• We’re gonna need a bigger grill… Join as we watch the seminal horror classic: Jaws. If you play it backwards it’s a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach. We will be playing it forward and cracking wise. Come join us!

• Movie Roast: Jaws
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9:30 PM – Friday, June 11th
  9:30 PM – Saturday, June 12th

• Advance Tix – $10 Online
  Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
  No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
  Full bar service available
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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!

@Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
9:30 PM – Friday, May 21st
9:30 PM – Saturday, May 22nd

Advance Tix – $10 Online
Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available
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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…

9:30 PM – Friday, April 9th
9:30 PM – Saturday, April 10th

Advance Tix – $10 Online
Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
Full bar service available
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Pretty Woman Movie Roast

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.

The details:

• First Show: 9:30PM – Friday, Feb 26th
• Second Show: 9:30PM – Saturday, Feb 27th
• Advance Tix – $10 Buy Online Now
  
• Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
• No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
• Full bar service available
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The Body Guard Movie Roast

• Come get a piece of it as we trash Whitney’s career like we’re Bobby Brown. This will be like shooting fish in a Waterworld. AND-Ieeeeeee-e-Ieeeeeee-e-Ieeeeeee will always laugh at you-ooooo-O-ooooo-O-ooooo-O-o-O-o-O-o…
• Movie Roast: The Bodyguard
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9PM – Friday, November 14th
  9PM – Saturday, November 15th
• Advance Tix – $10 Online
  Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
  No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
  Full bar service available
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Night of The Living Dead Movie Roast

Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiiins… This month, the weekend before Halloween, we’re taking it back to the old school (’cause we’re so cool) with the zombie flick that wrote the modern day walking-dead canon. CounterClockwsie Comedy is roasting Night of The Living Dead.

We’ll also be hosting a costume contest before the show! So get all scary-fied, come out and laugh your face off…

• Movie Roast: Night of The Living Dead
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9PM – Friday, October 23rd
  9PM – Saturday, October 24th
• Skip getting mugged at haunted houses in the west bottoms and come have a laugh and a drink with us as we shred the zombie film that started it all. Who says a politically subversive gore-fest can’t be laugh-out-loud hilarious?
• Advance Tix – $10 Online
  Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
  No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
  Full bar service available
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Red Carpet

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!

• Red Carpet Improv- LIVE Comedy Show!
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9PM Saturday Sept. 26th
• 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
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ET Movie Roast Poster

Beat the heat with CCC as we lampoon that childhood standby, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Cold beers and cocktails will be served all night along with hearty belly laughs. Stay tuned for a preview…

• Movie Roast: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9:45PM – Friday, July 10th
  7PM & 9:45PM – Saturday, July 11th
• Help CounterClockwise Comedy send the creepy/cute little monster back where he came from. Follow the trail of Reese’s Pieces to one hilariously good time as we slowly destroy your precious family-movie memories.
• Advance Tix – $10 Online
  Box Office Tix – $12 at the door
  No one under 17 in the Theater, Please
  Full bar service available
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Red Carpet

What are you doing on Friday and/or Saturday night this weekend? Does it involve laughing your socks off? Well it does now…

Don’t miss us performing our second round of Red Carpet Improv at The Screenland Theater Crossroads. It’s in the very same space as our movie roasts, but it’s 90 minutes of live comedy with a short intermission. If you’ve never seen an improv show before, it’s all made up on the spot and based on audience suggestions. There’s no script, it’s not staged and what results is a totally unique show made for the audience that’s as spontaneously funny as comedy gets.

Come join us:

• Red Carpet Improv- LIVE Comedy Show!
  @Screenland Theatre in The Crossroads
  9PM June 5th & 6th (Friday & Saturday)
• 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 – $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)

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.

Improv troupes kill in Westport; The Taffetas is a sugar rush – The Pitch