Some comedy things I would like to talk about

Some comedy things have been happening lately both with me and in the world in general, and I would like to discuss them. I'll start with the me things.

1. I met and performed with Darrel Hamond. That's right, he showed up to that New Artist Showcase I did at Caroline’s Comedy Club last week. He did a set, and while he was performing, he gave me his bag to hold! After his set, when he retrieved his bag, he said "Good set, by the way" to me. It was like in a movie.

2. I am going to be in a staged reading at UCB theatre on Oct. 13th at 6:30 PM. My sketch 201 class will be reading some of the sketches we've been work-shopping the last six weeks. At least two of my sketches will be read. The show is only $5 and there will be two dollar beers for your enjoyment! If you come for my show and stay for Maude night, you will see A TOTAL OF three and a half hours of sketch comedy for A TOTAL OF ten dollars! Do that. I would.

3. I am opening for Bo Burnham on November 3rd! He is being booked by Rutgers, my old University, and I was booked to open for him along with Jeff Kornberg, Edwin Stabert, and John Bander! For those of you who don't know who Bo Burnham is, check out this funny video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LzgYWCgkZk. I'll be sharing a stage with him soon!

4. The QLCS show I was in Friday went very well. It was easily better than every show we did over the summer and is in the top three QLCS shows, if not my favorite. For those of us who remember and can differentiate between all of the 9 QLCS shows, that is. The sentence was only applicable if Chris Polansky is reading this blog. Our next show is next Friday, October 10th at 8PM, and you should come because the group is getting better.

5. I wrote 25 sketches in the month of September. To be fair, some of them were based off ideas I came up with during the Austin trip, which was before September. And a couple were sketches I wrote in class with a writing partner. But, that's still 25 new sketches. So, go me.

And now, comedy things in the world.

1. Mother ended. UCBs longest running show had it's finale on Saturday. I was in the audience. I've seen them maybe 6 or 7 times and I think this was the best. They did about an hour and a half of improv and earned like a 4 minute Standing-O when it was over. It was probably one of the most memorable, funny, and also emotional shows I've ever seen. Some of them were crying at the end. And it made me think how awesome it would be to work with people for so long and get that close to each other all while making comedy. It's pretty beautiful.

2. Bobby Moynihan joined the cast of SNL this year. Although the two episodes I've seen were not the best, he is doing awesomely. I fully predict him to become an SNL star in the vein of Chris Farley.

3. Derrick Comedy, a New York-based sketch and improv group, has filmed a feature film! It hasn't found a distributer yet, but they have a trailer up online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxx1vOhlqmM. Check it out!

Ok, that's it for now.

Brandon