Variety Underground highlights 9.16.04

[El Jefe]

Year of Mildest Dreams had some great quotes. Matt Pack and Zach Woods were two guys who didn't want to leave the office on Friday...

MATT: A lot of people say Mondays are bad, but for me Fridays are the beginning of 48 hours of no human contact.

Later Erik Tanouye comes in as an ambiguously ethnic cleaning guy and tells them of the picnic he and his family are going to have...

ZACH: Ah...picnics...there'll probably be watermelons and hugs....


Zach said something in an early scene that made me laugh long and hard, and I swore to remember it. I have no idea what it was. Help!

I also loved the heckling as Nate Shelkey set his guitar up (Erik Tanouye: "Streamline for next week!") and how that stand-up comedian from Cracked magazine got his biggest laughs in-between jokes with his punctuative sigh, "Ah...my Mom...."

 

[kevhines]

Yeah, I really enjoyed Variety Underground a lot this week. The Barrel Brothers did some great stuff to the point where I told the waitress that she would want to watch their next bit - even though I had no idea what it would be. I am glad she didn't come up to me after and ask why I told her to watch a guy's pants get ripped off.

I also enjoyed this little move by Stomping Ground
Tony (as an offstage voice): "Did you ask him if the earth had gravity?"
Dave Thunder: "We DID ask him that"
Tony (as an on stage character): "Why would you ask him that?"

 

[tanouye]

Also, when the guy from "Cracked" changed things up with:

"Aw ... my parents ... [explaining] I didn't want to say 'my mom' again."


And the other stand-up's convoluted math equation protest signs:

truth = 0
(bush -> oxo)

followed by a long graph

 

[Petra B]

the white pie at Lombardi's was a highlight for me.

(I came in late and missed most of the show)

 

[mattpack]

Nate Shelkey's interaction with the crowd was tons of fun.

I second Tony's offstage/onstage voices!

 

[General McLean]

Shockwave: I'm in the carpet.........now I'm not.

The Barrel Brothers have showed me (twice now) that safe and controlled nutkicks are funnier than anything on Jackass. I think it's the sound the jeans make.