I live in New York. I am a comedian, writer and actor. My day job is blogging for VH1.com. I write about the silly things celebrities and pop stars do, so you know...God's work.
You may have seen my writing on many other reputable websites (The Huffington Post, Hello Giggles, xojane.com, The Hairpin, Splitsider, The FW, etc.). I also write crazy blogs about Game of Thrones, Magneto and Jeff Goldblum.
I don't want to talk about anything with you except Star Trek Into Darkness.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Our story this week: something a little different. For a year now, we’ve been bringing you stories that we thought were funny, many of which came from disasters, traumatic events in the lives of the storytellers. It’s in many of our natures and especially in the nature of the kind of person who gets up on the stage to tell these stories for a room full of strangers, to laugh at the macabre and the dark, to smile and snark in spite of terror. A few weeks ago, comedian Julia Weideman took the stage at the UCB East in New York and wrestled that instinct to the ground. When the dust cleared, we had a story, one she had never told before, with no punch lines, no clever similes, no witty rejoinders, and yet it was a story we knew we had to share with you.
Julia Wiedeman is the writer and star of the brilliant one-woman show, Naked People at the UCB theater in New York. If you’re quick you can catch her performing it tonight. Or, see her and her show at the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston, March 21st through the 24th.
While Julia made it out alive, for many women the consequences of domestic and dating violence are far, far worse. One of the best organizations working to change this is Break the Cycle. Please visit breakthecycle.org to learn more and consider donating to the cause of helping youth end the cycle of violence.
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I was in person for this and it is astounding. Listen to it.
DCM Show 2013: “Pile of Broken Seats.”
So I’m the only one who is made upset by this image? YOU GUYS THIS IS LIKE MY HOUSE IS BROKEN. MY HOUSE WHERE I LIVE!
Good riddance.
Thank christ those seats are not worth $5 admission
We’re getting a lot of new shit. The thing I’m most excited about? The new sound system. When I was head tech, that sound system drove me fucking crazy.
Now if we can only figure out how to make that middle column go away! Quit blocking our shows, column!
FINALLY I CAN GO TO THE UCB AND NOT WORRY THAT MY PANTS WILL BE RUINED. JOY TO THE WORLD.
I’m singing Christmas carols tonight at Maude night at the UCB Chelsea. It should be cool. I was cast on my great talent of walking down 7th Ave at the same time as Siobhan to whom I said, “Hey! How are you?”, to which she replied, “CAN YOU SING?!? YOU CAN SING RIGHT?!?!”
Ah…showbiz.
More Cambridge Footlights. This guy in front is one to watch (and very cute). The girl was also hilarious. (Taken with Instagram at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre)
Completely agreed. I think I turned to Meredith at least twice, and resisted to the urge 20 times, to say, “the Jim Sturgess look-a-like is a fucking star!” and “the girl is a close second”.
Look for the two of them plus the one in the middle in a hit BBC comedy in five years’ time.
Jim Sturgess part deux might be up there in two years.
This is the sketch that I wrote (and then overacted in) for my UCB Sketch 301 Grad Show. It has at least one “hawk crying out in the distance” SFX so I really think it embodies me as an artist.
Enjoy.
A follow up
Yesterday I had my last Sketch 201 class at the UCB. I now feel bad about bitching about how no one in the class got my references because they all made a point yesterday about saying how much they loved my obscure references. “That’s why I come to class. To hear what bizarre references Meghan is going to make this week.”
I’ve never felt so universally accepted for being myself before.
Hi, come to this, or watch online. I’ll be there!
Go to this! I won’t be able to make it because of the class-that-shall-not-be-named, but go to it!
A lovely reader named Maureen sent me these images of some postcards from the original UCB Theatre on 22nd Street and I felt compelled to share them with you all! She writes -
“So, I was going through my box of high school pictures tonight, and came across these and figured you would appreciate them. These are postcards from the original UCB Theatre on 22nd Street. I started going there when I was sixteen years old, and I am thirty now, yikes!
I hope you are able to see the names on them, but these were the beginning days of some of the best comedians today- Seth Morris, Jake Fogelnest, the original 4, and Rob Corddry.”I love this and I am so excited that Maureen decided to send them on and allowed me to share them with you! You can follow Maureen on her blog, which follows her on her running adventures here.(My e-mail is always open and I love hearing from people, so whether you just want to say “hi” and shower me with compliments or send something interesting along, please feel free!)
Shows! (April 2012 edition)
4/5 - 9:00pm - Lasers in the Jungle - Luca Lounge - NYC (Stand-up)
4/12 - 7:00pm - What’s Your Story? - Luca Lounge - NYC (Storytelling)
4/13 - Midnight - Liquid Courage - UCB Chelsea (Not technically a show, but my Sketch 201 class is going, so fun times!)
4/14 - Midnight - Cool Show 4 Teen Girlz! - UCB Chelsea
4/15 - 8:00 pm - Dorothy Parker’s Salon of Spirits - The PIT
4/28 - Julie Bell on Julie Bell - Geek Week at ImprovBoston (MY TRIUMPHANT RETURN…NOW WITH WIG PINS!)
Anyway…
