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September 18, 2012September 19, 2012

GMX “Geek Comedy Showcase II: Laugh Harder” Accepting Submissions Thru 10/3

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The Geek Media Expo (GMX), the Nashville area’s Next Generation Multi-Fandom exposition, is bringing teh funny to the world of geekdom on Friday, October 26th. The laughs strike back with the Geek Comedy Showcase II: Laugh Harder, part of the featured programming at GMX Volume IV. Featuring five of Middle Tennessee’s FINEST comedians, the Geek Comedy Showcase brings you the best in fandom humor! You WOULD buy this for a dollar!

How to Audition: This year, GMX is going “high tech” via online video auditions! You will need to film a video (webcam videos are fine, just don’t be naked and creepy) to be posted to YouTube (or equivalent video hosting site) featuring YOUR best geek comedy material. The video must be 3 minutes or less.

What is geek comedy? If the content can be found at GMX, that’s what we want! Material focusing on comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, science and technology, action figure collecting, video games, cartoons, Dungeons & Dragons, cosplaying, living in your parents’ basement…this is prime for the Geek Comedy Showcase. We’ve heard all the jokes before about your lack of athletic prowess, flailing marriage, lackluster sex life, inane traffic run-ins with the cops and arguments with the in-laws. Leave those jokes to the Muggles! GMX is the Geek Media Expo, and we are looking for a special brand of comedy and a special breed of comedian for this event. Once you have filmed your video, you will need to post it to YouTube or a similar site. Send us a link to the video. Do not send the video to us directly as an attachment.

Please email video links to: gmx-geek@geekmediaexpo.com.

Judging: A panel of four judges will be selected to rate your audition video based on a host of super secret variables. Not since the KFC recipe has a formula been so closely guarded. Just be funny. That’s all we ask.

The Prize: Winners will receive up to 10 minutes of stage time to perform a comedy routine as part of the 2012 Geek Comedy Showcase. You and a guest of your choosing (imaginary friends welcome) will receive complimentary passes to GMX ($70 value). Please be mindful of the time for your comedy set. We run a very tight schedule at GMX and we simply cannot accommodate overruns.

The Hosts: The Geek Comedy Showcase will once again be hosted by The GMX Girls – Gia, Mia and Xia!

Deadline for Submissions: October 3rd at 11:59 PM. Winners will be announced no later than October 6th.

The Geek Comedy Showcase premiere will take place:

When: Friday, October 26th – 7:00 PM (Time subject to change. The showcase follows opening ceremonies).
Where: Cool Springs Conference Center
700 Cool Springs Boulevard
Franklin, TN 37067
More info about GMX: www.geekmediaexpo.com | www.facebook.com/whatisgmx

If you have any questions, please contact Allison Parham, Geek Channel Coordinator for GMX – allison.parham@geekmediaexpo.com.

(GMX “GEEK COMEDY SHOWCASE II: LAUGH HARDER” VIRTUAL AUDITIONS – 9/18 – 10/3/2012 Facebook event page)

September 18, 2012

Mike Birbiglia’s “Sleepwalk With Me” at The Belcourt

Once again, The Belcourt Theatre reminds us why we love them by showing Mike Birbiglia‘s “Sleepwalk With Me”:

“I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true….I always have to tell people that.” So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer at the outset of his autobiographically inspired, fictional feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. We are thrust into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up comedian struggling with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship threatening to race out of his control, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore. The kind of passionate and personal storytelling that transfigures intimate anguish into comic art, SLEEPWALK WITH ME also delights as a revolving door of today’s stand-up scene. Also starring Marc Maron, Wyatt Cenac and others.

“A funny and insightful film. I could have watched it for 10 hours.” —Judd Apatow

Look at this trailer.. it’s got Henry Phillips (who is hilarious and was just at Zanies) and Marc Maron (who is fantastically funny and was just here at Zanies in July) and of course dang ole Birbigs (who is awesome and was last at Zanies on September 9, 2008, when he was refining his “Sleepwalk With Me” material in preparation for the off-Broadway theatrical run that preceded his book of the same name and now this movie). Check it out:

The Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue
Nashville TN 37212
Movie Line: (615) 383-9140
Main Office: (615) 846-3150

Friday, Sep 21 – Thursday, Sep 27
For showtimes, please visit Belcourt.org

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012

Henry Phillips @ Zanies, wed 9/12

Henry Phillips at Zanies September 12, 2012

Henry Phillips has been seen performing his twisted songs and stories on Comedy Central, ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and NBC’s ‘Late Friday’. He can also be heard regularly on morning and satellite radio nationwide, performing such songs as ‘The Guitar Pill’ and ‘She’s Talking Again’. His nationally released CDs, fusing mellow folk-rock ballads with psychopathic lyrics have earned him mention in Billboard magazine’s ‘Critic’s Choice’, as well as acclaim from such notable artists as Moby, who refers to Phillips as “Disconcertingly Funny”. His biographical comedy film “Punching the Clown” received the Audience award at Slamdance film festival ’09, and is continuing a successful run on the festival circuit. Here’s the trailer:

If you haven’t seen “Punching The Clown” you should, it’s brilliant and it’s on Netflix. A similar project is also being developed as a series for Showtime.

Here’s a video Henry made on his UK tour with Doug Stanhope:

Henry Phillips @ Zanies
Wed Sept 12 7:30 PM

2025 8th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37204
615.269.0221

(Facebook event)

Follow Henry online:
HenryPhillips.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Henry-Phillips/105601826260
http://twitter.com/#!/henlips

August 22, 2012August 22, 2012

Keith Alberstadt, Nate Bargatze and Dan Soder @ Zanies 8/29

Mr. Alberstadt told NashvilleStandUp, “I love performing in Nashville.. especially in August when there’s no threat of snow to keep people hunkered down in the Kroger bread aisle. Plus, I get to see Chad Riden. (He doesn’t know it yet but I need some computer tech help.. and some advice on going bald gracefully.) It’s gonna be a fun week and a killer show on Wednesday!”

Keith Alberstadt, Nate Bargatze and Dan Soder
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM
$15.00 – Buy tickets online at Zanies.com or at 615-269-0221.
18+

Zanies Comedy Showplace
2025 8th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37204