We're gonna go back in time!

Movie Roast: Back to the Future 
@Screenland Theater in The Crossroads
9:30 PM – Friday, March 9th
9:30 PM – Saturday, March 10th

In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.  Get ready for CounterClockwise Comedy’s first roast of 2012.  We’re pumping ourselves full of 1.21 gigawatts of funny to get us through time travel, eighties fashion and Huey Lewis anthems.

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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Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?
The Dude : Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

CounterClockwise Comedy continues this month with their newest live performance of  Lebowski Live - a live interactive performance focused on the epic comedy The Big Lebowski. Dress up as your favorite character, challenge Jesus to a round of bowling,  drink plenty of White Russians and lay on our rug – it really does tie the room together.  This is Lebowski like you’ve never seen it before!

• LEBOWSKI LIVE:The Big Lebowski
  @Screenland Theater: The Armour
  9:00 PM – Saturday, October 1st
• 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)

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

KC Newbz – Kansas City’s new-transplants/event-goers/podcasters were at our Karate Kid movie roast and they gave us a great review. (They did, however, call us Kansas City Comedy Club… and they butcher the joke they quote, but what the hey, right?)

You can download the podcast here: KC Newbz – Kansas City Roller Derby & Karate Kid Roast. (iTunes link.) The Karate Kid Review starts at 12:30 into the track.

KC Newbz website is here: KCNewbz.com.