{"id":933,"date":"2005-08-18T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2005-08-18T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T18:28:00","slug":"933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8\/17 Recap<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Last night&#8217;s show got off to a rocky start when the actors were for one reason or another, off on the rhythm of the skit so they were talking over people&#8217;s lines and just overall, had their timing off. They managed to make a recovery and knocked the white trash skit out of the park. When Reggie stands up as Latisha, the angry black woman in spandex shorts and a headband and threatens to bust a cap in his white ass and goes digging for a gat in a tiny Louis Vutton purse, we had to hold the skit until laughter died down. Overall, that was smoothest skit of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the show is that we don&#8217;t audition the comics and just go by the word of Vargus, our talented cast member who&#8217;s on the stand-up circuit with these guys, or referrals from other standups. I didn&#8217;t think our first comic the night before was that great, but the other ones were decent. Yet tonight, Sheldon, who had been solid the night before, came in with a different act but seemed to get frazzled by the &#8220;front row&#8221; who was a &#8220;tough crowd&#8221; and he couldn&#8217;t get any laughs from them. Unfortunately, that front row was made up of my family, who didn&#8217;t have the best grasp of English but more importantly, he hadn&#8217;t won over any of the crowd yet. So he never got into his act from the first night and got so frazzled with the crowd that he didn&#8217;t really follow up his great performance from the night before. From now on, I want to audition the comics so I know what kind of material and energy they&#8217;re bringing.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy act that we didn&#8217;t have on Tuesday but we had on Wed. was a duo called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosspanishflies.com\/\"><span style=\"color:#99bbdd;\">The Dos Spanish Flies<\/span><\/a>. They were like Tenacious D but with a mariachi\/Spanish Variety show theme and really dirty, hilarious songs. Amazing performers with the crispest comic timing I&#8217;ve ever encountered. They&#8217;re playing the Comedy Store this Sunday at 8pm, so if you&#8217;re in LA, I highly recommend catching them. One of the guys looked like this guy I used to date, who looks like Jack Black so in a way, they ARE Tenacious D but with a latin theme.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a possibility of another encore performance. Last night was technically a sold out show, but a lot of people who had prepaid for tickets didn&#8217;t show up. Regardles, we&#8217;re in the middle of transitioning the show so that it&#8217;s going to be run by Reggie and I, with it being bigger and better. They&#8217;ve always been tied to Tuesdays and been a small show, but this one was a lot bigger and I want it to start running on the weekends in a bigger theater that&#8217;s better suited for media as well, so we can also run video skits with the live ones. It would be cool to find a place where we can serve drinks and afterwards, turn it into a little party with a DJ spinning before the show and after the show. I want to give people an <em>event<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The best show related event hands down though, was not my mom in the lobby after the show teaching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erniehalter.com\/home.htm\"><span style=\"color:#99bbdd;\">Ernie Halter<\/span><\/a> Chinese (note: Ernie was our amazing musician with a voice like butter&#8230;check out his site for his music), but the effect the show had on Michael.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you guys who were at the show&#8230;do you remember in the Ralph&#8217;s skit when Vargus&#8217;s old lady character watches the girl walk by and goes, &#8220;Bitch.&#8221; ???<\/p>\n<p>Reggie, Michael and I were all sleeping in the same room last night and sometime in the middle of the night, it&#8217;s completely silent and Michael talks in his sleep and goes, &#8220;Bitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No wait. The best show-related event was when I drove my mom home after the show and she said, &#8220;You have to teach me some of the bad language that you guys were using. I asked Albert [my cousin]&#8230;what is a &#8216;golden shower.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;It&#8217;s when a woman stands over a man and pees on his head. Is that true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I answered, &#8220;It is. But sometimes the man will also pee on the woman&#8217;s head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now with the show over (or potentially only soon over), I&#8217;ve gotta switch gears to the short film. A shitty-ass industry publication, I won&#8217;t say which one, accidentally (and non-remorsefully) printed my phone number in my ad looking for actors so now I&#8217;ve got actors calling me morning to night. It&#8217;s ridiculously annoying, and the publication admitted the mistake but in the process, more or less told me I could eat it because they have so much to do that they really can&#8217;t be bothered about mistakes. So certain third rate publications whose employees are arrogant assholes because they think that just cuz they have a monopoly on the industry that they can be arrogant assholes, I have a creme brulee torch and I&#8217;m not afraid to use it.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, new tag for the lemonade:<\/p>\n<p>J&amp;R: &#8220;We Stole This Shit&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/17 Recap Last night&#8217;s show got off to a rocky start when the actors were for one reason or another, off on the rhythm of the skit so they were talking over people&#8217;s lines and just overall, had their timing off. 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