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Live Shows!
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05.09.08PBR Tour: Ken BarnardI got to hustle and fit everyone in for the Empty Bottle! Ken Barnard is Chicago’s #1 Performance comedian. He won “Most Innovative Comic” at this year’s Chicago Comedy Awards and he has come in 2nd place in the Andy Kaufman contest at the NY Comedy Festival. Ken is also the voice and the mastermind behind the “Montrose Sinkhole” protest, in which he got news coverage for trying to keep theme from filling the hole. This bro is kicking ass as he is performing in a 1 man show right now at Lincoln Lodge.
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05.09.08PBR Tour: Claudia WallaceTomorrow! 8pm at the Empty Bottle. We will be graced with the presence of Claudia! Claudia Wallace has performed around Chicago for several years and you probably saw her on the mainstage at Second City. She was on the stage for over 5 years and she is now living in LA, splitting time! But she is back for this show and we are very humbled to have her in the Schad Rent Party. Actually, we saw her open up for UCB at an improv festival a few years back with her group “Black Comedy Underground”. We probably quoted her for 10 years after that show. “Girrrrl, we gotta get back to our space station…” That’s all I remember, but it was hilarious. Here is Talarico’s short film featuring Claudia’s turn as a CIA undercover agent…”oooh, look at you….”
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05.09.08Empty Bottle Tomorrow Night!This is our buddy Todd Voorhies and his best bud - “Red” Stalnacker - taking the stage at last week’s party up at The Red Line Tap. With guests like these… you really have no excuse to come out tomorrow night.
[Video slightly NSFW - just turn the audio down, or put some headphones on!]
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05.08.08PBR Tour: Yuri LaneSo our main man Yuri Lane comes back to the Schad Rent Party this weekend at the Empty Bottle. Yuri performed with us at the Gallery and then we loved the bit so much that we dragged him to a Heineken promotion at the Park West and then up to the Wilmette Theater. Yuri is a beatbox musician and he can deep throat a harmonica. I think that’s what you call it. Anyway, he put his routine on YouTube back in 2007 and it was voted by the editors as the #2 video of the year! Seriously, you know who beat him? That dude who did Chocolate Rain. Yuri is a true-blue internet star. And you can see him at the Rent Party this weekend…
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05.07.08Ed Bus Stomps at Silvie’s LoungeDoes Alderman Ed Bus (D-53) really need an intro? Didn’t think so.
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05.07.08PBR Tour: Blue Ribbon Glee ClubToday we start pumping up the guests for this week’s Empty Bottle Rent Party. Let’s start with the biggest act and frankly, the one that I am most excited to see from the whole tour. BRGC is a punk rock choir. So they take tunes from the Pixies, the Clash or Fugazi and belt them out a cappella. I’ve heard the tunes but never seen them live. I can’t wait. They play all over the place and they have a regular presence at the Empty Bottle. This will be big and worth the $10 admission. Below, my favorite youtube video of all time. It’s BRGC dubbed over a classic live performance of Fugazi. Super tight, super awesome.
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05.06.08Pics from 1998!
The show on Saturday up at the Red Line Tap was a kick-ass return to Rogers Park! Not only did we return to 1998 in style (can anyone say Missy Elliott remix of Heartbreaker?!) - but the true magic wasn’t just on stage… It was in the AUDIENCE. Laughs and PBR, always a good combo. Check out all the shots from the show after the jump, and we’ll see you at Empty Bottle on Saturday!
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05.06.08PBR Tour: Empty Bottle!
Can you believe it? We are now at the halfway point of our PBR Rent Party tour. The show last Saturday at the Red Line Tap was off the hook and now we move south to the Empty Bottle! Calling all Hipsters! The show is at an earlier start (8pm) but no worries - the show is awesome. Ken Barnard, Claudia Wallace, Inda Graig-Galvan, Yuri Lane and the Blue Ribbon Glee Club will be rockin’ the spot with us. Also, I think Todd Voorhies is introducing his summer fashion line at the club. Just an FYI. This is the show to be at.
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05.03.08Tonight! Red Line Tap! Free Parking! (now there’s no excuse)
The Rent Party continues… On to Rogers Park - you’ve read all the awesome posts highlighting some fantastic guests - now you’re wondering if you should REALLY get out of your apartment/house/cardboard box and trek up. Let us entice you with… FREE PARKING.
C’mon. Give me an excuse as to WHY you wouldn’t come? Neo-Futurists! Hannibal Burress! Pat McKenna! Even in Blackouts! Tonight - 9PM - $10 - FREE PARKING @ Estes and Glenwood (2 Blocks North).
C’mon. It’s gonna be 1998 all over again….
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05.02.08Looptopia Tonight!
Come see us at Looptopia tonight. We are performing on the street in front of the Artist Snack Shop from 6pm-7pm. We aren’t going all night, because those days are long gone. Just ask Schadenfreude’s wife. BOOM!!!!!! No, for real, we are doing Looptopia. Join us as we teach people on the street “How to Act Like a Cowboy”. It’s taught by our resident artistic director Christopher Kriss and his prized student Danny Fine.
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05.02.08PBR Tour: The Neo-Futurists
Save the best for last ey? I’ve been writing about why you should come to the Red Line Tap Schadenfreude Rent Party (sponsored by PBR) this Saturday night. Hannibal, Pat McKenna and the band Even in Blackouts will be there and we will be celebrating our return to the Heartland Cafe complex, which we left back in 2000. This is our first night back. If all that is not enough, we are pleased as punch to be joined by some super Chicago theater celebrities for this show. David Kodeski, Diana Slickman, Phil Ridarelli and John Pierson will be in the house performing plays from their time with the hit show “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind”. Now if you have been in Chi for than a month, chance are you’ve seen Too Much Light. It’s the show that does 30 plays in 60 minutes. They’ve been selling out shows for years and they’ve seen some amazing cast members go through the neo-futurarium. So in the spirit of going back in time to 1998 to our time at the Heartland, we bring you some of that cast from the 1990’s. It’s going to be an amazing night since they haven’t performed this stuff in a long while. I’m excited.
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05.01.08PBR Tour: Patrick McKennaBefore we forget, tune into Chicago Tonight tonight at 7pm to see Schad talk about our new TV show. With that said, let’s get back to the stage! The Red Line Tap is a big show for us with a great line-up that includes our buddy Pat McKenna. Pat is a director at Second City and has performed a ton at the Old Town comedy club. Pat can be seen in our short film “Laundry Day”. He plays Voorhies’ accountant. If you know Pat or Pat’s work, you know you are in for a kick-ass show as he brings a bit of his brand of stand-up to the stage. Check out Pat in Laundry Day…
