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Let’s Get Serious with Elephant Larry

Stefan Lawrence and Alexander Zalben are 2/5ths of Elephant Larry, one of New York’s most notorious sketch comedy groups. They sat down with me prior to their second performance at the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival and we talked about the Kowalski Method, using your babies as stage props and what it means to have oneContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Elephant Larry”

Let’s Get Serious with Inside Joke Films

I’m joined by Jon Braylock & Ramy Youssef of Inside Joke Films. Despite what you might think based on their name, Inside Joke Films don’t just make internet videos—they also perform live sketch shows and will be performing at Stage 773 for the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival on Sunday, January 9 at 4pm. Visit www.chicagosketchfest.com for info andContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Inside Joke Films”

Let’s Get Serious with Two Fun Men

The 10th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival is in full-effect and I’m going to be posting a series of interviews with performers over the next two weeks. First up, I interviewed John Haskell and Arthur Meyer from Two Fun Men. We discuss the differences between today, tonight and tomorrow, the slow food movement, and impressing girlsContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Two Fun Men”

Let’s Get Serious with Liz McArthur

Liz McArthur joins me for a long, rambling discussion about her many sketch comedy endeavors, fear of passion and her long-abandoned Adam Sandler fansite. I’ve known Liz for a long time (we’ve worked on a bunch of videos together) and this conversation is pretty loose but I almost made her cry a few times soContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Liz McArthur”

Let’s Get Serious with Drew Current

Drew Current joins me to discuss The Santa Stories: The Naughty Story, which he directed. Drew is a member of pH Productions, a company that’s puts together improv and scripted shows. The Santa Stories just ended a run of performances at Studio Be that featured a closeted homosexual elf, drug-addicted Rudolph and sex-starved Mrs. Claus. Let’sContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Drew Current”

Let’s Get Serious with Kelly Bolton

For my second episode, I interview Kelly Bolton from Off Off Broadzway, a musical sketch group that puts a comedic spin on the burlesque revival of recent years. In Off Off Broadzway, Kelly plays Andy Drodgenous, a sleazy dude that follows the girls around and adds suggestive comments between (and sometimes during) songs. We talkContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious with Kelly Bolton”

Let’s Get Serious Podcast

I have a new podcast where I interview ambitious creative individuals in a very serious manner. Chicago, home of Second City and iO, is the best city in the world for sketch comedy and improv so I’ll be talking to a lot of those types of people to get things started. My first guest isContinue reading “Let’s Get Serious Podcast”

“Broadz Bitch” Music Video

A day in the life of the ladies of Off Off Broadzway. Wake up outside, get a face tattoo, hang out with androgynous midget, you know, your typical Tuesday… Off Off Broadzway are a Chicago-based musical sketch comedy group. A couple weeks ago I filmed this music video with them. You may recognize Liz andContinue reading ““Broadz Bitch” Music Video”

Chicago Sketchfest

Tomorrow marks the start of the Ninth Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Each year, over the course of two weeks, 100+ sketch comedy troupes perform 125+ shows in the sketch center of the Universe. That’s a lot of sketch. In 2007 Pizza Infinity made an 18-episode web-series taking a look behind-the-scenes at Sketchfest. You’ll findContinue reading “Chicago Sketchfest”