Sickest at the Alamo - This Sunday

[Asaf]

Sunday, February 8, 2009
7:00pm
South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 South Lamar

Real poker. For Real Money. With Real Sick Stories.

The Line-Up:
Matt Bearden (stand-up, Premium Blend)
Charlie Hodge (morning deejay, KLBJ)
Jessica Shipley (a.k.a. Belle Starr, Texas Rollergirls)
Mike Wiebe (lead singer, Riverboat Gamblers)
with host/dealer Asaf Ronen

The best cast ever, each with huge followings, so you want to book your tix ahead of time: http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6092

Also, we will have prizes for the best audience sick story.

The Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard is an exercise in comedy vérité that’s as bluntly provocative as its title. Five comics play poker onstage, betting real money, drinking real beer and telling real sick stories. As Time Out NY puts it: “Imagine if the Algonquin Round Table were to trade Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley for Howard Stern and Al Goldstein.”

When all the ingredients add up properly, Sickest becomes a startlingly candid round robin of inventive filth, with obscenities and esoteric sexual jargon (e.g., donkey punch, Cleveland steamer) spurting back and forth across the stage. But it offers more than mere scatology. Anecdotes can range from awww-inspiring (a kitten playfully bats at someone’s scrotum during sex) to nauseating (a man jumps into a river and lands inside a barely submerged and considerably softened cow corpse); from friend-of-a-friend tales to chilling confessions. “I said some personal things that I’d never relay now,” Ronen says. “You forget your boundaries when you’re onstage.”

I hope to get as many butts in the seats as possible to let the Alamo know this is a viable ongoing show.

[TexasImprovMassacre]

Gross!

[themoss]

yes please...and don't forget to bring your own sickest story...I hear there are prizes involved.

[themoss]

bumped!

[arthursimone]

nothin' better than a good donkey punch