Human Giant

Human Giant @ UCB LA, Feb 24, 2008 (Eric Appel)Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event. Human Giant, scheduled at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday, March 13, 2008, with doors opening at 8PM, has been cancelled...

Brian Posehn on strike (cred)Mess With Texas, an annual party thrown in Austin, in the south by southwestern region of the US, at the same time as a certain other major music festival, has expanded in its second year to a massive, outdoor, FREE, ALL AGES event with three stages and an exclusive Austin performance from headliners The Breeders and NOFX and A-list comedians likeJaneane Garofalo, MTV's Human Giant and Brian Posehn...

not for the faint of heart, NSFW, etc...

You Should Probably Go To Rififi Tonight (Feb 8)...... Why? Because every Friday night (this month at least) Rififi (332 east 11th, b/t 1st and 2nd) plays host to The Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy Show...

DOWNLOAD: The Forms - Knowledge in Hand (MP3) Greg Johnson @ Knitting Factory, NYC - Jan 29, 2008 (Anya Garrett) It is with an unprecedented amount of glee that I annouce a new monthly party brought to you by BrooklynVegan and I (Klaus Kinski) called BrooklynVegan and Klaus Kinski present Rock n' ROFL (or just "Rock n' ROFL" for short)...

Human Giant have announced a comedy tour today to promote Human Giant Season One on DVD (out March 4), and Human Giant Season Two on MTV (premieres March 11) ...

Rob Huebel & Aziz Ansari @ Rififi, NYC - Jan 23, 2008 (Marianne Ways) * Violens plays Pianos * The Cool Kids are at Studio B * Corn Mo is playing Mercury Lounge * Rhett Miller is playing Blend in Ridgewood * Amanda Blank + Spankrock DJs are @ Hiro Ballroom * Neurosis, Mastodon, US Christmas, Brooklyn * Download a US Christmas track @ Paper Thin Walls * Growing and IUD are playing Death By Audio * Kaki King is playing w/ Benevento @ Sullivan Hall * Marc Ribot and Laurie Anderson are playing The Stone * Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music) & Ben Nichols of Lucero are @ Maxwell's * Kelly from the Rosebuds is doing comedy in Ochi's Lounge @ Comix * Comedian Max Silvestri Like's Attention @ Sound Fix The above picture was taken at one of the last Invite Them Up shows ever...

this picture (by Joel Barhamand) isn't even of comedy, but it did happen at Rififi where comedy often happens..... I already posted a reminder that Human Giant is at UCB again tonight, but I didn't mention the "It Is It" show happening earlier in the evening at Pianos:hosted by Adam Lowitt of the Daily Show with special guests: Demetri Martin, The Daily Show Rob Cantrell, Last Comic Standing Sara Schaefer, host of the DL Matt Goldich, Comedy Central Joselyn Hughes, The Slumber PartyAlso read through the recent Eugene Mirman post for other upcoming NYC shows...

Human Giant is back at the UCB Theatre every Monday in January. Reserve some tickets now. You'll be entertained by the likes of Rob Huebel (who told us his favorite albums of 2007), Paul Scheer (who also told us what he listened to in 2007), Aziz Ansari (who never sent in his 'Best of 2007'), and probably a bunch of other very special guests...

the sixth in a series where we asked comedians to tell us what was good this year.... Jonah Ray is a surprisingly tall comedian from LA. He's also got a pretty impressive resume...