I write to you from the depths of procrastination (as I’m sure you, too, have reached, if you see fit to read this). And, in the interest of transparency, I feel compelled to divulge that I’m also a few glasses of two-buck Chuck deep, on which I’ll pin any sentimentality.
In any case, I feel an urgent need to thank each and every one of you for a fantastic four years as a Funner. If I had the time, determination or lumbar strength to bequeath to you each a hug, it would be yours with all the gusto of Elton John on Boxing Day. Instead, take my deepest gratitude for letting myself and the rest of the LF crew hawk our mind jetsam as performance fodder for you, show after show. Throughout my four years donning this (ill-fitting) Liquid Fun shirt, you all showed up, without fail, to watch us cobble disjointed brain vomit into original comedy. As much as we Funners joke that we do improv for ourselves, I hope you all recognize the irreplaceable role you each play in the audience as so many barometers of where the funny lies. This train couldn’t go anywhere without you weirdos.
I couldn’t possibly be prouder or more desperately jealous to be leave Liquid Fun at such a crest. It swells my heart and nethers to imagine what heights (and terrible, despicable depths) the Funners will reach come September.
Sex with me is like sex with a long-winded passing-of-the-torch blog post,
The time has finally come. As Spring Semester draws to a
close, we must say farewell to our Seniors. Join us in our LAST SHOW of the year and the final show with Liquid Fun for:
Shawn!
Alex!
Duffy!
Will!
Nick!
Lea!
Tao!
Some of them have been with us for up to four years! This is your last chance to see them all together.
If you only see one more Liquid Fun show, have it be this one!
As always: It’s free! It’s fun! It’s Liquid?
The cast:
Shawn Musgrave
Alex Pomerantz
Duffy Duffy
Will Huebner
Lea Madda
Nick Sawyer
Tao Yang
and Ari Stern (yeah he’s not a senior, but he whined his way in)
Help Shawn and Ari in the TBS Stand Up Comedy Competition!
April 12, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Hello everyone! Starting today at 3 pm is round 3 of the TBS National College Comedy Competition. Our own Ari Stern and Shawn Musgrave have advanced to this round and need your vote! Follow this link to help out! (you can vote more than once if you don’t care about democracy)
It’s true. The plagues are coming again! You may not have noticed but, luckily one Funner, Ross Huston, has a keen eye for coincidence. The curses are slightly different but the signs are all still there!
1: Alex cut himself on The Esplanade (The Charles runs with BLOOD!)
2: Uncensored Hour of the marathon was filled with weird things being done to frogs (FROGS!)
3: Duffy’s been itching his hairy hairy butt (LICE?)
4: No one’s done the dishes in weeks! (FLIES?)
5: Jasper and Ian wont stop ogling girls (PESTILENCE?)
6 Delaney and Cat have been making a lot of pasta (BOILS?)
7: Fuhrer Sawyer keeps demanding everyone to bow down (HAILS?)
8. Jimmy is trying to sell a date with him self for next to nothing! (LOW-COSTS?)
9. And Will’s been running around with a black bag over his head (DARKNESS!)
It doesn’t take a Rabbi to know what’s coming next…
THIS SATURDAY : LIQUID FUN PRESENTS ITS SECOND-TO-LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR: “THE FIRST BORN FUN”
Join us for a hilarious night of improv fun for all creeds. It’s the last time some Funners will perform this semester!
For those Liquid Fun friends that can’t make it…announcing the Running on Empty Live Stream! Just click this link and watch the marathon anytime from beginning to end.
The rest of you, still come! And for those of you on the internet at 4 am, we met c-o-m-e come!
In case you haven’t seen this week’s searing expose of RUNNING ON EMPTY 2012 in this week’s Boston Comedy Examiner, here’s a taste:
On Friday, March 23, Boston University’s premiere improv group Liquid Fun will embark on its 7th annual “Running on Empty” marathon, a 24-hour improv festival to benefit the Greater Boston Food Bank. Since 2005, Liquid Fun’s annual marathon has grown markedly in attendance and guest performances, but this year’s event raises the bar: more than 16 improv troupes from across Boston and Massachusetts are set to perform between 7 PM on Friday until the closing bell at 7 PM on Saturday, March 24. Guest troupes include ImprovBoston’sFace Off, Improv Jones Boston, First impACT Theater, Kitsch In Sync and Hamaconda. The festival will also include ten college troupes from BU, Northeastern, Harvard, Brandeis, Emerson, Gordon, WPI and UMass Amherst and 2012 ImprovBoston College Comedy Beanpot champions NU & Improv’d (Northeastern).
It’s here! This year’s “Running on Empty” marathon benefit is bigger than EVER! From 7 PM on Friday, March 23 until the closing bell at 7 PM on Saturday, March 24, your Funners and more than 16 professional and college comedy groups from around Boston and Massachusetts will take the BU Central stage for 24 hours of non-stop funny, all to raise money for the Greater Boston Food Bank!
All your favorites are back for this seventh-annual LF marathon: Uncensored Hour! Ammunition Hour! Alumni Hour! Newbie Hour! Skirtprov! More delirious incoherence and whimsy than you can shake a Red Bull at. (PLEASE BRING RED BULL.)
PLUS, new this year: PRIZES! Buy a $3 punchcard (good for 24-hour access) to rack up audience points — the more hours you log at the marathon, the better the loot! (And the more vivid your waking dreams!) While supplies last, obviously — it’s a benefit, y’all.
Click on the new “2012 Marathon!” tab above for the full 2012 “Running on Empty” lineup!
