Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2009

The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival features the nation's best comedy on several stages over 7 days.

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-The OOBlog AKA News and Views -

Go to http://oob.tumblr.com for a live-blog of the festival as it happens! Post pictures or text to the blog at oob@tumblr.com or online at http://oob.tumblr.com/submit!

- The Independent at 501 Studios Will be Our Sunday Venue -

The Independent has been booked to be our Big Sunday Headliner venue. It seats about 180 packed tight so expect both of our incredible Sunday shows to sell out soon after tickets go up for sale, which is TOMORROW!

The Independent is at 501 North I-35 in the 501 Studios complex.

Labels: headliner, improv, sunday, the independent, venue

by Bearded Lamb, Friday, July 31, 2009 0 Comments

- Improv Monologue Project Confirmed -

We at OOB Headquarters are superbly jazzed to announce another fantastic act appearing at this year's festival.

Mike Fly, creator of the Improv Monologue Project will be coming all the way from Canada to Austin, shooting new OOB exclusive monologues with local and traveling performers. Each improviser gets a prop and a location and that's it. The rest is improvised. We're super excited to have the I.M.P. and will be posting all of the monologues you can handle and probably even more than that. Here's a taster:

I.M.P. will be featured in the Double Eagle short films showcase show at The Hideout but also sprinkled somewhat randomly throughout the festival's other shows. Pretty freakin' sweet, eh?

Labels: 2009, colin mochrie, double eagle, i.m.p., improv monologue project, mike fly, video

by Bearded Lamb, Thursday, July 23, 2009 0 Comments

- Cackowski and Talarico of Dasariski are IN! -

Any of you who were around in 2006 when Dasariski played the Sunday show at Esther's during the festival indubitably remember it as an incredible piece of improv. Well, they're coming back.

Craig Cackowski and Rich Talarico have just confirmed their appearance in the big Sunday Headlining Show for OOB.

The rest of the amazing schedule is virtually TBA free now.

More info about shows on the way soon.

Labels: 2009, cackowski and talarico, dasariski, headliner, improv

by Bearded Lamb, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 0 Comments

- Slow Children Crossing Promo -

I've had this song running through my mind all day.

Be sure not to miss Slow Children Crossing in their Austin sketch debut Saturday, September 5 as part of OOB's fantastic sketch lineup!

Labels: 2009, sketch, slow children crossing

by Bearded Lamb, Thursday, July 16, 2009 0 Comments

- SCRAM Officially Booked -

Killer improv duo SCRAM has just officially confirmed their appearance in the 2009 Out of Bounds Big Headliner's Show on Sunday, Sept. 6th.

Joe Bill of Bassprov (Chicago) and Jill Bernard of Resist Butch (Minneapolis) cheat on their respective improv duos to bring you "SCRAM," which blends elements of Joe's signature form, "The Scramble," with Jill's solo show "Drum Machine."

More to come regarding this bucket of awesometacity as developments develop.

Labels: 2009, headliner, improv, jill bernard, joe bill, scram

by Bearded Lamb, Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2 Comments

- Out of Bounds Memories: Punch Drunk Comedy -

In my capacity as Producer for Out of Bounds, I have, since 2002, seen a ton of memorable shows on the OoB stage. Over the next couple of weeks leading up to the 2009 festival, I will recap some of the more memorable (at least for me) performances that I've seen over the years.

The first is Punch Drunk Comedy from 2003.

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Our sketch comedy friends from Dallas, Punch Drunk Comedy first came to my attention when they arrived at my house to stay with Jeremy Lamb, Craig Kotfas, and me when we were living together in North Austin. I had no idea what they would be like when I went to see them the first time, but after one show, I was hooked.

It was a no-brainer to have them at Out of Bounds in 2003, and they were certainly up to the task. Playing on the downstairs stage at The Hideout, I don't think anyone had any idea what they were in for when PDC took the stage, but they were thunder from the outset...gross, completely outside-the-box, 'OMG they didn't just do/say/spray the stage with that' kind of thunder.

Firmly imprinted in my mind is the image of Rasa Hollender chasing her children as a psychopathic mother as they drive away from her house, turning the sweet old woman into a creepy nightmarish vision from hell, and I will never forget the fortune-telling head of Crystal Gayle in a box.

The thing, however, that will forever endear me to Punch Drunk, aside from the fact that I once played a giant slice of pizza in one of their shows, is their spot-on live action recreation of the "Take on Me" video by 80's Scandanavian rock giants A-Ha. Silly, high impact, careening out of control, but faithful as can possibly be, this was the sketch that, to me, said that these guys weren't just surrealists who could gross you out with the craggiest depths of their minds, but that they knew how to craft a sketch that could bring that iconic MTV moment to life.

Punch Drunk haven't, to my knowledge, played together for a while, but Rasa still lives in my old apartment in Austin, where I am glad to know that she's holding down for the kids from Dallas. When I think of the early days of OoB, I always think of them.

Labels: oob memories, punch drunk, sketch

by Mike, Monday, July 06, 2009 1 Comments