I saw them again tonight. They were, as always, awesome. It is ACTUALLY unfair how good they are. I’ve seen them like six or seven times now and they continue to be not only the best improv group I’ve seen but probably one of the funniest comedy acts of seen period, and maybe one of the most exciting live acts I’ve seen of any kind.
After returning from the show, I turned on the Republican National Convention in time to see Mike Huckabee’s speech. Now, I support Obama and in no way do I want McCain to be President, but God dammit shoot me in the face, Huckabee’s speech was good wasn’t it?
Expect more political posts as the election month draws near. And go to see 2 square (sometimes they perform as 3 square) the next time you get the chance.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
LISTS
People love them! Here are some reasons why.
1. They're easy to write!
2. They enable the writer to easily slip in cheap jokes and observations (Prostitutes have sex with people for money!)
3. They require very little reading. And reading is boring!
4. They can provide a contrast that cause one to think of something in a new light. Especially dildos! (Stay tuned for my upcomming list "Ways to use dildos that aren't sexual!")
5. They statisfy one's craving for a structured numeric system.
1. They're easy to write!
2. They enable the writer to easily slip in cheap jokes and observations (Prostitutes have sex with people for money!)
3. They require very little reading. And reading is boring!
4. They can provide a contrast that cause one to think of something in a new light. Especially dildos! (Stay tuned for my upcomming list "Ways to use dildos that aren't sexual!")
5. They statisfy one's craving for a structured numeric system.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Who Will Be Batman?
So, it is common knowlege at this point that Nolan has stated for the record that he will only do three Batman movies. And Christian Bale is only signed on for three as well. If the recent Tim Burtan Batman series is any sign, Warner Brothers is going to want to keep making these movies even after Nolan and Bale has stopped. So the real question is, who will be the next Batman after Christian Bale?
I would just like to put it out there that if they are struggling to find someone, I will step up to the plate and do it. I don't think I have much going on two or three years from now and I would be more than up for the challenge. I can be tough. I can growl. I can fight criminals and deliver awesome lines like "I am not the hero Gotham needs right now." If you are a Warner Brother Executive and you are reading this, I am game for the job. Have someone contact me. Now we just need to find a director.
Maybe the REAL real question is, is this actually common knowlege? Or is it just loser knowlege? Answer: I don't care.
Sincerely,
Brandon
PS: In all seriousness I would not endorse a continuation of this Batman series without Nolan. He has made the best super hero movie of all-time and is a great director. If he thinks the series has come to an end, they should respect that. However, if it must happen, I am the man for the role.
I would just like to put it out there that if they are struggling to find someone, I will step up to the plate and do it. I don't think I have much going on two or three years from now and I would be more than up for the challenge. I can be tough. I can growl. I can fight criminals and deliver awesome lines like "I am not the hero Gotham needs right now." If you are a Warner Brother Executive and you are reading this, I am game for the job. Have someone contact me. Now we just need to find a director.
Maybe the REAL real question is, is this actually common knowlege? Or is it just loser knowlege? Answer: I don't care.
Sincerely,
Brandon
PS: In all seriousness I would not endorse a continuation of this Batman series without Nolan. He has made the best super hero movie of all-time and is a great director. If he thinks the series has come to an end, they should respect that. However, if it must happen, I am the man for the role.
Back from Texas!
Hey guys!
Texas was really fun! For those of you who don't remember, I drove to Texas for a week to perform with my group Quaint Little Coffee shop at The Austin Out of Bounds Coemdy Festival. We all grew really close during the trip and were SUPER-PSYCHED for our show by the time it came around. The trip itself was also hilarious and fun, and I'm sure you will continue to read about it here in the form of longer essays for some time to come.
Right now, I will give you this one insight. There was an improv group performing at this festival called The Weisenheimers. We did not get to see their show, as we had to leave a few days prior, and have not ever seen weisenheimer perform. So, this paragraph is not in any way a comment on the actual group, The Weisenheimers. But we thought this was a hilarious name for a group and began to create characters similating what we thought a group like this wold be like. On the way home, after driving for 23 hours and struggling for ways to waste time, Lou and I ended up improvising a 40-minute long radio show as The Weisenheimer characters we had concocted. Afterward, we realised we had basically just done another full improv set. And this was probably my favorite improv I'd done in a while. Long road trips affect everyone in different ways, and I guess this is how it affects us.
Another reason I am proud of this trip is that I succeeded in my goal of writing a sketch every day during it. Actually more. I have eleven new sketches. Some of them shitty. Some of them good. Upon my return to Jersey Saturday night, I discovered an event called "Sketch Writing Month in September" between comics in the New York area. So I resolved to continue my writing kick through December and will hopefully have over 40 brand new sketches by the end of this month!
I hesitate to post sketches on this sight right now, for copywright reasons. Also, many of them are in my notebook and not yet typed up. But, if anyone would like to swap sketches to read or just offer me some feedback on a couple, please feel free to email me at gulyacomedy@yahoo.com!
Also, I am on another kick currently as well. A comic book reading one! After finishing Alan Moore's great "The Watchmen" I have read two Batman books: Moore's The Killing joke, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. If anyone wants to talk about these, please contact me as well.
That is all. Thank you for reading this. I sincerely appreciate it.
Brandon Gulya
Texas was really fun! For those of you who don't remember, I drove to Texas for a week to perform with my group Quaint Little Coffee shop at The Austin Out of Bounds Coemdy Festival. We all grew really close during the trip and were SUPER-PSYCHED for our show by the time it came around. The trip itself was also hilarious and fun, and I'm sure you will continue to read about it here in the form of longer essays for some time to come.
Right now, I will give you this one insight. There was an improv group performing at this festival called The Weisenheimers. We did not get to see their show, as we had to leave a few days prior, and have not ever seen weisenheimer perform. So, this paragraph is not in any way a comment on the actual group, The Weisenheimers. But we thought this was a hilarious name for a group and began to create characters similating what we thought a group like this wold be like. On the way home, after driving for 23 hours and struggling for ways to waste time, Lou and I ended up improvising a 40-minute long radio show as The Weisenheimer characters we had concocted. Afterward, we realised we had basically just done another full improv set. And this was probably my favorite improv I'd done in a while. Long road trips affect everyone in different ways, and I guess this is how it affects us.
Another reason I am proud of this trip is that I succeeded in my goal of writing a sketch every day during it. Actually more. I have eleven new sketches. Some of them shitty. Some of them good. Upon my return to Jersey Saturday night, I discovered an event called "Sketch Writing Month in September" between comics in the New York area. So I resolved to continue my writing kick through December and will hopefully have over 40 brand new sketches by the end of this month!
I hesitate to post sketches on this sight right now, for copywright reasons. Also, many of them are in my notebook and not yet typed up. But, if anyone would like to swap sketches to read or just offer me some feedback on a couple, please feel free to email me at gulyacomedy@yahoo.com!
Also, I am on another kick currently as well. A comic book reading one! After finishing Alan Moore's great "The Watchmen" I have read two Batman books: Moore's The Killing joke, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. If anyone wants to talk about these, please contact me as well.
That is all. Thank you for reading this. I sincerely appreciate it.
Brandon Gulya
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Watchmen Follow-up
A segment from Brandon Gulya's Journal 8/18/08
Finished The Watchmen recently. Was good. Would have posted sooner. Was busy. Liked Rorschach best. Lots of personallity. Good features. Admire him. Can't wiat for movie version. Hope they don't ruin it like ruined X-Men. Doing lots of comedy and class stuff lately. Work too. Worked nine hours at Panera today. Very tired. Man came in, didn't like his face. Going out tonight. Will be even more tired. If you get the joke of this blog, you are equally as awesome and loveably dorkish as I am.
Finished The Watchmen recently. Was good. Would have posted sooner. Was busy. Liked Rorschach best. Lots of personallity. Good features. Admire him. Can't wiat for movie version. Hope they don't ruin it like ruined X-Men. Doing lots of comedy and class stuff lately. Work too. Worked nine hours at Panera today. Very tired. Man came in, didn't like his face. Going out tonight. Will be even more tired. If you get the joke of this blog, you are equally as awesome and loveably dorkish as I am.
Monday, August 4, 2008
The Watchmen
Is fucking good. I'm a third of the way through. More on this to come.
Also I got signed to do two pretty big stand-up shows in September.
The first is a cool show at Carolines in NY on Sept 22nd. It's a 7PM show and is only $5. I actually really need people to come to this, so if you're interested let me know! You need to reserve a couple weeks in advance to get the $5 price.
The second is a comedy contest at the Street Road Bar and Grill on Sept 30th. The winner will recieve five hundred dollars. It also seems like a really sweet deal and I would highly recommend you attend even if I weren't in it. Check out these sweet audience perks:
1. Free buffet
2. 2 dollar everything in the bar. 2 dollar beers. 2 dollar margaritas. 2 dollar Long Island ice teas! THE WORKS!
3. First 100 people get a free t-shirt
4. Door prizes! DVDs! TVs!
5. Tickets are just 7 bucks!
All for now. I'm glad we had this talk. You were sexy at it.
Gladly,
Brandon
Also I got signed to do two pretty big stand-up shows in September.
The first is a cool show at Carolines in NY on Sept 22nd. It's a 7PM show and is only $5. I actually really need people to come to this, so if you're interested let me know! You need to reserve a couple weeks in advance to get the $5 price.
The second is a comedy contest at the Street Road Bar and Grill on Sept 30th. The winner will recieve five hundred dollars. It also seems like a really sweet deal and I would highly recommend you attend even if I weren't in it. Check out these sweet audience perks:
1. Free buffet
2. 2 dollar everything in the bar. 2 dollar beers. 2 dollar margaritas. 2 dollar Long Island ice teas! THE WORKS!
3. First 100 people get a free t-shirt
4. Door prizes! DVDs! TVs!
5. Tickets are just 7 bucks!
All for now. I'm glad we had this talk. You were sexy at it.
Gladly,
Brandon
Friday, August 1, 2008
Colbert 2 plus other stuff
Hey Dudes and Duddresses,
So, as promised, I'm going to elaborate on Colbert a little. He's an awesome dude. Sahil and I were wondering wheather he would be in character for the entire proccess even in between segments and stuff, which I thought would be cool. He wasn't, which I thought was equally as cool. We got to see him just be a normal guy and you know what? He's just as funny as his character is. He did a Q&A session and he took my question, which was, "When you were studdying improvisation in chicago who were your favorite people to work with and study with?" He gave me a list of names, Del Close among others. Sahil said my question was the smartest question.
On a show I did sunday night I met this dude who makes $3,000 a show a semester playing different colleges, and does about fifteen shows a semester. That's $90,000 a year. Take away cuts for his manager and agent and taxes and such, and that's still over $60,000. That's doesn't exactly make him a high teir comedian, but I would be so happy doing that. He gets to play lots of cool crowds every year and make a living off of it. Plus, he can do whatever he wants in the summer. A got into a conversation with him and he told me how he tried doing bringers and stuff in NY for a while (which I've done) and found it a waste of time. And then his manager found him at some festival, and got him this gig. Pretty sweet. He watched my set and laughed. I hope he needs an opener one day and calls me. Even though he doesn't have my number.
IMPORTANT SENTENCE: My group QLCS is performing at Del Close a week from tomorrow.
I'll remind you guys (Sahil and maybe Dave?) about it a bunch this week. If you've happened to stumble upon my blog, even if you've never seen me do comedy before, you should come out for this show. 3:30 PM at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC.
Also, I can't believe I haven't posted about this yet, The Dark Knight is absolutely amazing! It completely re-defines how you feel about super heroes. This is my list of my favorite movies so far this year:
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Forgetting Sarah Marshal
That's it, Guys and Guydresses.
Love,
Brandon
So, as promised, I'm going to elaborate on Colbert a little. He's an awesome dude. Sahil and I were wondering wheather he would be in character for the entire proccess even in between segments and stuff, which I thought would be cool. He wasn't, which I thought was equally as cool. We got to see him just be a normal guy and you know what? He's just as funny as his character is. He did a Q&A session and he took my question, which was, "When you were studdying improvisation in chicago who were your favorite people to work with and study with?" He gave me a list of names, Del Close among others. Sahil said my question was the smartest question.
On a show I did sunday night I met this dude who makes $3,000 a show a semester playing different colleges, and does about fifteen shows a semester. That's $90,000 a year. Take away cuts for his manager and agent and taxes and such, and that's still over $60,000. That's doesn't exactly make him a high teir comedian, but I would be so happy doing that. He gets to play lots of cool crowds every year and make a living off of it. Plus, he can do whatever he wants in the summer. A got into a conversation with him and he told me how he tried doing bringers and stuff in NY for a while (which I've done) and found it a waste of time. And then his manager found him at some festival, and got him this gig. Pretty sweet. He watched my set and laughed. I hope he needs an opener one day and calls me. Even though he doesn't have my number.
IMPORTANT SENTENCE: My group QLCS is performing at Del Close a week from tomorrow.
I'll remind you guys (Sahil and maybe Dave?) about it a bunch this week. If you've happened to stumble upon my blog, even if you've never seen me do comedy before, you should come out for this show. 3:30 PM at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC.
Also, I can't believe I haven't posted about this yet, The Dark Knight is absolutely amazing! It completely re-defines how you feel about super heroes. This is my list of my favorite movies so far this year:
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Forgetting Sarah Marshal
That's it, Guys and Guydresses.
Love,
Brandon
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