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Good Good Comedy Theatre is celebrating its one-year anniversary all week, culminating in one massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

It’s Day 4, and we’ve asked four more Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about the funniest, weirdest, and dumbest stuff they’ve seen during our first year of over 800 shows – from the stage and from the audience.

Max Barth
(Party Lines, Darlings)

Pivotal moments for me from Good Good’s first year:

1. Election Night – I was on stage when we found out Trump had won, co-hosting Party Lines with Joe Messina. To go through such a huge (and awful) event with a live audience was interesting. And we still had a lot of laughs. The “Hillary Won” dance was a bit odd, in retrospect.

Party Lines panel guests Alex Grubard, Abby Rosenquist and Setoiyo join hosts Joe Messina & Max Barth on Election Night 2016. Things got progressively more surreal as the night went on.

2. Any green room conversation – recently, seeing Tommy Touhill dressed in a hospital gown, about to go on stage. I asked him if he planned on having his ass out during the show, to which he replied, “No, I need somewhere to put the gun.”

3. Performing on The Slam was awesome. Such a good example of the kind of unique shows Good Good is known for – blending poetry and comedy. Plus, I got to wear my cowboy costume and use the word “palomino” which has been a personal goal for years.

4. The Show for Tim was beautiful.

5. When Eddie Finn and I co-hosted a special Tinder Show holiday edition with Kate Banford, Alex Grubard and Pete Steele as the guests. Just a great show that stands out to me – full audience and hilarious comics that I’ve known for years. It felt like hanging out with friends.

6. Getting to do Geoff Jackson’s Schooled and tell the extremely embarrassing story of my brief career as a political pamphleteer at my high school.

Geoff Jackson hosts Schooled, a show of true tales from the classroom.

7. Performing on Today I Learned, when Ari Fishbein and I went to an hour-and-a-half session of couple’s therapy and made up an entire life together and then talked about it on stage. Half of my favorite Good Good moments are just when I have an excuse to hang out with people I’ve admired from afar. And now I can admire Ari from aclose because we are friends.

Favorite things I’ve seen lately: Michael S. Watkins’ bit The Cube, and Caitlin Feeney improvising that her goal when she returned home from the war was to take a giant shit and fall asleep next to it. I was on stage next to her and I could barely keep it together. Both of these were on Darlings.

Another point worth mentioning is just the joy in walking down a hallway that I helped paint when the theater was being built. I remember calling it the “comedy co-op” and I’m just so happy with how it’s grown and how so many talented people keep making it better and better.

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Alejandro Morales
(Eat Your Beats, Sadulous)

My favorite moment of comedy this year was watching LeMaire Lee try (and fail) to make a live apology over speakerphone on Coward Hour. In the beginning, it was uncomfortable and cringe-y, because LeMaire clearly didn’t want to say the words “I’m sorry.” But when the woman on the other end of the line started laying into him, the room went wild. She dragged him hard and the audience was living for her. I’ve never laughed so hard.

Comedians face their emotional fears on Coward Hour.

One of my favorite memories of performing at Good Good was in the closing scene for Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s night of short plays. In that scene, I play the husband to Rose Luardo, who hits me with a whip, digs a high heel into my back, and says “YOU’RE MY DOG, APPLESAUCE.”  She really brutalized me. I loved it.

Alejandro Morales takes a whipping from Rose Luardo on Andrew Jeffrey Playwright.

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Reem Seliem
(Good Morning, New Miami)

I don’t cry-laugh often, but when I do it’s at Kate Banford’s Talkmasters. My favorite speech I’ve seen is Raquel Dominguez’s presentation about her cats. But the thing I love most about the show is how a group of comedians write a speech for a stranger selected from the crowd at the top of the show, who in turn must read the speech to close out the show – followed by their own personal theme song composed by the very talented Daniel Lewis Cupps. The fact that the song is composed backstage in roughly 40 minutes only enhances its brilliance. Oh, speaking of amazing, lest we forget, Kate Banford – the immensely talented showrunner – always knows the best way to hype up a crowd.

An audience member performs a custom-written speech she’s never seen on Talkmasters.

As for my experience at Good Good, I would have to say the most fun I’ve had performing (outside of my own show Good Morning New Miami) was on Hannah Trav’s Best Show In Town. I love a show with a wacky premise, and Hannah’s is one of the silliest. Trav’s faux open-mic show is set in the fictional town of Watunuck, Rhode Island. I was one of the town’s open-mic performers – Abby Affleck, sister of Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck. Abby was a really fun character to write and perform because I finally got to talk with a husky voice in a fisherman’s outfit. I reminisced about my romance with sworn Affleck enemy Donnie Wahlberg, and how we used to piss down Beacon Hill and give tourists the old “boston pop” (it’s when you wear your shoes on your hands and punch someone in the face). I miss Abby every day. Maybe I’ll bring her back. Hopefully the hilarious Hannah will have me on again some time in the future. Hint. Wink. Hannah. Nudge.

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John Deary
(Make Up or Break Up)

Whenever I try to sell Good Good to people there are so many shows I namedrop or memories I share. The first shows I recommend are Weeding Out The Stoned, Comedian Psychoanalysis, Let’s Start a Cult, and my all-time favorite, Eat Your Beats. I often find myself in tears over the outrageous characters, genuinely impressive rapping, and non-stop quick-witted comedy. I always leave with a newfound respect for my competing comedy peers when they deliver quality improvised comedy under fast-paced, competitive circumstances.

The competitors prepare for culinary freestyle battle on Eat Your Beats.

I’ve also had tons amazing experiences as a performer at Good Good. What I appreciate most about the theater is that I’ve really been challenged to step out of my comfort zone. I got into comedy as a stand-up and never thought I’d get involved in things like hosting the game show Make Up or Break Up, rapping and improvising in character, having an on-stage tickle wrestling match or smashing a TV with a baseball bat.

Relationships are put to the test on Make Up or Break Up.

My overall favorite memory was probably Make Up or Break Up’s one year anniversary show. We got to invite our favorite couples back and celebrate with our biggest show to date. We had a sold-out crowd – the warmest audience imaginable. I don’t think there was a beat on that show that didn’t score a huge laugh. I started to panic a third of the way into the show when I thought to myself, “There’s no way we can keep this momentum going,” but somehow we did. Not to mention, I got to roast my amazing co-host Alyssa Al-Dookhi and I actually made her break on stage and won (albeit some of that may have been pity). I’m really proud of the show that Make Up or Break Up has become and I never would have been able to do it, or even thought to have done it, without Good Good.

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Come back in 24 hours for more hot faves from Good Good’s first year, and don’t forget to grab your tickets to Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

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Wright, Baker, Vetrano & Taylor on Good Good’s One Year Anniversary https://goodgoodcomedy.com/anniversaryblog3/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:52:20 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=15589 The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is this week, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler. It’s Day 3 of our Good Good Anniversary coverage, in which we asked Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about the funniest, […]

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The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is this week, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

It’s Day 3 of our Good Good Anniversary coverage, in which we asked Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about the funniest, weirdest, and dumbest stuff they’ve seen during our first year of over 800 shows – from the stage and from the audience.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright
(The New Dreamz, Darlings)

20 years ago, some friends and I started an art space in Chinatown called Space 1026. It is an art club house that has studios and a gallery and I spend a lot of time there.

Then, 19 years later, some friends of mine started a comedy theater around the corner called Good Good Comedy Theatre. In one year, Good Good has become as important to me and my life as Space 1026 is. It’s another club house for weirdo goofball artists to get together and make stuff and present it to the public. There is no other comedy spot in Philly like Good Good Comedy. Since Good Good opened its doors, my stage time has quadrippled!

The cast of Andrew Jeffrey Playwright poses after one of two sold-out shows.

My favorite thing I have created for the Good Good stage is a show of my short plays called Andrew Jeffrey Playwright. There are 27 shows that are my favorite thing I have seen performed on the Good Good stage in the last year. One of them is Michael S. Watkins’ Good Good Hour.

I have performed at a lot of New York City venues and have seen a lot of shows in New York and I feel it is accurate to say – the best comedy theater in New York is in Philadelphia and it’s called Good Good Comedy Theatre.

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Amanda Taylor
(FEUD)

Good Good Comedy Theatre is the best place to see live comedy in the city! I feel lucky to have found people running a theater who value originality and talent in the same way I do. I’ve been caught off-guard – at times totally blown away – by the stand-up acts I’ve seen at Good Good. Dare to Dream // Dare to Cream was a loose, mostly standup comedy show with three ladies so profoundly funny they could’ve slapped me in the face after and I’d still have thanked them.

By producing shows with so few limitations, showrunners can figure out the best way to demonstrate their point-of-view for audiences, and it always works. Lake Homo High was a scripted show from out-of-town that was everything I wanted in live comedy! The performers were charismatic and vulnerable, the plot was ridiculous, and the comedy pulled from all the melodramatic ABC Family shows I’d despised for their lack of self-awareness as a kid.

The case of Lake Homo High flashes forward on their sold-out Philly debut.

I was grateful to perform on the show Dungeon Palz, which is a really awesome show just to watch. But looking back, it was the most fun I’ve had improvising, or even just meeting new people, any night of my life. It’s been a wonderful year!

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Dan Vetrano
(Get Work, Darlings, Dan & Chris)

As a performer, Sadulous was so great to be a part of. The show played out as a live sitcom, which isn’t something you get to do too often. Each performer brought a really strong character to bounce off of Alejandro Morales (the creator/star) and they all killed it. The whole thing was so tightly scripted and hilarious that I really could watch it again and again without getting bored.

Tommy Touhill & Dan Vetrano stop by Alejandro’s apartment to cheer him up on Sadulous.

I’m also so grateful that Good Good gave Chris McGrail and I a space to do our weird, crazy sketch shows with insanely long titles that barely fit on a poster.

As an audience member, I really loved Kait & Jess & Friends. It was an amazing sketch show with a bunch of people who used to perform in Philly but have moved to LA and NYC. It felt like a hilarious reunion. I think that’s something that embodies the spirit of Good Good. They’re pulling talent from all over the country, including locally, into a cozy intimate space. Every performance feels special.

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Jacquie Baker
(The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie, One Minute Monologues)

My favorite show that I’ve seen and performed in over the past year was Andrew Jeffrey Playwright. If you don’t know Andrew Jeffrey Wright, he’s an insanely brilliant Philly artist (see: the Good Good logo) who loves three things: Garfield, butts, and Garfield’s butt. Andrew wrote a series of bizarre, hilarious short plays and then cast his friends in all of the roles – some of whom never even acted before. When I wasn’t acting the show, I ran from backstage and watched the show by the tech booth. Matt Schmid and Pim did a scene about bad improv that was the funniest thing I may have ever watched and watching them and watching Aaron Nevins (who was doing tech) watch them was a friggin’ treat.

I had the distinct honor of playing Andrew in a montage of really cringe-y, really funny scenes about the years that he was single. While I played Andrew, I watched Andrew watch me playing him, which was the closest I’ll ever be to being in that one Chemical Brothers music video with all of those mirrors. You know that video? With the mirrors and shit? Anyway, this play about how godawful Andrew is at dating weirdly wooed Andrew’s future girlfriend who was in the audience, and they’ve been dating ever since! I’ve petitioned the City of Philadelphia to dump the Rocky statue in the Schuykill River and replace it with a statue of Andrew, because fuck Rocky. This underdog shit is REAL.

Jacquie Baker plays a thinly-veiled Andrew Jeffrey Wright in a play on Andrew Jeffrey Playwright.

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Meet us right here on the internet tomorrow for more choice selections from Good Good’s first year, and don’t forget to grab your tickets to Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

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Steele, Paradis, Jackson & Aukamp on Good Good’s One Year Anniversary https://goodgoodcomedy.com/anniversaryblog2/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:43:56 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=15563 The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is coming this month, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler. Today begins Day 2 of our Good Good Anniversary coverage, in which we asked Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us […]

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The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is coming this month, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

Today begins Day 2 of our Good Good Anniversary coverage, in which we asked Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about the funniest, weirdest, and dumbest stuff they’ve seen during our first year of over 800 shows – from the stage and from the audience.

Pete Steele
(Ur Mom Is Funny, Darlings)

Favorite things I’ve seen: I’ve just about melted into my chair from ecstasy at Sex with Ecks, Let’s Start a Cult, Sadie Hawkins Day, and a bunch of others. But, if I had to choose the production I was most impressed with, it would be The New David Mamet Play. They extracted info from the audience and seamlessly layered it into a fairly complex improvised play. It was paced so well, it felt like it was living and breathing. They switched back and forth between the roles of actors and presenters very deftly, like they’d been doing it their whole life. I was mesmerized. And, most importantly, it was funny as shiiiiit.

Favorite thing I’ve done: I’ve definitely had fun on a lot of shows over the past year. But I think the show I did with Michael S. Watkins called Pickup Artists might have been the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. We created these sleazy, dumb characters, wrote about an hour’s worth of a seminar they’d give about the pick-up “game,” and then just tried to be as loose and reactive to each other as we could be when we got on stage, which led to a big ol’ funny slop-fest. You can’t ask for a funnier person to do comedy with than Michael. You just want to keep going, making up as much dumb shit as you can when you’re on stage with him. It was a lovely experience.

Michael S. Watkins & Pete Steele as pickup artists Xclusive & Appeal on the sold-out Five Dollar Comedy Week premiere of Pickup Artists.

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Annie Paradis
(The Slam)

Damn, it is truly blessed that Good Good Comedy Theatre came to be and has made such a lovely hideaway in quaint Philadelphia.

Every out-of town show I saw at Good Good has wowed me – Three Busy Debras, Cole Escola, Famous Male Duo – most recently Dare To Dream // Dare to Cream. As a ~ female in comedy ~ it was thrilling to see three talented, smart, insanely quick women make a show that seemed to be so very them. I laughed like a fat baby in the sun.

Jamie Loftus performs on Dare To Dream // Dare To Cream, a touring show that also featured Chicago’s Sarah Squirm & NYC’S Ruby McCollister.

My most favorite monthly show at Good Good is forever Comedian Psychoanalysis. I like watching the stand-ups get broken down emotionally. What else has made me laugh at Good Good? Doing stand-up as The Town Dad on Best Show in Town. It was truly rewarding and exhilirating to wear a no-nonsense women’s wig, some beige AF plaid and roast The Town Bridge.

Hosts Joe Bell & Michael S. Watkins, accompanied by resident therapist Katie, attempt to convince Caitlin Feeney to quit comedy.

You know, they say in improv that everything is a gift, but you know what I say: in Chinatown, Good Good is a gift. Blessed be the fruit of Good Good.

Cole Escola channels an audience member’s dead grandmother in one of two sold-out performances of his show Help! I’m Stuck!

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Matt Aukamp
(Dungeon Palz)

I’m really bad at remembering details. Quotes from movies. Episodes of TV shows. And so, when I was trying to think about my favorite things I’ve seen and done at Good Good Comedy Theatre this past year, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to write anything good.

I remember seeing comedy legend Dino Stamatopoulos play an unexpectedly sincere set of Christmas songs on that stage, but I don’t remember any of the songs – just that I walked away going “Holy cow! That was weird and cool.’”

Comedy legend Dino Stamatopoulos (Community, Moral Oral, Mr. Show) debuts a set of brand new secular Christmas songs on a last-minute, sold-out show at Good Good Comedy Theatre.

I remember how much fun I had being on Emily Kinslow’s show Magic Mic during Five Dollar Comedy Week, which had a truly inspired concept: an open mic for magicians instead of comedians that she populated with comedians pretending to be magicians. With one rule: You had to at least TRY to do an actual magic trick. I could remember my character – a guy who went to pull a card out of a lemon and instead pulled out a Dear John letter from his (ex-)girlfriend. But I couldn’t remember much else besides “Everyone was really funny.”

Geoff Jackson aids Matt Aukamp in a magic-trick-gone-wrong on Magic Mic.

I remember seeing Alejandro Morales’s show Sadulous and thinking “This is brilliantly written and assembled” and I remember something about Pim Van H as a delivery guy taking food on and off stage for like 20 minutes.

The cast takes a bow at the end of the Five Dollar Comedy Week premiere of Sadulous.

These were all amazing things I’ve seen on this stage, but my memory doesn’t make for compelling recaps. So instead, I’ll just say: You can do basically anything you want in comedy. There are no rules or guidelines, no matter who tries to tell you there are. The only important thing is that it’s funny. Good Good Comedy Theatre understands and embraces that and has spent the past year proving it.

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Geoff Jackson
(Schooled, Darlings)

The first edition of Jacquie Baker’s One Minute Monologues to be held at the theatre was on a cold and rainy evening. Very nearly sixty funny-funny people were scheduled to deliver swift performances of their own composition. There were so many of us that we couldn’t all fit backstage or in the green room, many ended up waiting in the alley behind the theatre, which is extraordinarily cool. There was an excitement in the air, despite the inclement weather. The show was a hit! Everyone got laughs. When the next edition of the show was staged a few months later, the weather was far more agreeable. Many of the same performers were on that night and we spent a good deal of time in the alley, talking about how cold and rainy it had been last time.

Good Good Comedy Theatre is a magical place and I love it there. You will too.

A crowd of 60 comedians wait in the alley behind the theater to perform on One Minute Monologues.

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Meet us right here on the internet tomorrow for more choice selections from Good Good’s first year, and don’t forget to grab your tickets to Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

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Fishbein, Celley, Grubard & Krick on Good Good’s One Year Anniversary https://goodgoodcomedy.com/anniversaryblog1/ Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:18:59 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=15534 The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is coming up this month, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler. To help commemorate the occasion, we asked some Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about all the funniest, weirdest, […]

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The one-year anniversary of Good Good Comedy Theatre is coming up this month, and we’re celebrating with a massive clusterfuck of a show this Friday, October 13th at 8:30 PM called Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

To help commemorate the occasion, we asked some Good Good showrunners and frequent performers to tell us about all the funniest, weirdest, and dumbest stuff they’ve seen during our first 803 shows – from the stage and from the audience.

Brendan Krick
(Comedy Accompanied, Coward Hour)

The night Good Good Comedy Theatre opened was the first time I felt at home in the Philly comedy scene. I remember walking to the theater for the first time that night, rounding a corner, and seeing an old woman lying on the ground after being hit by a car. I had so much fun during The First Show, I completely forgot about that lady until about a month ago. I hope she’s okay!

One of the hardest times I’ve ever laughed at Good Good was a riffed line by Michael S. Watkins on the closing show from 2016’s Five Dollar Comedy Week. Michael was dressed as an elderly, castrated pick-up artist with scotch tape all over his face. At one point, he claimed to have become a priest. When pressed on what religion he had converted to, he stared off with a deranged spark in his eye and creaked out, “A true priest will never tell.”

Pete Steele & Michael S. Watkins as aging pickup artists on the Five Dollar Comedy Week 30 Year Reunion Special.

The most fun I ever had performing was on Coward Hour, a game show/talk show where LeMaire Lee and I faced our most emotional fears by subjecting each other to challenges like “drink one beer without relapsing.” One time we turned in tech for the show with the explanation, “There’s two versions of the video: one with 9/11 footage and one without.” Aaron Nevins dragged the 9/11 version into the PowerPoint without asking any followup questions. That’s why I love Good Good. Aaron and Kate believe in weird, challenging comedy, and they aren’t afraid to let performers take risks they wouldn’t be permitted to anywhere else.

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Julia Celley
(Darlings, Locked In Julia’s Basement)

I love Good Good Comedy. One of the things I admire most about it is the mish-mash of people it brings together.  Every comedian has something unique to bring to the table. From Chris McGrail’s bloody rage while protecting Coca Cola’s formula on a Dan & Chris show, to how Robert Ecks makes subdued & soft-spoken hilarious on Sex with Ecks, to Joe Bell’s Lin Manuel Miranda-inspired turn as Alexander Ham & Eggs on Eat Your Beats, to Mike Watkins as a British bloke yelling at a metal cube on Darlings, to God’s opening stand-up sets as voiced by Ari Fishbein on Let’s Start a Cult – the shows provide a coherent platform for goofy, absurd characters and scenarios to thrive. No matter the size of a bit you can always count on those involved to put their heart into it, and that sort of dedication and talent is wonderful to work with and witness.

Host Robert Ecks employs some educational tools on Sex With Ecks.

A few of my favorite experiences on stage involve food, as with Aaron Nevins’s secret show Make Me Vegan for FDCW, in which several vegan comedians attempted to convince a panel of us “meat-eaters” to quit meat over our lip-smacking as we feasted on meat right in front of them. The sound of the audience every time I eat Mayo onstage (in Darlings, The Look, & The First Show) is what I want played back to me if I’m lucky enough to be lucid on my deathbed.

LeMaire Lee, Tommy Touhill, Chris McGrail & Julia Celley lay waste to a meat buffet as Joe Messina makes a desperate case for veganism on the secret show Make Me Vegan.

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Ari Fishbein
(Let’s Start A Cult, Darlings)

It was really hard narrowing this down to only a couple of memories because I’ve spent more time at Good Good the last year than I’ve voluntarily spent anywhere in my goddamn life.

Favorite thing I’ve seen: I have to go with Pete Steele and Michael S. Watkins’ Pickup Artists during the first Five Dollar Comedy Week at Good Good. There were long stretches of that show where I was laughing so much I couldn’t breathe. I probably suffered permanent brain damage. It was worth it.

Honorable mentions: Every single Comedian Psychoanalysis and any bit that featured Rose Luardo yelling nonsense at someone.

Rose Luardo is amplified on Performance Review.

Favorite time onstage: I run a show called Let’s Start a Cult, which is essentially a loose monthly “sermon” I deliver to the audience. A few months ago on the show, I found a cabal of YouTube accounts that post hundreds and hundreds of videos of trans camgirls, not doing anything overtly sexual, all under inexplicable titles like “Rodney Dangerfield Jokes” or “Eddie Murphy Ice Cream” or “Seth Meyers Roasts Donald Trump.” It’s cathartic to have an outlet to take strangers down these internet rabbit holes. I can say with confidence that without Good Good, there wouldn’t be anywhere I could talk about stuff like this outside of holding up a cardboard sign on a street corner.

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Alex Grubard
(Weeding Out The Stoned)

I’ve seen a lot of comedy in Philadelphia, but compared to Good Good Comedy Theatre, it’s all just fine-fine.

Once at Get In, John McKeever got ahold of an audience member’s phone (while the kid was literally handcuffed to a performance artist on stage) and left a voicemail for his mom, telling her to pick him up from an orgy. It was unreal, but it totally happened. I’ve seen Mr. Happy Meatball, a vulgar Italian chef played by Tommy Touhill, destroy people who are actually good at freestyling in the rap battle competition Eat Your Beats. I’ve seen stand-ups get cut down instantly by therapists on Comedian Psychoanalysis. Just when you think that Good Good is overflowing with great shows, here comes another one like Darlings, which reminded me of a much rawer, less pandering version of SNL.

John McKeever calls an audience member’s mother while the audience member is literally handcuffed to performance artist Beth Heinly.

I host the show Weeding Out The Stoned and it’s my favorite performance high I’ve had. On April 20th, we sold out two amazing shows. We’re about to have our 50th Weeding Out The Stoned on October 11th, and I can’t even count how many hilarious stoner moments I’ve seen from the stage.

Office Alex Grubard tests contestants’ lung capacity on Weeding Out The Stoned.

It has been a huge treat to get to perform on sold-out, unique, fun shows from New York or LA, like First Comes Love and Dark Spots, at a venue just down the street from my apartment. Sometimes being at Good Good is like hanging out at a television studio run by Weird Al. It’s basically the movie UHF as a dope Philly comedy theater.

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Get your sweet ass back here tomorrow for more anniversary favorites, and don’t forget to grab your tickets to Good Good’s One-Year Anniversary Sampler.

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Q & A: You Had to Be There https://goodgoodcomedy.com/q-a-you-had-to-be-there/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:14:08 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=12649 Tonight at 8:30 PM, take a break from talking to people on the internet to watch comedians talk to people on the internet at You Had to Be There! The show is in town from Omaha and fresh off appearances at the NerdMelt Showroom in LA and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. Here’s a Q&A we conducted […]

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Tonight at 8:30 PM, take a break from talking to people on the internet to watch comedians talk to people on the internet at You Had to Be There! The show is in town from Omaha and fresh off appearances at the NerdMelt Showroom in LA and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
Here’s a Q&A we conducted with host, Ryan De La Garza.
1. What is your show?

You Had to Be There is a live comedy show that features stand up comics and improvisers interacting with random strangers on a webcam chat site. The show is very unpredictable because you never know who you’ll encounter or how the performers will react to them.

2. What do you find so interesting about video chat sites?

I have met so many interesting people with fascinating stories on sites like Omegle and ChatRoulette. Before I turned the concept into a show I would just sit at home drinking wine and meeting new people from around the world on those sites. When I realized how strange and enthralling so many of them were I decided I had to share the interactions with a live audience.

3. How do you react to the numerous naked men you come across?

I honestly thought I’d be used to seeing penises by now, but they always surprise me! I’ve actually had people come up to me after shows and say things like, “It was great, but I was hoping there would be more dicks.” You can’t please everyone.
4. What’s the craziest thing that’s ever happened on your show?

One of the craziest things was when a comedian from Omaha, John Dahlgren, told a one-liner joke about tombstones and the man on the other end reached down, grabbed a tiny box, and said, “Hey, I whittle miniature coffins!” Dahlgren then told a joke about S&M leather and the guy reached down again to pull out a leather whip. “I’m into sadism too!” It was so weird. But the best part was when the guy on camera picked up his webcam to show the audience where he had put a large hole in his wall after having sex a little too intensely. The hole was butt-shaped.

5. What are some things we can expect to see on this Philly edition?

I can’t say exactly what to expect in Philly because every show is completely different!

You Had To Be There is in Philly for one-night only! Get your $5 Tickets to here to see what crazy shit happens TONIGHT!

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Q & A: Sex with Ecks https://goodgoodcomedy.com/q-a-sex-with-ecks/ Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:17:35 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=12611 Tonight at 10 PM, Robert Ecks premieres his show on the “do’s and do’s of doing it” Sex with Ecks! 1. What is your show? Sex with Ecks is an advice show on America’s favorite pastime, sex. The “take old one eye to the optometrist” as I call it. 2. What makes you qualified to discuss […]

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Tonight at 10 PM, Robert Ecks premieres his show on the “do’s and do’s of doing it” Sex with Ecks!

1. What is your show?

Sex with Ecks is an advice show on America’s favorite pastime, sex. The “take old one eye to the optometrist” as I call it.

2. What makes you qualified to discuss sex?

Nothing. I am unqualified. I have been repeatedly advised against this from the Good Good legal staff.

3. So let’s get down to it. Where do babies come from?

Glad you asked! Babies come out of the woman’s “slit” or “gash.”

4. Many people play music while getting their freak on. Do you have a sexytime song?

Pull My Hair by Ying Yang Twins.

5. What’s something you know about sex that you think a lot of people don’t know?

A lot of people don’t know that a woman’s ejaculate (like when she squirts) is actually Propel Fit Water. There are plenty of electrolytes in it which I think we could use more of.

Click here for more of that “old one eye” on tonight’s Sex with Ecks! It’s all at Good Good Comedy Theatre at 215 N. 11th St (11th & Race) in Chinatown.

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5 Facts About Atrios (Party Lines Guest) https://goodgoodcomedy.com/5-facts-about-atrios-tonights-party-lines-guest/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:23:08 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=12516 Tonight at 10 PM, Duncan Black – better know by his pseudonym “Atrios” – joins comedians Max Barth and Joe Messina on the political comedy extravaganza Party Lines. Here are some facts you should know about the popular political blogger. 1. He has 28.2 thousand Twitter followers When he’s not writing about 10 blogs per day on his site […]

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Tonight at 10 PM, Duncan Black – better know by his pseudonym “Atrios” – joins comedians Max Barth and Joe Messina on the political comedy extravaganza Party Lines. Here are some facts you should know about the popular political blogger.

1. He has 28.2 thousand Twitter followers

When he’s not writing about 10 blogs per day on his site Eschaton, Atrios tweets about everything from politics to cheesesteaks. He has the 33rd most popular Twitter account in all of Philadelphia.

2. He inspired a character on The West Wing

A fictional version of Atrios appears in the Season 7 episode Welcome to Wherever You Are, where he is described as having “almost as many readers as The Philadelphia Inquirer.”

3. He’s a former economics professor with a PhD from Brown

Before he started blogging, Atrios worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, and the University of California, Irvine.

4. He made the idea of expanding Social Security acceptable

His trio of columns for USA Today on the subject of Social Security expansion have been credited as heavily influencing national policy conversations around the issue.

5. He forced a Senate Majority Leader to step down

Black’s posts triggered Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senator of Mississippi, to step down after he called out Lott for claiming that the country would be better if it had followed a fellow segregationist.

Click here to get your $5 tickets to Party Lines, tonight at 10 PM. Plus – it’s Free Pizza Tuesday! So your ticket also gets you a free slice of pizza after the show. See you tonight.

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Q & A: Comedian Psychoanalysis https://goodgoodcomedy.com/q-a-with-the-minds-behind-comedian-psychoanalysis/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:39:07 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=12445 Tonight at 8:30, Joe Bell and Michael S. Watkins will return to Good Good Comedy Theatre to host Comedian Psychoanalysis. We sat down with the hosts and picked their brains. 1. Please, please, lay down on this couch. First, tell me about your show. MICHAEL: Our show delves deep into the mind and the spirit of one of […]

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Tonight at 8:30, Joe Bell and Michael S. Watkins will return to Good Good Comedy Theatre to host Comedian Psychoanalysis. We sat down with the hosts and picked their brains.

1. Please, please, lay down on this couch. First, tell me about your show.

MICHAEL: Our show delves deep into the mind and the spirit of one of the most f’d up souls imaginable – the stand-up comedian.

JOE: We have stand-up comedians perform, and our resident therapist Katie will analyze their sets. From there, Michael and I work with the patients to help open them up and convince them to quit stand up comedy forever.

2. Hmm, hmm. Interesting, very  interesting. Now, what is the last dream you can remember?

JOE: What even is a dream? I mean, as far as we know, we are living in a dream right now. This could all be a cosmic dream of some being that we can’t even possibly conceive. And honestly, this reality is crazier than any dream I’ve ever had anyway. Like what is even air? Like you can’t even see it, yet we use it to fill party balloons. It’s like, what even is that?

MICHAEL: Or maybe we’re living in a simulation like the Sims and God is a fat 9-year-old who is trying to improve our vacuum skills.

JOE: I would really suggest for you to open up your mind by injesting a small amount of farm grown mushrooms, entering our sensory deprivation tank just to get a taste of what this reality is actually capable of.

3. [Jotting down notes] Which inkblot do you think best describes your show and why?

a.                                                                 b.                                                            c.

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JOE: You’re asking us to choose which of the three cosmic crabs we think best describes our show?

MICHAEL: B. (representative of wisdom) is the first cosmic crab we saw when we took our very first spiritual journey.

JOE: When I first saw the crab, I asked him if he where we were, and he said nothing because he knew that even if I could hear his answer, I wouldn’t be able to comprehend the meaning behind it.

4. What made you decide to create this show? Your id, perhaps?

JOE: As former stand-up comedians, we have a unique perspective on how screwed up these guys are. I mean, they are SO funny, but in order to be that hilarious you also have to be a little bit sick in the head.

MICHAEL: When we quit comedy to work on ourselves, we realized that our bodies are merely vessels, and that our spirits are eternal. Unfortunately, so many lost souls were left in our wake, never knowing what it’s like to smoke DMT and then see geometric shapes and shit. And this show is an effort for us to save these souls, and give them a chance at true happiness (i.e. geometric shapes).

5. Good. And how long have you been subconsciously fixated on phallic objects like the microphone? What other subconscious fixations will we see at your show?

MICHAEL: The conscious and the subconscious are essentially one for us at this point, so that’s a little difficult for us to answer.

JOE: And to be honest, no offense, but if you were to pull back as far as you could go, and somehow step outside the universe we inhabit, and look at it from the outside, it is the shape of a tube or a “phallic object.”  AND a similar funnel shape if you take a look at a black hole.
So basically, the absence of everything, and everything as we know it, both shaped like my uncle’s penis. Really makes you think. Huh?

Click here to buy tickets for Comedian Psychoanalysis tonight for just $5!

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Phone It In Returns This Friday! https://goodgoodcomedy.com/phone-returns-friday/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:04:05 +0000 https://goodgoodcomedy.com/?p=12424 Do you spend every waking minute capturing stuff on your iPhone? Your camera roll is filled with clips of the time your cat definitely said “bae” or when your best friend Courtney dabbed as she threw back shots of tequila. Now you can take this footage and win $50 at Phone It In, a monthly […]

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Do you spend every waking minute capturing stuff on your iPhone? Your camera roll is filled with clips of the time your cat definitely said “bae” or when your best friend Courtney dabbed as she threw back shots of tequila. Now you can take this footage and win $50 at Phone It In, a monthly film festival of comedy videos shot entirely on phones.

Last Phone It In’s winner was Brendan Krick. Check out Brendan’s short film to see if you have what it takes to win the festival and possibly ruin another favorite childhood movie of mine. (Warning: NSFW)

The video must be under three minutes and shot entirely on a phone. Easy enough, right? Submit by 10 PM the night before the show, invite some friends for the screening and you could even walk away fifty bucks richer. Email submissions to phoneitincomedy@gmail.com.

Or click here to buy tickets for just $5!

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