STELLA hosts New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary Event
(Stella is Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter & David Wain)
Friday, October 10th 8:00pm
The Hammerstein Ballroom - New York, NY
Featuring The National and Grizzly Bear
more info: http://nymag.com/nyxny/40th
Too bad I don't like either of those bands. Hopefully Stella will do a proper tour or at least a new stage show soon.
Just read about Joe LoTruglio's new website on the Comedy Central Insider blog, sounds interesting.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/c...o-truglio.html
Tom Lennon will be at several upcoming shows at UCB-LA
The Greatest Concert Ever
Friday September 12, 2008
with Matt Besser, Tom Lennon, Ben Garant, more!
The UCB has assembled the greatest musical entertainers of all time.
Come live out your roadie fantasies at the "Greatest Concert Ever."
With:
Matt Besser as Billy Bragg
Colton Dunn as Lionel Richie
Tom Lennon as Cat Stevens
Ben Garant as Toby Keith
Pete Hulne
James Adomian as Johnny Cash
Heather Campbell as Bjork
Josh Fadem as Bobby Brown
http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/1062
and
Sketch Cram
Midnight — $5
Saturday September 13, 2008
With Tom Lennon from Reno 911! and The State
http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/1383
ARGH. this is RIGHT around the corner from me, and I find out about it a little too late. :\
David Wain & Paul Rudd will be at a special MySpace Black Curtain screening of
Role Models THIS THURSDAY at 7pm in Los Angeles at the Landmark.
http://www.myspace.com/blackcurtain
AND THIS SUNDAY, I'll be in Austin, Texas doing a panel discussion at
the Austin Film Festival, then hosting a screening of Role Models.
SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT will be there with me answering questions, etc.
Come on by!
http://www.davidwain.com/blog/2008/1...austin-oct-19/
And in lighter news...only a few weeks till November 7th, the opening of
"ROLE MODELS" at a theater near you.
http://www.rolemodelsmovie.com
well i just checked the role models site again, and there doesnt seem to be an RSVP.. or they opened it up again. Add role models movie to your top friends, and print out your profile for admittance.
http://www.rolemodelsmovie.com/black...osangeles.html
STELLA - NY Magazine's 40th
Grace interviews the alt-comedy trio STELLA - David Wain, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter - as they host New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary bash.
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Wainy_D...s40th_955.aspx
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=191627007
MySpace secret Stand-Up
Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter
Carolnes Comedy Club
Thursday November 6, 2008
Doors open at 6pm
18 and over
Free Show, First come, First Serve
(if it's like ever other MySpace show, you add secret-stand-up to your top myspace friend and print out your profile to get in)
Last edited by Liezl; October 31, 2008 at 12:16 AM.
They added a Los Angeles date to their Stella Fall tour.
LA Orpheum
Saturday, December 13
http://www.stellacomedy.com/
In David Wain's interview on aintitcool.com, he indicates that The State (all of them) will probably be perfomring new material at SF Sketchfest in January.
Here's the excerpt:
Beaks: There's been a great deal of anticipation out there for THE STATE DVD and, perhaps, a reunion. I know there was something in the works with Comedy Central, but--
Wain: The update is this: I'm pretty sure we're doing a live show of all-new material at the San Francisco Sketchfest in January. The entire group will be there. And we still have loose plans to do a Comedy Central special of some kind sometime next year. The TV series DVD has been finished and ready to go for two years, and is being held by MTV. We are told they will be releasing it sometime in '09.
The whole interview is here: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38959
HUGE!!!!!!!
"Even gutter hags trump pretty boys." - BabyCakes
09? Hell yes!Originally Posted by rdemint
A More Perfect (Re)Union: The State Reunites on Stage
an interview with Rolling Stone
January 22, 2009
"michael and michael have issues" got picked up by comedy central.
Showalter and MIB have put up some photos from The State SF Sketchfest rehearsal last night and they are fun and adorable.
Also, is Showalter joking about doing Porcupine Racetrack because...are you allowed to joke about doing Porcupine Racetrack? In any case, I'm now more excited than ever about the show tonight eeeeeeeeeee!
just got back.
there's still a lot of jaded hipster in me, which is dulling down the shine of my review, but i'm still excited as hell about this show and these 15 years of (often) occasional obsession has reached a satisfying climax, seeing all 1a members of the state on stage together. michael patrick jann (always my favorite) and todd holoubeck included.
at 27, i'm probably about at the median age of the member base of this message board, and the state was right in my wheel house. before mr. show and the upright citizens brigade and after kids in the hall (well, at the end of season five... if you got hbo at the time), the show was probably my first real exposure to "alternative" comedy. it might even have been one of the reasons i was drawn to their alma-matter, nyu (vague flashes of the sklar bros' apt. 2f might have played a role too); and to see the entire crew together on stage, lipsynching in tyvek paint-suits (m.i.b.'s being of particular note), was incredible. i attended the late show and i saw eugene mirman, zak orth, john mulaney, and paul scheer standing outside as the first show let out and we lined up for the late show. some guy who saw the first show was in line right in front of us and chatting with him definitely helped build anticipation.
it was a modified version of the show they put up at ucb last year (which i did not see, but based on recaps photos seems like at least two or three sketches came from), with one sketch with the three stella guys (the michael & michael interstitial video was shown too) and an (admittedly near eye-watering) encore of "porcupine racetrack." those who are big enough comedy nerds might remember the gist/recap/pictures from the last thread, which was lost in the last crash, and those who don't can wait for the dvd.
i'd imagine it will be footage from all three shows (ucb-la '08, sf sketchfest '09 8pm & 10pm) cut together, but at least the opening and closing sketches, as well as the afformentioned david/michael/michael (with a kevin cameo) sketch are new to the sketchfest shows. i couldn't help but sing along to "porcupine racetrack," but i was not one the drunks in the front row to whom ken pointed towards during his solo.
i don't have tickets to the show, but i'd imagine that tomorrow's conversation (with janeane garofalo) will also be filmed for an extra on this dvd or the state season 1 dvd.
I just came back from the Wet Hot American Summer Screening and the late show and let me just say, the audience at the screening was pretty fucking embarrassing with their questions. "HEY I GOTTA QUESTION.. what happened? weren't you on ABC for a second?" "WHERE'S PAUL RUDD?"
The cast (Wain, Black, Showalter, Orth, Garofalo, Marino, Lo Truglio, Salett) were pretty forgiving, despite being a little annoyed at lack of legitimate questions, and reenacted a couple scenes: Michael Ian Black's shed scene and Going to the City.
The late show tonight was pretty much a modified version of the UCB show back in March. The only sketch missing was the construction worker bit which was going to be done by Michael Ian Black and Showalter, but because they didn't get around to rehearse it, it was scrapped.
There was one new sketch with Wain, Black and Showalter talking about the original name of Columbus' boat, The Santa Vagina.
Like Yumi mentioned, even with the same show, it was still pretty amazing to hear porcupine racetrack live. I couldn't have asked for a better encore piece.
I still don't get the notority of porcupine racetrack..
It's hilarious and wonderful?
I was at the early show and while not every moment of every sketch was honed to perfection, it was amazing to see them all together again and the material was pretty solid. We left happy.
I have to agree with the shame at being in that lame WHAS audience. What is the matter with people? God.
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