Hey friend-os! I am subletting my room in Astoria for the summer because I'm going off to camp. Please pass this along to anyone who might need a room for two months. E-mail me with questions. Thanks!

The dates for the sublet would be June 19th - August 17th. These dates are flexible, especially on the August end. The apartment is located in Astoria, Queens a quick 30 minute subway ride to Midtown Manhattan on the N/W train off the Ditmars stop. The apartment is a seven minute walk from the subway in a great neighborhood with lots of grocery stores, laundromats, restaurants and close to all amenities. And you'd be close to the Bohemian Beer Garden for the summer. Who could ask for anything more?

You would be living in one fully furnished bedroom of a three bedroom apartment. Your roommates would be a couple of fun, clean female professionals. The apartment has a spacious kitchen and shared living room. Your room has a private patio and access to a garden! Rent will be about $750/mo including internet and cable. It'll be about $30 more for electric. Please e-mail me [louie4711 at gmail.com] if you're interested!

Hey guys!

First of all - thank you to one and all who came out to The Magnet on April 26th and made the Chappies show a sold out smash success!  If you missed the show, or want to relive your favorite moments, you are in luck.  Every Monday and Thursday for the next few weeks we are releasing a sketch from our show on youtube!  There has never been a better time to subscribe to our youtube channel and watch us rock it.

If you want to get right to it, you can watch the first two sketches here:








Also - I'm doing a last minute ukulele show at Variety Underground tonight!  I haven't played out in a while and will be playing a bunch of new awesome stuff so come if you want.  Yay!

Louie & His Ukulele @ Variety Underground, Tonight 7PM
The Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston St.

Hey Chap-Fans,

Been starving for new content from us?? Starve no longer! For as many Mondays and Thursdays at it takes we will be releasing our ENTIRE LIVE SHOW on Youtube, sketch by sketch starting with this unearthed classic - The Truman Capote Show w/ Liza Minnelli! YEAH!

Hey guys!  Two big shows coming up that you need to know about:

My sketch group, The Top Shelf Chappies had a GREAT show last month at The Magnet and we've been invited back to do it again a week from this Sunday!  Please come see it if you haven't yet, this is your last chance to see this show for a while!  We're doing all your favorite sketches and some new stuff.  Yay.  It's already looking like it's going to sell out, so I highly recommend reservations.  Please call 212 244 8824 to make them!

Top Shelf Chappies
Sunday, April 26th, 8PM
Magnet Theater, 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
$5, $2 Beer!, All Ages
212 244 8824 For Reservations
Chappies Facebook
Chappies Youtube

Also, my wonderful Puppet Improv Group Sock is having a show tomorrow night!  YAY!

Sock - Hosted by the Action Pals!
Saturday, April 18th, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
Love love love.

Hey everyone I love.

Just had an amazing, amazing night. The Chappies had a show at the Magnet that we put a lot of work into. And it went incredibly well. Like - much better than any of us thought it would go. Like - the audience loved it and there were a lot of them. There to see us, and there to see the other group that went with us, and even the other people who weren't there to see us liked us!

It reassured a lot of stuff for me. Important stuff. Like the fact that I should be doing comedy in New York. That I have a voice that is vital and that people enjoy. I think all of the Chappies feel a lot better about our instincts, and that is important. This wasn't just a show for our friends with us fooling around. Being at the Magnet gave how we feel about comedy a sort of legitimacy that I think we all needed right now.

For me, trusting my instincts was all about trusting the other four members of my sketch group. And my instincts paid off. It made me feel like some of the choices I've made in the last few years were the right ones. The show made me feel smart and cool and most of all legitimate. And I haven't felt that for a while.

I made the right choice, spending this amount of time with these people, who I love so much. We just did wonderful work. I made the right choice, going off with the people who I loved the most and attempting to make the summer last the entire year.

This show goes down on my list of my favorite shows I've ever gotten to be involved with. And that's a short list (and with some digging, you can find some dear diaries about all of them on this blog). The list is me directing Dream Operator in the summer of 2000, UBC Improv's Last show in the Spring of 2002, doing the Vancouver Improv Fest with Kaitlin that first time around in 2006 and this show. So that's pretty special. I literally have the greatest comedy boyfriends in the entire world.

I also just realized that I left the bar we were at tonight without paying my tab. Guess I owe some comedy boyfriends some money.

Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark - Court And Spark

And if you liked that, REMEMBER:  We have a big SHOW with dinosaurs, music and Liza Minelli on March 22nd, 8PM at The Magnet Theater (254 W29th St, Btw 7th & 8th).  Call 212 244 8824 to make reservations!

The new Batman cartoon, Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network is getting really good.  It's lighter tone in the year of The Dark Knight proves how versatile you can be with the character without compromising the integrity or quality of what you do with him.  This is a Batman inspired greatly by the 50's Dick Sprang comics and the 60's TV show.  For a longstanding fan of the animated Batmans, this is a really refreshing change.

Each episode features Batman teaming up with a different character from the DC Universe, very much like the old Brave and the Bold Comics.  Through the structure of the episodes we've been introduced to a lot of DC comics favorites, including Red Tornado, Guy Gardner and my personal most favorite superhero Plastic Man (voiced perfectly by Sponge Bob actor Tom Kenny).

This week, Batman traveled the Multiverse (which apparently exists in this series!  yeah!) to an alternate-earth where all the heroes are villains and all the villains are heroes.  It's similar to Earth-3 from the comics.  There he teams up with the hero The Red Hood, who is actually this earth's version of The Joker!  This is the first appearance of an actual Batman-centric character in the series, and we get to see an alternate version of him first!  This is a really smart and cool way to introduce The Joker to the series!  Here's a clip from the end of the episode where Batman, The Red Hood and a bunch of good alternate earth versions of villains take down a bunch of evil versions of heroes (including an evil Plasticman):




Next week in the conclusion of the series' first two-parter (and it's season finale), Batman teams up with the ACTUAL Joker in order to tackle Owlman, Batman's evil Earth-3 counterpart!  I can't wait!  This Joker looks 50's-riffic!


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Hey guys!

Well - it's March and it's snowing.  I thought we were done with this weather, but I guess not.  Guess y'all will have to warm yourselves up at my comedy shows, of which there are many of this month, all at the Magnet!  Lots of good, important stuff going on with me, hope to see each and every one of you at these shows!

Firstly, my comedy boyfriends and I, The Top Shelf Chappies have a super important show at the Magnet Sunday March 22nd!  We are presenting an entire half hour show of material featuring us being funny, singing and dancing and being totally ridiculous.  There'll be special guest appearances by entertainment legends Truman Capote, Liza Minelli and Poughkeepsie P Baby, so you don't want to miss this.  The more people that come to this show, the more Magnet Chappies shows there'll be in the future, so PLEASE come hang out with us and support us!

The Top Shelf Chappies Present
A night of sketch comedy bits, music, lovemaking and showmanship created and performed by Taylor Davis, Griffin Newman, Louie Pearlman, Carson Pinch and Sam Rogal
Sunday, March 22nd, 8PM @ The Magnet Theater 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
$5, All Ages
Friend us on Facebook!!!

I've also got two shows this month with the puppet Improv group Sock!  If you've always wondered what an entire improv troup of puppets would be like, we've crawled from the deepest rececces of your imagination to do this show for you.  You can see a video of our first hilarious show here.

Sock
Sock mixes the perilous and unpredictable nature of improv with the art of puppetry! 7 talented improvisors will take to the stage with puppets in hand and perform the traditional Harold format. Warning: These puppets are not for kids. Featuring Corinne Allarde, Frank Hejl, Lauren Lapkus, Louie Pearlman, Jennifer Sanders, Michael Short, & John Robbert Wilson. Directed by Amey Goerlich and Marcus Bishop Wright.
Thursday March 5th & 12th, 11:30PM @ The Magnet Theater 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
$5, All ages

I'm also singing and dancing like a little feind in my first Musical Improv show in two years!  I love doing these shows, they're always a lot of fun.

Musical Improv
Come watch a bunch of hilarious improvisers make up an entire musical made up on the spot!  Featuring Melanie Girton Hewett, Louie Pearlman, Jennifer Sanders, Ryan Nelson, Joe Dettmore, Jared McGrail, Justin Moran, Gerard Stokes, Ann Doherty-Hardbattle, Desiree Nash, Michael Lutton, Diane Daltner & Ethan Mawyer. Directed by Tara Copeland Music provided by the unrivaled Frank Spitznagel.
Sunday March 15th, 6:30PM @ The Magnet Theater 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
Free!  All Ages

Finally!  My Teen Improv Drop in Class rages on at the ever-lovin' Magnet!  Every Friday from 4-6!  If you're a teenager who wants to be introduced to improv or brush up on your skills, show up whenever you want and rock it.

Teen Improv Drop in Class
Every Friday 4-6PM @ The Magnet Theater 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
$10/ Class



Does anybody have any questions?

I did this for that shitty 25 things facebook meme that is floating around, but ended up liking it a lot.

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On Earth-One I am now 28 years old. Slugging along at all the stuff I've been doing for the last few years and doing new things too. I am almost too old to have some of the interests that I have (like, um... Comic Books), but that's not stopping me from having them. I work too hard and sometimes wonder if I'm putting energy into the right things.

On Earth-Two I am now dead. I would have been 58 years old if I was still alive. I moved to NYC in 1972. I hung at Max Kansas City and later CBGB's where I wore torn jeans and slammed around a lot. I worked as an usher at a movie theater and played the ukulele. I never found mainstream success, got sick from what was then known as "The Gay Cancer" and died when I was 32.

On Earth-Three I'm a real asshole. I work as a junior executive at an oil company. I eat too much steak and do a lot of coke all the time. I live in Huston, Texas. I'm not out of the closet and have a girlfriend named Heather who I have very shitty sex with.

On Earth-Four I collect comic books about pirates and am currently worried about USSR/USA relations. I hate current-president Nixon. It is 1985 and the sky seems gray all the time.

On Earth-11 I'm a nice 28 year old woman who is a serial dater. She writes funny articles for a few different magazines and has a two other roommates in Astoria. She wishes she could afford to live alone.

On Earth-Eleven (not to be confused with Earth-11) I never existed because a Nuclear War obliterated this Earth in 1966.

On Earth-12 it is 2018. I am 38 and still go out to clubs to dance to good music every once in a while. I write content for an internet website about comedy. I live in a floating apartment complex over Brooklyn with my boyfriend who works for a cloning facility. We don't know how we feel about cloning.

On Earth-Twelve (please don't confuse Earth-Twelve with Earth-12. It's easy to keep them straight if you visited them, I promise) I wear shoes on my hands and hats on my feet. I pay Andrew to videotape school plays. The Story Pirates write stories and children perform them. My best friend is a talking car.

On Earth-13 I live to be 700 years old, because I make a decision with myself not to die. I spend 20 of those years in a mental institution and 500 more of them wandering the planet helping people, but for most of my life I stay on the DL and have a few close friends. When I do finally die the last thought in my head is that I should have made my decision to die years ago.

On Earth-50 I am pretty much the same, but don't shave as much, wear my doc martin boots a lot more and have a pretty wicked temper.

On Earth-61, I live on the Upper-West side, because it's 1967. My hair is long. I am a kindergarten teacher. I go into the west village on the weekends and have a good time. The Army declared me unfit to serve, which is why I'm not in Vietnam. I have done too much acid.

On Earth-86 I am an anthropomorphic ape-man. I am a fierce warrior who rides a giant lizard to battle the last remaining humans on earth. I am in love with my sergeant who is my superior, but I don't dare tell him.

On Earth-96 I am 47 and run a successful comedy theater in Vancouver. I've got two adopted kids and a wonderful long-term partner named Chris who works at a video game company. I perform every Sunday with people who I love and am teaching every day.

On Earth-97 I am an Indo-British speed skater from London, England. I am 17 years old and am trying to get into the Olympics. I'm almost out of school. The only resemblance to myself on other Earths is my name, Louie, which, on this Earth, is a nickname.

On Earth-154 my son, Jim, is a really successful writer and producer of comedies. I am proud of him. I am in my sixties and still teach kids how to be funny every once in a while. I never found anyone I was truely in love with and poured all of my energy into my son. Heidi is Jim's biological mom.

On Earth-276 I am Lenoard Pearl. I am pretty much the same guy, but not as interesting. I'm a little more stereotypically gay and geeky. I am more wholly sad when I'm sad and more happy than me when I'm happy.

On Earth-1191 I met a boy when I was in college in Vancouver. He ended up being a Vampire. After biting me, I became his miserable, soulless, slave to him for 850 years, finding other people for him to seduce and bite. We lived under the Commodore Billiards on Granville street and slept in coffins during the day. I was destroyed by a Vampire hunting robot in 2849.

On Earth-C I am a very silly gay duck.

On Earth-C Minus I am a gay duck who can shoot lasers out of his eyes. My alternate earth counterpart on Earth C reads about me in comic books that are written about me. This is not confusing at all.

On Earth-D I am black and the President of the United States.

On Earth-S I am a very hard working mentor and nanny to a bunch of rich kids who have a great rock and roll band and go on adventures. I am also a talking tiger. But I am not like the gay duck at all.

On Earth-X I never existed. Because the Nazis won World War II.

On Earth-616 I'm pals with this guy Peter Parker. My friends and I go out for drinks with him on Saturday nights. But he's always leaving at inopportune times and none of us know why. My friend Nora has a crush on him.

On Limbo I don't quite remember who I am. I wander the crumbling cities of Limbo with my uke in my hand, playing random chords but never full songs. I want to get out so badly but getting out is not under my control.

On Dreamworld I am a wonderful tree growing in central park. Kids have attached a swing to me and climb up my branches. I can grow any kind of fruit that I want but am partial to Oranges and Bananas. In the winter, I am sad because no kids play with me. But in Dreamworld, winter only lasts a day so it's OK.

Hey Friends!  I, Louie Pearlman, am looking for a roommate and would love to share my wonderful apartment with one of YOU!

Potential roomie would be sharing the apartment with myself and my friend Tiffany who is a roller derby star.  I teach during the day am out rehearsing at night a lot and work from home sometimes in my room video editing.  Tiff is gone during the day and a lot in the evening at roller derby practice.

We are fun, fairly clean with full time jobs and are looking for a like minded room mate.

The details:

Rent is $725 a month which includes everything except cable/internet which is $40 a month.  There is also a $725 deposit.

Located  6 blocks from the Ditmars Avenue stop on the N/W line in Astoria
Within a block of all amenities:  grocery store, laundry, restaurants

Comfy front porch
Huge backyard

It's a pretty comfortable apartment, with a large living room and kitchen.

The room is 9 ft x 9.5 ft, and has a small closet. It comfortably fits a futon or twin bed, and a additional piece of furniture or two.
The room also comes with additional apartment space adjacent to the room which can be partitioned, and could easily be made into
a sizable work space or whatever you might dream up.

Thanks!

-Louie
Louie4711 at Gmail dot com

Hey favorite people in the whole world!  I've got some shows this month that are my first of the post-Bush era!  Yay!  So expect my comedy to feel much freer and liberated.  So liberated, in fact, that one of my shows has puppetry involved.  Also, some are appropriately FREE in order to help us all deal with the recession!  Whoo!

First up - your favorite bad-ass men of the sketch and improv scene, The Top Shelf Chappies are performing two shows this upcoming Monday and Tuesday that are free for the recession!  I think there's going to be free popcorn at these shows too.  Monday is a sketch set, with the awesome Jurassic Park doing improv and on Tuesday, we are doing improv ourselves!

Top Shelf Chappies do Sketch & Improv for the Recession!
Monday Jan 26th w/ Jurassic Park, Tuesday Jan 27th Improv, 8PM
The View Theatre at Roy Arias Studios: 301C on the 3rd Floor
COMEDY!

It's like James Murphy lept into my head and pulled out this song and video:

Hi everyone!

I recently had a birthday and am throwing a big comedy show to celebrate!  The show features lots of guests and surprises.  Hope you can make it.  I'm also doing a Story Pirates show this weekend as well.  E-mail me for $10 tix.  So there's some cool chances to see me coming up.

Ale Kolleeny and the Top Shelf Chappies present Louie's Birthday Bash!

Hosted by Rosemary Stevens with Stand-Up from Ale Kolleney, Sketch comedy from The Top Shelf Chappies, improv from The Yes Andersens and Beauty Love Truth: improv inspired by music by the always wonderful CHRIS MILLS! 

Friday January 16th @ 8PM
Manhattan Theater Club
311 W 43rd St #8, NYC
$5, All Ages

and also - a Story Pirates show for you all to enjoy!

Striking Viking Story Pirates

This award winning musical sketch comedy show features stories entirely written by a kids and performed by adults who wish they still were. Think "Schoolhouse Rock" meets "Monty Python." Then, add a little bit of "Kids Say the Darndest Things."

Each show features 8-10 sketches, musical numbers, short videos and a whole bunch of extremely entertaining puppets. We are always adding new stories, so you'll never see the same show twice.

Sat January 17th @ 2PM
Drama Book Shop
250 West 40th Street (btw 7th & 8th Ave)
e-mail me for $10 tix!

Yaaaaay!  Birthday!

I just sent this e-mail to Barak Obama and I urge you to do the same. You can do so here:

http://change.gov/page/st/contact

Hello Transition Team:

First of all, congratulations on your well deserved win, President Elect Obama. I am very much looking forward to your new administration taking office in February and beginning to institute the changes in social, governmental and economic policy that this country so badly needs.

I am writing specifically today to comment on Obama's choice to include Rick Warren in his inauguration in February. I find this choice incredibly disappointing. I understand that Warren was invited to do the Inauguration Invocation to include a segment of the American population who's views differ in certain aspects from the upcoming administration's. I also respect Warren and his Church's right to hold these views in our country. However, I am very worried about the attention that Warren's homophobic opinions and actions to "cure" gays and lesbians will receive on Inauguration day and leading up to it.

I know that it might be politically difficult to rescind Warren's invitation, although I strongly hope that you do. If you cannot, I think inviting another pro-gay rights religious leader to do the invocation with Warren is the way to demonstrate the inclusiveness that this administration seems to care so much for.

I know that many other Obama supporters feel the same way about this issue. Please take some time to seriously reconsider Rick Warren's invitation.

Thank you.

Hello everyone!  My wonderful sketch group, The Top Shelf Chappies has an amazing new video here.  It is about Room Mate Friends:




We worked really hard on it, so please watch and enjoy!

AND!  My improv team The Yes Andersens has a SHOW coming up!

On Saturday, December 6th at 7:30, The Yes Andersens are having a big holiday family get together and you're invited!  There's going to be awesome improv, and cuppies.  That entire night at the Magnet is absolutely stellar, you should come to our show then stick around for all the others too!

The Yes Andersens Holiday Special
Saturday, December 6th 7:30
The Magnet Theater, 254 W29th St, NYC (btw 7th & 8th Ave)
$5, All Ages $2 beers

Stay tuned for some exciting Chappies news coming down the pike soon too!

Hi folks,

First of all: Obama.  YAY!

Second of all, thanks for making my new sktech group The Top Shelf Chappies the #7th MOST SUBSCRIBED COMEDIANS ON YOUTUBE this week!  Awesome!  If you haven't subscribed to our channel yet, you can by clicking here.  We'll have a new video out this week for your killing time at work pleasure.

Speaking of killing time at work, you can check out a full Buckshot N Benny set from our 8 city summer tour now up on youtube!  Buckshot N Benny is my improv comedy duo with Kaitlin Fontana.  This is a show we did in Regina, Saskatchewan in front of 300 people!  It was shot using 6 cameras, is in HD and we were micced really well.  So this is a great way to watch some good improvised comedy through the internet. 




My first two live shows during the dawn of the new America are this weekend!  Saturday I'm going to be acting out some hilarious stories written by kids with The Striking Viking Story Pirates and Sunday I'm the musical guest with my uke for a cool topical sketch show happening at the Magnet.  Swing on by!

The Striking Viking Story Pirates
An absurdist sketch comedy musical for kids and wannabe kids.
This award winning musical sketch comedy show features stories entirely written by a kids and performed by adults who wish they still were. Think "Schoolhouse Rock" meets "Monty Python." Then, add a little bit of "Kids Say the Darndest Things."
11/8 2PM
The Drama Book Shop, Inc.
250 West 40th Street (Btw 7th and 8th Ave.)
e-mail me for $10 Tix!
Story Pirates dot Org

Shameful Display
Shameful Display, winner of the Edward R. Murrow Prize for Sketch Comedy, will report on the politics, politicians, issues, and apocalypses affecting Your World. New sketches every week, running fresh through the Election. We understand your world is going through changes. Know your world and feel safe and/or the opposite.  Special musical guest this week: Louie and His Ukulele
11/9 9:30PM
The Magnet Theater
254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)
$5, $2 Beers, All Ages
Magnet Theatre dot Com

Finally, my Teen Improv drop in class is still goin strong!  New young improvisers are always welcome!

Teen Drop In Improv Class
4-6 Friday Afternoons
Magnet Theater
254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)
$10

Hey guys.  Hope you're all enjoying my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween!

My new sketch group Top Shelf Chappies has made a new video for everyone in the spirit of the season.




Also, you can join our new facebook group and youtube channel to stay informed with what's going on with us!

And finally, we have a live show coming up next Tuesday.  So go out and VOTE, then come to the show, then go home and watch the election results. Yay!

Top Shelf Chappies in Casual Sketch
11/4 9:30PM @ Magnet Theater 254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th Ave) NYC
FREE, All Ages, $2 Beers!
Magnet Theater

Cheers, everyone.

Hey Canadians:

I am going to be doing a bunch of improv next week with in your city for the Vancouver International Improv Fest. I really love this festival. This year I am performing with the Festival Ensemble, a group of improvisers made up with people from across the country! It's a great chance to perform and see all of you! Please come and tell all your friends! Also, I'll have time to hang out for drinks and dinner and such! Yay! Here is my schedule:

All these shows at the Roundhouse Theater (Davie St and Pacific)

Tues Oct 7th, 8PM: The Showcase Spectacular
Thurs Oct 9th, 9:30PM: Festival Ensemble
Sat Oct 11th, 8PM: Festival Ensemble

And this show at The New Review Stage on Granville Island

Friday Oct 10th, 11:45PM: Festival Extreme

Yay.

Buy tix and get more info here - www.vancouverimprovfest.com
much love. See you next week!

Hey everyone. Happy October!

Exciting news: My first performance with my new sketch comedy group Top Shelf Chappies is this Thursday! And it's early enough that you can come to it and then go home and watch the debate! Score! I've been writing sketches with some of my favorite people in the world and we really want to perform them for you. I also don't think I've done any sketch in NYC in like...3 years? So it's pretty exciting.

Top Shelf Chappies at Variety Underground
Sketch Comedy from Taylor Davis, Griffin Newman, Louie Pearlman, Carson Pinch, Sam Rogal
Thursday, Oct 2nd, 7PM
The Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston St. (at Attorney). FREE, 2 Drink Min (loosely enforced), 21+
http://www.varietyunderground.com

Also, my new Magnet Improv Class for Teens is starting in just a few weeks. This will be a drop in class, so come to as many or as few as you like! Bring your friends! Learn improv comedy. Rock the world.

Magnet Teen Improv
Every Friday 4-6PM starting Oct 17th
Magnet Theater, 254 W29th St., $10/class
http://www.magnettheater.com for more info.

Finally, if you haven't seen it yet, I made a movie with a dancing baby that is sure to amuse you, especially if you're bored at work. Click the link below to get to it.

The Poughkeepsie P Baby Visual Radio Serialized Program: Episode 1

Hey!  Know I haven't written anything of substance for months.  Hope this video I made makes up for it!