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 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
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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?

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!

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!

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!

Hello everyone. On Monday the 26th, I am off on my huge, adventurous 7 city comedy tour with my comedy partner Kaitlin as our improv duo Buckshot N Benny! Before that, we are doing a warm-up show this Sunday and our BIG TOUR KICKOFF on Thursday. Also, got a rare public Story Pirates show and two more Yes Andersen shows! So, Here is a little calender for all of the rest of my shows. After this week, no more NYC shows for 3 MONTHS! See you at one of these, or see you in three months!

You can check out BNB's tour blog at http://bnblove.blogspot.com/ if you want to follow our trip across the continent!

05/17, 9PM
The Yes Andersens in Megawatt
MEGAWATT
High-Powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Every Saturday our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week.
$5, All Ages
Magnet Theater 254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)

05/18, 8PM
Buckshot N Benny in Ampers &nd
A weekly showcase of New York's most talented comedy twosomes performing seriously funny, beautifully tragic improvised scenes.
$5, All Ages
Magnet Theater 254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)

05/22, 7PM
Buckshot N Benny North American Tour Kickoff
The dynamic New York/Vancouver longform improv duo known as Buckshot N Benny (Kaitlin Fontana and Louie Pearlman) are proud to be back playing at the Magnet, where they first began working together. This set is the inaugural show of their North American tour with Vancouver's !nstant Theatre (Alistair Cook and Rene Dellafont). BNB have been called, "An incredibly subtle and affecting success" (Mike Hingston, The Peak) and "A [true] example of 'improv THEATRE.' This set is the sort of thing than non-improv people see and can't believe is improvised. It was that good." (Gary Chan, Bad Dog Theatre Co., Toronto). Buckshot N Benny: The best (and probably only) bi-coastal, international improv duo named after an obscure children's television show that you will ever see.
$5, All Ages
Magnet Theater 254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)

05/24, 2PM
The 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."
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.
Message me for $10 Tix!
Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street (btw 7th & 8th Ave)

05/24, 9PM
The Yes Andersens in Megawatt
MEGAWATT
High-Powered improv from Magnet's own Super Groups. Every Thursday and Saturday our resident ensembles gather to dazzle audiences with various forms of improv comedy. The forms are constantly evolving, and no two shows are the same. Come see what your favorites are up to this week.
$5, All Ages
Magnet Theater 254 W29th St (btw 7th & 8th)

And then, after that show, I'M OUTTA HERE!

Hey everyone,

My last three shows with the Yes Andersens until September are coming up and are going to be fun!

First one is this Tuesday at the Sage Theater. There is FREE BEER there!

Last two are at the Magnet Theater as part of Megawatt!

the Yes Andersens in The Boss Presents
Tues, May 7th 7PM
The Sage Theater - 711 7th Ave (btw 47th & 48th St)
$10 (FREE BEER INCLUDED!)

the Yes Andersens in Megawatt
Saturday May 17th & 24rd 9PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St. (btw 7th & 8th)
$5, All Ages

Also - please all to mark your Calendars now for the Buckshot N Benny/!nstant Theater Tour Kickoff, which will be at the Magnet Thursday May 22nd at 7:00 PM. My Vancouverite comedy parter Kaitlin Fontana and I will do an extended two person improv set and then you'll see some improv from Kaitlin and Alistair Cook from Vancouver's !nstant theater. This show commences our cross-canada tour through Toronto, Winnepeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. All confirmed tour dates are up at my myspace page - http://www.myspace.com/louie4711 . I would love to see you all at the Magnet to see us off. This will be a special evening!

Buckshot N Benny/!nstant Theater Tour Kickoff
Thurs, May 2nd 7PM
Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St (Btw 7th & 8th)
$5, All Ages

Hi Everyone,

FIVE chances to see me as February segues into March, including two chances with The Striking Viking Story Pirates, who Jon Stewart is in love with, and three chances with the illustrious Yes Andersens!  Plus, my kids have a show this Friday!

So here's all the details:

Remember that children's theater group I'm now a part of?  The Striking Viking Story Pirates?  We take stories written by children and turn them into a musical sketch comedy variety show.  I'm performing my first public shows with them starting this weekend!  If you want to see this show, e-mail me, I can get you discounted tickets.

The Striking Viking Story Pirates
An absurdist sketch comedy musical for kids and wannabe kids.
Sat Feb 23rd & March 1st, 2PM
The Drama Book Shop - 240 W 40th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
e-mail me to reserve tickets or click here to order them online
Tickets are $20 at the door, $14 online and even cheaper if you e-mail me!
Show recommended for kids ages 2-200
www.StoryPirates.org



check out this video of Jon Stewart giving us a shoutout on Larry King Live!

Your favorite improv family the Yes Andersens also have three shows this upcoming week where we will perform our signature improv comedy show: The Monotage.  It's the start of the Yes Andersens taking over Megawatt Saturdays for the entire month of March!  Please keep coming to these shows, and thank you so much for your stellar support!  The more people that come to our shows, the more shows we have!  Also, snag a postcard from me the next time you see me and make admission 2 for 1!

the Yes Andersens
Longform Improv Comedy
Saturday Feb 23rd & March 1st, 9PM
Wednesday Feb 27th, 8:30PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St. (btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
Tickets $5, all ages, $2 beers!
the Yes Andersens Myspace
the Yes Andersens Facebook

Last but absolutely not least, my latest group of very talented teen improvisers are going to be performing at 7PM this Friday at the Magnet!  Come check out the future of comedy today!

Magnet Theater Teen Improv Class Showcase
Friday Feb 22nd, 7PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St. (btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
FREE, all ages!
Magnet's Teen Improv Website

Thanks everyone!

Hey everyone,

Great news. I'm producing a new show at The Magnet Theater called THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT. It is going to an hour long comedy variety show with improv groups, stand up comedy, sketches, music and video pieces. Here's the catch: all the performers in the show are going to be teenagers! Finally! A night in New York for young comedy acts to work on their skills. I'm very excited about it.

That is where you all come in. I need acts! If you're interested in:

-writing a sketch with your friends and performing it in the show
-writing a comedic monologue for yourself and performing it in the show
-acting in someone else's sketch in the show
-putting together an improv group and putting it in the show
-having your awesome band play in the show
-doing a stand-up set in the show

... or ANYTHING ELSE - please don't hesitate to e-mail or facebook me or comment me with your ideas. The show is going to be Sunday, March 23rd, 6:30PM at The Magnet Theater. I'd like to have everything booked in the next two weeks, so please let me know.

I am looking forward to everyone taking this show to great heights.

Hey everyone. Hope you're all having a happy/healthy so far. Lots of hep comedy things happening with me in January that I wanted to let you know about.

Registration is open for the latest Magnet Theater Teen Improv Class. Anyone who is a teenager and wants to learn more about improv comedy is welcome to sign up! The class will run for 6 weeks and will cumulate in a class show! Fun! You can register at http://www.magnettheater.com/classes.html Please sign up soon, the class has a habit of selling out!

Here are all the details:

Magnet Theater Teen Improv Class
January 12th-Feb 16th
Saturdays 12-3PM
Class Performance Feb 22nd
Click here for more info and to register!

As for me, I have one of those rare ukulele solo gigs this Thursday at the Parkside Lounge. I'll be playing some songs I've never played in public. It'll be great! It's at one of my favorite bars so drinks after are a must. yay.

Louie & His Ukulele @ Variety Underground
Thursday January 3rd, 7PM
The Parkside Lounge - 317 E Houston St.
FREE, Loose 2 Drink Min, 21+
Variety Underground's Website

My comedy partner Angela and I continue to wow audiences with our After School Music Club. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a weird, character-based musical/improv hybrid from the more bizarre recesses of our imaginations. It's easier seen than described. Seriously.

After School Music Club @ Ampers &nd
Sunday January 13th, 8PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St, Btw 7th & 8th Ave
$5, All Ages
Magnet's Shows Website

There's also two chances to see my Magnet Theater house improv team the Yes Andersens this month! I've been rockin' it out with them for a year now. Come help me celebrate! The shows are always really really fun. One of our stylish Yes Andersen postcards gets you 2-for-1 admission, so the next time you see me, make sure you snag one from me!

the Yes Andersens @ Megawatt
Thursday, January 24th & 31st, 9:30PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St, Btw 7th & 8th Ave
$5, All Ages
the Yes Andersens on Myspace
the Yes Andersens on Facebook - new!

Joni Mitchell - Raised On Robbery - Court And Spark

Hi Students and Parents and Friends,

Great news...

After speaking with The Magnet Theater people today we are starting up an official Four Week Magnet Theater Teen Improv Class starting THIS SATURDAY! Yay! This is a great way for all of us to have some fun together before the Christmas Break.

The class will be Saturdays from 12-3PM (as per usual). Class location is TBA, but will probably be at Champions also as per usual. Class dates are November 17th, December 1st, December 8th and December 15th (no Class November 24th for Thanksgiving). There will be a class show at the Magnet Theater December 15th at 6:15PM. Cost will be $150.

Please take a look at the description of the class here

And you can register here (please do so ASAP , to confirm your slot! It may fill up even quicker than my last class did!)

You can e-mail me with any questions you have or can e-mail Leanne (the Magnet's registrar) at classes@magnettheater.com or call them at 212-244-8824

Cheers! Thanks to all of you for continuing to make the program a growing success.



MaximumFun.org - The Upright Citizens Brigade - PRI: The Sound of Young America

Hey everyone!  My improv team The Yes Andersens have some cool shows this month - including one tomorrow in Brooklyn!  If you're a local, this is a great chance to catch me perform in that particularly hip borough.  Hope to see you at one of these shows.  Drinks/Hangout time after is included of course. 

The show tomorrow is at Laila Lounge, all other shows at our home The Magnet Theater - recently named on of New York's best kept secrets by Time Out New York Magazine!

The Yes Andersens in The West Bushwick Bonanza
Monday November 5th, 8PM
Laila Lounge - 113 N 7th St, (b/w Wythe and Berry), Brooklyn NY
Free! 21+  L Train to Bedford, the first stop in Brooklyn. Exit station on N. 7th Street and walk down two blocks
West Bushwick Bonanza's Myspace Page

The Yes Andersens in Megawatt
Saturday November 10th & 17th, 9PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
$5, All Ages!
The Yes Andersens' Myspace Page

B'also, my awesome Teen Improv Class has their class performance at The Magnet Theater this Friday!  Come see what they've been learning!  They're often much funnier than me!

Teen Improv NYC at The Magnet Theater
Friday November 9th 7PM
The Magnet Theater - 254 W29th St. (Btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC
Free, All Ages
Teen Improv NYC's Page

Finally, the amazing non-profit children's theater company that I'm now a part of: The Striking Viking Story Pirates have just unveiled their amazing new video - This Movie is About Cats Flying on YouTube.  Check it out below.  And be on the lookout... for Cats Flying.

Cheers!

Hey everyone! Happy October. My improv team, The Yes Andersens has a few chances to see us this month. We're really rockin' it out right now. Come to a show! They're cheap. Only $5. Thanks!

The Yes Andersens: Improv's First Family
October 4th & 11th @ 8PM
October 27th @ 9PM
$5, All Ages
http://www.myspace.com/theyesandersens

Hi Everyone:

I am officially offering a new teen improv class that will start on September 29th and run for 6 weeks from 12-3PM on Saturday afternoons. It will be at Champions Studios - 257 W 39th St. Btw 7th & 8th Ave, 14th Floor, NYC. The class will cumulate with a performance at a theater space in New York to be determined. The tuition will be $150.

The class will be a continuation of the skills being taught in previous Teen Improv Classes I have taught and also will have a lot of room for new students to give improv a try, and for students that have been away for a while to jump back into it! Please feel free to tell friends who are interested about the class, registration is not limited to students who have taken classes with me before.

To register for the class, please e-mail me at Louie4711@gmail.com telling me that you are registering for your class. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with class dates, payment info and other information.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail me, or to call me at 917-826-0068. If you wish to take the class, please e-mail me within this week. I would like to book an appropriately sized room at the beginning of next week and need to figure out how many students will be in the class.

You can also check out the Teen Improv website www.TeenImprovNYC.com for more information and pictures of an awesome class performance!

Thanks!

Your Teacher,

Louie Pearlman

Hi Western Canadians,

It's that time again that I wander back to beautiful Van City and perform some comedy for y'all at the Vancouver International Improv Festival.

I'm doing another Buckshot N Benny show with my fantastic comedy partner, Kaitlin Fontana and doing some innovative new improv with a bunch of performers from around the world as part of the festival's ensemble cast.

Also, the Saturday morning of the festival, I'm teaching a workshop in the art of Slow Comedy. If you're already an experienced improviser, this workshop will help you put some helpful NYC style improv skills into your comedy bag, so you should check it out!

Tickets for all shows can be bought at Tickets Tonight.

Here is a full lineup of what I'm doing that week:

All shows & workshops at The Waterfront Theater, 1412 Cartwright St, Granville Island, Vancouver. All cost $17.50, or you can buy a full festival pass for $40!

Buckshot N Benny: Wednesday June 6th, 7:30 PM

Live Improvised Cartoon/Vancouver Neutrino: Thursday June 7th, 10PM

The Festival Ensemble Performs: Friday & Saturday, June 8th & 9th, 7:30PM

Slow Comedy Workshop: Saturday, June 8th, 10AM, $75

Of course, looking forward to joyous reunions and hugs after the shows! I'll also be staying for a few days after the festival this year, so I'll have time to hang out with y'all. Haven't seen some of you in a while. Message to make plans please!

And Calgarians - putting the final confirmation on a show that I'm going to be doing a week after all this stuff in Calgary. I'll let you know once I know all the details!

Very excited to be coming home for a while, guys.

NYC The Fletchers have this swell idea of moving all in together in a four or five bedroom Astoria apartment. There would be five of us. Two couples and myself. We've started taking a peek at what's out there, just to see what's goin on... I found this too-good-to-be-true listing on Craig's list Saturday night:

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$2200 / 5br - Rent stabilized, renovated,half block to NW trains, 30th Ave, near all

Five roomates or large family, five bedrooms!!!!!
Private backyard, perfect for barbequing or reading a book, nice large kitchen and Living room, separate independent entrances, Heat and hot water included, pets are welcome!
Just half block from the 30th Ave train station, N,W trains, 5-7 minutes from Midtown Manhattan, very quiet street and yet everything is around: supermarkets, coffee shops (very close to very popular and famous Athen's cafe),restaurants, shopping malls, bank, schools, houses of warship, very diverse very international location, just 2 blocks from Athens square park, and much more!
Best opportunity in town!!!
Please Call Vicky for a showing
Won't last!!!
******WE HAVE LARGE SELECTION OF APARTMENTS!************
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Well. It was too-good-to-be-true. We went to look at it today, and that place was a fucking Freddy Krueger crack den. The only thing I think I could do in that apartment is OD in the rusty bathtub. The apartment was a basement apartment, which the realtor assured us was "perfectly legal!" (yeah, because we weren't even considering the possibility of it being illegal until he said that) and it had three separate entrances for three different rapists or robbers to take advantage of all of us.

There was a completely concrete trash-strewen "backyard", perfect for "reading a book", "barbecuing" or having your head smashed in by someone from behind when coming home late at night. The "backyard" was accessible by a creepy arched doorway entrance that was open and exposed to the street. AJ thought the whole place looked like Abu Ghirab.

We were then shown two other "Four Bedroom" apartments, that didn't really have any bedrooms because none of them had any closets. Or doors. Or proper hallways.

I hope we don't have to move from our current apartment. It's a concern.

Spider-Man 3 was pretty good, right? Definitely some leaps in logic and some total silliness (which I actually enjoyed), but some fantastic acting and action sequences. A lot of the movie reminded me of a classic creature feature from the fifties, which I enjoyed a lot.

Performance-wise, everything was solid this weekend. It amazes me how Kaitlin and I can see each other for an hour after not seeing each other in five months and get on stage and do amazing improv scenes. We both think it's totally inexplicable. It might be one of those chemistry things. I almost don't want to write about it here because I'm worried that I'll jinx it somehow.

Her friend Katie took these great pictures of us the next day for the VIIF website. They're very cute and silly and necessary.

The first performance of The Comic Book went over very very well. It's a fun form to play in front of an audience with everyone in the cast there to support each other. It's very energetic and punchy and jokey and specific to things that I like. I made an excellent geeky Crisis on Infinite Earths joke that I'm proud of. I'm so happy the multiverse was restored in the DCU recently! Because I'm ridiculous that way.

I'm going to be working very hard the next few weeks, making as much money as possible before leaving for the improv fest in Vancouver. If you see me around, hug me, please.





MC5 - James Brown Medley: a. Cold Sweat b. I Can't Stand Myself c. There Was A Time - 1968 27th June Sturgis Armoury

So today I was asked by my friend Owen to "virtually coach" his current improv project in Calgary, The Kinkonauts. They are going to send me DVDs of shows and I'm going to take notes on them and get my notes to them through phone and e-mail.

It should be a good experiment for my coaching muscles and also for them. They'll have to try to remember the details of their improv scenes that they did a week and a half before they get notes on them (or they can just re-watch the video of their show, but that's kind of cheating now, isn't it?).

Something that I realized when I checked out the info for Owen's new group is that a whole bunch of the members of UBC improv that I performed all those fantastic shows with in college are still performing. We had our "farewell tour" show about five years and one month ago, but our love for comedy has kept us performing. I'm really proud and impressed with all of us.

You can travel across North America and see us still performing.

Andrea, Jeremy and Sean perform in Burnaby BC and around other parts of BC as Triple Play Improv.

Mark has a TV show on the OLN in Canada called Road Hockey Rumble, which he co-hosts with my film school friend Callum.

As I said before, Owen is rocking it out with The Kinkonauts, playing at a theater that is two blocks away from my parent's condo in Calgary.

Chris is on an IO Chicago Haorld Team called Barrel Full of Bullets.

and I'm... doing all the stuff that I'm doing in NYC at The Magnet etc. Including that show tomorrow night of the form that I developed myself (with a lot of help from my cast and director, who I really really appreciate). I'm nervous about that going well. I think it's important!

Also, the wonderful Kaitlin (who was only a junior member in the club at the time) is doing some coaching and learning in Vancouver, and is coming out next week so that we can do a little Buckshot N Benny performance at the Magnet Mixer. I always really really like playing with her.

I wouldn't have expected so much success out of all of us after five years, but really, we're all doing quite well with the comedy.

I also think we're all still pretty sexy, even though we're old and stuff.


Soulwax - Teachers - Nite Versions

I'm really really excited for this show. Please make reservations for it. I created an awesome improv form and it's going up on Sunday! Yay!

Hey everyone,

Got some GREAT April shows as the weather gets warmer.  All of them will be very very funny.  I PROMISE THIS TIME.

First, PLEASE come to Hot Board on April 22nd at 9:30PM.  The Hot Board is a new improv form that I've created based on the sophisticated organic work of groups like Switchboard and the fun of the improv game Hot Spot.  The Magnet Theater stage will transform into the Hotboard, a place where our cast takes you on a surreal improvised journey of personal experience, songs and scenes.  This show is one of the important ones, I appreciate your support!

Starring Ian Caruth, Angela DeManti, Damon Ketron, Chris O'Neil, Louie Pearlman, Alexis Saarela
Form created by Louie Pearlman
Directed by Mark Grenier

If you can't make Hot Board , there's still a lot of awesome shows happening this month.  I'm performing two improv shows with my team The Yes Andersens and doing musical improv with my very talented Musical Improv Class!  One of those shows is today and one tomorrow.  You should hit them up!

Here's a full sched:

WHAT: Hot Board - A New Improv Form
WHERE: The Magnet Theater (254 W29th St. Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
WHEN: Sunday April 22nd 9:30 PM
WHO: All Ages, $5
WEB: The Magnet Theater

WHAT: The Yes Andersens host Megawatt
WHERE: The Magnet Theater (254 W29th St. Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
WHEN: Thursday April 5th & 12th 8PM
WHO: All Ages, $5
WEB: The Yes Andersens

WHAT: Musical Improv Performance
WHERE: The Magnet Theater (254 W29th St. Btw 7th & 8th Ave)
WHEN: Friday April 6th 7PM
WHO: All Ages, FREE
WEB: The Magnet Theater