Sylvia Plath On Helium
Those in-the-know are already hip to the fact that comedy is the new indie rock¹. Which, now that I think about it, is probably why they were turning people away at the door @ last night’s re-introduction of the famed Ritalin Readings series. Emceed by the impossibly apple-cheeked Lindsay Lindsayism and the dreamy Gawker pinup Worker #3116, the show successfully accomplished its stated goal of providing bite-sized morsels of high-grade entertainment goodness for the short attention span set. That is to say, it was fun, not boring.
Despite the fact that not a single one of last night’s performers stuck to the 4-minute rule that was supposed to govern the evening’s preceedings, each of the readers managed to make the most of their extra time by maintaining an admirable laugh:minute ratio. Personal faves included sets by Heather Lawless (her confessional delivery style manages to trigger both awkwardness and laughter from her audience), Jon Friedman (highest laugh:minute ratio of the bunch) and These Modern Socks (in which old school FOW Matt Tobey and Darci Kittenpants traded off-kilter “Yo Momma” jokes). All in all, good times were had by all. With one notable exception, that is.
You see, the Official Ritalin Readings After-Party was held in the bar immediately adjacent to the “performance” room. After having succesfully outmanuevered a surprisingly douche-y Vincent Victor Garber for position at the bar, your Uncle Grambo tossed back a few celebratory root beers with the crew. Everyone seemed to be having a good time when, all of a sudden, there was a Close Encounter Of The Durst Kind with some Z-List TV D-Bags who somehow managed to usurp OUR reign over the bar. But rather than retell a tale that Gabe has already exquisitely recanted, your Uncle Grambo will throw out a few selected pics from the evening … after the jump. Natch.
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1. dusty bottoms wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
comedy is gay
2. gijyun wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
i can’t wait for The OC to release a soundtrack with all the comedy dubs they’ll start using as background music.
p.s. some people kinda miss your image tags.
3. Uncle Grambo wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Like WHOA! Haven’t seen you around these parts in ages! I didn’t think anyone even noticed that I had switched it up. Consider your request to reinsert hilarity into alt tags granted, Gijyun!
4. Mark Swiderski wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Also put ‘em in the “Be Like Mark” section, so we can figure out what you’re buying without clicking through.
5. Dashiell wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
You can put the jokes in title tag, W3C compliant-stizz
6. matthewtobey.com » Blog Archive » Live Taped from New York Jackie had a conference … wrote on April 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
[…] For other takes on the event, check out this account on Whatevs and this one from Corporate-Casual. I’m told I was there for the VH1’s The Agency fiasco, but I literally have zero recollection. I’m not positive I wasn’t slipped the date-rape drug, though with a body like mine, I can’t blame anyone. […]
7. Matthew Tobey’s The City of Floating Blogs » Blog Archive » Live Taped from New York wrote on July 31st, 2007 at 10:16 am
[…] For other takes on the event, check out this account on Whatevs and this one from Corporate-Casual. I’m told I was there for the VH1’s The Agency fiasco, but I literally have zero recollection. I’m not positive I wasn’t slipped the date-rape drug, though with a body like mine, I can’t blame anyone. […]
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9. Flower Guide Online wrote on September 4th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Flower Guide Online…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…