When Taking Your Vitamins

Just wanted to remind you guys to control your fish burps.

Get on the BioBus

Check out this fun new science video for kids I'm in by Irreverent Films. Made it a few months back. Worth the wait!


Directed by Laura Newman. Featuring Hunter Cain. Production by Paul Rondeau and Jeff Ashworth (remember them from the Judge Sassy video?) and makeup by Lindsey Zelli.

More All-Female Comedy Shows in NYC

While Ladybits gears up for 2011 (Rocky-style, pulling logs in Russia and stuff), you can enjoy comedy from women on OTHER shows. Like these!

Her-Larious
Tues Nov 30 at 8:00PM
The Sullivan Room (218 Sullivan Street, NYC 10012)
$15 (purchase tix at the door)

Amy Beckerman's inaugural show has an awesome lineup:

Adrienne Iapalucci
Cara Kilduff
Mindy Raf
Amy Albert
Irene Bremis

I'm on the following:

F-Word: Feminism, Funny & Fearless
A fundraiser for Paradigm Shift NYC
Thurs Dec 9, 7:00PM
Angels and Kings (500 E. 11th St, NYC 10009)
$25 students / pre-paid, $30 door
Invite friends on Facebook to this event

And catch me in Arlington Virginia on the Comedy Supreme show!
Sat Nov 20, 7:30PM and again at 10:00PM
Pizzeria Venti (301 John Carlyle St, 22314)
$15

On the Road Again

It is a very heavy responsibility to tickle everyone in Brooklyn, and not one that I take lightly. That's why I'm going to the central source: Tickle Me Brooklyn show at Linger Cafe and Lounge. These people know how to do it right. Come and watch like a medical student at a surgery.

Tickle Me Brooklyn at Linger Cafe and Lounge
533 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Date: Thurs Nov 18
Time: 8:00PM
Cost: FREE

On Saturday I will take my tickling expertise to the mean streets of Alexandria Virginia for Comedy Supreme! An all-female lineup of East Coast comedy all-stars.

Comedy Supreme! at Pizzeria Venti
301 John Carlyle St
Alexandria, VA 22314
Date: Sat Nov 20
Time: 7:30PM and again at 10:00PM
Cost: $15

Photo credit:
scrapetv.com

Today I'd Like You to Think About Four Loko

My news channels have been demonizing this drink so often it will be off the shelves before I can try it. And I want to try it! I just haven't had a family event I'd like to ruin. I don't get the combination. Caffeinated alcohol? The times I've needed an energy drink, it was inconvenient to also be drunk (office at 3PM) and the times I've wanted to unwind with a brewski, I don't want to be hyper (Jeopardy at 8PM).

The news is really cramping my style. They've used up every pun in the book, except for the glaring one--that this is FOR LOCO people. Once they've played that trump card, I'm sure there will be nothing left but Arizona cans that beggars spike with whiskey.

Catch a Rising Staaaaaar

Great show you should check out tonight!



Don't go expecting to see Beyonce tumble down stairs. That's Catch a Falling Star.
Don't go expecting to see Gilbert Arenas. That's Catch a Shooting Star.
This is Catch a RISING Star. And if you're just finishing watching a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman or ending your shift at Strawberry or hiding from the Times Square cops, ducking into Broadway Comedy Club is a good idea. And you'll get the added bonus of my jokes!

Catch! National Auditions
Broadway Comedy Club
318 W. 53rd St, 10019
Thurs Nov 11, 7PM

Brushes with Celebrity (Impersonations)

Performed as Sarah Silverman on Schtick or Treat last week. I had a blast! Mindy Tucker (of With Reservation) took such great photos I posted mine on Twitter. Then, to my geeky delight, Ms. Silverman herself gave it her nod of approval!

Speaking of attention from celebrities, I heard Steve Buscemi admired my obscure Halloween costume of "Dionne Warwick on Hollywood Squares" while I marched in the annual Halloween parade in Park Slope. I missed him because I am a big shot, but I turned around and saw him enjoying the rest of the parade in his baseball cap.

Do you hear that plopping sound? That's me name-dropping.


Here's Dionne up close. The secret to her unique nostrils is buttons.

Other Halloween weekend festivities included a costume party, a clothing exchange at my place, pumpkin-carving, the toasting of pumpkin seeds, the hotting of chocolate, and the watching of the new Nightmare on Elm Street. I can't top this year, so next year I plan to join a religion that does not permit me to celebrate the holiday. I'll take your suggestions in the comments section.

Schtick or Treat 2010

The Halloween fun continues! Halloween is like my Christmas. I want to celebrate it all month long and ignorantly wish good tidings to the people who don't observe it.

For the 3rd Annual Schtick or Treat I am deciding AGAINST shaving my head and wearing dude clothes as Robert Schimmel and instead am buying a ponytail weave and wearing dude clothes so I can impersonate Sarah Silverman. To prepare, I have read her new book The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, and I will re-live the magic of "Jesus Is Magic" by watching clips of that on YouTube (since someone has borrowed my dvd copy). Ultimately, I will look like Sade, sound like Downtown Julie Brown, and be gone in 2 minutes. But do you expect anything LESS than butt-tingling entertainment from this smooth operator?



Schtick or Treat, Wed Oct 27, 7:30PM
Arlene's Grocery, 95 Stanton St, 10002
FREE

Be There or Be Scared!

Tonight is The Living Room Show's 5th Annual Halloween Scare-avaganza!

Let's look at years past...



In 2006 I made the topical choice of going as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Luke went as James Brolin as Pee-Wee Herman. Since these are so obscure, I'll give you their actual likeness.


NAILED IT. The only other person to dress up was my sister who went as Condoleezza's lesser-known sister, Condosleezza with a mullet wig and fishnet stockings, because my family is awesome.



In 2007 I went as a cabbage patch (the black one with blond hair that never sold well) and Luke went as John McEnroe. That year, the baristas joined in the costume fun and the one audience member who dressed up won a prize!



In 2008 I returned to celebrity impersonations and went as Kathy Griffin. I have no idea what Luke was supposed to be. But what a phantom-tastic turnout of costumed creeps! Comics and audience dressed up and were given prestigious awards.

In 2009 I held down the fort solo and took all the pics (which explains why they're not uploaded one year later). I dressed as a victim of the Bubonic Plague. Had the Elizabethan dress and wig, zombie facepaint and the creepiness was exacerbated by the fact that NO ONE ELSE DRESSED FOR HALLOWEEN.

So let's do this fifth one right! Oh yes, there WILL be prizes.

Rick Younger hosts
Dave Angelo
Jenna Brister
Dave Waite
Harry Terjanian
Luke Thayer

with sketch by me

The Living Room Show
Fri Oct 22, 8:00PM
Postmark Cafe - 326 6th St, 11215
FREE

LadyBits - Episode 2

Click here for more great photos by our in-house photog Lorna on Flickr.

Our second performance at the dark and lovely Cornelia St. Cafe brought Leah Dubie, Amanda Baramki, Giulia Rozzi and the musical stylings of Jen Kwok! Not to mention our biggest fan Asa and a crowd of comedy-loving goons.

We are still looking for a permanent home. While we shop around, we won't be having any shows, so stay tuned. You can catch Jen and me representing Ladybits on other all-female shows:

Sat Nov 20, 7:30PM
Lady Show in DC (part of an All-Female Festival)
brought to you by Hillary Buckholtz

Thurs Dec 9, 7:00PM
F-Word: Feminism, Funny and Fearless
Angels and Kings, 500 E. 11th St, 10009
Jen and I co-host this fundraiser for Paradigm Shift NYC with Leah King, Jessy Delfino, Jena Friedman.

Interested in learning more about Ladybits? Look no further than our dazzling website: www.ladybitscomedy.com!

Photo credit: Lorna Keuning