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<p>Entries from April 1, 2007 - April 30, 2007</p>
<p>Monday Apr 30 2007  Bees Might Be Dying All Across America, But There's Still Buzz Here</p>
<p>Monday, April 30, 2007 at 1:20PM --We hear that Louis CK told a story during a recent Caroline's set about growing up in Mexico. He went on to comment that he's more Mexican than controversial stand-up Carlos Mencia. No one's more Mexican than controversial stand-up Carlos Mencia! We refuse to believe the rumors. --CollegeHumor just released the full version of the Michael Showalter Showalter featuring Paul Rudd. --Dustin D'Addato and Nick Turner, proprietors of TheSeen.TV--an upcoming "indie comedy website to feature hilarious videos, exclusive interviews, and more"--is having a launch party this Saturday in the Triple Crown's new "party room." --The Bastion was embedded with some hometown comics at the D.C. Comedy Festival a couple weekends ago. They filed a full report HERE.. --Matt McCarthy picked up the late Tuesday night slot for the month of May at Rififi. The first one premieres May 8th. --Eat the Press posted an interview with longtime Vice Magazine writer Lesley Arfin, conducted by former Deadspin editor AJ Daulerio. Q: "Does writing for Vice actually make you infinitely cooler than most people?" A: "Yes I think it makes me cool." --There have been a bunch of Morgan Murphy SPOTTINGS around town lately. Is she here in NYC for business? Or pleasure? --We had a chance to see a taping of The Daily Show on Thursday and we got to see Paul Mecurio's warm up. Duder gets pretty raunchy! He threatened to punch a man in the face for wearing an ugly sweater then called an old lady a bitch and derided a slightly less old lady for being a slut... AND THEY ALL LOVED IT. That takes skill. --And finally... at Reuben Williams this past Saturday, a RANDOM AUDIENCE MEMBER who volunteered to come on stage and give lurid details about her life and discuss the contents of her wallet in order to supply the improvisers with suggestions, revealed that she lives in the same NYU dorm as Academy Award nominated actor Haley Joel Osment. She gossiped that she often sees Mr. Joel Osment allegedly drunk around the building. 19 year olds shouldn't be allowed to drink, IN OUR OPINION.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment in The Beehive Monday Apr 30 2007  Dan Allen, Emerging Leader in Hair-Do-Wap Music</p>
<p>Monday, April 30, 2007 at 9:52AM Click HERE to watch Dan Allen and his glistening family sing</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 2 Comments in General Interest Monday Apr 30 2007  New York Magazine Approves of Penelope: Princess of Pets</p>
<p>Monday, April 30, 2007 at 8:01AM New York Magazine's Approval Matrix--the weekly buzz meter that packs all the griddy excitement of a Cow Chip Fundraiser without all the mess--plopped Kurt & Kristen's Penelope: Princess of Pets series on the chart this week. Where did it land? Will this be a breakout show for Super Deluxe? Not only does it got the production details, the star power, and the endless plot potential but it actually has a quality to it that's reminiscent of the soon to be televised Channel 102 grad Gemberling. Keep your eyes on Penelope.Approval Matrix: Week of May 7, 2007</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 5 Comments in Internet Friday Apr 27 2007  The Sting</p>
<p>Friday, April 27, 2007 at 6:04PM Chris Gethard's Brother Discovered Living in Fabled Sixth BoroughDon Rickles and Regis to Fight to the Death at the 92nd Street YColorado Comedy Scenester is Thru Getting Rocky Mountain High All the Time, Packs Bags For NYCSURPRISE, SURPRISE: Margaret Cho, Dildo Manufacturer -- via RachelJessy Delfino Shuffles Her Magical Twat to IrelandDefamer on High Alert for Studio Stinky Cancellation NewsCracked Out's Springtime Special This SATURDAYNew BestWeekEver.TV Guide Allows You to Live Your Life Without Having to Guess When the Daytime TV Clip of the Day Will PostTribeca Film Festival's Comedy OfferingsThe Origins of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Revealed"BALDWIN: Do Not Fuck This Up For All of Us"The Mike Daisey Walk-Out Drama Resolves Itself</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in General Interest Friday Apr 27 2007  Invite Them Up | Looking Back on 5 Years, Part 5By: Billy Nord</p>
<p>Friday, April 27, 2007 at 2:31PM The conclusion to our weeklong feature on the seminal East Village comedy show, Invite Them Up. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share such spectacular stories and anecdotes."My proudest achievement in comedy, and some may say one of the most important achievements in comedy, is my role in helping create the institution now known as 30 SECONDS OF STANDUP. I remember we were hanging out on Michael Showalter's deck for his birthday barbeque. This was right after Bobby and Eugene had just started doing ITU, and Bobby was trying to get me to come down and perform. I was being a big fat pussy and tried to get out of it by saying I hadn't written anything new and blah blah blah. So Bobby says, "Don't be such a gigantic pussy Miles. Just come do like 30 seconds of standup." I was embarrassed for having acted like such a huge gaping pussy, so I agreed. That night I went and did exactly 30 seconds of jokes (I know it was exactly half a minute because Bobby pantomimed a very accurate watch on his wrist) and it was hilarious. Maybe one of the funniest things ever. Bobby even made up a chant for it that has become one of the most important chants of this century. It goes like this: 30 Seconds! 30 Seconds! 30 seconds of standup! 30 Seconds! 30 Seconds! 30 seconds of standup! Comedy!!! The audience literally starting pissing themselves with laughter and delight, so Bobby decided to make it a regular part of the show. Over the years, virtually every comedian in the world has taken a stab at the old 30 seconds of standup, thrilling thousands and thousands of audience members. I certainly can't take credit for this awesome routine, but I can say that it wouldn't exist if I weren't such an enormous sopping wet stinky old pussy." - A.D. Miles, Performer"I love ITU more than babies, pain killers, pot, grapes, that time I rode a killer turtle in the turtle park in San Diego, jump rope, and tobacco. Invite Them Up saved my life in more ways than I can describe in just 50 words. I love everything about Invite Them Up, and the comics and fans that come to the show are the best people on the planet. I feel fortunate to be a part of comedy history." - Bobby Tisdale, Host</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment in Stand Up Friday Apr 27 2007  Invite Them Up, 5th Anniversary Show @ Rififi - 4.25.7</p>
<p>Friday, April 27, 2007 at 7:17AM NOTES--Kurt and Kristen served up the wildest performance of the night. A tale of survival as the secret twin children of hero Amelia Erhart--a story which delightfully ended with a fierce interpretive dance in costly glowstick bedazzled costumes. If Kurt and Kristen were a movie, that movie would be Just Bring It, because they're always just bringin' it and stuff. --One endeavor in anti-comedy involved Jon Glaser as the world's angriest stand-up... who happens to be really really quiet and shy. He stood for 6 minutes in the corner of the stage with his back to the audience while muttering things about how life is hard. It got a lot of cackles from Eugene. --David Wain did 30 Seconds of Stand Up. He had us at some riff about grain elevators. --SPOTTED AT THE AFTERPARTY: Claudia Cogan, Todd Barry, Jemaine from FOTC, Jon Daly, Lang Fisher, Craig Baldo, Michael Showalter, Zak Orth, Noah Garfinkel, Jenny Slate, and OTHERS. --There was an auction after the show for comedy paraphernalia, with the proceeds going towards the completion of Rififi's renovations. Hopefully all that beer that was sold that night went to the completion of Rififi's renovations too! --A date with Kurt and Kristen was auctioned off for $40. Kristen remarked on stage at how embarrassing the amount was noting, "Now I know If I was a hooker, I would die on the streets." --Chicago's Hannibal Buress revealed that he's spending some time on Liam McEneaney's couch this week. Expect to see him all around town at other shows. --Watch Bobby's opening statements from the evening, courtesy of Scott Bateman. --Happy Anniversary!Arj BarkerEugene and Bobby auction off a vest worn by Demetri Martin.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment in Show Recap Thursday Apr 26 2007  Invite Them Up | Looking Back on 5 Years, Part 4By: Billy Nord</p>
<p>Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 4:37PM To celebrate Invite Them Up's 5th anniversary, all this week, we'll be publishing stories and memorable moments we've gathered from the show's creators, regular guests and attendees."I only found out about ITU about a year ago. Last February, Marianne Ways and Anya Garrett were helping me put on an animation-and-sketch show at the UCB, but we could never have rehearsals on Wednesdays because of this thing called Invite Them Up. Then there was this article in the New York Times about it. After we finally did our UCB show, I finally checked out Invite Them Up myself, and then went pretty much every week ever since. When I first went to ITU, I was halfway through my animated-film-a-day-for-a-year project, Bateman365, and I really, really wanted to capture some of what I was seeing in animated form--there were so many great moments that would otherwise be lost forever. Eventually, I worked up the courage to ask Bobby and some of the other comedians if I could record them for animations, and nearly everybody I asked were all for it, and very positive. I ended up animating performances by Bobby, Eugene, Leo Allen, Michael Showalter, John Mulaney, Pete Holmes, Joe Mande, Kurt & Kristen, Aziz Ansari, Zog, Reggie Watts... That's what's great about ITU--it's such a supportive and accepting scene, where you can try pretty much anything and it's OK, and even an animator can fit in. Not just a show, it's a community." - Scott Bateman, Animator"One of Eugene and Bobby's great acheivments is the way they made Rififi into what it is now; a place comedians and a large group of audience members really cannot get enough of. And that's no exaggeration when you see a lot of the same comedians and audience members watching full shows there every week. Eugene and Bobby both chose a bar in the village--not the nicest in the world--and almost literally a comedy club was built around them. Last I checked there's 9 shows there a week. That's pretty incredible and it's mostly all because of what Eugene and Bobby started and saw through for five years now." - Greg Johnson, ComedianEverything I know about comedy I learned from Rififi. I've been going to Invite Them Up for 3 of the past 5 years and quickly decided I wanted to be as involved as possible. Often times, I viewed the show through my lens, but there's so much about it that can't be explained in words or even with photos. The relationships I've built with the staff and the performers, as well as the performances that I've seen have hugely influenced my life. From the kind nights when it's so crowded you can't see a thing, but people are still edging their way in to hear David Cross and Brian Posehn (who just dropped by) to the low-key nights when Patton Oswalt or Jim Gaffigan or the Flight of the Conchords were twice as much conversation as material because the crowd was so small. However, the afterparties were often more memorable than the performances. Hearing comics trying to outwit each other. Hearing comics doing impressions of other comedians. Dance parties, and as those fade there's the dry humping. That happens a lot there. One of my favorite nights would have to be doing 30 Seconds of Dry Humping onstage with Bobby. Not to mention actual romantic encounters with various Rififi patrons. Really, I'm not going to mention them." - Anya Garrett, PhotographerMy favorite Invite Them Up moment was when I dropped by to do the show after attending the premiere of "Failure To Launch". I had two extra tickets to the after party, so I gave them to the sketchiest two people I could find, and then made sure they got into this swoopy, post-modern nightclub. I'm pretty sure they hassled Terry Bradshaw and then got kicked out. - Patton Oswalt, Comedian</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in Stand Up Thursday Apr 26 2007  The Facetime | Becky Donohue & Danny CohenBy: Becky Ciletti</p>
<p>Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 12:18PM Comedy has long made its home, like the subway, underground. But this Friday night Becky Donohue and crew--Michelle Buteau & Sergio Chicon--are rolling up on Loft Eleven with their Unclub show. Think Comedypalooza or "Night of 1,000 Stars + drinks." Wendy Ho, Nick Kroll and Rachel Feinstein are on the line-up of 15 music and comedy acts. Former SNL'er Dean Edwards with his Denzell Washington impression is reason enough to shell out $40 for a ticket. Then again there's also an open bar. And the view.</p>
<p>www.myspace.com/unclubwww.myspace.com/beckydonohuewww.myspace.com/dannycohenworldPhoto: The Duplex, 2/07For more of The Facetime go to: thefacetime.blogspot.com</p>
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