Join me for a very special show. We're video-taping stand-up to be used in the ANDREW 12-SIDED DICE CLAY series. Plus, I'm recording a few routines for my own digital download. (Which is like a comedy album)
Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay: Nerdy n' Dirty
*** A LIVE TAPING ***
Thursday November 15th @ 8:00pm
UNDER ST. MARKS - 94 St. Marks Place (between 1st Ave and Avenue A)
Here's a video I appeared in for TheFW.com, we went to New York Comic Con and asked if a given name was something from the Star Wars universe or Italian food.
Written by Nick Nadel. Produced by Nick Nadel and Ryan Simmons. Edited by Ryan Simmons.
At New York Comic Con I co-hosted Emmy Laybourne's show POST-APOCALYPSE NOW! Here are trivia questions from the show -- along with a bunch we didn't use. (Scroll to the bottom for the answers)
Q1. What Garbage Pail Kid shares his name with the hero of a post-apocalyptic
trilogy?
Q2. What big-budget post-apocalyptic adventure was completely ignored because it
came out shortly after STAR WARS?
Q3: The dog from A BOY & HIS DOG also appeared on what classic TV sitcom?
Q4.What futuristic novel has been adapted into 6 theatrical films, a TV series, a
Saturday morning cartoon and several comic books?
Goin' to New York Comic Con? Then come to the panel I'm doing called POST-APOCALYPSE NOW! Emmy Laybourne (author of the New York Times Editor's Choice novel, Monument 14) and I will explore the end of the world and the destruction of society in film, TeeVee, cartoon shows and literature.
Saturday October 13th at 1pm
at the Unbound Stage
We'll focus on examples from the past 10 - 12 years, explore why post-apocalyptic stories are so popular these days and how they're being marketed. But if you want to look at older examples, these videos have it covered: (videos appear after the jump)
I became a fan of Mike Edison after reading his wild memoir I HAVE FUN EVERYWHERE I GO: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.
You can imagine how honored I feel to be included in Mike's BANNED BOOK PARTY (which takes place this Friday night.) I'll be talking about an especially dopey bout of pop culture hysteria, I'll do a short slideshow, read from a "controversial" novel and screen one of my all-time favorite film clips.
Details are below, don't miss this mad monstrous party.
I took my kids to see FLASH GORDON (1980) on the big screen!
My boys are roughly the same age I was when I first saw the movie (over and over) on HBO. So I was really excited for them to see it. But I was worried that the guys would be bored by the slow pacing of the campy film. So before the film I talked it up and brainwashed them into thinking they already loved the movie.
As the film played I wasn't worried about them being bored but I was worried about some of the sexy stuff. Even when FLASH GORDON isn't overt it's a kinky space opera. Being a young boy watching FLASH GORDON is kind of like climbing the rope in gym class.
I'll admit I'm one of those Dads who tries to recapture the best aspects of his childhood and share it with his kids. When Dino DeLaurentiis made the movie, he was trying to recapture his childhood influences.
He's made KING KONG and then FLASH GORDON (and he'd also wanted to make a feature film version of MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN starring Jack Nicholson.) Now we're onto the third-generation, with me sharing those movies with my kids.
My older son is wearing the FLASH t-shirt I won during the pre-show Prince Vultan sound-alike contest. I won! (I think my full-beard helped.) You can't hear him, but he's shouting "YEAH!" just like Flash does at the end of the movie. Fun-fact: when they filmed the ending, it felt kind of flat. So actor Sam Jones came up with the idea that Flash should shout "Yeah!" and leap into the air. that was all him.
Lastly, FLASH GORDON holds a special place in my heart because it was the subject of my first AMC web-show "The Sci Fi Department" -- you can see it below.
This summer I did two performances of KEVIN & MATT GEEK OUT ABOUT SHARK MOVIES: One show at the Brooklyn Observatory and another at JAWSFEST in Martha's Vineyard.
This Thursday night, Matt Glasson and I will celebrate Shark Cinema. Here's a contest for you! Print one of these coloring book pages and color it in. Bring your page to the show and we'll give a prize to the best page. You could win passes to the New York Aquarium and other shark-related prizes.
I'm counting the days until JAWSfest in Martha's Vineyard. (I'll be there to co-host a Shark Movie Geek Out at Flatbread Pizza on Friday Night's Shark After Dark.)
To get ready I've been re-watching the JAWS movies and reading Patrick Jankiewicz's excellent book JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE: A JAWS COMPANION.
Here are some "fun facts" that demand to be shared:
Universal had wanted Charlton Heston to play Quint.
In Peter Benchley's novel, Hooper is having an affair with Ellen Brody and he is eaten by the shark.
Mrs. Kitner's poster notes that her son Alex was killed by the shark on June 29th -- the same day Quint says the Indianapolis sank.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" was ad-libbed by Roy Scheider.
Director Jeannot Schwarc was hired to direct JAWS 2 based on the strength of the earthquake scenes he directed in William Castle's BUG
An early draft of JAWS 3-D revealed that the shark was the same burnt-faced shark from JAWS 2.
Actor Mark Gilpin (Sean Brody in JAWS 2) remembers his co-star Donna Wilkes: "Donna had a lot of pressure, because she's the one who had to freak out so much in the film. Donna kept to herself on JAWS 2, because she had to constantly psych herself up."
Do you like SHARK movies? Then join Matt Glasson and me (Kevin Maher) as we GEEK OUT about Shark Cinema! It's Thursday August 9th at the Brooklyn Observatory.
