Friends! Enemies! Lovers!
Hello again.
Despite being extremely busy, I’ve taken the time to write you. I hope you enjoy this missive. I’ll keep it short and sweet (perfect length for a quick poop).
Some shows I’m super excited about
Saturday December 2nd, 7pm: Improv Night at Sea Tea Comedy with Identity Crisis, a team that supports me in being the most unhinged version of myself 💜
Sunday December 3rd, 7pm: Main Character Energy at Boris & Horton Williamsburg - We’re back to close out 2023! We got a record number of performer submissions this month! We ended up cramming *nine* characters into an hour because we couldn’t choose! It’ll be wild. You should come.
Saturday December 16th, 10pm: Bah Humbug Holiday Sketch Show at Sea Tea Comedy When I worried that the punchline of my sketch wasn’t original enough, someone assured me that the audience won’t be smart enough to notice. Which was kind of concerning! Anyway, come raise our collective IQ a few points!
👏 5 Things
Matt Rife is the internet’s latest “ain’t I a stinker” comic (Jessie David Fox has a term for it in this podcast episode where he and Gary Gulman discuss similar comics, but I can’t remember what the term is. Bad little boys? Something cutesy like that). I don’t think Rife’s work really merits all the attention, but if you’re already following the story, a friend did text me this Rolling Stone article that gets at the phenomenon.
The holiday season makes me miss the CTA (yes, I did just write that sentence).
I love Chris Duffy’s earnest and quirky newsletter, and especially this post on the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade. New bucket list item: Be in the Doo Dah Parade! I’m thinking the Committee for The Right To Bear Arms.
I was recently introduced to the band Wolves of Glendale through their new song Vapin’ in Vegas, a rollercoaster of a song which, now that I’ve been to Vegas, I can say is very accurate.
Weird Al critiqued Spotify’s payment structure in a video released to fans as part of Spotify Wrapped. My top artist was Jason Derulo, who did not have jokes or critiques in his video. I was so close to getting Pitbull, which would have been epic. Remember in 2020 when he put out a graduation speech no one asked for, set to pictures of himself? I’m bummed ‘visiom’ didn’t catch on, but what can you do.