Del Close Marathon 13: Day 2

Read Day 1 here.

Day 2 started out for me at FIT seeing Omlette Vision and Two Man Movie.

JZT LYING ABOUT SEEING THE STEPFATHERS.

Omlette Vision

DELANEY.

Two Man Movie

-They did a western. Anthony played a gunslinger who had a penchant for wearing disguises, which at the climax of the movie was utilized when he fooled the villain into walking into a coal oven by being in black face.

NEIL W. CASEY

The Benson Interruption

-James Adomian and Garfunkle and Oates were the guests. James Adomain proved (in person) the amazing talent that I already knew he was from the podcasts he has been on. He came out and talked with Benson for a little bit, before he seamlessly transitioned what they were talking about into a spot on Todd Glass impersonation. He then did a Marc Maron impression followed by an Andy Kindler impression. When Benson asked who he was doing to the crowd I screamed “Kindler!” in manic amazement. They spoke a little more and Benson said he should take requests for an impersonation. I screamed out "Lewis Black!" and Benson asked if he did Lewis Black. James Adomain said he did and promptly did his bit of Lewis Black reading from a little girl's diary, fidgety fingers and all. It was, simply, spectacular.

ADOMIAN ABOUT TO BREAK INTO HIS TODD GLASS CHUNK.

Director's Commentary LIVE!

-The movie this year was "XXX" with Vin Diesel. 

-Chad Carter was the stuntman, who yelled “Stunt!” every time a stunt was on the screen. 

-Horatio was Vin Diesel who sounded retarded, and kept saying “Bingo”. 

-Owen Burke was the director and spoke about how he wanted every scene chapter on the DVD to start with a shot of the XXX tattoo on the back of Vin’s head. “I wanted people to know that Vin Diesel has a back of a head.” 

-Mantzoukas was the set location coordinator and because he has a phobia of being further than 50 miles from his house, all of the locations in the movie are near where he lives in southern California. -When Vin is at a diner a waitress gives him a drink, not knowing that she's being held hostage, and when he picks it up, written on the napkin below it is "911" at which point Manzoukas says “Never forget.”

"BINGO!"

Improv Cult (Besser's Master Class)

- An improv class where they discussed taking suggestions from the audience. Neil had the best line when they were working on object work (specifically holding a gun) where he said while holding a tommy gun “Kill all the minorities!”

Match Game 76'

-Joe Wengert and Katie Dippold were the contestants. Chad Carter was the host.

The celebrity guests were: 

-A recently shot John Lennon (Atamunik) 

-Fred from the Mystery Gang (Rodgers)

-Columbo (Burke) 

-Sam Kinison (Delaney) and Patty Hearst (Axford)

-Dom Delouise 

-Phil Spector (Fogelnest)

-Joe Namuth (Besser)

-Young Osama Bin Laden (Manzoukas) 

-Boy from Deliverance (Gethard) 

-Brian Wilson (DC Pierson)

-And more that I forgot.

KID FROM DELIVERANCE GETTING DOWN.

John Hughes-prov!

Raider's in 15 Minutes

-Owen Burke describing Raiders of the Lost Ark, while drunk. He didn’t get very far, partially because he spent so much time taking the shots from the beginning of the movie. Just imagine a hyper active 7 year old try to recount his favorite movie. Just perfect.

The NY Mets Monoscene

-Bluvband as a seal with a hat on. 

-Riley just coming out as Vacation Jason at which point Gethard started a chant of “Fuck Vacation Jason!” which everyone joined in on. 

-Ben Rodger as a spot on Keith Hernandez look.

To Catch A Predator Improv Edition

-Riley got to be the kid this year which was amazing for so many reasons. But what really was great about this years edition was Neil Casey as Chris Hanson. No one does the pithy one liners for a show like that better than him. 

-“Looks like you are having trouble sealing the deal. (when Bluvband’s seal from the Mets monoscene tried to hit on Riley). 

-Shannon came out with a monkey mask on screaming “Yo donde!” which she was saying loudly from the booth during Improvisosos Peligrosos. 

-But the highlight/most disgusting moment was when Jesse Falcon asked the audience if he should drink his piss. Then he proceeded to pull his penis out and pee into a Poland spring bottle, repulsing everyone. But they weren’t as repulsed as they were when he proceeded to drink it and throw the empty bottle into the audience. For DCM and To Catch a Predator that was par for the course. Easy.

YEP. IT WAS THAT KIND OF SHOW.

Dar Silicon

-Kind of like Wicked Fuckin Queeyah the best way to know about Dar Silicon is to see it. This year Shannon goaded a shirtless JZT to dancing on stage at which point Rudel and a number of other folks took their shirts off (including DC Pierson) and began slamdancing on stage with Dar. Best part was when Jesse Falcon and John Frusciante came on stage shirtless and started to slow dance. Heightening by contrast, right? It got weird before long, but shirtless doughy improv nerds still couldn’t take away from Dar fucking Silicon. Nothing can. Still the best show at the Marathon, bit show and improv included.

PANCAKES.

RUDEL GONE IN.

FRUSCIANTE & FALCON.

Swoon

-After the theater cleaning it was pouring rain so I ran over to Urban where Swoon was performing. Or as I should say, where Swoon was being heckled by the audience. It was a weird combination of JZT being the hypeman for the audience between scenes, water bottles being thrown into the audience, Riley with a quarter Jameson bottle in one hand and a toy gun in the other, Rudel being booed mercilessly for doing a not completely committed puking move, Adam Frankel’s amazing monologue/dance/fake shooting grocery buying scene, Nate Min playing Nick Jaramillo and Aaron getting notes from the audience while his scene was still happening. Definitely going to become a DCM go to show for years to come.

"OH MY GOD." -AARON JACKSON

Boy Butter

-Our first DCM was exactly what I had wanted. It started off like the Swoon set. Fesh yelled out from the audience “Good move Ellena.” to which Riley replied “It’s not that kind of show Fesh!” causing Fesh and Phil Jackson to simultaneously yell back “Yeah it is!”

-I don’t remember much, but I do remember at one point a small piece of pipe cleaner was being worn by Riley as a headset microphone, which promptly got passed around to others for different scenes.

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Del Close Marathon 13: Day 1

The Del Close Marathon is the biggest improv event in the world. 3 days of an obscene amount of improv and it's hands down the best weekend of the year for me. This year was special to me partly because it was my 5th year going to the festival, but more so because I was in it! More on that on Day 2.

I got out of work early to head over to line up around 2:30pm.

THE BROTHERS TOWNSEND.

WILL AND THE COOPERS WITH A SMALL SOFT DRINK.

RUDEL GOING IN.

RILEY BRANDISHING HIS DCM PASS.

THE PRESS AND YOWIE.

RILEY AND ALEXIS CONFERRING.

The Press Conference

-Besser, Walsh, Roberts and Horatio were present. They did a scene where Roberts played Stevie Wonder who was about to be informed by Horatio (Stevie’s new assistant) that Michael Jackson died. Even in that scene you could see the game being hit, resting it and hitting it again.They are the best.

THE UCB SANZ AMY BUT PLUS HORATIO.

STEVIE WONDER AND HIS LAYERS OF SECURITY.

Outlook of the Poet

- Did a medieval themed monoscene, where Gavin was “Vinnie” who through a pizza truck time portal went back in time.

VINNIE.

Bassprov

-Scott Adsit and Matt Walsh sat in with Bassprov. Seeing Adsit work in a group like that was phenomenal. He was the definition of giving what the scene needs and not a drop over.

MAKING DEALS.

Sentimental Lady

-Not only are they one of the best UCB LA teams, but they are also just one of the best overall.  Their form of going back to a main scene, creating information and then just tagging to see those little scenes started slow, but once they got on a roll, they destroyed. Best improv show of the night by far. 

IN THE JUNGLE.

FERNIE!

NAILING DOWN SHOES BY OWEN BURKE.

Nailed Down

-Delaney and Secunda were mob men who were waiting for a produce truck to come so they could stock their produce stand, which was a front. Delaney had a great sub game where he would keep naming movie lines and plead with Secunda to name them, which he couldn’t.

SECUNDA & DELANEY

Revolver

-Great team, great set. They had a group game where they called back a heist situation where a woman was holding a gun, but the odd way of how she was holding it got called out as a hook. This ensued to “well there’s a gun on that hook!” 

-She ended up reading a dirty limirick written by one of the kids that was about eating out a cat’s pussy. It destroyed. 

-In another scene while a man was being executed, a family member of the victum was brought in to see the execution at which point he looked at a flag (which had been a reoccurring motif in the set) and just said “Well would you look at that.” So simple so funny.

-A kid mentioned to his mother about how she loves her other son, that died when he was six, more than him. Cut to the mother having a large child sit on her lap and him telling her about the kids making fun of him because he has an enlarged heart that can’t sustain him. Very funny.

 

HOOK GUN.

Cannon and Gausas

COW DRAMA.

Doug Benson's Doug Loves Movies Podcast Live

BESSER RUINING DOUG'S SURPRISE FOR WHO'S ON HIS SHOW.

The Back Room

-Rob Lathan’s Nihilist Jeff Foxworth was so on point with his cadence it was surreal. “If you put monopoly money in a collection tray at church and don’t think its bad because there is no god, then you might be a nihilst.

-Adomian’s Sheriff of Nottingham played by Alan Rickman was all in the stage presence. He owns any character he does, but even he couldn’t hold it together for Lathan’s Foxworthy. No one could.

-Santangelli as a high school narc. "Come on guys. Who's doing drugs?"

-Owen Burke as a character simply named Shortcuts.

-Darryl Strawberry. Nuff said

DARRYL'S GOT THE MAGIC STICK, SON.

The Panel

Christian Lighthouse Players

-Gethard was Crystal Meth Mark humming prayer songs which led from Amazing Grace to Rudolf the Red nose reindeer. Klepper saying "Like a light bulb!" whether Crystal Meth Mark was singing Rudolf or a different song.

-Walsh was so high he could not keep it together. 

-Anthony played the weird pastor who just fucked all the kids.

CRYSTAL METH MARK SERENADING.

OH BOY.

Wicked Fuckin' Queeyah

-Watch a video of it if you can find it. It would be a disservice to the show to try to describe it and the pure joy one can get out of it.

 

PURNS GETTING YOU F****** READY FOR REAL MAKE EM UPS.

SUPPORT WARK.

FUCKIN OBJECT WORK.

The DCM AM Zoo Crew!

-Best New Bit Show.

-Perfect for 15 min slot where someone would just create a weird name for the  two people who came out making them have to talk as those characters. It was funny and quick. Can't ask for more.

PURNELL AND THE GAY WEREWOLF.

"EVERYTHING IS COMING UP...BOLOGNA."

Classic Masculinity

BRIAN'S BACK!

The Del Harris Marathon

-"Jump Ball!" 

-The show quickly devolved into a meta set about calling out improv moves like basketball moves to the point where it just became a one on one basketball game. With Terry Withers as the audible basketball hoop.

The Green Crew

-Anthony, Neil and Will did a living room set where they talked about NYC socialism, buying property and having moments.