We here at Chet Watkins would like to welcome our newest member, John Roukis, to the team.
John is a respected Magnet Theater veteran. He has been on several UCB Harold Teams and more recently was on hit Magnet Megawatt teams Dynasty and The Imposters. John has already debuted with us last week but you will be able to catch him performing with us again this Wednesday at 10PM.
Comedy!
Chet Watkins is performing twice this Thursday night (Aug 25th) at the Magnet Theater.
10PM Thursday Night Out w/ Junior Varsity & Chet Watkins
11PM Magnet Inspirado – The Magnet Theater’s long form improv comedy competition. Chet Watkins goes up against 5x champions BRICK. Brick must lose, Brick WILL lose.
It’s official. Chet Watkins’s has been selected to perform in the 13th Annual Del Close Marathon hosted by the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre here in NYC. Our performance will come at the end of the festival (you will likely be tired and hung over from watching more than 24+ hrs of shows) on Sunday August 14th at 7:15PM at Urban Stages Theater. Mark your calendars now – August is kind of right around the corner… kind of!
Also, do not forget… show tomorrow at 9pm!
This week we are kicking off Audience Appreciation Month in style. We will have free beers, prizes, a 50/50 draw. Aaaaaand!! You, our amazing audience, will pick the two forms we will perform. We can’t wait to see your smiling faces!
Chet Watkins is honored to have been selected as a “Featured” team in this coming weekends Queens Fringe Festival, an all day improv performance festival. Shows take place all day long, day passes are on sale for $15 a piece.
We are scheduled to take the stage at 7:30PM at the Secret Theater in Long Island City. Other teams that are scheduled to play include Face Off Unlimited (a Chicago Improv Festival pick), International Stinger (from Chicago), iMusical (DC) and our director, Jodi Lennon, will be playing with the NYC/Chicago All stars. It will be a fun day and hey, the world may very well end in the middle of the festival!
Chet Watkins, Saturday May 21st, 7:30pm
Secret Theater, 44-02 23rd St, Long Island City, NY.
On Friday May 13th at 9PM Chet Watkins presents “The Stabbing” @ The Magnet Theater (254 West 29th Street, NYC). A completely improvised horror movie, live on stage. Be scared, be very scared.
We are mere days from our Friday night (10PM) performance at the 2011 Chicago Improv Festival at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N Southport Ave (at Oakdale Ave) and we couldn’t be more excited! TimeOut Chicago had some nice things to say about us after seeing our CIF showcase show earlier in the month…
“These long-form practitioners have a secret weapon: fearless women. The men aren’t half bad either (especially the woolly and magnificent Christian Paluck), but I marveled at how the ladies (including former Second City e.t.c. ensemble member Laura Grey) tackled each scene with bawdy abandon. Based on the suggestion of popcorn, this sextet gave us a travel agent with a dial-up computer (hilarious), a couple shopping for gourmet meats and a finale that brought back characters from previous scenes. All in all, impressive.” -TOC
Tell your Chicago area friends to check us out, spread the word. The amazing slow comedy group, Jake, will be opening for us. If you are a New Yorker, don’t fret. Laura Grey & Lizzie Redner are staying behind to present a completely original improvised show during our new timeslot: 9PM at the Magnet. They will be reading from their Teenage Diaries and improvising off of it. Special Guests are expected! It doesn’t matter where you live this weekend, we all win!
We here at Chet Watkins are excited to announce that we have been selected to perform at the prestigious Chicago Improv Festival.
This years CIF will take place from Monday April 25th to Sunday May 1st and feature 90 different shows from 8 nations and 32 cities. Chet Watkins will be performing on Friday Night (April 29th) with details about time and location pending. Look us up if you are in the area that week.
The Chicago Improv Festival (CIF) was co-founded by Frances Callier and Jonathan Pitts in 1998 as an educational forum. The festival teaches the art of improv, the history of and the potential for innovation within the art form to students of the craft, professional improv artists and the public. While other improv festivals exist around the world, several in the United States, the Chicago Improv Festival is the only festival that has been created solely for the purposes of documenting, promoting and teaching improv as an art form. The founding of the organization in Chicago, Illinois itself speaks to the organization’s commitment to the legacy of improv and promoting that legacy to others. (CIF – Improv Wiki)
When taking pictures for any purpose (business or pleasure) it is important to always remember the motto: Sex Sells. I tell this to my 8th grade students as part of our Persuasion Unit. It doesn’t matter how ugly or fat a person may be, that person can still use his/her sex appeal to to inform, persuade or entertain audiences.
For this reason it is essential to always have “sexy pics” on hand. Sexy pics are pictures taken of a person with a sexual tone and/or expression. There are several ways to develop the nature of a sexy pic, but these are some basic guidelines.
#1: Take sexy pics whenever you travel. This particular sexy pic session was taken when my roommate and I wanted to do a “The Wire Tour” of Baltimore. Nice Baltimore hotels are REALLY cheap, so it was great location to take some sexy pics. For the most part, Baltimore is not a sexy city. I used my iPhone as a camera for these sexy pics.
#2: Choose a sexy pose. This sexy pose utilizes the basic idea that I am a large feline growling and scratching at you. For some reason this pose makes people feel sexy. There are several sexy poses you can make, many of them are animal poses. I was inspired by the complimentary cheetah robe that the hotel provided.
#3: Take a sexy pic in a location that implies sex. This is a picture I took in the shower of our hotel room. Obviously, a shower is a sexy place. Other sexy places are (in no particular order): dark caves, dance clubs and janitor’s closets.
#4: Make an orgasmic face. This final tactic is useful when you have a mirror present. Some orgasm-faces are very unsexy. In fact, I would urge most males to NOT use this technique. If you have difficulty making an orgasmic expression, then emulate the expression that a Food Network host (see Giada DeLaurentiis) makes after taking a bite of their own food.
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