a Political Success

Candidates Gone Wild photo from Willamette Week.

Stacey and I have had a busy few weeks. We're doing our best staying on top of it all, but if it takes a little while for us to get back to you on anything - we apologize.
This past Monday night we performed with Willamette Week's CANDIDATES GONE WILD show. We wrote a speech and song for Sarah Palin to sing (Stacey playing Sarah Palin) and participated in a Cop Training sketch written by fellow Portland sketch comedians LiveWire! The review and image above can be read/seen here:
CANDIDATES GONE WILD
It was a very fun show to be a part of and we're happy we got asked by WW and Courtnay from LiveWire! to participate in the show.
Here I am in the greenroom w/ Sarah Palin. This is taken through the mirror, which is why it looks so weird.

This coming weekend closes our sketch show called Sock It To Me and next weekend Stacey and I will be opening our (mostly)new 2 person show under the Jean Louis moniker. We don't have a lot of time to get the show up and running, so we're going to be a little out of contact (hopefully) focusing on our show.

We also just signed on our house, so as far as I know - we're homeowners. We'll be moving into it in a couple weeks.

more to come...

Bridgetown Saturday

Last night was one of those evenings where doing comedy feels amazing. It was the Bridgetown Comedy Festival all this weekend and we had our own shows at our theater. Most of the performers in our 8 o'clock show were double-booked and needed the night off to play at Bridgetown, or were otherwise engaged, which brought our cast of 8 down to 3. We knew we couldn't do our regular show with those numbers - so instead we put together a "best of" kind of at the last minute and had no idea how it would turn out. Luckily, we're all improvaders and it was pretty awesome. Our good friends Nate and Nathan stepped in and helped us out. We had at least 60 people in the crowd, which is always the way when you have no idea what to expect. All our dancers / aerial artists were there, so those pieces were done - and we did a 40 minute longform set with five of us... which was probably the best set of the night. Stacey and I did a Jean Louis set in the second act... at the end of which we had to rush across town to perform in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. We did a 4 person improv set opening for ASSSCAT (the UCB Theater).
The Hawthorne Theater was packed and we had a pretty good set. I say pretty good because we were told we'd have 10 or 15 minutes - so we prepared for that. Around the 15 minute mark we started to end our show, but no lights were pulled... so we kept going. We got about a 25 minute set, so we made it work (remember - we're improvaders, that's what we do) but it wasn't as strong as it could have been.
Either way, it was a great/crazy night to remember - where improv comes out on top!

video for our kids show

The Curious Garden is the kids show we do once a month. It's episodic and each show tells a story (and if you're not careful you may learn something). With each episode we always have so much fun, we inevitably come up with bits that are a little inappropriate for kids - so we have an adult version we do.
In our April episode, Daisy is a rap star. Here's his music video with a song we recorded:

Daisy's Rap Video from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Every character in the show lives in a garden. Daisy is, of course a flower. We also have Button, who is a Bunny who eats everything:

Button's Confessional from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Razzie is a fairy that lives at the Garden and has brought all these creatures to life.
There is a Farmer and a Lawn Jockey who don't have videos or pictures yet, but the Gnome represents them in the music video above.

Service

There are a lot of differences between living in Chicago and living in Portland, but the one that probably bothers me the most is the service industry out here. I haven't found a restaurant with a dependable, speedy staff yet... AND service industry folks here get minimum wage. It is insane HOW GODDAMN SLOW everyone at every restaurant here is. I could go anywhere in Chicago and get quicker / better service at any time of day. It was rare that I would go to a place and not get waited on in under five minutes. Here in Portland you're lucky to get anyone in five minutes. It's stupid. What's wrong with these west-coasters?

a scene in the dark

This is a fun scene that was originally done by Stacey and Sean Cusick in Chicago in their two person sketch show. We revamp it a bit for Jean Louis because it's a great example of communication and relationship, which was the theme or our show.

the Jean Louis show (pt 3 of 6) from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Turbulence

For a long time I wanted do a scene dealing with two strangers' possible last moments during serious turbulence on a plane...

the Jean Louis Show (pt 2 of 6) from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Jean Louis show footage

I finally got around to uploading and editing video of our two person show. I'll periodically post some scenes here. Here's a favorite scene of mine called Maternity Window:

the Jean Louis Show (pt 5 of 6) from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Sausage Party

Sausage Party! from Curious Comedy on Vimeo.

Sock It To Me!

We opened last night to a great crowd. Come to the Curious Comedy Theater to see one of the most quick-paced and quick-witted sketch comedy shows we've ever done. Every weekend in April!