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Awkward Spaceship – Secret Lair Comics

09

Feb

2011

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It’s Wednesday.  Need some ridiculousness?  Check out Awkward Spaceship‘s Secret Lair Comics.

It’s a video I made with my friends Sean Cusick from Best Church of God and Zoran Gvojic from Low Carb Comedy and Long Pork (who also worked on the video The Weather).

Fun?  Yes.  Twisted?  You betcha.  Enjoy it!

Week Four with Tina with the Weather

08

Feb

2011

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Week three of Batterymouth: It Burns happened despite the fact that Chicago was completely covered with snow. Our suggestion was “hippopotamus” and we spent thirty minutes with two guys in a hotel in a north African country that may be undergoing a revolution.  That or the hotel was just really empty for some reason.  Mysteries!

Zack and I were recently on the podcast Let’s Get Serious which is hosted by the delightful Kendall Bruns. We talked about the current run, funny videos and the technical, nerdy aspects of improvisation. You can listen to the podcast here if you’re so inclined.

We’re now on to week four of the run. Our opening act this week will be Tina with the Weather, which features local improvisers Nick Delehanty, Dara Edelman, Phil Hasso, Trevor Martin, Will Russo and Lindsey Stelte.  You’re running out of chance to see Batterymouth: It Burns, so don’t miss this show!

Incorrect POTUS Facts for #MBTeamE

04

Feb

2011

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So, our dear friends John Morrison aka @localcelebrity on Twitter and Len Kendall aka @lenkendall on Twitter are currently a part of this really cool event called the Mercedes Benz Tweet Race. Check out the site for all the details, but, basically they’re racing three other teams to Texas and they need Tweets addressed to @lenkendall with the hashtag #MBTeamE to fuel their Mercedes Benz. It’s pretty damn cool.

So, to support #MBTeamE, we wrote a bunch of #incorrectpotusfacts on Twitter – one ridiculous, completely incorrect fact about every President of the United States. In case you missed it, here’s the list (I removed the hashtags, etc, from this compiled list for ease of reading)…

#1 George Washington once ate a dozen hardboiled eggs on a dare.

#2 John Adams hated dolphins and small, red buttons.

#3 Thomas Jefferson invented the word “supercilious.”

#4 James Madison built the world’s first submarine.

#5 James Monroe was pissed he wasn’t the first president named James.

#6 John Quincy Adams made his entire cabinet wear newspaper hats.

#7 Andrew Jackson’s catch phrase was “It’s Jacksoning time!”

#8 Martin Van Buren had a bionic cat named Margot.

#9 William Henry Harrison’s nickname was “Old Facey-face”

#10 John Tyler would put olives on freaking everything.

#11 James K Polk thought people were making fun of him when they’d dance the polka.

#12 Zachary Taylor ate nails for breakfast and tacks for snacks which made his doctor mad.

#13 Millard Fillmore’s name backwards is Millard Fillmore.

#14 Franklin Pierce was a bird whisperer.

#15 James Buchanan had a crippling fear of hat boxes.

#16 Abe Lincoln could fight off 13 Confederate orphans at one time.

#17 Andrew Johnson invented baseball. Originally called it “Belgian golf.”

#18 Ulysses S. Grant cried every damn time he went to the opera.

#19 Rutherford B. Hayes’ mom was the inspiration for the Golden Girls.

#20 James Garfield always got pelicans and penguins confused.

#21 Chester A. Arthur had a brother named Chester B. Arthur.

#22 Grover Cleveland founded the towns of Grover and Cleveland.

#23 Benjamin Harrison told people “All about the Benjmanins” was about him.

#24 Grover Cleveland’s two terms were consecutive for him since he time travelled.

#25 William McKinley swallowed swords at parties. That and booze.

#26 Teddy Roosevelt called cows “land manatees.”

#27 William Howard Taft ate paste.

#28 Woodrow Wilson doodled unicorns on everything.

#29 Warren G. Harding was a black belt in Tai Kwan Do.

#30 Calvin Coolidge just wanted a hug.

#31 Herbert Hoover invented the first vacuum just so he could make “you suck” jokes.

#32 Franklin Roosevelt had notoriously smelly feet.

#33 Harry S. Truman drank a lot of Ovaltine. Like, A LOT.

#34 Dwight D. Eisenhower collected Precious Moments figurines.

#35 John F. Kennedy was in a ska band.

#36 Lyndon B. Johnson wrote poetry that did not rhyme. Ever.

#37 Richard M. Nixon loved the board game Trouble and hated Risk.

#38 Gerald Ford had a killer Chewbacca impression.

#39 Jimmy Carter made the first “that’s what she said” joke.

#40 Ronald Reagan made that jelly bean thing up so he’d have more time to fight communists.

#41 George Bush ghost wrote several episodes of Dragonball Z.

#42 Bill Clinton’s pet jellyfish is named Mrs. Butterworth.

#43 George W. Bush things Ron Weasley is the best character in those books.

#44 Barack Obama rights wrongs/hopes his next leap will be the leap home.

Aaaand that’s it. We hope you enjoyed the #incorrectpotusfacts. Please support #MBTeamE and if you thought “hey, those were funny” please check out tonight’s performance of Batterymouth: It Burns at 7:30pm at the de Maat Theatre at Piper’s Alley in good old Chicago, Illinois.

Oh, and if you want to follow us on Twitter, we’re @batterymouth. Happy tweeting!

Week Three with Wildcard

31

Jan

2011

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Week two of Batterymouth: It Burns has come and gone and it was another fun show. Our suggestion was “starburst” and we spent thirty minutes with two nerdy twenty-somethings who didn’t have a whole lot going for themselves other than a crappy job at Blockbuster, a comic book about witches and their friendship with each other. They definitely fell into the “likable losers” category.

Going back to week one of the run, Chicago Theater Blog reviewed the show and had this to say:

“Batterymouth’s new long-form improv show at Second City’s de Maat Theatre is definitely in the top percentile of the dozens—or is it hundreds—of improv shows going on around town.”

We’ll take that. Check out the full review.

We’re now on to week three of our run. This week our opening act is Wildcard, which features local improvisers Rachel LaForce, Nick Paul, Brandon Reich, Joey Scavuzzo, Casey Whitaker and Greg Worsley. It should be a fun night of improv this Friday. Don’t miss it!

Awkward Spaceship – The Weather

30

Jan

2011

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Looking for a YouTube video to watch? Check out Awkward Spaceship‘s The Weather.

It’s a video I made with my friends Darren Stephens from Best Church of God and Zoran Gvojic from Low Carb Comedy and Long Pork.

I had a lot of fun working with these guys and I think it shows in the video. Enjoy!