I am so happy that The Talent Show is back. Without them, how would I have ever seen Ira Glass dancing to Philip Glass?
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I try to hit up The Talent Show whenever possible, which can sometimes be tricky as Littlefield is not a huge venue and the event sells out quickly. But it’s always worth it, and the Slumber Party show was no exception.
You can see the rest of my photos on Flickr. Highlights include Ira Glass in his jammies, a brave audience lady eating disgusting things without throwing up, Eugene Mirman prank calling someone’s asshole boss, and a rousing game of Share or Dare?
The Talent Show on Wednesday was great, top to bottom, but for me the highlight of the night was definitely sipping brandy cocktails like an asshole while Ira Glass talked to us about the election and love and smoking and yellow jackets.
Technical difficulties at your show? Just hand out free wine and have Ira Glass make balloon animals until everything is working again.
Someone at Buzzfeed made an animated gif out of my video of Ira Glass dancing to Philip Glass. It’s sort of mesmerizing, really. Let’s all admire it.
Secret dance prodigy Ira Glass discusses net neutrality with Damian Kulash of OK Go. About halfway through, they are rudely interrupted by famous minor television personality John Hodgman.
@d20burlesque‘s Tribute to Podcasts was everything I hoped it could be, and more. I particularly love @anjakeister‘s Erotic Ira Glass face.
Top to bottom: Anja Keister, Seedy Edie, Ravenessa, Fancy Feast, Iris Explosion, Legs Malone, and a whole buncha podcast-loving weirdos.
I almost always space out on buying tix to the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, but this year I finally made it to one of the events: An Evening of Entertainment from People with Black Glasses, featuring Janeane Garofolo, Ira Glass, John Hodgman, Reggie Watts and (of course) Eugene Mirman.
I had a great time. Highlights for me included Ira Glass’s anecdote about hiking sex, John Hodgman’s tales of the Massachusetts dumpmen, and the as-advertised eye contact booth outside the event space. Later, when I went to upload my photos, I realized that basically all of them feature Comedy Hands.
Last week I went to Great Speeches & Other Outbursts, a benefit for 826NYC that consisted of delightful people from NPR, The Daily Show, and everywhere else reading famous speeches and essays, and all sorts of other things. Highlights for me included Ira Glass reading Lincoln, Bobby Cannavale and Eric Bogosian re-enacting an interview with Woody Allen and Billy Graham, and John Oliver showing off his fancy accent. But without question, the best moment of the evening was John Hodgman reading Teddy Roosevelt’s “strenuous life” speech, complete with shouting and added push-up breaks.
The highlight of last week for me was definitely The Talent Show on Wednesday night. The theme this month was Dancing with the Semi-Famous, and it was more or less what you’d expect. That is, of course, if you expected to see Ira Glass dancing to Philip Glass in a completely charming and un-ironic way. Yes, of course there’s video.
And a bunch of photos from the same event:
The news about my grandma made for a somewhat subdued weekend. My partner in crime had a tremendous amount of programming to do, and I was feeling somewhat glum and uninspired, so we essentially holed up at my place where we cooked and ate a couple of ridiculous meals, watched Moon and Man on Wire and the NOVA episode about Watson, listened to a lot of music. I also emptied out and rearranged all of the (abundant, enormous) in my apartment’s weird little kitchen, because I find organizational tasks like that soothing when I’m mentally not in a great place.
Here’s hoping this week is better. And here’s one more lovely photo of a tiny me with my stellar grandma.
Last night was pretty much a perfect New York evening, the kind that makes me happier than I can say with my life as it is right now. And I don’t think there’s a better way to spend the evening of the 4th than at a picnic on the roof of the McKittrick, watching fireworks with friends & fellow drunks.
eleven years ago tonight! I believe this was the only 4th of july event the mckittrick has ever had, and it was also the first event held at gallow green.
