Ritalin Readings has returned from summer hiatus with a great lineup:
Sara Schaefer (Best Week Ever)
Jack Kukoda (Comedian!)
Rachel Sklar (The Huffington Post)
Dennis DiClaudio (Comedy Central)
Brook Lundy (Some Ecards)
Ritalin Readings is hosted by Gabriel Delahaye and me and produced by Jon Friedman.
The Slipper Room
Stanton and Orchard
8pm
$5
Time flies!
We have a really great line up this month, one of the best ever, I'm
so excited.
Larry Murphy (Adult Swim)
Andres Du Bouchet (Conan O'Brien)
Dan Allen (Comedy Central's Premium Blend)
Megan Ganz (The Onion)
Colleen Werthmann (Law and Order, The Sopranos)
Hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye, produced by Jon Friedman.
Ritalin Readings
Monday, March 3rd
8PM
5$
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St (at Stanton)
And afterwards, we will hang out. Yay!
This Monday, February 4, at 8 pm at The Slipper Room! We have the venue for the entire night so there will be a MIXER afterwards! Produced by Jon Friedman and hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye. This month's lineup:
Sara Schaefer
John Sellers
Bex Schwartz
Jane Borden
Jason Roeder
Ritalin Readings
Monday, February 4th
8PM
5$
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St (at Stanton)
With a really especially awesome lineup:
Elna Baker
Patrick Borelli
Lang Fisher
Will Leitch
Sean O'Connor
Jon Friedman
Ritalin Readings is hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye and produced by Jon Friedman. Details:
Wednesday, December 5
8pm
The Slipper Room
Stanton and Ludlow
$5
It's the one night a month I have to go out. Luckily, these writers and comedians will make it all worth it:
Elna Baker
Patrick Borelli
Lang Fisher
Will Leitch
Sean O'Connor
Jon Friedman
Ritalin Readings is hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye and produced by Jon Friedman. Details:
Wednesday, December 5
8pm
The Slipper Room
Stanton and Ludlow
$5
Reminder that Ritalin Readings is now at The Slipper Room (Stanton and Orchard). Also, we just heard that we'll have the room after the show as well, so we're going to have a little after party with friends ipod-djing. Show starts at 8pm, $5, awesome lineup.
Ritalin Readings is back, and will now occur every month at The Slipper Room. Next week's show:
Wednesday THURSDAY, November 1st
8pm, $5
Hosted by Gabriel Delahaye and myself, produced by Jon Friedman
And a new short funny film by Jon Friedman
Gabe has put up the podcast of last week's Ritalin Reading. (The AC was broken at Mo's so we referred to that a lot.) Readers were:
Ellie Kemper (McSweeney’s, Channel 102)
Rich Juzwiak (aka Rich Fourfour)
Jon Friedman (Rejection Show)
Colin Jost (SNL Writer)
Laurie Kilmartin (Best Week Ever, Tough Crowd, Jimmy Kimmel)
Gabe and Jenny (At Night with Gabe and Jenny)
Rich Juzwiak (aka Rich Fourfour)
Laurie Kilmartin (Best Week Ever, Tough Crowd, Jimmy Kimmel)
Gabe and Jenny (At Night with Gabe and Jenny)
Ellie Kemper (McSweeney's, Channel 102)
Colin Jost (SNL Writer)
Info here (link fixed)
* We posted the August Ritalin Reading lineup. Also there is now a widget type deal right there to your right that will have the upcoming lineup as soon as it's posted. I was very busy this weekend.
* Speaking of, the aforementioned I Like Attention show last night was SO AWESOME. Every second of it was hysterical - I highly recommend going next month.
With a great lineup as always, in no particular order:
Brent Sullivan
Aileen Gallagher
Jesse Popp
Chelsea Peretti
Julie Klausner
Joe Mande
Doors at 7, Show at 7:30. Hosted by me and Gabe Delahaye, Produced by Jon Friedman. Info/tickets.
Gabe has gone and put up the latest Ritalin Readings podcast, which I still wish was broken up into sections (hint hint). The readers were awesome, as always!
The lineup for Tuesday's Ritalin Reading (7:30pm at Mo Pitkin's) is really great:
* Jon Daly and Brett Gelman (Cracked Out)
* Eliot Glazer
* Dan Kennedy
* Jack Kukoda
* Rachel Sklar
The theme is "Most Embarrassing Moments." I'm actually reading at this one instead of being useless! (I have a lot of embarrassing moments.)
I've been sick since Sunday (Sunday! And today is the worst day!) but come out to RITALIN READINGS tomorrow night (as seen in this week's New Yorker) for the following awesomeness:
Alex Blagg!
Jon Friedman!
Greg Johnson!
Adam Lowitt!
Kristen Schaal!
Mandy Stadtmiller!
Links to their stuff and all the info is here.
Hosted by Me and Gabe Delahaye.
Also I went to the Human Giant 24 Hour MTV takeover last Friday night (Thanks to Jen and Amrit) and met Bob Odenkirk and told him about David's Law and it was so meta and awesome but I can't even blog about it appropriately because I have the flu and can barely care about anything at all, even something that important.
This is my favorite Human Giant sketch, though: Commercial Jingles (Watch both videos, also, look for Kristen Schaal in the second one.)
* Just so there's no confusion, I'm not guest-blogging on a Law blog. This is one of those Postal Service v US Postal Service situations where confusion is not possible. (I would like to see some Highdeas over there though. Also, I hope I'm The Postal Service in that analogy.)
* Jonathan Coulton in the New York Times wooooo!!
* The lineup for the May 24th Ritalin Reading (next Thursday!) is set. It's very comedian-heavy this month, which was accidental, but awesome:
Alex Blagg (VH1 Best Week Ever)
Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show)
Greg Johnson (Comedian)
Adam Lowitt (The Daily Show)
Kristen Schaal (Comedian)
Mandy Stadtmiller (Comedian)
* This Wednesday, May 16, at 8: I'm a panelist on What's My Line? Live at Parkside Lounge. I'm told the surprise celebrity guest will be awesome (but that's true every month.)
I was going to spend part of my day off today separating it into sections by reader but that turned out to be overly ambitious so: Gabe has the podcast of last week's Ritalin Reading.
Big thanks to everyone who came out to Ritalin Readings last night! It was so so fun. I am too tired to describe how fun, but so fun, and all the readers were hilarious. Here are some things:
Jon Friedman's "Opening Credits" for last night's Ritalin Reading:
* Emily Gould gets the last word (maybe) at Jimmy Kimmel. I want what she says at the end to be my ringtone.Tonight at Mo's at 9pm: Ritalin Readings! Lineup:
This show's vague theme is "Marry/F**k/Kill" and the 4-minute time limit per reader will be enforced with supersoakers 99 cent store squirt guns.
Hosted by Gabriel Delahaye and me.
Produced by Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show)
Readers:
April 24th at 9PM
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction 34 Avenue A (b. 2nd and 3rd St.) F or V train to Second Ave. 212-777-5660 $6
Just announced: the lineup for April's Ritalin Readings, Tuesday April 24 at 9 pm (note the late start time for this date only.)
This show's vague theme is "Marry/F**k/Kill" and the 4-minute time limit per reader will be enforced with supersoakers.
Hosted by Gabriel Delahaye and me.
Produced by Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show)
April Readers:
April 24th at 9PM
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction 34 Avenue A (b. 2nd and 3rd St.) F or V train to Second Ave. 212-777-5660 $6
(photo by Whatevs, obvs)
The podcast (or whatever) of last week's Ritalin Reading is up on Gabe's site. As he points out, it is 64 minutes long. I haven't heard the part yet where I suck helium from an "it's a girl!" balloon and recite the last line of "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, but I hope it's as funny on the podcast as it was in my head (and funnier than it was live.) The readers are, in order:
Max Silvestri
Emily Gould
Ben Greenman
Jon Friedman
Heather Lawless
Darci Ratliff and Matt Tobey
Todd Levin
Thank you Jon Friedman for recording it and putting it online! We're going to have a monthly podcast once we figure out what podcasting actually is. Also, don't worry if you don't get the visual jokes -- it will be just like actually being there!
Nate from The Apiary took this photo at Ritalin Readings while Emily was reading her Gawker mail. I love it:
Grambo has a nice writeup of Ritalin Readings, with photos (check out Emily's rack!)
He'll be happy to learn that, starting next month, the time limit WILL be enforced. With SuperSoakers! (Really.)
Also, I'm going to do a thing where I point out people in the audience who need drinks.
Ritalin Readings was so fun! Next month's will be on April 24th, and there will be a THEME. There will be a podcast up THIS WEEK if you missed the show. For real.
Gabe, who drank less than me last night, has written two posts about it. To this one, this is my answer: I will become blood siblings with you but only if I'm allowed to use a finger condom. (Also, check out that link for the world's lowest paid hand model.)
I saw my first finger condoms while working as a waitress at a country club in Tallahassee, Florida, and was delighted by their endless comedy potential. Finger condoms are funny because guys get weird around them. Especially when a waitress is holding one up and yelling "You dropped your specially designed condom for your penis!"
Anyway, finger condoms. hahaha. I just alienated my male demographic.
Going to Ritalin Readings tonight? Revisit Gabriel's male modeling gallery so you get all the jokes. DO IT!
DOORS/SEATING/DRINK ORDERATION AT 7PM / ACTUAL SHOW AT 7:30 PM
The most excellent lineup:
Emily Gould (Editor, Gawker)
Ben Greenman (The New Yorker, Author of the new book A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love)
Heather Lawless (Comedian, Premium Blend, Variety SHAC)
Todd Levin (Comedian, Premium Blend)
Max Silvestri (Comedian)
'These Modern Socks' (Darci Ratliff and Matt Tobey of Junkiness, in NYC for one special night!)
RIP my left back molar, 1984-or-something - 2007, which was extracted torn out of my head in the most violent, athletic way possible by my dentist this morning. Valuable Lesson: when they say you need a root canal, don't be a scared little pussy and put it off "because it doesn't hurt right now!" Upon my request, the dentist gave me the tooth in an envelope, in 3 pieces, two of which aren't gross. I might make a necklace. I wanted to do a version of the old "Doctor, will I be able to play piano?" joke but with "give good bjs" in place of "play the piano". But I didn't, for obvious reasons (hi future employers!)
But seriously: no fun! And even though I don't think it will be detectable, I really don't appreciate the meth-y, trashy implications of being a person who is missing a tooth.
REMINDER: RITALIN READINGS IS TOMORROW NIGHT!! It's the comedy pick of the week in The Onion. It's going to be a great one.
The next Ritalin Reading is Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 pm at Mo Pitkin's. (Note the new time: it was 7 but now it's 7:30.)
Here is the lineup:
Hosts: Gabriel Delahaye and Me, doing some sort of thing where we pretend to hate each other but really love each other but secretly actually hate each other, probably. Gabe is mean.
Producer: Jon Friedman
Lineup:
* Emily Gould (Editor, Gawker)
* Ben Greenman (The New Yorker, McSweeney's)
* Heather Lawless (Comedian)
* Todd Levin (Comedian)
* Max Silvestri (Comedian)
*'These Modern Socks' (Darci Ratliff and Matt Tobey of Junkiness, in NYC for one special night!)
And then we'll all retire to that other room to drink and congratulate each other. It will be a fun night. Yay!
You know that "monthly" reading series I've been doing since 2004 that's billed as "The reading series for the ADD generation", Ritalin Readings? You know, the one that I keep losing interest in, forgetting about, and then resurrecting each Spring? (Like, how totally appropriate is that?)
Well, it's back, with a (slightly) better website!
And a new co-host: hilarious person and original Gawker pinup boy Gabriel Delahaye.
Save the date: Tuesday, March 27, 7pm, Mo Pitkins.
(BTW, that logo I made sucks (obviously). If anyone wants to make a better one, please email me!)
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