audition sign in form for ‘The Office’ - 11/06/03
I made a podcast. I forgot to make it an hour of people interviewing each other and telling everyone about themselves and why they are right about everything. Instead I made it 16 minutes of nonsense. Click link below. Hope you enjoy. Best if paired with some PURPLE KUSH!!!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nick-vatterott/id627663807?mt=2
Twenty-two years ago tonight, Nirvana debuted an in-progress song called “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at the OK Hotel in Seattle. “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song,” Kurt Cobain told us in 1993. Click through to watch the gritty first performance of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
The sun sets just in time for some dark comedy. The #Jeselnik Offensive starts tonight at 10:30/9:30c.
One of the best, longest running bits currently on late night is Matt Damon getting bumped on Jimmy Kimmel Live. However, long before that, veteran comedy writer and host of Showtime’s Inside Comedy David Steinberg was rescheduled 5 times in a row on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Fortunately, he went on to do the show dozens of times afterwards. Watch the story on Kimmel now.
Last night’s Improvised Shakespeare Company show in New York had a special guest: Patrick Stewart. He’d never improvised with the group before—wherein a handful of guys creates a spontaneous play in the style of William Shakespeare—and I have a feeling he had absolutely no idea what he was…
A Review of “A Field Guide To Hecklers”
Recently on a snowy Saturday night, I curled up with a blanket, heated up some Earl Grey, and read the play “A Field Guide To Hecklers” which provocatively debates the positive side of heckling in stand-up comedy. This one act on-line…
I don’t envy what Patton Oswalt had to do at one of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen. It was in 2007 at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago. The line-up began with a young John Mulaney, Janeane Garofalo, and closed with an unbelievable set by Patton Oswalt, paired with Janeane I assume to…