Erik Tanouye 田ノ上
Erik Tanouye is a writer and comic in New York. He performs every Saturday night at 7:30 pm at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York with The Curfew. He also writes for the sketch group Neighbor Boy.
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Pixar Child Pregnancy Test
A new video, featuring Maude Night cohorts Natasha Rothwell, Shannon Taing, and Rob Webber.
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Cell Phone Interruption
I was at this performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony when a cell phone began ringing and Alan Gilbert stopped the concert. So I wrote a sketch about it. Cell Phone Interruption UCBcomedy.com Watch more comedy videos from the twisted minds of the UCB Theatre at UCBcomedy.com
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The Skate Gatsby
The Skate Gatsby UCBcomedy.com Watch more comedy videos from the twisted minds of the UCB Theatre at UCBcomedy.com
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Podcast
I just started a podcast. Get in on the round floor and tell your friends you listened to it way back when. It’s less than 10 minutes, guaranteed!
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Game Of Thrones or Ulysses?
Kevin Hines is nice enough to play along in my low-budget game show. Can he tell the difference between James Joyce’s Ulysses, considered the best novel of the 20th Century by the Modern Library, and A Dance With Dragons, book five of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series, “A Song of Ice and Fire”? (He [...]
What is the IMF? IMF chief’s rape interrogation video
Patrick Clair and Kevin Hines were nice enough to play detectives in this one. They are trying to answer the question: What is the IMF?
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Thom Yorke (featuring Al Jolson)
At the Museum of the Moving Image with Kevin Hines and Silvija today, a clip of Al Jolson’s ground-breaking musical performance in The Jazz Singer reminded me of the video for Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower.”
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National Sketch Writing Month 2010
Consider participating in National Sketch Writing Month. I’m writing a sketch a day all through September. You can follow my progress and read most of the sketches here. Here are the titles of the last two sketches I wrote: David Lee or Philip Roth: The Game Show I Got My Dick Stuck in the Brita [...]
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BP Coffee Spill
We came up with this idea during a writers’ meeting for the sketch show Beneath Gristedes. We liked it so much we decided to make it right away and shot it on Memorial Day. Pete Schultz and Brandon Bassham did a great job directing and editing it, and the whole cast was hilarious and fun. [...]
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The Sexy French Bellhop Who Is Brain Damaged