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Posted by Ringmaster at March 27, 2006 07:55 PM

We've got a bunch of upcoming shows by WYSIWYG folks to tell you about, but first a few bits of news of our own...

First, video clips from February's big anniversary show, "Worst. Sex. Ever. III: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People," are finally online! Click here to check 'em out. And photos from this month's "Starfuckers" show are also online now right here.

Also, like every damned 13-year-old on the planet, WYSIWYG has succumbed: we now have a MySpace page! Won't you be our friend?

Also, we now have a WYSIWYG Talent Show photo pool on Flickr. If you have any pics from the 'WYG on Flickr, please send them to the group!

And finally, after the jump is a little of what some of your favorite WYWSIWYG performers are up to in the coming weeks:

Tuesday night, Lindsay Robertson, who just performed at WYSIWYG last week, presents her show, the Ritalin Reading Series. What exactly are Ritalin Readings?
Ritalin Readings are a humor based literary event designed for the ADHD generation. Each performer is limited to a maximum of 4 minutes.

March 28th at 8:30PM (Doors at 8PM)
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction - $7
34 Avenue A (b. 2nd and 3rd St.)
Advance tickets available here.

Hosted by Lindsay Robertson & Alex Balk
Produced by once and future 'WYGger Jon Friedman
Featuring:
Sam Lipsyte (Home Land, Venus Drive)
Jonathan Coulton
John Green
Elizabeth Spiers
Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show)
Brad Stuernagel (The $1 Room)
Chris Genoa (Foop!)
& The Hilarious Nightclub Comedy of a Secret Surprise Comedic Guest

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How to Kick People, the monthly show from 'WYG alums Todd Levin and Bob Powers is hiring. They're putting on a show in celebration of corporate cogs, wage slaves, and all those dreams you used to dream before you first felt your chest constrict under the weight of a business casual sweater. Remember: there's no "I" in "COMEDY."

Join Bob & Todd and their ace teambuilding staff:
Andy Borowitz (writer for The New Yorker; author of The Borowitz Report)
'WYG alum Chelsea Peretti (blackpeopleloveus.com; co-host of Variety SHAC) -- more upcoming events with Chelsea later in this post
David Rees (creator of the comic strip "Get Your War On")

How to Kick People: Hawaiian Shirt Day
Wednesday, March 29th at 7:30 PM
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
34 Avenue A, between 2nd and 3rd Streets
for more information and tickets, visit http://www.howtokickpeople.com

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Also on Wednesday, March 29: Giulia Rozzi presents Mortified:
8:00pm
The Tank @ Collective: Unconscious, 279 Church
www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444 (this show sells out every time so get your tix soon!)
$15
FEATURING PATHETIC TEEN CRAP BY Anne Nodar, Colleen
Kane, Law Tarello, Leslie Robarge, Bon Joi, Shira
Golding, Katie Halper, Sara Schaefer, and Rylan
Morrison.

Also: BRUTAL HONESTY
Themed storytelling hosted by Becky Yamamoto, Lianne Stokes, and Giulia Rozzi.
Tuesday April 4
Otto's Shrunken Head, 14th Street btw Aves A & B
FREE!
Featuring stories about "stealing" by Seth Herzog,
Mike Burns, Ria Suozzo, and 'WYGstress Rachael Parenta.

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The delectable Cheryl B. has a whole bunch of stuff up her sleeve in the coming weeks:

April 2nd, 7PM
The Atomic Reading Series
With: Thomas Hopkins, Francine Witte and David Webber
FREE
Lucky 13 Saloon
273 13th (5th Avenue)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-499-7553

April 6, 8PM
Cheryl B. Presents:
The Poetry Vs Comedy Variety Show
PVC is neither an ordinary poetry slam nor a stand-up comedy show. The Poetry Vs Comedy Variety Show is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide.

Emcee: Once and future 'WYGger Carolyn Castiglia (Caroline's)

Poets:
Claudia Alick (HBO's Def Poetry Jam)
Christine Hamm (Author, The Animal Husband, Dancing Girl Press)
WYSIWYG's own Andy Horwitz (WYSIWYG Talent Show)

Comedians:
Dan Allen (Comedy Central's Premium Blend)
Kelli Dunham (Penn and Teller's Bullshit)
Lianne Stokes (Brutal Honesty)
Musical Guest: Adira Amram (Chicks and Giggles)
Galapagos Arts Space
70 N. 6th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L Train to Bedford Ave.

And another edition of The Atomic Reading Series
FREE
April 10th, 8 PM
Michelle Tea will be reading from her new novel Rose of No Man's Land
with Sara Seinberg
Books will be provided for sale by BLUESTOCKINGS BOOKSTORE
Lucky 13 Saloon
273 13th Street (5th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn

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And Chelsea Peretti is busier than R. Kelly at the Teen Choice Awards too!

On Sunday, April 2 Chelsea is opening with some comedy before "Whitest Kids You Know" in their weekly Pianos sketch and short films show. (Pianos, 158 Ludlow.)

On April 4, Variety SHAC will premiere a brand new 10-minute documentary
8:30 sharp
Variety Shac at Galapagos Arts Space (IN THE BACK ROOM)
70 N. 6th St (Williamsburg, BK)
L to Bedford.

Wednesday, April 12:
Storytelling night at Monkeytown. This is an intimate, amazing venue with excellent food. Andrea Rosen hosts generally outstanding guests who tell stories while aformentioned food is eaten.
(Monkeytown, 8 N. 3rd, btwn Kent and Wythe.)

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And finally, Desiree Burch has a buncha stuff coming up too:

SMUT
Reading and Performance with a Parental Advisory Label hosted by Desiree Burch
Mondays @ 8 PM
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street btw Berry & Wythe
L Train to Bedford

4/3
NYC Perverts' Saloon: A Night for Sex Bloggers
Featuring $PREAD Magazine Editor (and 'WYG alum) Audacia Ray, Tony
Comstock, Viviane, Lex Konrad, Jefferson,
Selina Fire, Cherry Bomb, Tess.

And RIP ME OPEN:
Finally, it has arrived--the collaboration of Actor/Comedians Desiree Burch, Michael Cyril Creighton, director Brian Mullin and OBIE Award-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow

She's a private dick who's seen it all.
He's a blonde bombshell waiting to explode.
In this filthy, lonely city, some secrets just can't stay hidden.

Drawing on influences ranging from film noir to Dennis Cooper and Haruki Murakami, the play follows two wise-cracking, desperate souls as they investigate a case of threatened violence and psychosexual intrigue.

RIP ME OPEN
Fridays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28
@ 8 PM
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street btw Berry & Wythe
L Train to Bedford
Tickets: $10 in advance (click here), $12 at door