I know the poster is ultra-classy, but honestly we’re roasting a movie about a whore falling in love with a guy who has enough cheddar to rent her out for the week, so who cares? And for the record, we know the “gerbilling” thing (disturbing text behind that link) isn’t true; doesn’t mean it’s not hilarious.
What if Cinderella was a whore? Wouldn’t that be sweet? Well it really was sweet in 1990! The ho was Julia Roberts and she met this piggie-eyed guy who had enough money to rent her out for the WHOLE WEEK. You’ll have to see what happens after that. Why not see it with us as we tear this paper-thin plot premise to shreds! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wish Julia Roberts wasn’t so flat-chested.
Alright, there’s been a big problem lately in the Kansas Improv scene and it has to do with too narrow a focus on the whole “performing improv” aspect of what we do. I think broadening our horizons a bit is the best way to combat this and by broadening our horizons I mean going to the target Portrait Studio (no affiliation) and getting portraits made of ourselves in sporting gear. Our athletic prowess in these photos is obvious. Enjoy…
Erik Johnson of CounterClockwise Comedy in Kansas City
Erik Johnson ready for the grid-iron-dojo.
Ashley Kirk of CounterClockwise Comedy in Kansas City
Ashley Kirk showing off her no hands on the pig skin style.
Wade Meredith of CounterClockwise Comedy in Kansas City
Wade Meredith looking to serve somebody.
Bess Wallerstein of CounterClockwise Comedy in Kansas City
Come out and see CounterClockwsie Comedy on Saturday, September 26th at a special event. We’ll be filming this show and tickets are half price. It’s only $5. If you’ve been waiting to see one of our hilarious live shows, this is the one!
We’ll be performing our Red Carpet Improv live comedy show at Screenland Theater Crossroads. It’s totally improvised and 100% made to order just for you. There’ll never be another one like some come out and laugh with us… The full-service bar opens at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm. See you there!
90 minutes full of piping hot improvisational comedy, made to order. (Think Who’s Line Is It Anyway? but dirtier, with less Drew Carey and you can buy booze.) Each show is one of kind and created entirely on the spot based on audience suggestions.
Advance Tix – $5 Online Box Office Tix – $5 at the door No one under 17 in the Theater, Please Full bar service available This show will be filmed View Map (opens in new window)
Hey gang. We’ve gone and acquired a Riff Trax account, so we can upload our commentary and you guys can download it online. So far, we have our Jurassic Park and Top Gun movie roasts uploaded.
Check out the Top Gun Preview above with Erik, Bess and I doing a little roasting. If you want to download the audio track off the CounterClockwise Comedy account at RiffTrax.com, it’s $1.99. Then you just play it alongside your copy of the movie, a la Pink Floyd and The Wizard of OZ (but with less psychedelics and more laughter). There are detailed instructions in the track itself of where to sync it up with the movie. Let us know how you like it and check out the preview above.
Apparently, Alan Scherstuhl of The Pitch, stopped by the Jurrasic Park roast and squeezed in a review of the show amongst his regular Kansas-City’s sole-reviewer-of-improv duties. We were glad to have him, and it sounds like he had a blast. Now, if we can only get him to one of our actual improv shows.
I’ve reproduced the buried-in-another-story blurb here. Hit the link at the bottom of this post for the full monty.
Before the Trip Fives’ solo set, I left Westport for the Screenland Theatre, at 17th Street and Washington, to catch CounterClockwise Comedy’s live roast of Jurassic Park. Before a packed house, the movie screened: Dinosaurs romped, and Sam Neill gaped upward in empty Spielbergian wonder. In row one, the CounterClockwise Comedy crew picked cruelly at the film’s bones. They unleashed a wild stream of jokes, from dumb puns to feminist film criticism to suggestions we take a drink every time Spielberg worked Laura Dern’s ass into the shot. Wayne Knight’s plus-sized floral shirt got called “a Holiday Inn comforter”; the interminable first tour of the dinosaur park was compared, at hilarious length, with the animal-less expanses of the Kansas City Zoo.
Come to an island fantasy-land. A land where CCC can finally speak up for a group that has been denied a voice far too long- Velociraptors! Clever girl…
Advance Tix – $10 Online
Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available View Map (opens in new window)
I’m more than a little excited to let you guys know that we will have these shirts for sale at the Top Gun Movie Roast this weekend. They’re printed on American Apparel Classic tees- made in America and screen printed by hand here in Kansas City. They’ll be available at the show for $20 each or 2 for $30 ($15 ea.) We’re cutting this option for the the first run because they ended up costing more than we thought. If they do well, e can order more and price them lower. It’s still a great quality shirt, though. definitely worth the money.
CCC has a missile lock and is taking the shot on Top Gun coming in April. The quintessential 80’s action movie gets roasted by CounterClockwise Comedy in high style on April 10th and 11th. Silhouettes in the dark, shirtless oiled-up volleyball montages set to Kenny Loggins cheese-rock and all 5′7″ of Tom Cruise’s dripping machismo will have no where to hide. It’s going to be a good one.*
Please note that movie times have changed since we’ve added a third show, and tickets are now cheaper if you get them in advance; they go on sale two weeks before the show. (These are both measures to help us keep from turning people away like we did at Karate Kid.)
You can be CounterClockwise Comedy’s wing man anytime. Seriously, come play with the boys at flight school and find out who’s the best of the best; find out who is the top penis gun.
Advance Tix – $10 Online
Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available View Map (opens in new window)
*[I will personally purchase anyone wearing a flightsuit a beer. -Wade]
What are you doing on March 6th and 7th? Are you going to Kansas City’s First Fridays in The Crossroads? Come over the Screenland Theater Crossroads at 17th & Washington and catch CounterClockwise Comedy’s first improv show in their all new space! Busy Friday night? Come Saturday!
Both shows are at 9pm and should run about 90minutes. Full bar service will be available and the bar will remain open for an hour after the show as well if you’d like to hang out and have cocktails. I know that’s what we’ll be doing.
The movie roasts have been really great in this space. If you’ve been enjoying those, come out and see us do our live comedy show the first weekend in March. About half of what you see during the movie roasts is improvised (it just means we make it up on the spot) so there will be more of that and less cheesy cinema. At an improv show the whole thing is made ready to order. We get suggestions from you, and go from there. No show is the same, every show is tailored for the audience in attendance. It’s going to be a blast!
CCC’s FIRST IMPROV SHOW OF 2009
RED CARPET IMPROV
Friday and Saturday
9:00p.m. – March 6th and 7th!
$10.00
Screenland Theater at the Crossroads View Map Get advanced tickets
Our Red Carpet Improv Comedy show is a lot like Whose Line is It Anyway? But with less Drew Carey and more bar service. Each show is unscripted and created entirely on the spot from audience suggestions. Come out and laugh with us at a live comedy event custom-tailored for you.
Advance Tix - $10 Online
Box Office Tix - $10 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available View Map (opens in new window)
Now look: a debatable lazy-eye and a speech impediment is no way to judge whether or not someone can kill you in a fight and Stallone proves it in this 80's action masterpiece. Witness the birth of a legend all over again as we do anything but contain the mess that is John Rambo's life. He was just another drifter who broke the law! Sentenced to 93 minutes of hard roasting, son, them's the brakes...
Advance Tix - $10 Online
Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available View Map (opens in new window)
In horror movies, real vampires don't sparkle, and whiney-vapid girls are meant for snacking not loving. So "Hold on tight, spidermonkey!" (Actual movie dialogue.) It's an evening of fresh-roasted puppy-love schmaltz that is going to take this teen/just-pre-menopausal melodrama sensation to all new heights!
Advance Tix - $10 Online
Box Office Tix - $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available View Map (opens in new window)
