Music: PFFR Night: Members of PFFR, creators of Wonder Showzen and Xavier: Renegade Angel, will present a selection of their video work, from music videos to clips from shows.
We’ve done an extensive numbers crunch for you. Counting number of shows, most frequents guests, and more—including esoteric stats, such as the number of Foursquare Check-ins (203 as of 11/3/09) most requested beer (PBR) and the number of hits on our New York Timesparody video on YouTube (110,337 as of 11/3/09).
Talks: On Stage with Next to Normal: Join us for an evening of music from the Tony-winning Broadway musical Next to Normal, featuring members of the cast and creative team in this one-night only event.
With regard to the men, we’d like to point out that we’ve had five of them on stage at 92YTribeca. From left to right in the above photo, we’ve had Aziz Ansari, Aasif Mandvi, Zach Galifianakis, John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac. (Edit: We’ve only dreamed of having Aziz Ansari here.)
To keep abreast of future appearances by the sexiest people in comedy, bookmark this handy 92YTribeca Comedy page, and peep the 92YTribeca Comedy Facebook page.
Talk: Toxic Friends: Gender expert Susan Shapiro Barash explores the intricacies of women’s friendships and shares insights on how women can extricate themselves from damaging friendships to create more fulfilling ones.
Film: Streetwise FREE. with a 16mm film print from the archive of the New York Public Library, and director Martin Bell and photographer Mary Ellen Mark in person for Q&A. Read more on the 92Y Blog.
Moon Saloon: An open-mic session led by luminaries of the NYC poetry and music circles. FREE. Part of the Live at 92YTribeca Cafe series.
Film: Short Slam #1: Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner.
Film: Freeheld: New Jersey police Lieutenant Laurel Hester’s battle to leave her pension to her life partner. Co-presented by Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films with Judith Helfand in person along with other guest speakers.
Comedy Below Canal™: Some Folks Hosted by Wyatt Cenac with John Oliver, Hannibal Buress, Music from Che Grand and DJ Car Stereo (Wars)
The Vincent Price Movie Review is a website reviewing the movies of the legendary Vincent Price, if you weren’t sure. It is really impressive.
Though his post of Top 10 Vincent Price Movies might beget debate. The Vincent Price Movie Review and other Price fans might like debate that at Kevin Geeks Out About…Vincent Price! on Oct 23 at 92YTribeca. The previous Kevin Geeks Out, a comedy-variety show, was a big hit. The show was fantastic, and serving the crowd werewolf cupcakes certainly went over well.
The Oct 23 installment, co-hosted by horror fan and writer Tom Peyer, (Tek Jansen, Silver Age: Doom Patrol), will feature not only well known Price material, (such as this clip with Kermit the Frog), but also rare film and TV clips. Special guests will examine Price’s legacy, the dark side of Price, and actor Arthur Anderson will talk about Price and their days at Orson Welles’ Mercury Players! What’s more, very seriously, every admission will include a free pencil-moustache. Oh yah.
For the video variety show tonight featuring famous werewolves, Saturday Morning cartoons, a TV mystery (written by the creator of The Sopranos) and other footage, Kevin has made werewolves cupcakes (pictured bottom right). That’s right, and you get to eat them. If you haven’t heard, cupcakes are an international phenomenon.
As Kevin wrote on his blog, there are five great things about werewolf cupcakes:
1. Werewolf Cupcakes can be friends with Vampire Cupcakes (this would NEVER happen in the real world.)
2. The Werewolf Cupcake is a good diet snack – you might not eat it, because it’s so fun to look at.
3. Werewolf Cupcakes don’t suffer horrible dreams about hunting deer by moonlight.
4. Hitler, who loved werewolves, never got to enjoy a Werewolf Cupcake – but you can.
5. No one has ever been violently disemboweled by a Werewolf Cupcake.**
Last Thursday, 92YTribeca hosted the last Comedy Below Canal™ before it goes on hiatus until the fall. There was a very special “best of” show featuring some of our faves from the past year: Bobby Tisdale hosted with guests Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), David Cross (Arrested Development), Jon Glaser (Delocated), Arj Barker (Flight of the Conchords) and super secret surprise guests Todd Barry (Freak Show), Natasha Leggero (SuperNews), and musical guest Nick Thune. Woohooo! Comedy Below Canal™ is next scheduled for Oct 1.
View more photos from the evening at 92YTribeca’s Facebook page.
Film: Gotta Dance. Post-screening discussion with veteran Broadway producer and director Dori Berinstein and columnist Steve Ramos as well as a performance by the stars of the film, the NETSational Seniors. Read more on the 92Y Blog.
The New World of New York City Rentals with Curbed.com with Dottie Herman, the CEO of major New York City brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman, and real estate market savant Jonathan Miller, and moderated by Curbed founder, Lockhart Steele.
Film: Je, Tu, Il, Elle: Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by writer Sarah Schulman.
Brooklyn Vegan’s Lament: So Much To Do, So Little Time
Brooklyn Vegan expressed sorrow over missing 92YTribeca’s Jun 3 screening of Visioneers, as 92YTribeca was the only opportunity to see it theatrically in NYC.
If it is any consolation, and it does seem to be, there is an upcoming Comedy Below Canal show on Jul 20 featuring Bobby Tisdale, Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), David Cross (Arrested Development), Jon Glaser (Delocated) *and* super secret surprise guests.
Upcoming film events at 92YTribeca:
Film: Till the Last Drop… My Heart (Hasta el Último Trago Corazón): Jul 17
Film: Short Stories of Manhattan: Film Segments From Tales of Manhattan: Jul 22
Film: Cartoons from Hell: Jul 24. Read more on the 92Y Blog
G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival: Jul 25. Read more on the 92Y Blog
Gothamist has an interview up with TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, two improv comics, “living legends” who come into New York City every couple of months to perform.
Asked about their families back home, TJ responded:
I am unwed, but I live with my brother in Chicago. The rest of my family is back in Massachusetts—in Holyoke, Mass. So they’ll come visit. They’ll take the train down and see the shows in New York usually. My mom literally loads up a van of 40 to 50 people—they’ll load up a bus. My dad will cook up a bunch of snacks and they’ll drive in during the day, all go out to eat in Little Italy, see the show and then go home. So these people ranging in age from 19 to 82 get back home at 4 in the morning and then drive home from the Holyoke Mall parking lot. They rally.
Represent Holyoke, a beautiful and aging New England mill town (with the second largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the nation!) so clearly divided into three separate communities, (the affluent, the working class, and the poor) that we are surprised they haven’t all yet been parceled out and reincorporated as separate communities.
As TJ noted above though, it is the glorious Holyoke Mall, Holyoke’s own Las Vegas, that acts as a bond that holds the commmunity together.
The full interview can be read here, and we encourage you to go read it. It starts out great, and gets even better. Here’s one more snippet, when David recalls a moment in New York City:
...there’s a guy across from me in the passenger side of a work van. I’m just standing there and he’s about three feet away from me. And he just says to me, “Nice nose. F*ck you.” And off he drove. Makes me warm all over just thinking about it.
92YTribeca Video: Comedy Below Canal™ with Andy Borowitz and Friends
Last Thursday at 92YTribeca for the latest installment of Comedy Below Canal™, award-winning satirist Andy Borowitz, creator of BorowitzReport.com, performed stand-up and signed copies of his just-released book, Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving in Prison: Bernie Madoff Edition. Joining him on stage was special guest Dean Obeidallah of Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil Comedy and The Watch List.
Above are video highlights of his performance, featuring Andy skewering CNN’s Rick Sanchez, news coverage of Michael Jackson, and how pretentious it is to note your relationship status on Facebook as “it’s complicated.” “That is like the most f*cking pretentious thing I think anyone can ever do. What is so complicated? Are you doing a goat?” You might want to view the video with caution at work, Andy drops a number of f-bombs throughout.
For more Andy Borowitz, you can listen to a podcast from his appearance at 92Y in May, here.
Check out all upcoming comedy events at 92YTribeca here.
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1. Werewolf Cupcakes can be friends with Vampire Cupcakes (this would NEVER happen in the real world.)
Brooklyn Vegan 
From left: TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi
