YOU GET A SPOON! with Gideon Irving, Mark Doss, and Bianca Giaever

What a fantastic show last night! We had music, film, poetry, and plenty of prizes. Mark Doss taught us about the best mango juice in the US (Mira brand), Gideon Irving crafted a little paper bird that flew away with all our troubles, and Bianca Giaever shared some tips for dealing with heartbreak. All in all, a big success! 

Here's what everyone recommended:

Gideon Irving and Hubcap Sloan singing about safewords

Gideon Irving, musician, storyteller, and troubadour

mynameisgideon.com

Gideon recommends: 
1) Beef Jerky from New Beef King in Chinatown
2) Bird suit flying
3) Nose flutes

Spoken word from Mark Doss

Mark Doss, spoken word poet and human rights lawyer

urbanjustice.org

Mark recommends: 

1) Toledo, Ohio (the physical place) and JUPMODE (to rep it)
2) Mira brand mango juice
3) Da Vinci 15" Inlaid Wood Backgammon Game Set

Bright lights on filmmaker Bianca Giaever

Bianca Giaever, filmmaker and radio producer

biancagiaever.com

1) “This Is How You Lose Them” a zine
2) Ganges river water to drink right before you die
3) A “something”

Come see the show in person at Under St Marks on the Third Sunday of every month at 7 p.m. 

3 Things: Fun Home, Kim Kardashian on WWDTM, and Copypainters

Hi friends,

If you're new to these emails, welcome! Every Saturday, I send out a short email with three great things. I've also got some of my upcoming shows featured below. If you know anyone who you think would enjoy this, feel free to spread the word! They can sign up here or to see the archive of past emails, click here.

SHOW UPDATE:  

I'm currently sitting on the train to Boston, enjoying a welcome break from my typical experiences on the BoltBus. Tonight, I'm hosting FeastMass, a community dinner party and show where artists/community groups propose new projects. I've been going for years and it's always amazing and inspiring (plus the food is really really good). There may still be a few spaces available! Check online here

Tomorrow (Sunday), I'm back in NYC to host and give away audience prizes at YOU GET A SPOON! featuring work/prizes from Gideon Irving, Bianca Giaever, and Mark Doss. Guaranteed to be the most positive way to spend a Sunday night in Manhattan. Tickets here

No matter where you live, today at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 9 p.m. WBUR will be airing the "Forensic Archaeology" episode of You're the Expert. Tune in at 90.9 FM or stream the show live on WBUR's website. If you really want to be a superstar, fill out this online surveyand tell WBUR you love the show!

Ok, on to this week's list!
 

1 Thing I Think Is Great:

I didn't expect that one of my favorite live performances of the year was going to be a musical about a butch lesbian growing up in a Pennsylvania funeral home. But there you go. For my mom's birthday, Mollie and I took her to FUN HOME on Broadway. If you're not familiar, it's a musical based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. I can't say that I really knew anything about Bechdel or the show before we went (other than that she invented the Bechdel Test). I was blown away by how good it was. It's an amazing experience and also a great example of how important it is to get new diverse voices in the arts. I'd never seen anything like it before. The great part about FUN HOME is that even if you can't make it to the show live on Broadway, you can read the novel.  Here's a video about FUN HOME's Journey to Broadway.

1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:

Kim Kardashian was a guest on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me this week and NPR fans lost their minds. Reading the hilarious rage that filled people when they learned Kardashian was going to be on the show, I could not stop laughing. Also, to be honest, I thought she was kind of great. She was funny and self-deprecating. I really enjoyed her segment. For me, the weirdest part of the show was that it wasn't Peter Sagal's voice as the host... Kim Kardashian Appears on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, NPR Fans Go Postal
 

1 Interesting Thing:

Dafen, China is known for its master artists. A village of painters who are incredibly skilled at classical techniques using oil paints. But rather than work on their own art, these men painstakingly recreate famous works and then sell the copies. Makeshift Magazineproduced this fascinating short video on the artists and their community. China's Copypainting Village

Ok, thanks for reading! More details on shows and my full schedule online atwww.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/

Have a great weekend,
Chris

3 Things: All Things Considered, Simply Unemployable, and Hostage Camp

Hi friends,

If you're new to these emails, welcome! Every Saturday, I send out a short email with three great things. I've also got some of my upcoming shows featured below. If you know anyone who you think would enjoy this, feel free to spread the word! They can sign up here or to see the archive of past emails, click here.

SHOW UPDATE:  

Today at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 9 p.m. WBUR will be airing the "Bacteria of the NYC Subway System" episode of You're the Expert. Tune in at 90.9 FM or stream the show live on WBUR's website. 

I'll also be doing live shows in DC, NYC, and Boston this week:

-DC: June 17 A special live You're the Expert all about the neuroscience of laughter and hiccups at the DC Improv. Details/Tix
-Boston: June 20 I'm hosting FeastMass, an amazing dinner party and community arts celebration. Details here
-NYC: June 21's YOU GET A SPOON! features music from Gideon Irving, poems from Mark Doss, and of course, tons of awesome Oprah-style prizes. Details/Tix

Ok, on to this week's list!
 

1 Thing I Think Is Great:

I try to only rarely put myself on these lists but this week I got to be a guest on WBUR's AllThings Considered, which was a public radio nerd's dream come true. They interviewed me about the on-air debut of You're the Expert and I got to play a few clips from the show. Now all that's left on my bucket list is meet Lakshmi Singh and have Ira Glass use a clip of my voice to make fun of Torey Malatia. All Things Considered: You're the Expert's debut

1 Thing That Made Me Laugh:

Richie Moriarty and Matt Catanzano are an improv group called Simply Unemployable. Their live shows are some of my favorite comedy shows around. They're so consistently hilarious and both are just great guys. Every once in a while, they'll put out a gem of a video as well. They're the masters of a simple premise taken to just an absurd extreme, like when they got obsessed with the weird noises they use in movie trailers. Their latest video is a send-up of the very dumb names you see on menu items nowadays. Get ready for the most spectacular cheese puns you'll ever hear: Mac and Cheese Food Truck
 

1 Interesting Thing:

Hostage Camp is either the most important survival course a person will ever take or a scam designed to fleece paranoid nutjobs out of a couple thousand bucks. It's not at all clear to me which is true. Either way, this story by Mitch Moxley (fantastic name) for Roads & Kingdoms is a must-read. British Army Veterans, insane Floridians, waterboarding, and ransoms left in malls: it's everything you'd want in a weekend. Hostage Camp

Ok, thanks for reading! More details on shows and my full schedule online atwww.chrisduffycomedy.com/calendar/

Have a great weekend,
Chris