"You ruined my LIFE, Bryce Willis!!!!"
I've been spending a lot of time with the folks from my Improv class lately! Our last official class was Sunday but on Saturday night a bunch of us went to see the mainstage show and it was really funny, then we stuck around for a bit afterwards and walked down the street to some bar in Central Square for a drink. I'm still very pleasantly shocked that there isn't one ego or abrasive personality in that whole bunch. Everyone in that group is a fun, supportive, silly person who enrolled in the class to have a good time. It's been a blast. Most of us signed up for the same session in January so we can take Level 2 together as well. Plus our holiday party is this Sunday. Awwwwww!
Speaking of comedy, I saw Stella last night in downtown Boston! I had seen some members of The State live before in a Reno 911 capacity while I was interning at Comedy Central in L.A., but this was the first time I got the chance to see Stella perform and it was AWESOME. They were so ridiculous and stupid and everything was hilarious. The Wilbur is a really tiny theater with no seats, apparently, so it was all standing room. They even had a brand new video short! It was SUCH a good show. I laughed till I wept a few times. I think David Wain made me laugh the hardest, but all three of them had some real winners. I just think that Wain's the cutest. And oh MAN, those guys are SOOOO WEIRD!!! The best is when they go off on bizarre tangents. One of them does something and the other two just pick it up and run with it. I'm sure most of it was rehearsed, but some of it was probably improvised too. Michael Ian Black actually laughed a couple of times. Oh! And they were filming the show for a DVD! There were cameras everywhere! So that was really awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing that material again because I loved it.
They were all crammed together at a little table afterwards signing things and the way it was set up was extremely rushed and chaotic and awkward, so the encounter isn’t worth writing about in detail because it was very brief, but from what I could tell they weren’t overly friendly, but they weren’t douchey like I was expecting them to be either. The Michaels were even pretty polite to me! I guess I was afraid of Ian Black for no reason. David Wain was eating a sandwich. They signed my Stella shorts DVD case. That just about sums it up. The camera crew was standing beside them with a spotlight and a boom mic the whole time. That freaked me out a little bit.
I got mayyyybe three hours of sleep last night, if that. We hung around downtown for a while after the show because I hadn’t seen my friends Paul and Jay for a long time, and it was my first time meeting Paul’s girlfriend, who was super cool. I took the T back and got home around 12:30, then happened to turn on the TV just in time to find out that Bill Hader was going to be on Conan, so of COURSE I had to stay awake for that action. He was so cheerful and adorable!!! Oh my GODDD too much too handllllleeeee. Seriously?! Did anyone else see that interview? He kept doing silly impressions of various Star Wars creatures at Conan's request and then laughing and hiding his face because he was embarrassed. It was the CUTEST. THING. I HAVE EVER. SEEN.
Tonight is the office holiday party. I had to purchase a fancy dress for the occasion. But there’s an open bar, so you know. I plan to get extremely drunk. Tomorrow night I’m driving to Worcester to see TMBG play some random show at a Polytechnic school.
Speaking of comedy, I saw Stella last night in downtown Boston! I had seen some members of The State live before in a Reno 911 capacity while I was interning at Comedy Central in L.A., but this was the first time I got the chance to see Stella perform and it was AWESOME. They were so ridiculous and stupid and everything was hilarious. The Wilbur is a really tiny theater with no seats, apparently, so it was all standing room. They even had a brand new video short! It was SUCH a good show. I laughed till I wept a few times. I think David Wain made me laugh the hardest, but all three of them had some real winners. I just think that Wain's the cutest. And oh MAN, those guys are SOOOO WEIRD!!! The best is when they go off on bizarre tangents. One of them does something and the other two just pick it up and run with it. I'm sure most of it was rehearsed, but some of it was probably improvised too. Michael Ian Black actually laughed a couple of times. Oh! And they were filming the show for a DVD! There were cameras everywhere! So that was really awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing that material again because I loved it.
They were all crammed together at a little table afterwards signing things and the way it was set up was extremely rushed and chaotic and awkward, so the encounter isn’t worth writing about in detail because it was very brief, but from what I could tell they weren’t overly friendly, but they weren’t douchey like I was expecting them to be either. The Michaels were even pretty polite to me! I guess I was afraid of Ian Black for no reason. David Wain was eating a sandwich. They signed my Stella shorts DVD case. That just about sums it up. The camera crew was standing beside them with a spotlight and a boom mic the whole time. That freaked me out a little bit.
I got mayyyybe three hours of sleep last night, if that. We hung around downtown for a while after the show because I hadn’t seen my friends Paul and Jay for a long time, and it was my first time meeting Paul’s girlfriend, who was super cool. I took the T back and got home around 12:30, then happened to turn on the TV just in time to find out that Bill Hader was going to be on Conan, so of COURSE I had to stay awake for that action. He was so cheerful and adorable!!! Oh my GODDD too much too handllllleeeee. Seriously?! Did anyone else see that interview? He kept doing silly impressions of various Star Wars creatures at Conan's request and then laughing and hiding his face because he was embarrassed. It was the CUTEST. THING. I HAVE EVER. SEEN.
Tonight is the office holiday party. I had to purchase a fancy dress for the occasion. But there’s an open bar, so you know. I plan to get extremely drunk. Tomorrow night I’m driving to Worcester to see TMBG play some random show at a Polytechnic school.