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<p>Friday Jun 11 2010  SketchfestNYC 2010 - Hitting Up Dave and Ethan and Rue Brutalia</p>
<p>Friday, June 11, 2010 at 3:52PM Sketchfest newbies, Dave and Ethan, and Sketchfest vets, Rue Brutalia, chat with Matt Fried for a bit.</p>
<p>> SketchFestNYC continues today and tomorrow at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Dave and Ethan , Matt Fried , Rue Brutalia , Sketchfest NYC 2010 in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews Friday Jun 11 2010  SketchfestNYC 2010 - Hitting Up Two Fun Men</p>
<p>Friday, June 11, 2010 at 12:30PM</p>
<p>Matt talks to Two Fun Men but I only see one here. Where is the other man? It is a mystery. Perhaps John Haskell will explain what is going on. The duo opens up TONIGHT's festivities at 7PM.</p>
<p>> SketchFestNYC continues today and tomorrow at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment tagged John Haskell , Sketchfest NYC 2010 , Two Fun Men in Interviews , Videos Friday Jun 11 2010  SketchfestNYC 2010 - Hitting Up Murderfist</p>
<p>Friday, June 11, 2010 at 12:13PM</p>
<p>Matt Fried hangs out backstage with the mob of Murderfist; the hirsute megagroup is packing an all new show this year and they came ready to party hard.</p>
<p>SketchFestNYC continues today and tomorrow at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Murderfist , Sketchfest NYC 2010 in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews , Videos Thursday Jun 10 2010  SketchfestNYC 2010 - Hitting Up Jeremy Lamb, Executive Producer of the Festival</p>
<p>Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 1:44PM</p>
<p>SKETCHFESTNYC Mere hours before the first act takes the stage, I checked in with the man of the hour, Jeremy Lamb, aka the guy accountable for keeping the SketchfestNYC dream alive and making the show happen this year.</p>
<p>As the new executive producer of SketchfestNYC this year, tell me about your day to day role in the fest?</p>
<p>I'm responsible for making sure the whole damn thing from pre to post-festival goes right. Whether that means delegating tasks or doing things myself, the buck stops at me and it just has to get done somehow, right? It's been a buttload of work but I love this kind of amorphous event and festival management work, especially when it pays $0.</p>
<p>What experience did you have coming into this and what's been the biggest challenge so far?</p>
<p>Well, among many years of producing independent comedy tours and shows (mostly improv), I also started a comedy festival in 2002 called Out of Bounds in my native Austin, TX and since then I've executive produced it every year but the two I was in Chicago. That festival is actually much larger than SF NYC and has taught me a lot about the challenges and joys of running a festival. You have to be a master of all trades and a jack of none, and I'm hoping my time at both of these important annual events, OOB and SF, will only enhance my continued time at the other. The biggest challenge has been coming into an established scene and staff and finding myself up against some precedence and not knowing exactly how important some of that history is. But the staff, comprised of almost all veteran SketchFest staffers, has been amazing and very understanding of my trepidations. They put a lot of trust in me, even though some of them had never even met me, and that was totally badass of them and allowed us to put together an awesome lineup.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment | 1 Reference tagged Jeremy Lamb , Sketchfest NYC 2010 in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary , Interviews , Sketch Thursday Jun 10 2010  SKETCHFESTNYC 2010 - HITTING UP SIDECAR</p>
<p>Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 1:00PM  Matt speaks to Matt Fisher and Alden Ford of Sidecar, chatting up them up about their newest pilot, improvising, writing and the importance of just staying busy.</p>
<p>--SketchFestNYC starts TONIGHT @ 7PM at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Alden Ford , Matt Fisher , Sidecar , Sketchfest NYC 2010 , sketch comedy in Interviews , Sketch Thursday Jun 10 2010  SKETCHFESTNYC 2010 - HITTING UP AUDIENCE OF TWO & NEW EXC!TEMENT</p>
<p>Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 11:30AM  Matt yucks it up with Sam Dingman and Ben Masten of Audience of Two, discussing recent road shows, their "loveable" writing style and comfort zones and putting your best foot forward.</p>
<p>Matt sits with New Exc!tement dreamboat Chris Roberti to talk about how last year's SketchFestNYC appearance set things in motion for the team. Plus, admire Chris's hair.</p>
<p>--SketchFestNYC starts TONIGHT @ 7PM at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment | 1 Reference tagged Audience of Two , New Exc!tement , sSketchfest NYC 2010 , sketch comedy in Interviews , Sketch Thursday Jun 10 2010  SKETCHFESTNYC 2010 - HITTING UP BŌF & HARVARD SAILING TEAM</p>
<p>Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 11:05AM</p>
<p>SKETCHFESTNYC Apiarist Matt Fried brings his Q& A-game to Mamrie Hart and Steve Soroka of BōF (Best of Friends). Hear what's in store for this "zany" duo, writing to JetBlue and why they don't like using the "p" word.</p>
<p>Matt Fried rides the Information Superhighway to interview Rebecca Brey and Chris Smith of sketch-comedy supergroup Harvard Sailing Team. Although the two LA transplants won't be at the team's 4th SketchFestNYC appearance, they discuss warm baths and beers at SketchFest.</p>
<p>--BōF and Harvard Sailing Team kick off SketchFestNYC TONIGHT @ 7PM at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Everything you need to know about who's playing and how to get tickets can be found here.</p>
<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment tagged BOF , Mamrie Hart , Steve Waltien , sketch comedy in Interviews , Sketch , Videos Wednesday Jun 02 2010  Inside With: Tom Sibley, Proprietor of SubwayDouchery.com</p>
<p>Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 11:34AM</p>
<p>By: Sara Laurence</p>
<p>Comedian Tom Sibley hosts a bi-monthly stand-up show at Legion in Williamsburg and maintains the increasingly popular and hilarious, albeit nausea-inducing blog, Subway Douchery, which captures everything you'd want to unlearn about our fellow straphangers in the subway. Between doing regular stand-up and acting gigs around town, Tom took some time to answer a few questions.</p>
<p>Tell us about yourself, how did you end up in New York City?</p>
<p>I moved to New York from Doylestown, Pennsylvania to go to an acting school called The Neighborhood Playhouse for two years, studying the Miesner Technique and convincing myself I was the next Sean Penn. I graduated and was not immediately famous which was disheartening. Over a year out of school, I was a moderately successful cater waiter and I finally got the guts to do stand up after a couple friends of mine started doing it. I always loved and wanted to do stand up but just didn't think it applied to regular civilians... and so my career began doing stand up above a Greek restaurant in Queens, bombs away!</p>
<p>You now host a show at Legion in Williamsburg, what do you look for in a comedian before you'll book them on the show?</p>
<p>I produce The MacGyver Show with comics Danny Solomon and Robert Dean. Honestly, we are just looking for funny people. Well-loved faces to comics making their way up, as long as they are funny and want to have a good time, will have a warm spot on The MacGyver Show. That being said, a big name that gets bums in seats never hurts. We had Colin Quinn on the show and the place was packed with a great audience which always makes for a magical evening.</p>
<p>With your blog, Subway Douchery, you are the Internet's preeminent force in exposing inconsiderate grossness underground. And you’re getting some decent press. Have you ever gotten any feedback from the people photographed?</p>
<p>I've never had any feedback directly from a person pictured which is a blessing. I did have a reporter from the Daily News tell me she wouldn't be surprised if someone recognized themselves in a picture and then hunt and murder me. I hoped was kidding but she was dead serious. I didn't sleep well that night. The site has been featured in the New York Post, NBC New York, Comedy Central and a few other places. Which is both amazing and wildly unexpected for something this ridiculous.</p>
<p>Most of the feedback has been really positive. Except for a post I did about a woman openly breast feeding a rather large child on the subway. I wasn't aware that breast feeding was such a hot button issue and it got quite a few people fired up. I received many emails from feminist groups telling me I was setting "the movement" back twenty years. I will go on record as saying I have nothing against breast feeding (or sleeping naked, or strength training with resistance bands, all of which have been featured on the site) ... but doing these activities on the subway does seem a bit inappropriate.</p>
<p>Some of this stuff is pretty gross, are you censoring what we’re seeing?</p>
<p>I always censor people's identities by blurring their faces. Not for legal reasons, it just looks funny. I receive many pictures of bodily fluids and solids. Not even a person actively producing them, just a snap shot of the finished product. I'll get an extensive pictorial of a puddle of vomit and the person will write, "I saw this and immediately thought of you... enjoy!" I'm happy they thought of me.</p>
<p>If someone took an unsuspecting photo of you while you were riding the subway, what would you be doing?</p>
<p>I'd probably be doing any number of things I've pictured on the site. But if I do get a picture of me being a jerk, I will post it that day and it will be the final post of Subway Douchery. So I hope to be naked, bucket drumming, and breast feeding in a vigorous blaze of glory!</p>
<p>Anything Else? Summer plans? Plugs?</p>
<p>A company is working on an iPhone app for Subway Douchery which might be out this summer. I shot a feature for AOL's TV Squad where I crashed a fancy television network party and proceeded to get into a wrestling match with Mike The Miz. Comedian Ryan Mckee and I are hoping to make it into a regular web series. Also, The MacGyver show the first and fourth Tuesday of every month at Legion Bar in Williamsburg! Perhaps, the greatest show ever!</p>
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