Comedy Chicago episode #5: “The Second City”
Episode featuring the Second City, including many performers from the early 1990s.
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Annoyance Theatre, tape 2
Footage of a rehearsal for Mick Napier’s show “Hot Monkey Pie”. Footage shot by Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig.
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Annoyance Theatre, tape 1
Footage by Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig of Mick Napier’s show “Hot Monkey Pie” at Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. The show features actors rapidly switching between different rolls, scenes, and sets.
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Annoyance Theatre, tape 2
Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig film an improv rehearsal at Chicago’s Annoyance Theater that is directed by Mick Napier.
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Holly Woodlawn
This video shows a cabaret act by Holly Woodlawn in Los Angeles. The filmmaker, Judith Binder, also spends the time before the show talking to people in the audience, focusing in particular on a group of trans women and drag queens.
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Go Solo
This video shows a series of performances out of the Go Solo workshop that are in various stages of development. Most are straight acting pieces with a few bordering on stand-up comedy.
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Feminist Porn: Gynamite, #1
This is a tape that mostly has the performances of several people in an open microphone event called Feminist Porn: Gynamite.
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This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 49a: The Whole Story
Description: A serendipitous gem, in the true Joe’s Basement tradition. Joe is trying to write a script on the Fourth of July weekend, 1992. Dan and Bob, his crew, are bothering him, so he sends them away. They get into some trouble at a local bar, trying to pick up a naïve young woman, Karen, who has just struck an off-duty police officer in the face. With Joe’s sober assistance, Bob and Dan convince Karen to come back to the basement after […]