UPDATED: What You Missed: Comedy Below Canal™: Bro’In Out with Leo & Tony
L-R: Paul Rudd and Steve Schirripa
Somewhere between The Dick Cavett Show and After Dark with Hugh Hefner lies “Bro’In Out with Leo & Tony.” In this live talk/variety show, host Leo Allen, ‘sidekick’ Tony Camin and bartender Jawnee Conroy welcomed Paul Rudd, Jon Glaser aka The Dreamedian, Steve Schirripa and musical guests Supercute!. There are two more photos below, and you can check out the full photo set at 92YTribeca’s Flickr.
UPDATE:Now with video of Supercute! performing Not To Write About Boys
But you already knew that, didn’t you? With February 14th quickly approaching, we just thought to remind you. At 92YTribeca, we’ll be leaving a trail of rose petals from the front door to the stage, with candles lighting the path and a Fabio CD on the soundsystem. White doves will flutter about.
Haha, no we kid, we kid. But really, whether you’re swooning over the irresistible Paul Rudd, revisiting unrequited love and teenage love poems, learning about what foods will drive your partner wild or even how science can help you nab your sweetheart, 92YTribeca’s got you covered. And we’ll always return your calls. Check out some if what we have lined up for you achy breaky hearts:
This Thu, Feb 4, we will be Bro’In Out with Leo & Tony Featuring Paul Rudd and More for Comedy Below Canal™.
On Wed, Feb 10, try An Early Evening with Dear Old Love, Featuring Andy Selsberg, Emily Gould, Tom Shillue and Musical Guest Jeffrey Lewis. Have you ever wanted to tell the people you’ve loved (or liked) what you’ve always wanted to tell them but never did? That’s the concept behind Dear Old Love, the book and the website. Watch it come alive in an evening of reading, discussion and maybe even a song or two inspired by and dedicated to the people we’ve loved (or at least liked), requited and unrequited.
Fri, Feb 12, brings you Aphrodisiacs with Francine Segan. Explore the stories behind aphrodisiacs like frog saliva, rhinoceros horns, oysters, truffles and caviar with noted food historian Francine Segan.
Lastly, on Sat, Feb 13, we will screen Christophe Honoré’s film The Beautiful Person (La Belle Personne), an examination of amorous pursuit in modern day Paris.
What You Missed: Comedy Below Canal™: Some Folks with Wyatt Cenac featuring Colin Quinn, and More
At 92YTribeca for last Thursday’s Comedy Below Canal™, we learned that Wyatt Cenac dropped out of college for a year when he was 19 to intern at SNL. While at SNL, Wyatt told us, Colin took him under his wing and encouraged him to get into comedy writing, which played a large part in Wyatt’s decision to do just that.
Last Thursday was the first time they had seen each other in 13 years! And as you can see in the photo above, Wyatt still holds Colin in high regard, peeking at his mentor from behind the curtain, before coming out to join him. Check out a complete set of photos from the evening in a slide show at 92YTribeca’s Flickr.
The next Comedy Below Canal™: Witstream Live with Michael Ian Black, Amy Schumer, Myq Kaplan, Pete Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani and More, happens this Thu, Jan 28.
Video: Trailer for Kevin Geeks Out About...Visions of the Future
As we enter the year 2010, the comedy-variety show Kevin Geeks Out geeks out about Visions of the Future! Special guests helping Kevin celebrate the promises of the cars, kitchens, music, sports, robots and sex of the tomorrow include Emmy Award winning Daily Show writer Elliott Kalan; Anatomy Teacher Kriota Willberg; Popular Mechanics Technology Editor Seth Porges; Psychic Jane Doherty who will answer audience questions; and Blogger Tenebrous Kate.
What You Missed: The Decade’s First Ever Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Photo of Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival / Credit
The kids behind the monthly Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival at 92YTribeca held their first event of the decade last weekend, and “in spite outrageously cold weather,” there was a packed house in attendance. The Iron Mule Blog writes:
Victor Varnado began the show talking about all of those lists looking back at the worst movies of the decade, and expressed his dismay that a movie he appeared in, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, wasn’t on any of the lists. Co-host Jay Stern urged the audience to join the fight and write to all those list-makers out there, urging them to include Pluto Nash on their worst-movies-of-the-decade list. We urge all of you readers out there to join in the effort and put the flop featuring Victor Varnado on top of those worst-movie lists!
Read the full review here, which includes links to four of the videos presented that evening, and an announcement on the winning film.
Anyone still wondering what to do this evening? We’ve got you covered uptown at 92Y with Los Romero and a Hustle Dance Party. And 92YTribeca has got you covered downtown with: Sparkle New Year’s Eve at 92YTribeca. The event features 16 performers, video shorts, story telling, performance, and so much more. We have a few tickets left; they are priced at $15. That is approximately $.75 for each act. Sparkle Variety has more info.
The doors at 8pm. Sets at 9 and 11, plus afterparty/show until 4am. See you there, or see you next year.
As former New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee recently explained on video, there is a tradition of Jews eating out at Chinese restaurants over the Christmas Holiday. The A.V. Club knows this as well, and thinks that Chinese and a Movie at 92YTribeca on Christmas day sounds like a perfect plan:
Neither party really wants to make much fuss over the holiday, so what better than to purchase and prepare, respectively, spring rolls and beef lo mein? 92YTribeca understands this, and here it has combined an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet with a couple of faux-Westerns from director Mel Brooks.
That’s right, a Chinese buffet and two Mel Brooks movies. The doors open at 2pm, with Blazing Saddles starting at 2:30pm, Spaceballs at 4pm, and all the Chinese food you can eat ‘till it’s gone! Even better, the Village Voice is currently running a promotion, offering two free tickets to the event.
And 92YTribeca has you covered on Christmas Eve too. Head down there at 9pm for Comedy Below Canal™: The Twelfth Night of Chanukah with Sean Patton, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Mande, Jon Glaser, Todd Barry, Jon Benjamin and Rob Paravonian.
A pattern seems to be developing here. Choire Sicha, previously editor of Gawker, and current Los Angeles Times columnist and proprietor of The Awl, wrote a blurb for Tina Brown‘s The Daily Beast: Smart People Recommend. The premise being having an insider in their field offer one recommendation. Spending his days online, Choire wrote:
When you find an entrancing Web site that offers something valuable, exciting, and nearly impossible to get—and for free!—it’s like finding a unicorn in a barn full of bleating goats. In the interest of sharing the magic, I give you: Awesome Tapes from Africa, an anonymous and irregularly updated blog which features fantastic, gorgeous music in mp3 form from Zambia, Kenya, Morocco, Angola, and Egypt.
We couldn’t agree more. Awesome Tapes from Africa is an incredible blog. That’s why this May, 92YTribeca hosted Brian Shimkovitz, the man behind ATfA, for a rocking night of music from his blog. WNYC arranged to record the full set of music, you can check that out here.
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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)
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