October 2011
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Your 11th Annual teams!
Pou & Nic Speak Jive!!! Two years ago, watching 3 on 3, I was introduced to improv and fell in love with it. Nov. 10, I am performing in it!! And with teams like the Three-Men Musical!! One of my favorite teams right now!!! So honored (I know it’s a lottery but still)!!
threeonthree:
79 teams entered, the following will perform! GLADWELL and These Guys Look Like They Read return from...
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Pay it forward
This - because Corey Brown is awesome and he is right. Pay it forward. Our community is all about support. So, show, don’t (just) tell.
coreybrown:
Try to remember what you needed when you were just starting as an improviser. Try to remember those things that helped you get over some slumps. Remember the first time someone you admired as an improviser walked up to you and told you they...
Watchvivianmedina:
Amy Cuddy presents interesting reseach on body language.
poptech:
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy’s pioneering research shows that subtle manipulations in posture can actually change our hormone levels and dramatically alter the way we feel and are perceived by the people around us. Just two minutes in one of Cuddy’s power poses lowered cortisol levels and actually changed...
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My (Internet*) Viral Week, and moving right along.
I love you Michelle. I can’t wait to see you after surgery when I am back from Paris.
bizarrozero:
*I think I probably irritated the heck out of my favorite nurse by sending him links with the subject line I’m Viral!
It’s funny - having my post all over the world’s internets made me freeze up from my normal everyday blogging. I’m back on it - first, a few little recaps.
My favorite...
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Kaleidoscope Kicks Cancer Out - THANK YOU!
We raised $1715 with our benefit last night.
THANK YOU! You are amazing! If you would like to donate a little more to make it to $1800, you can follow this link or that link.
We are PSYCHED and you are ROCK STARS!
A HUGE thanks to Cathryn Mudon and The Creek and the Cave for letting me “take over” Kaleidoscope and make it into a benefit to raise money to fight cancer.
We also had a...
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Kaleidoscope Kicks Cancer Out - TODAY (10/24/2011)...
Reblogging myself cuz I posted this late at night… and check out those amazing people doing the show! WHAT? WHAT?
bridgecomedy:
Kaleidoscope Kicks Cancer Out - Monday October 24, 2011, 7:30 pm
Seriously, LOOK AT THESE PRIZES! Even if I loved cancer, I’d still go. And I don’t! So come, fellow cancer-haters & raffle-lovers alike!
louie4711:
I’m in this!...
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Kaleidoscope Kicks Cancer Out - Monday October 24,... →
Cathryn Mudon and I are hosting a special Kaleidoscope to benefit the fight against cancer. All details below: Captains: Michelle Dobrawsky and Morgan Phillips. Proceeds go to Gilda’s Club. Donate online. You can also donate to American Cancer Society for the event here. There are two divisions of prizes: RAFFLE items and AUCTION items. Raffle tickets are $1 each. (Receipts from online...
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TONIGHT
I was going to write about this show and it popped up on my Tumblr dashboard!
I am fulfilling one of my dreams with this show: Staging a Star Trek (classic) scene! Of course, it’s a parody, but I have the PERFECT Captain Kirk, the PERFECT Bones, the PERFECT Spock, and the PERFECT red shirts! Seriously! Come to this show - it’ll be great!
naskewrimo:
at UCB Chelsea, is the...
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UCB Training Center Diversity Program: Free Shows!... →
Free? WHAT??
ucbdifference:
We’ve added some additional weekend shows that you can now see for free with your current student ID.
Free for Improv Students:
Diamond Lion: Musical Improv! is Friday nights at 7:30 pm at the UCBeast
Airwolf: Let’s Go Back To Your Place, Saturdays at 10:30 in November at the UCBeast (and 7:30 pm this Saturday Oct 22)
Free for Sketch Students:
Stone Cold Fox: This...
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Shows and Events Week of October 19-31, 2011
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Shows:
Spank: Minimum Rage Thursday, October 20, 6 PM, UCB, $5 In this one-woman show Sue unleashes pent up rage from her drug-addicted early 20s all over your stupid face. Don’t worry though, she’s also going to throw you a party.
Written and performed by Sue Smith; Directed by Laura Grey.
Spank: Convicts, Skinheads and Rabbis Thursday, October 20, 6 PM, UCB, $5 The show...
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Male feminism. Malefeminism?
I heart Middleditch. He’s funny and smart. And his assessment of Cosmopolitan is very much on point.
I used to write for Cosmopolitan in France - but the editorial line was very different and feminist, and it was run almost exclusively by women at the time (not sure now).
I was shocked when I saw the editorial headlines here in the US. Same in the UK. Not sure what gives.
Don’t...
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Laughing To Keep From Crying of the Day
More Hell Yes Michelle!!!
thedailywhat:
Laughing To Keep From Crying of the Day: Comedienne Michelle L. Dobrawsky has rectal cancer. You’d think she’d be depressed, but she’s just too darn busy laughing about it.
As amusing as rectal cancer is, Dobrawsky laments the fact that it too often takes a back seat to sexier siblings such as breast cancer. It doesn’t even have its own ribbon!
Her...
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Kaleidoscope 10/24
Yes, YES, YEEEESSSS! Let’s do this!!!
cathrynmudon:
Kaleidoscope Kicks Cancer Out
This is happening next Monday, 10/24 at 7.30, yall! Save your pennies and come support improv for a great cause! Spread the word …bring friends, co-workers, and your rich great-uncle, the shipping tycoon.
Poupak Sepehri is co-hosting the show, and she has been working extremely hard to organize...
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yourfriendmitch asked: Just to be clear. We're on the same team for this "not for girls/women" thing. Not only to point out how silly it is that that campaign has gone on for 35 years, but also to note that Dr. Pepper's new campaign is not original, as well as bad. I value your 2 cents!
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For some reason I can't answer my mail these days...
But if you wrote to me, thanks! You made my day!
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Melissa McCarthy is having more than a moment
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Dorothy sez:
Melissa McCarthy is having more than a moment. She is having an era. Sure, maybe not necessarily in length, but definitely in importance. Breakout star status doesn’t usually happen to 40-something, plus-sized women. And when I say “usually,” I mean ever. But here she is with a brand new Emmy on her mantle and a blockbuster comedy hit on her resume and a...
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InvAsian at the PIT - TONIGHT! →
I’ve been pushing this show a lot because I am incredibly flattered to be a part of such a talented group of individuals. Come see how diverse the Asian continent is and laugh with us! We almost had full house at the PIT last month, so hoping for a big audience tonight as well. Only $5, FREE with ANY student ID from ANY (improv) school! And then we’ll hang and make out*.
*Making out...
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Shows and Events This Weekend (Oct. 6 - 9, 2011)
ucbdifference:
There are a few shows with our Diversity folks this weekend:
Shows:
Thirsty Thursday Comedy Show Thursday, October 6, 8 PM, Serendipity Wines-1585 1st Ave (between 82nd and 83rd), Free UCB Students Eugene Chang, Victor Hernandez, and Cezar Salamathosts Thirsty Thursday, a new FREE monthly comedy show. This month’s show is sponsored by Brooklyn Vodka, so there will be FREE vodka...
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Change The World
Everybody can change the world. Those who say: “The world is not fair and we can’t change it” are those who forget that two hundred years ago, slavery was legal in the US; a hundred years ago, Russia had a tzar; fifty years ago, computers didn’t exist for the masses; twenty years ago, the Berlin wall had just come down and Germany was figuring out how to reunite; ten years...
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Thoughts on Steve Jobs' passing at my blog →
This kind of explains the way I feel - not a cultist, not even someone who likes everything Apple does, but someone who grew up in a world strongly influenced by Apple products and technological boundary breaking. Also, Jobs death hit me in the stomach because he lost his battle to cancer, and I have a hard time accepting that this still happens.
wilwheaton:
I wrote my first story on the Mac...
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A Whale or a Mermaid?
This has been going around Facebook with a picture of the gorgeous Tara Lynn, French Model.
I love this because it shows how the French are breaking one of the artificial barriers erected by the media and by the movie industry for women: the weight and body image barrier.
This is the story published on October 3, 2011, on Facebook:
“A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a...
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