It's one thing to play to a full house, it's quite another to draw a heart flush. Pure & Weary scored both Saturday night during their sold out Monster Show at the Second City's Beat Lounge. Of course, plenty of family showed up to cheer on our favorite sketch comics. But, so did fellow comedians, [...]
The last time my daughter Katherine wore bangs she also wore blue Keds T-strap dress shoes, lacy ankle socks and dresses that tied in a big bow behind her back. She rode bicycles with training wheels and held my hand when she crossed the street. She loved to watch Full House (we called it the [...]
A highlight of our recent trip to Los Angeles was the morning we spent working crew for a Pure & Weary production. With Vince operating the boom and me monitoring the camera, we spent a pleasant, though somewhat exhausting, morning watching them work. We still don't know what a "best boy" or "key grip" is, [...]
In the four months since our daughter moved to L.A., she has totaled a car, unexpectedly couch surfed and fended off a crazy Armenian woman who raised a fist at her and yelled, "I will curse you until the day you die!" So, things are going well. But, really, she and her comedy partner Leah, AKA [...]
Ahead of today's swearing in of our 45th president, our favorite comedy duo re-introduced us to our 29th in a fun, layered, really smart show they called "Roaring in Our Twenties". The hapless Warren G. Harding, often ranked as one of America's worst presidents, ran for office under the slogan,"Return to Normalcy" and served from [...]