Happy Saturday,
This week's email is full of festive vibes because I'm already deep into Holiday Season™. Personally, I love Thanksgiving the most, where you're expected to do nothing more than eat a full dinner, followed immediately by another full meal of pumpkin pie. (People do eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving right? This isn't like a few weeks back when I said pumpkin pie was a Halloween tradition and everyone said "No, Chris. We just carve scary faces into the pumpkins, fill them with fire, and throw them away. We would never eat them.")
While people often say Los Angeles doesn't have seasons, I've been discovering that that's not really true. There's a noticeable shift into Fall happening here. It rained this week, for the first time since I moved here. I was so happy to see rain that I sat with my hand pressed up against the front window watching it come down. That is, until our mailperson came by. She was clearly startled by me in the window. Especially since it looked like I was auditioning for a role in an antidepressant commercial. But it was beautiful nonetheless.
Upcoming Shows
LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, January 15th at 7 pm at the Lyric-Hyperion. Matt Porter and I are starting a monthly multimedia comedy show called HOMEWORK. LA's funniest people perform and share the projects they've been working on at home. We'll announce the lineup and more details in the coming weeks, but tickets just went on sale. Link
NEW YORK
Friday, February 7th and Saturday, February 8th. I'm going to be back in NYC workshopping a stage show about the science of how to stay in love with the All For One theater company. Details and tickets will be announced in a few weeks, but mark your calendars!
This week’s list
GREAT:
The night after Halloween, several houses in my neighborhood had Christmas lights up. I don't know when the right time for Christmas decorations is, but I feel like November 1st isn't it. That's exactly what drove Loudon Wainwright III to write this hilarious holiday classic: Suddenly It's Christmas. I've always loved his music but I feel like he doesn't get enough appreciation for how funny he is too. The whole album Career Moves is packed full of beautiful songs with genuinely funny lyrics.
FUNNY:
Demi Adejuyigbe creates comedy out of the most unusual places. He's a writer for The Good Place, host of the Gilmore Guys and Pump Up The Jams podcasts, and extremely goofy in the best possible way. Just watch his over-the-top celebration of the date (September 21) mentioned in Earth, Wind, and Fire's "September." 9/21 (and here are past years' videos). He also wrote lyrics to the Succession theme song, which are perfect. And those are just the tip of the iceberg. Demi Adejuyigbe
INTERESTING:
As I head back to NYC for Thanksgiving with my family, there is nothing more New York than an in-depth investigation of the Park Slope Food Co-op in The New Yorker. Alexandra Schwartz risks her reputation (and her co-op membership) by reporting on "produce and politics at the legendary Park Slope Food Co-op." Alex is a great writer and I sincerely think the co-op should adopt this sentence from her story as their new slogan "The place runs on sweat equity: your blood for bread, your labor for lox." Bounty Hunters
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Have a great week,
Chris