— Category: The Talent —
Want something to do tonight? You've got your choice of THREE shows featuring funny ladies who have done the 'WYG! Claudia Cogan's show, CHECK YOUR COOL -- a show so awesome, it could make a *very* decent public access show.... (more...)
More upcoming shows/events featuring WYSIWYG alums from the ol' mailbag... Bob Powers and Todd Levin are back with another installment of How to Kick People! HOW TO KICK PEOPLE IS NOT A MORNING PERSON A Special Evening of Readings from... (more...)
Omigoodness! WYSIWYG alum and funny lady Susie Felber has gone and reproduced! And he is TEH CUTE: Welcome to the world, little Hugo! And big congrats to Susie and her husbandly unit for making such an adorable lil' muffin! In... (more...)
Audacia Ray, who performed at last month's "Worst. Sex. Ever. III" show, is curating "Sex Worker Visions" that opens tonight at NYC's LGBT Community Center. Sponsored by $pread Magazine, a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and their... (more...)
The next WYSIWYG is on March 21at our new home at Bowery Poetry Club! More info coming soon, swear. In the meantime, check out these offerings from 'WYG alums: MIXED TAPE Wednesday, March 1st at 9 pm Mo Pitkin's House... (more...)
I know, I know, the WYSIblog isn't nearly so up to date on the comings and goings of our many talented alums as it used to be. We need a new intern! Anyone want to volunteer a couple hours a... (more...)
'WYG alum Jon Friedman's Rejection Show is back tonight, February 7, featuring the rejectinos of Michael Showalter, Peter Hyman, a rejected pilot from Channel 102, the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest rejections and submissions from the New Yorker Anti-Caption Contest!... (more...)
Tuesday, February 7 Chelsea Peretti and the other lovely ladies of Variety SHAC have their monthly shindig at 8:30 at Galapagos, 70 North 6th St in Williamsburg (L train to Bedford). With standup comic Val Kappa, artstar Cory Arcangel, and... (more...)
At last, another update to the poor, neglected-since-we-lost-our-beloved-intern WYSIblog! There's a whole buncha stuff going on this weekend and upcoming with alums of the 'WYG. Check 'em out! Tonight! See several WYGgers, hot mama (and hostess) Carolyn Castiglia, uke cuties... (more...)
If you're like most New Yorkers during the holiday season, you're probably busier than Michael Jackson at a day care center, but we've got two more tasty options with which to tempt you: P.S. 122's Red and White Party 7PM... (more...)
Come in from the cold and warm up with some spanking (the literary kind, of course). Join In The Flesh host Rachel Kramer Bussel for a reading from her latest anthology, Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 2, due... (more...)
After their chilling performance at the October WYSIWYG, Chris Alonzo and his Ghost Running crew will be performing at Trash Bar this Saturday night. Check out the bar or the band for details and prepare to ROCK! Saturday Dec 3... (more...)
This Wednesday, November 30th, it's HOW TO KICK PEOPLE IS A DAMN LIAR. Our last show of the year with one of our best lineups of the year at a special, one-time-only venue. THE D-LOUNGE at the DARYL ROTH THEATER... (more...)
We mentioned previously that Michelle Collins would be appearing on VH1 on December 19th, but we just received word that another WYSIWYG alum, Todd Levin, will also be making a December appearance on basic cable! You can check him out... (more...)
This month's New York Magazine features a story on sex columnists, including hilarious WYSIWYG alumna Rachel Kramer Bussel. Turns out that Rachel got started writing porn, er, erotica, for Penthouse Variations while attending NYU Law. A wicked smart woman indeed.... (more...)
The AP has just run a story on our beloved WYSIWYG alumna Julia Langbein's hillarious blog devoted to eviscerating NYT food critic Frank Bruni. They even interviewed Bruni who confessed to visiting the blog "once or twice for a nanosecond... (more...)
Here's some other stuff she has on tap in the coming weeks: Welcome to Our Week: Hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Thursday, December 8 at 8pm. At Rififi (Cinema Classics) 332 E.11th St. (between 1st and 2nd Ave)... (more...)
WYSIWYG alum GirlyNYC wants to get you really, really drunk this Sunday -- and maybe give you some money too! She's one of the organizers of this here event: Click the pic for more details. While there won't be an... (more...)
It's not every day that a WYSIWYG alum releases an album. So check out "Cut Down to the Quick," out today from Dogs of Winter, a band fronted by the hawt former blogger and all-around sweetheart Brian Grosz. Yummy, is... (more...)
First up is this month's installment of The Rejection Show. It is the last Rejection Show of 2005, so do not miss it! What is The Rejection Show? As if you didn't know... The Rejection Show is a comedic based... (more...)
Paul Ford performed at our very first WYSIWYG ("Worst. Sex. Ever.") in February of '04, before we even started calling it WYSIWYG. From 2003 until this May, Paul wrote pseudonymous pieces for The Morning News posing as a 22-year-old Williamsburg... (more...)
With three whole weeks until the next WYSIWYG, we thought perhaps you'd need something to tide you over, a dessert/appetizer of sorts. Well, WYSIWYG alumna Claudia Cogan is copiloting Becky and Claudia's Supreme Offering this Thursday, October 27th at 8:00... (more...)
Catch the only gay Jewish rapper blogger in WYSIWYG history on Saturday, Oct. 22nd as he celebrates the release of his new album, The Lemonade Incident.... (more...)
First comes soce the elemental wizard flogging his new album, The Lemonade Incident. You can buy a copy on his blog and have him sign it Saturday night at the release party. That's right--consider yourself on the list. Seven bucks... (more...)
After 40+ weeks of swelling, bloating, humongousness, and countless, ENDLESS pregnancy jokes, our dear Carolyn Castiglia finally decided to let the baby out. Born at a hefty 8 lbs. 2 oz., Baby Adriana already has her own blog. Her debut... (more...)
So, New Yorkers, you've probably heard of the strange and sudden meltdown at softcore-punkchick pornsite SuicideGirls.com, but you probably didn't notice that the porno muck was raked by WYSIWYG alum Jose Ralat Maldonado. Meanwhile, fellow WYSIWYG alum Josh Bernstein now... (more...)
Short notice, folks, but naughty WYSIWYG alumna Hanne Blank will be on a panel tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 8, discussing politically-unpopular books for the Women's National Book Association. Besides blogging at LiveJournal, Hanne has written steamy erotica that someone actually saw... (more...)
Check it out! We got a lovely mention in the New York Blade. Which reminded us that we've been totally remiss in not mentioning WYG alum and all-around homolicious hottie Bradford's new venture, Queerty. Congrats, punkin! All you Blade... (more...)
Two of the performers from our September show, Frank Beekman and Dashiell, got together via the internets for a blog interview. It is only six questions long, but Mr. Beekman is a very thorough responder, as you will see. Update:... (more...)
If, through some freak accident, you're not full of blogger goodness following next Tuesday's WYSIWYG, consider attending WYSIWYG alums Bob Powers and Todd Levin's monthly comedy show, How To Kick People on Wednesday, September 28th. This month's H2KP theme: THE... (more...)
WYSIWYG alumnus Mike Daisey will be performing in the finale to the Public Theatre's NEW WORKS NOW festival in an evening entitled RANTS, where he'll be, as you might expect, ranting--though for a change he'll be be expressing his outrage... (more...)
WYSIWYG performer Susie Felber is performing in five shows over the next month. The first two shows are FREE and the fourth is a benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Susie has clearly gone to great lengths to make it... (more...)
Past WYSIWYG performers Jon Friedman and Michelle Collins are kicking off the premier installment of The Rejection Show's 3rd season. Come see comics and cartoonists dish up their choicest rejected material for your enjoyment. Proceeds will go to the Red... (more...)
Past performer Nichelle of Nichelle Newsletter has teamed up with Carolyn Castiglia, who's performing in this month's show, to headline this week's Chicks and Giggles, an all womyn comedy jam. Did we mention that Carolyn is way pregnant? Did we... (more...)
A reminder that TOMORROW night is the latest edition of WYSIWYG alum Bob Powers' How To Kick People: Missed Connections, which, if you're cool, you'll refer to as H2KP:MC. This special edition of H2KP will feature a Craig's List Missed... (more...)
In addition to performing at the next WYSIWYG on September 27th, we've learned that Carolyn Castiglia will be playing 5 out of the 10 characters in the new theatrical Walmart hatefest Anathemaville! So if you're curious to see a pregnant... (more...)
Who? Duh! Soce, slingin' Elemental Wizardry, dude! The WYSIWYG faithful will remember Soce's loin-stirring performance of "S***ing D*cks" (hint: "Sitting Ducks" is incorrect) at the antepenultimate show in May. Since then he's been getting mad coverage in print and online,... (more...)
Two things in NYC this week brought to you by WYSIWYG alums... Tonight: "Off, Off, Off, Vegas," Jonny Goldstein's live TV call in cable comedy show! When: 10 PM tonight, Eastern Standard Time (Monday, July 25) Where: Channel 56 for... (more...)
Alas, my poor neglected little WYSIBLOG has fallen victim to the summer heat icky blahs. But at long last, here's a brave attempt at filling you in on some upcoming events with some of our past talent, presented with no... (more...)
WYSIWYG's own mayoral candidate and man-about-town Andy Horwitz is putting together a fun event featuring several past 'WYGgers: “Say Goodnight, Gracie Mansion” - An All-Star Evening of Alternative Comedy, and a Rally and petition-signing party for The Blog Party/AndyForMayor.org!... (more...)
Our good friend and past performer Cheryl B. has a couple of events coming up next week you should check out: Sunday - June 5 @ 7 p.m. Atomic: The Reading Series with Something for Everyone Curated and Hosted by... (more...)
For those of you who aren't going to be watching the "American Idol" show tonight, WYSIWYG alum Carolyn Castiglia has an event you may want to check out: The Social is our new monthly show brought to you from Comedy... (more...)
Check out this interview of WYSIWYG fave/blogger/Gay Haiku auuuthah Joel Derfner at Gothamist (conducted by another 'WYG alum, Rachel Kramer Bussel)! Joel's whoring that book like there's no tomorrow, and you can catch a few excerpts and much more at... (more...)
A few tidbits on the activities of some of our past performers... -- The fabulous Liza Sabater has recently launched Daily Gotham, a blog chronicling grassroots news and activism for New Yorkers. Cool! -- Chelsea Peretti has this thingy going... (more...)
It started off with a simple blog post, but now WYSIWYG's very own producer Andy has launched his candicacy for mayor of New York, running on the Blog Party ticket! He's got some excellent ideas: Rather than merely using... (more...)
What are some of the WYSIWYG alums up to? Tonight, Chelsea Peretti and Michelle Collins host I Heart Internet - Comedy @ The Apple Store, "A VERY SPECIAL SHOW ABOUT MACS AND INTERNET AND LOVING TECHNOLOGY" Guests: Eugene Mirman --... (more...)
A couple more things from last week's WYSIWYG stories are now online: "Be Born Rich," an excerpt from Andy's story here. Daniel's story, "Gummint Work: Pushing Paper from Here to Retirement," can be read in its entirety here. And Jon's... (more...)
Whoops, somehow we missed that yesterday's Gothamist interview was with ubertalented WYSIWYG alum Mike Daisey! Check it out here.... (more...)
WYSIWYG alum Jonny Goldstein will speak at the Chelsea Art Museum this month as part of the Interactive Media Culture Expo. 1) April 15, Friday (tomorrow), 3PM-4PM Educational Symposium: Wearable Computing and Embedded Technologies with Michal Bril, Sonali Sridhar, Meghan... (more...)
Giulia Rozzi of Giulia Is Cute and Cheap, who performed at last month's WYSIWYG ("The City That Never Shuts Up: New York Stories"), has a bunch of stuff going on these days: MORTIFIED: adults reading real diary entries, songs, essays,... (more...)
One of the reasons we put this here blog up on the ol' WYSIWYG site was so we could alert you all to upcoming events featuring people who have performed at our shows. But with so many fabu people having... (more...)
Check this out -- it's the inaugural event of Liza and Nichelle's Brown Blog Series! Sunday, April 10, 2005 7pm – 10pm Lava Gina Lounge 116 Avenue C, New York, NY From Nichelle's site: "This is an event for African... (more...)
Two-time WYSIWYG alum and storyteller extraordinaire Mike Daisey has been a busy man lately! There's only one show left of his latest creation, Monopoly!, this Friday, March 4th and it's nearly sold out, so if you're hoping to catch it... (more...)
Next week, Minneapolis cutie Amy Salloway will not only earn the distinction of being the performer who's traveled the longest distance to perform at the WYSIWYG Talent Show -- she'll also be performing her much-lauded one-woman show Does This... (more...)
Looking for something to do tonight? The lovely Nichelle's latest installment of "Chicks and Giggles" is tonight at 8pm at Raga, 433 East 6th between 1st Avenue and Avenue A!... (more...)
It's turned out to be the kind of week that prevented me from doing a proper round of selecting, cropping, retouching, and arranging and whatnot, so I just threw up all my pictures from BlogJam for any and all who... (more...)
BlogJam DC was an resounding success (in spite of Wonkette cancelling on them at the last minute just like she did on us - okay, basically, if she's committed to doing your event and something bigger comes along she'll ditch... (more...)
Strumming, singing cuties (and WYSIWYG alums) the Hazzards are interviewed today on Gothamist, with a kind mention of their WYSIWYG appearance this past June. Sweet!... (more...)
FYI, here are the Googlisms we used Wednesday night to introduce the performers at "Psychos I Have Dated or Worked for (or Both!)":... (more...)
Fey and Poehler watch your backs! There's another super female duo in town. WYSIWYG alumnae Rachel Kramer Bussel and Nichelle will be co-hosting the Reading Series at Barbes on October 28th. They're subbing for our own Ned Vizzini as he... (more...)
WYSIWYGer Michael Barrish runs a great reading series called Oblivio at the Bowery Poetry Club. The next installment is this Sunday, October 3rd at 4 p.m. and features Ross Lipman, Tobias Seamon, as well as Michael.... (more...)
The very sassy Nichelle (who performed at our Ladies First show last May) has been putting on Chicks and Giggles, a monthly show of the funniest female comics ever, for a while now, and you would be a better, happier,... (more...)
Those Brits certainly have interesting radio programming. Apparently the BBC found my blog entries from 9/11 and asked me to do a brief interview for a segment they call Sunday Surgery. It's a youth oriented show taking hot-button issues and... (more...)
Feed the Young Writers 2004 Tuesday, September 28 SIX WRITERS UNDER 25 PROVE THAT THEY DON'T, IN FACT, SUCK @ P.S. 122 150 1ST AVE. @ 9TH ST., NYC 8 PM PRICE: $10 With readings by: DAVID AMSDEN / author... (more...)
One last lil' bit from Tuesday's show... I used Googlisms for the intros for all of our performers at "Bullies and Mean Girls" and a couple of folks have asked me to post the ones I read. Here ya go:... (more...)
This Thursday! What: Ned Vizzini reads from his work and presents Donnie Darko. Plus an open bar! Where: The Brooklyn Brewery When: Thursdau, September 23 What time: 7pm Address: 79 N 11th St. (b/w Berry & Wythe Aves.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn... (more...)
WYSIWYG alumnus Jimbo (who got all gussied up for That's So Gay! back in June) has caught the fever and started up a reading series down in our nation's capitol: BLOGJAM: THE HOMO SPEAK Readings by national queer bloggers Music... (more...)
WYSIWYG alums Eurotrash, Blaise K., and Rachel Kramer Bussel are taking part in tonight's installation of the Cupcake Reading Series, "Ladies Who Blog," at Lolita, 266 Broome Street (at Allen), Lower East Side, NYC. The show also includes Jami Attenberg,... (more...)
The de-lovely Nichelle is throwing an impromptu pre-Labor Day shindig Friday night at Route 85A (on Ave A between 5th and 6th St, substreet level). More info here!... (more...)
You know, we do more than just read around here! WYSIWYG alum Khythryne Aisling, for instance, makes and sells gooooorgeous jewelry - and she's having a $5 off special right now on some of her pearl pendants and earrings. Ooooh,... (more...)
Can't get enough readings? WYSIWYG alum and Be More Chill author Ned Vizzini's reading series at Barbes is fun, free, and chock full o' WYSIWYGgers! Here are just a few of his upcoming shows... Thursday, September 2nd Ned Vizzini himself,... (more...)
In addition to tonight's "'Make Nice'? MY ASS!" you can entertain yourself with WYSIWYG folks ALL weekend if you want. Our talented performers really get around! Friday: Two-time WYSIWYGger Brian Grosz's band Children of Logic is playing along with the... (more...)
John Perry Barlow, one of our panelists for next week's "IMHO: Blogging, Politics, and Personal Voice," has a series of protests planned for next week's RNC: "Those of you who often read this blog will recall that, in my last... (more...)
Miss Rachel's interview today on Gothamist is with yet another WYSIWYG alum - the pantylicious GirlyNYC!... (more...)
Spiffy! Check out the Ned Vizzini interview on Gothamist by Rachel Kramer Bussel, who is also a WYSIWYG alum.... (more...)
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