8:58am I took like an hour nap and woke up in time to see Fat Penguin perform an awesome mono scene about john edwards, very nice job. Kromf Breakfast prep beginning.

10:30am Walked back over from Urban Stages, left Kromf to see “Hot For Gym Teacher,” which had two people from my improv classes from last two summers, Tim De La Motte was not there though, Brandon did an awesome job though, and I stayed to see “Bad Luck Rising presents ‘The Hot Board’” because Matt Fried was in the cast, he of course did not make an appearance which made for two shows in a row with people I came to see who did not show up to perform. Officially settled into the UCB Theater for the rest of the marathon and now have the power squid plugged in on the side, not sure how long till someone notices and the reaction, I can now be a little more verbose in my blogging, and will be adding more to the official timeline of the show that I did not have to time to blog about at the time due to circumstances

11:00am Moonshine is on and the suggestion is polygamy.

11:30am Moonshine ended, lots of great performances, Ben was hilarious, but his sister Amy was probably the least shy improvisor of the group, the girl did not hesistate to join a scene or walk out to start one, she did a great job as well so it worked.

1:55 Cheetarah Performing, Jeff Hiller’s mind visibly blown.

5:50 Scheer McBrayer is always awesome!

7:30 Scored a Front Row seat to Asscat, totally pumped.

12:00am walked back to UCBT and seth and Edd puppet show was replaced by Walsh and Glaser, kinda was looking forward to puppets…

2:27am Eric Appell’s pet cockroach “Hercules” scuttled past my foot, no, really.

3:45am Hot Sauce and derrick were ducking amazing as usual.

8:34am gonna take a nap in the ucbt, sorry groups!

11:45am I was feeling lost and lonely not sure if this year’s DCM could be the best, but queefer sutherland and veal rejuvinated and lifted my spirits. Veal sung this great opening song that I can’t get out of my head, “4,3,2,1… Is anybody out there!?”

1:00pm Just saw Start Trekkin’ and it exceeded all my expectations. I left the theater so I could wait and thank them for helping out during comic con, they actually didn’t know about the DCM until I sent the email suggesting that they should perform at the DCM because they would fit right in.

2:50pm just saw whistling shrimp. It was so-so. Taking a break between shows.

5:45pm sitting on line with some pad thai waiting for improvised shakespear and everything else, one major item I forgot to bring, sunblock, it’s crazy ducking sunny…

6:00pm UCB Theater had a huge line so I walked to Urban Stages and this theater is very nice and has half the line Ucbt has, now I’m seated and waiting for the show to start

6:30pm Police Chief Rumble performed and had a great Christmas special

"Excuse me, I have to put this ladder here..."

7:00pm Mantzoukas Brothers train with no rope, and have some 9/11 memorabilia, “you didn’t try to undrown him!”

"If you point one more time at the fucking movie screen, I will fucking kill you..."

8:00pm Tracers performed an awesome time travel mono scene at the school which included Charlie Todd as the heiress to the Frito Lay.

8:10pm waiting on line outside the UCB will definitely be missing satellites, oh well…

9:00pm Finished seeing stepfathers, oh my god it was crazy, highlight of the show was the actua physicall fight that broke out btw Gethard and shannon that went on during the whole show (photos later) now im getting dinner.

10:00pm finished watching the signatures, Christ themed restaurants and a very cute redhead on the team, very nice job overall.

10:50pm Bangs put on a fun show that included secret shopper jean-bel-jean.

11:10pm I was honestly not a fan of tucker max, the asides felt very unnatural and forced, so sorry

1. Myself (I’m really tired already, so give me a break, I know this isn’t funny)
2. Laptop (To live blog this whole thing, or attempt to do so)
3. iPhone (To live blog when my laptop is too awkward, noticeable, and rude to have out and it would be easier to do it stealthier)
4. Canon 40d with 50mm 1.8 f-stop lens and other camera equipment (To photograph as much as possible)
5. Flip Video Camera and batteries (Perhaps I can manage some on the street interviews or record some of the crazier morning shows)
6. iPod, Headphones, and DS lite (For all the times I’ll be waiting on line at any of the theaters)
7. Water Bottle
8. Deodorant (I’ll be smelling very “earthy” after not going home for 2 nights straight)
9. Every possible charger for every piece of tech I’m bringing and my power squid power strip (I’ve had to steal power from the UCB theater a couple of times I’ve gone to the DCM because eventually after the 1st day your equipment will lose there charge, and this year i’m going to be considerate and not try and hog an outlet)
10. Tiny flashlight (for getting around the theater easily and for also just getting around outside in the dark at 3am)
11. Regular Medication, Visine, and Advil (first time I tried to stay for all three days I got horrible headaches and had incredibly dry eyes even before Krompf’s considerate cooking, let’s try and avoid that this time, shall we?)

This has to be my fastest Podcast ever, recorded/edited/put up in a period of one Wedneday night. This special Podcast Episode features a special guest also! That guest is John Robert Wilson of the improv groups Thank You, Robot and The Spin; John can also be seen as the wrestler hatfield in the UCBW.

This is a very very very very late podcast, Chris and I recorded this the night before the iPhone release just so you know how truly dated this podcast is.

What is on this show:

Soce Featured on the Apiary

Kristen Schaal Kills Australia, Wins Top Prize at Melbourne Comedy Festival

Plug-A-Podcast: Improvisors and their Podcasts

Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival

10th Annual Del Close Marathon August 8-10 2008

Paul Sills, a founder of Second City, dies at 80

The New UCB Theater Harold Team Line-Ups For 2008

And find out about the fight of the century between Chris Camp and some Douchebag (Image reenacted)

It might not be that hard with the wordpress iPhone app that I’ve downloaded and used for this post, it’s very nice…

“Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains…” – Reuters

Dave Hill: Jedi Master – Dave Hill

Events

10th Annual Del Close Marathon August 8-10 2008

Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival

Paul Sills, a founder of Second City, dies at 80

Soce Featured on the Apiary

Amy Poehler Takes Viral Marketing Very Seriously

Kristen Schaal Kills Australia, Wins Top Prize at Melbourne Comedy Festival

GTA4 Makes With The Funny

Gamers debated which comedians should be in the game

Ricky Gervais performance at GTA IV’s Split Sides

Katt Williams performs in GTA 4

Lazlow talks about writing the game’s comedy

GTA’s talk radio station WKTT

Thanks to Ben at the Improvoker blog for pointing out of this piece of information in his blog post “The UCB Theatre Announces New Harold Teams”

“The biggest news is the reshuffling of 1985 and the remaining members of fwänd into two separate groups – The Law Firm and Amazon Tusk. I think it also bears pointing out that UCB has granted one of our biggest requests of a mostly female group Sensual Ha, which from outward appearances looks pretty incredible. Sensual Ha also features Pat Baer, the longtime tech and dude in charge for keeping things running at the Theater. Returning faces of Eddie Dunn, Nate Lang, Brian Berrebbi, and the incomparable Jeff Hiller are a welcome addition back. Bastian and Decoster are the only two teams unaffected by the reshuffling.” – Ben Whitehouse, The Improvoker

Check below for the lineup…

ALIEN MELODY (starter name)

• EMILY AXFORD
• PATRICK CLAIR
• ERIK DIES
• JILL DONNELLY
• BRIAN GLIDEWELL
• MORGAN JARRETT
• WINSTON NOEL
• BEN RAMEAKA

AMAZON TUSK (starter name)

• EDDIE DUNN
• Birch Harms
• Jeff Hiller
• Kevin Hines
• Porter Mason
• Risa Sang-urai
• Betsy Stover
• Erik Tanouye

BASTIAN

• Brian Barrett
• Maggie Carey
• Adam Frucci
• Brandon Gardner
• Lydia Hensler
• Molly Lloyd
• Oscar Magallanes
• John Murray

DECOSTER

• Eric Bernat
• Kirk Damato
• Matt DeCoster
• Ryan Karels
• Pam Murphy
• Megan Neuringer
• DC Pierson
• Ari Voukydis

HUNKY RABIES (starter name)

• BRIAN BERREBBI
• Sean Clements
• Devlyn Corrigan
• Brian Faas
• John Frusciante
• Jon Gutierrez
• Ben Schwartz
• Nate Smith

THE LAW FIRM

• Dominic Dierkes
• Jon Gabrus
• Sue Galloway
• NATE LANG
• Gil Ozeri
• Adam Pally
• Ben Rodgers
• Gavin Speiller

SENSUAL HA (starter name)

• Jenn Bartels
• PAT BAER
• Chelsea Clarke
• Fran Gillespie
• Tricia McAlpin
• Amber Petty
• Craig Rowin
• Mike Still

SIR THERMOS (starter name)

• COREY BROWN
• PAUL DOWNS
• Matt Fisher
• DAN GUREWITCH
• Violet Krumbein
• Aubrey Plaza
• Dave Siegel
• Achilles Stamatelaky