us a little bit about "Oh My God, I Heard You're Dying." What is it about and how did you come up with it?</p>
<p>I don't know how I came up with it. The show is just a series of character monologues about people saying their final goodbyes to this old man who is dying and they all just ruin it. It's mostly just people being self-involved, inappropriate or trying to be overly jokey around death. I had been thinking about death a lot, so I thought I'd just use death because it's a serious subject and I just wanted to make it funny.</p>

<p>What is your comedic philosophy and how does it influence your approach when creating darker content?</p>
<p>I think anything is funny. I think the funny stuff is just the way people talk. I just like hearing people's conversations when they're not trying to be funny. I like people who have one crazy, gigantic flaw that they don't realize. I like dark comedy a lot. At The Onion that's obviously what we do. I really like mean comedy. Not mean for the sake of being mean, not like being mean to the victim, but mean to someone who deserves it.</p>

<p>What's an example of a sketch you've written that was mean in this way?</p>
<p>Well, one thing I wrote [for The Onion] a while ago for the election, which was super dark and mean, was a story about a gunman in a mall who killed a bunch of people in a swing state and ONN was trying to figure out how many Democrats and Republicans were killed -- Did Obama or McCain win the massacre? I liked that a lot because it was mean but I felt it made a point. It was mean to how ridiculous the media is and how elections get and not mean to people who died in a mall getting shot.</p>

<p>So calling truth to power?</p>
<p>Sure. Put that in the headline. Chris Kelly calls truth to power [laughing]. If people say one thing about me it's that I call truth to power.</p>

<p>So, do you prefer this darker, meaner comedy to other types of comedy?</p>
<p>I do like weird, bizarre, crazy what-the-fuck-is-happening-on-stage-this-is-crazy-nonsense-but-it- works. I like that comedy, but I feel like it's never what I end up producing. I wrote a sketch a couple years ago that was sort of awkward, but I really liked this idea that people at work were doing this human knot, this trust exercise, and they were all getting together, all these coworkers, and as soon as it started one woman just had to get off her chest that she and the guy next to her were getting a divorce and so everybody had to work through this human knot slowly and awkwardly while slowly talking through "what are you going to do with the kids?" I like the idea of people bringing up things in awkward situations. I guess I like realistic comedy.</p>

<p>You've written a substantial amount of material for The Onion and UCB stage. What is your writing process?</p>
<p>90% not writing. 10% writing [laughs]. The process lately has been watching every single episode of television I can find, pacing around, eating everything in my apartment and being like "god damn I fucking hate writing!” and then finally writing. Sometimes I'll be motivated to do it. "Oh My God I Heard You're Dying” wasn't for anything. I had no deadline. I wrote the first draft of the script in a day, just finished it off. Obviously I punched it up and made everything better, but the format and all the characters stayed the same because I knew what I wanted. That was a rare example of "I have no deadline" and "I have the motivation to write 30 pages." Usually it's just that I wait until the last possible moment and then write in complete duress and intense anger.</p>

<p>Is there a book, movie, television show, etc. that you can look at throughout history and are just pissed that you weren't the one who came up with it? Or is there something that you find yourself constantly returning to?</p>
<p>Drama is usually the first thing I want to watch. Drama is oftentimes the first thing I want to write, too. I don't know. I love Six Feet Under [pauses] I'm getting so obvious! [mocks self] I really like that show about death that occasionally has comedy in it. I'm getting so cliche!</p>

<p>Writing and directing aside, you've also been an accomplished performer and even had the enviable opportunity of delivering monologues at ASSSSCAT in both LA and NY. Is this something you see yourself doing more of in the future?</p>
<p>Stand-up, monologues and storytelling. That's what I want my next show at UCB to be, which I'm starting to write now, but again, I have no deadline so I'm mostly watching TV. Yesterday, I was going to start writing my one-man show and then I downloaded season four of Friday Night Lights.</p>

<p>2011. UCBEast. The UCB4 said that the new theater would focus more on stand-up and storytelling. Maybe that's the opportunity you need to do more?</p>
<p>I need to make a point of doing that more. Because I like doing that. I feel comfortable doing that. I loved doing ASSSSCAT... and I'd love to do it again.</p>

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<p>Oh My God, I Heard You're Dying premieres Wednesday 8/11 and runs again on 8/18 at the UCBT-NY.</p>

<p>--Lucas Hazlett is a comedy geek who improvises with anyone he can. He can be seen THURS, AUG 12 @ 8PM at The Peoples Improv Theatre with improv team Herschel.</p>

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