10 Year Stories, About Us, VideoArchive: Xmas Story
Coming up at the end of June, we will be doing our solid sketch revue from our days back at the Heartland. It’s our 10 year anniversary and we are bringing out the old school and then promptly burning the old school afterwards. Maybe we should have a ceremonial bonfire on North Ave. Beach after the run? Anyway, Adam has been busy getting old sketches together for the anniversary and here’s one from 1998 called “Xmas Story”. Adam had an old projector in his apartment and we came up with the idea of shooting it against the theater with no film (just a white box) and doing a sketch inside that space as if it were a 1971 family film. This includes former Schad member John Bolger. This was done back in the Heartland and maybe if we’re lucky, Adam can find the 1999 follow-up “Summer Story” which did not do as well. But had the hilarious joke that Justin died in Vietnam (we went to army surplus and took a picture in a full uniform). Anyway, here’s Xmas Story:
http://www.vimeo.com/1142956
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Love this sketch. Love Sandy’s drunken speech - what was he saying? I think he was bitching about Nixon, but that was my take.
Justin, I miss drawing that anchor tattoo on your sweaty arm about 30 minutes into the show…
I miss my hair.
oh and the khakis.
Same fucking Khakis, two years straight, then you’d wear them out to the bars too. Oh Heartland, we miss you…kind of.
Sandy was always supposed to be showing Justin how to beat me up since I was a protestor, but Sandy always just ended up humping me.
My favorite part of that sketch was being able to see it because we all were on the stage waiting to enter. Usually you are backstage listening, but this we got to watch right in front of us.
This one is my all time favorite! Request: Please bring back the wedding reception one, that one was terrific !
The wedding reception sketch ran once. But I have it on tape somewhere. I’ll be showcaseing one-offs, they’re more interesting than the classics.
The joke I remember is the bridesmaid (Bolger in a dress) reading her speech and being loudly corrected by her boyfriend in the audience (me) who enters saying “Blah blah blah…I knew you’d fuck it up.” He then plugged his online copy service.
Yeah! The online copy service was aol.com/1034/copies, since domain names were hard to get ahold of at the time. The other thing he bitched about was the cash bar.