That means there are lots of fun things to do in and about town including shows and videos!
The Gentlemen of Long Pork are keeping busy too. Aside from gearing up for Sketchfest NYC and our big road trip for it. We’re excited to announce we have a Improv show coming up next week at the Playground!
Wednesday May 26th 8pm. $10
The Playground Theater
3209 N Halsted
Chicago, IL 60657
Seeing as it’s improv it’s going to be COMPLETELY new material. This is only our second show improvising together here in Chicago so come see us!
Okay aside from that you should also check out our good friend Devin Keast in his one man show:
Devin Keast, Gentleman and Sunshineface - Friday night May 28th. This will be his closing night, it’s also $10 and also at the Playground. Devin is great, if you went to our Harold Ramis show you’ve already seen him perform and fill in for Seth. So how could you not go?
If you’re not doing anything this weekend you should check out some dramatic theater completely unassociated with Long Pork:
Sinnerman Ensemble’s Days of Late – Now playing at the Viaduct and closing this weekend. Sinnerman is a local not for profit theater company here in Chicago out of Steppenwolf, awesome people, some of which donated to help get us to NY so go see their show!
John Morrison – (our photographer, webmaster, promoter and jack-of-all-things-not-performing-or-writing) has launched a new photo blog of his street photography for the Tribune. You should take a look: Focal Points.
Zoran – Put out a new video on LowCarbComedy.com! A few of us are in it (and by a few we mean everyone associated with Long Pork except Morgan and Seth.) So you should go watch that.
Actually… ya know what, since we’re such generous guys… here you go, we’ll just embed it for you. Here’s the link just in case.
Oh yeah… then there is this. But we’ll talk more about that later.
Okay pretty people, we’re done telling you what to do for now. Enjoy your summer!
Our friends at Bughouse Theater have graciously invited us to show a video at their monthly “BugHouse Short Film Contest!”.
Last time we showed “VAMPIRES:THE MOVIE” and won second place.
This time we are showing “ZOMBIE CHEF”! I have a sneaking suspicion that this time the crowd will favor us even more because everyone loves Christmas!
What? –innocent look
That doesn’t make sense to you? Zombies. Christmas. Hello? It’s like peanut butter & chocolate. Their perfect together! Come on… I’m… I’m not alone on this.
Guys, back me up.
crickets… crickets…
Guys?
crickets…
WELL, enough jabber from me– ON TO THE DETAILS:
The Upstairs of Mullen’s Bar & Grill in Wrigleyville
[3527 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60657-- call for more info. (773) 325-2319]
Tickets are $10
Doors open at 8:00PM.
The price you pay at the door goes to help Bughouse Theater raise money to get their own space.
Oh, what is BugHouse Theater, you ask? Well, BugHouse Theater is an up-and-coming theater company here in Chicago that may or may not love us enough to put some of our own shows up someday.
Voting is over for the Chicago Metromix “So You Think You Can Funny?” Contest.
We’d like to thank everyone that voted for us and to everyone that voted each day. We really appreciate the love and support. It was really down to the wire. We had a strong lead in the beginning, 13%, eventually dipping down lower and lower. We ended at 7%. Which is amazing when you think about it. A lot of people didn’t even get a percentage.
In short, we feel the love.
Somebody likes us… And it’s you.
And you want to know something… We like you too.
To find out the end-END results, check back on Dec.7th right.
In the meantime, we are working hard on new material, and new video’s, and new words for new. So that way when you come back to visit, you at least know a new word for new.
It’s time to vote for the funniest video in the “So You Think You Can Funny?” Contest for The Second City & Metromix Chicago!
Exciting! Dangerous! Wondrous! We are really exhilarated to be in the running and now we need your votes to be in the Top 5. We’d love to be in the top 5 (who wouldn’t?) and be seen by a panel of Second City alumnus — Fred Willard, Rachel Dratch, Jeff Garlin and Mick Napier!
It goes without saying, but sometimes it’s nice to say, how much we love all of you for the support you give to us.
We would also like to give a shout out to our man, Zoran Gvojic, for his video “Cell Phone P.S.A.“, which is great. So, on the off chance you don’t love “Vampires: The Movie“, at least your vote can go to one of The Gentlemen.
So as you might have guessed from the title of this post, Long Pork won second place. “At what!?!” you may ask. Maybe a free flow dancing contest, a how much weight do you lose after taking a dump contest, or even a which is better: Apple, Microsoft, or Long Pork contest. Well it was none of those! I’ll tell you what it was right (BANG!)….
I’m sorry to interrupt this blog message, but that man had to die. He was evil and didn’t deserve to live, but now he has left us with an unfortunate cliff hanger. What could Long Pork have possible won second place in? Maybe it was (BANG!)….(BANG, BANG,BANG!).
Sorry everyone, I’m not dead as you originally thought. I was only faking it until my evil twin Philip took his attention off me. As I was saying:
LONG PORK took second in the first monthly “BugHouse Short Film Contest!”. “Vampires: The Movie” came in a close second (the other film had more people there to vote). We are super proud of our little film and it’s writer, our amazing Zack.
Oh what is BugHouse? BugHouse is an up-and-coming theatre here in Chicago. It’s a great project that everyone should get behind. To find out more check out www.bughousetheater.com.
Also, look out for “Vampires” to make it’s way into a certain Second City contest for short films (more to be announced soon)!
And lastly, if you stubbled upon this posting and it’s still Friday, November 6th before 10pm and you are looking for some entertainment, LP’s very own Charley Carroll will be performing in “Co-ed Prison Sluts!” at the Annoyance Theatre in Uptown tonight. Go listen to him sing the high notes and croon the low notes, vibrating all the right bones in your body.
Oh yes, and the $5,000,000 dollars that LP stole from the bank is buried right over at 222 M (BANG!)
In the attempt to keep people updated with the goings on of the L Porkers, we just wanted to let everyone know where they can find us at any given moment of the day!
Also, starting later in the month you can find him again at the Annoyance performing in “Splatter Theatre”. A comedic parody of horror films that is not to be missed.
Of course you can always find Zoran at www.lowcarbcomedy.com(and sometimes Charley and Lee too), Seth can be found at your local Pop-eye’s Chicken, and Zack is still quiet…..suspiciously quiet.
