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<p>Entries from May 1, 2009 - May 31, 2009</p>
<p>Sunday May 31 2009  The Sting</p>
<p>Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 9:56AM Learn How to Make a Zach GalifianakisWill Lady Gaga Get Uglier As Time Goes On?Store Up to Four Babies Safely and EfficientlySneak a Peek at the Cover of Lisa Lampanelli's Forthcoming MemoirRolling Stone Discovers Aubrey PlazaOh, The Places the Students of Luzerne County Community College in Northeastern Pennsylvania Will Go!Look at Steve Martin Noodlin' on His Banjo GuitarFor God's Sake Get Off the Internet and Go Outside or SomethingSo Long, Jay Leno!Welcome Back, Conan O'Brien!</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment Friday May 29 2009  Colours</p>
<p>Friday, May 29, 2009 at 3:04PM Billy Scafuri and Tim Bierbaum, creators of the webcomic The Librarianist, take you to the strange town of Colours every Friday on The Apiary.</p>
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<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment in Colours Friday May 29 2009  An Open Letter to Ptolemy & Shelly Slocum</p>
<p>Friday, May 29, 2009 at 7:00AM GOING TO CALIFORNIA Shelly & Ptolemy join the exodus to L.A. | Photo: Keith HuangDear Ptolemy and Shelly, I am certain that I echo the thoughts of many people when I say that both of you will be missed. Severely! No, not a small amount of sadness due to your absence, but, instead, a very great deal. Now that I think about it, you should understand that you are causing a lot of pain! I would only hope that your actions will bring a certain amount of guilt! But I am not a bitter person. We are all choosing to embrace your negligent and irresponsible relocation with a faux cheerfulness and mock understanding. Best of luck on your new adventures! You will need it! Seriously, though, we love you and we will visit you soon. Yes. All the comedians living in New York... at the same time... will visit you... soon. -Terry Jinn</p>
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<p>keithhuang | 18 Comments | 3 References in The World Around You Friday May 29 2009  The Honey Shot</p>
<p>Friday, May 29, 2009 at 5:00AM Focus is a live talk show/parody of The View (above: Guest Marshana Ritchie from TV's The Bachelor) | Photo: christine carolynTHE PLUG• Don't miss FOCUS TONIGHT! @ 11:30PM at The Magnet Theater!> Wanna plug? E-mail me a photo + photo credit, or join our flickr group.</p>
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<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment in Photos Thursday May 28 2009  Daily Bee-Log</p>
<p>Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 1:00PM --Andy Borowitz says, "Red Bull Red Bull Red Bullybullybull" [The New Yorker] --Kevin Allison asks: "Some people get more than one big break, don't they?" [Zug.com] --"May I have the language of origin, please?" [National Spelling Bee | The Original Article] --The UCB Touring Company visits the Holy City [Charleston City Paper] --Improvise your own Wet Hot American Summer at Camp Magnet [The Magnet Theater] --Bill Hader talks about 'Spiderman: The Short Halloween' [amctv.com] | Plus, see a 10-page preview [MTV.com]</p>
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<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment in Daily Bee-log Thursday May 28 2009  Inside With: Chris Booth, Sketch ComedianBy: Andrew Singer</p>
<p>Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 9:00AM THE BOYS OF CITY HALL Top row: Josh Wolinsky, Dan Kramer; Bottom row: Luis Nunez, Chris Booth and Patrick Frankfort | Photo: Liberty EdwardsSketch comedian Chris Booth has been slugging it out in the New York sketch comedy trenches for several years. His team, City Hall, recently performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Booth, a native of Beaufort, S.C., was also recently named comedy curator for The Tank. The Apiary sat down with Booth recently to discuss sketch comedy, how he helped form City Hall and the Tank gig. His responses were edited for space and clarity.What got you into comedy?Around five to six years ago, I found a show at The Theater Under Saint Marks called Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There Is a Game, hosted by Andres du Bouchet. I was absolutely blown away by the show due to the stark originality of it. Everything about it really spoke to me as an artist, and that was the first time that I said to myself, "I can do this in New York." Before then, my view of comedy was very standup-centric, but also very classic setup-punchline. [At Night of Amazing Inventions] they really took ideas that everyone knows and they took them to an absurdist level. My sense of humor really jibed with that, and after seeing the show several times, I started to make the connection from a writing standpoint of the creation and end-mapping of each joke. Once I saw how it worked, I realized I could begin to work it myself.Tell us a little about your sketch group City Hall.City Hall is very much a collaboration of the five members of the group. Not to sound pretentious or anything, but we all support and push each other to different artistic and comedic heights. We sat down with City Hall and basically started discussing what we found funny, the things we found funny -- not necessarily other comedians we found funny, but the situations in life that we found humorous. The group really sort of grew organically from there, which is probably the biggest difference from any other project I've worked on.How did City Hall form?Josh Wolinsky and I were in a Fringe show together called Fringe a la Carte, which meant we did street performances. It was very bizarre. We were in City Hall Park in fact, doing a performance. We were sitting there, just making each other laugh, back and forth. We had a great time, and we were actually working together with another improv group. That relationship carried over into Punching the Midget [another sketch group], which carried into City Hall. He and I knew several people that we wanted to work with. And we both wanted to keep things light and breezy, focusing on what we found funny. We figured that odds were against us making it, so we might as well have as much fun as we can.You've had a few members come and go throughout the years. Has that ever radically affected the dynamics?We've had four core people in the group, and a rotating fifth cast member, sort-of. It's never happened by design. The first person dropped out of comedy and started a band, and the next person ended up getting married and moving away. The people we bring into the group are just people we want to work with or people we were interested in.You've recently been named comedy curator for The Tank.This is brand new. The current one is leaving in a few months, so I'm transitioning in. The Tank is a non-profit theater dedicated to showcasing new talent. It's not driven by a drink minimum, bringer shows or the need to get people to enroll in a class. It's purely non-profit theater to give people the experience of performing. Possibly even for those who have never stepped out in front of an audience before. As comedy curator, it's my job to book acts for the space. We have two theaters, one black box space upstairs with 50 seats and one on the first floor with 100 seats.How do you pick shows?Groups must have the drive and desire to put up a complete show. And I'm specifically looking for groups that may not have the ability to perform elsewhere. Maybe they have been formed from one of the three big improv schools but don't necessarily have a place to call home. I also look for groups that have a distinct comedic voice. I'll have many conversations to help find a way to pair them up with more established groups, so that the two can build on each other, both creatively and in terms of mixing together fanbases.--Andrew Singer is a contributing editor for The Apiary. He performs regularly as "Soce the Elemental Wizard" and blogs for OutHipHop.com. He recently wrote about Dave Holmes.RELATED• City Hall Facebook page• Official Web site for The Tank</p>
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<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment | 8 References in EXCLUSIVELY at The Apiary Thursday May 28 2009  The Honey Shot</p>
<p>Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 5:00AM David Koechner performs at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2009 | Photo: m.berru via The Apiary flickr group.> Wanna plug? E-mail me a photo + photo credit, or join our flickr group.</p>
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<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment in Photos Wednesday May 27 2009  Todd Glass Explains Why Tosh.0 Won't Work - Tosh.0</p>
<p>Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:30AM (via Punchline Magazine blog)</p>
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