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Whew I'm Beat!
I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I met Scott "Reverend" Ramsey for a late lunch meeting. Pencil in the first Friday of each month for your Tex in the City Roundup Party in Ochi's Lounge beginning October 3rd from 6:30 - 9:00!
Then I was off to see a pretty great co-op one street away from Restaurant Row. Danny Leary joined me for the tour and he was gushing about how great it was. I'm not sold and Christian has to see it, too, of course. But how great would it be to live a block from Don't Tell Mama and Joe Allens?! Gah! CanNOT compute!
Then I zoomed down to Comix to do a voice over for the first "news item" I filmed for "Comix TV". It's a report on XM Radio's "Unmasked" series. I got some great b-roll footage of Seth Rogan and what not and an interview with the executive producer. I see the mistakes made along the way footage-wise, but what a great first piece it will be and a nice little thing for our reel.
THEN...as if that weren't enough. A reporter from a Japanese magazine is upstairs waiting to interview me for a feature before I RUN down to the People's Improv Theater to perform. Holy crap that's too much in one day for the Friday when most folks have already called it quits for the long weekend.
--Kambri
Can't wait to get home.
I'm performing on this show tonight...
MEAT & POTATOES - August 29th @ 8:00 PM
America may run on Dunkin'... but when it finally stops to sit down for dinner, it eats Meat and Potatoes! Meat and Potatoes is a hilarious and cathartic new show that takes a look at blue-collar life from the other side. It features "big-city" comedians telling stories about their struggles growing up lower-middle class or even (gulp!) a foreigner.
Join us for our next installment, featuring:
Kambri Crews (LoveDaddy.org)
Anthony Devito (FX's Rescue Me)
Jenny Rubin (WE TV's Cinematherapy)
Adam Wade (ESPN Classics Now)
Hosted by Shawn Hollenbach (Here TV's Busted) and Carolyn Castiglia (VH1)
Friday, August 29 @ 8 pm - $8
The People's Improv Theater
154 W. 29th Street
http://www.thepit-nyc.com/
Tex in the City 2.0
We've gone all hi tech and made ourselves a Facebook page. If you're on Facebook and like getting your updates and invites that way, then join our group here.
Meanwhile, pencil in the first Friday of each month from 6:30 - 9:00 for networking parties in Ochi's Lounge beginning October 3rd. We aim to have a good time and maybe even raise a little money for a charity thing that we'll announce at the first event.
Yee haw!
The Funny Page Sneak Peek!
 Finally! Here is a sneak peek of our first full page advetorial appearing in Tuesday's Metro. Click the pic for the larger pdf. Whatcha think? I'm exhausted from putting it together so hopefully each week will get easier. If you have anything newsworthy (comedy related, of course) or funny you'd like to submi for publication, send it my way.
Also, here is a clip of Christian on last night's Countdown with guest host Rachel Maddow filling in for Olbermann. The topic was all about Julia Child and her secret agent days.
Secret agent Child, Julia Child
--Kambri
Skipping the gym to go to see Tropic Thunder.
Just a Quick Note
R*chard Lewis wrote me last night to make sure you were coming to his "Unmasked" taping. Are you? I assured him you were. Don't make me a liar! If you'd like tickets, instructions are here: ballyhoopromotions.net/Events.htm. The taping is Monday and it's usually about an hour and a half time commitment. Tommy Chong will be taping his interview tomorrow afternoon then in the evening we celebrate his book launch. It will a long day of Chong. I treated some Tex in the City pals to Freestyle Love Supreme last night. A few were in town from Texas and their jaws were permanently dropped for the whole show. The next time they're at Comix you really must see them. They're ridiculously entertaining and their talent will blow your wig back.
--Kambri
Happy two year wedding anniversary to me and Christian!
In Other News
I totally forgot to tell you how freaking amazing it was to have Freestyle Love Supreme back at Comix. My pals beat-boxer Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan and Lin-Manuel Miranda ("In the Heights" creator, star and million time Tony winner) were on FIRE. The sold out house was in a frenzy and stuck around after the show to greet the guys. Molly, Shockwave and I spent way too much time at the Hog Pit where $3 PBRs were free flowing.
FLS returns to Comix on Monday the 11th. Sadly Lin-Manuel won't be there but Utkarsh aka "UTK" will be! He was missed last week. And, of course, Shockwave will amaze everyone again. If you haven't heard, PBS is reviving my all-time favorite show The Electric Company. Shockwave is one of the stars and will be a big star amongst the kids once it debuts in January. Read this NY Times article about the return of the TV classic and this great interview with Shockwave on The Apiary. See him live this Monday at Comix.
From the NY Times:
In a category by himself is the beat-box artist Shockwave (Chris Sullivan). Besides slinging hash at the Electric Diner, he speaks in one-word bursts only — no sentences — and appears in guises like the much missed gorilla and a butcher who cleaves words. But it is his D.J. routine that may be mimicked on playgrounds next year. He appears to be scratching syllables from dueling turntables to form words. It all emanates from his “bruh-bruh-AIN, bruh-bruh-AIN, brain.”
--Kambri
Hey, you guyyyyyyys!!!
Wow, It's One Heck of a Summer!
Beginning August 19th, I'll be writing a comedy gossip column that will appear in Metro. Send me your comedy tips, sightings & gossip to me so we can help spread the good word about working comedians. They don't get enough ink in my opinion.
Seth Rogan's taping was fun. Dude is a gen-u-ine total stoner. I'm not sure when XM will air it but I'm guessing soon. I taped a little promo piece for it that we'll run in the showroom and put online. That could take a while to edit, though, based on our current tech schedule. Just not enough hours!
Baron Vaughn, recently seen in the musical hit Damn Yankees with Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski, has agreed to direct me in an as of yet non-existent one person show that I want to produce in conjunction with my book. Besides being a talented comedian and actor, he directed Livia Scott in her acclaimed show "Goodnight OJ" and will be working with Carolyn Castiglia on her show that will be staged at Ars Nova. We have our first meeting next week. Time to get cracking on some ideas.
In random news, I think I was misquoted in the NY Press review of a CollegeHumor.com show in which Christian performed. Here is the quote:
“I’m just glad he didn’t go into my dad being in jail for attempted murder,” his wife Kambri confided after the show.
That quote just doesn't even make sense. First, because Christian DOES talk about my dad on occasion in his set. He has for well over a year and a half. So why would I be glad he didn't? Second, every time he DOES talk about my dad, it's basically a free endorsement / plug for my site / book. Third, after the show I met up with my agent who randomly happened to be there and went to dinner. I don't mind the misquote (ink is ink), but it just struck me as odd. Umm, what else? Jim Breuer is headlining tonight thru Saturday. Tune in to Opie & Anthony tomorrow morning to hear him on the air from 8:00 - 9:00 and get tickets at http://www.comixny.com/. Finally, God's Pottery is on the season finale of Last Comic Standing tonight. They open the show with a new song they wrote for NBC. Pretty exciting! --Kambri
Christian on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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