Terp2It/Chris Trew/Comedy

The Hey Terp! podcast is looking for a skilled fella/homegirl to take over the producing aspects of the project. I’d like to be able to record the audio, email the file to somebody and have them shoot back a completed episode with balanced sound and intro/outro music. One episode a week. There is currently no pay, but if you’re into fair trade then I’m your dude.

Post a comment below if you’re interested and feel free to pass this on. It’s a great way to get involved with someone who thinks that doing this would be a great way to get involved.

One of my favorite people in the world is Mandy Spivey because she:
- work so hard
- is very talented
- consistently dresses the best
- could defeat anyone in battle
- drives a big cool van with cool fuzzy cushions
- is aware of important things
- laughs good
- could probably bike 10,000 miles if she needed to
- lots lots more

Mandy is the hard-working force behind the bloggings over at The New Movement. Read her stuff there and go see her improv troupe The Control Group sometime!

Look at these crazy wild shirts! There are available in the Studio8.net store as well as in person at The New Movement in Austin, Tx. Wearing them will only guarantee one thing: that you are wearing a shirt.

I’ve been involved with the massive week of March in many ways (including a conference hat trick in 2009, omg!) but never ever eeeeeeever as a panel presenter. What would happen? Who would melt? Where would all the fireworks go? These are valid questions, readers. Let’s take it easy and just login and Thumbs Up my panel first and see if the powers that be make it happen.

This is the magical link.

(Oh, also: this post also appears on our world famous improv blog at TNM!)

Put away your ropes and knives, the new Terp2it album has a release month! This November 2010 Terp2it will perform at Austin’s FunFunFun Fest, release an album, and perform a handful of special release-week shows. The album is Half Man Half Beard so Shave the Date.

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Even though I haven’t written about it in a while, I’m still a wrestling fan. Last month at Comic-Con I even took time out of my busy schedule to stare at some wrestling figures at the Mattel booth. I even had an opportunity to steal an intro music-playing WWE Championship Spinner Belt because someone left a box out but I didn’t because a true fan doesn’t want the company they enjoy watching to feel the economic piledriver such a move would create. (I’m not saying I would have been as cool about it if this were available to grab)

While staring at the toys during Comic-Con I realized a couple of things.

#1. I think I will be a wrestling fan for my entire life. Even if (when?) it stops being good I will still watch because I will always think I could do a better job with the booking.
#2. In order to keep the Occipital Dream of actually booking professional wrestling alive, I need to pop in this website and keep my knives sharp.
#3. The Nexus recently climbed another notch in the Nexus Google Competition, climbing over the hair care products but still ranked behind the Phone and the Border Protection Card. If Phone and Border Protection Card ever form a Nexus-like alliance, I fear for the future of the Wrestling Nexus in this incredibly interesting competition.

On to Summerslam. The second most important pay-per-view of the year if the annoyance of the splash page for the mini-site is any indication. The truth is I’m excited about most of the matches. I enjoy handicap matches and fun stables so Big Show and Straight Edge Society gets my approval. I’m 100% behind the Sheamus and Randy Orton program, if for no other reason than how surprising these two working together in a match this important is. And I’m going to pretend like Kane and Rey Mysterio are comic-book characters.

The meat and potatoes of Summerslam is clearly Team WWE vs. Nexus. I like to think that the WWE creatives are taking this angle seriously (partially due to this really strange feature on WWE.com…Michael Tarver = Sloth!) and they most definitely should. This is reaching Actual Sports Heights with me, meaning I will lean and jump and woo with the match. No question The Nexus should leave on top and here’s my gameplan.

The last time (first time) Nexus competed in an elimination match it was complete dominance. I’d like to see them tease that dominance this time with early eliminations of R-Truth and John Morrison (side note: John Morrison recently shot up my “Who Should Turn Heel Before It’s Too Late” chart). I think it should be a series of finishing moves in the corner to showcase all members of Nexus (think Barrett’s Barrel Slam followed by Gabriel’s 450).

Skip takes out Bret Hart next, but in nutso-crazy overboard fashion. He refuses to stop the beatdown and the referee disqualifies him. Darren Young gets tagged in, argues with the ref about the call and gets rolled up and pinned. With a little more momentum on their side, Team WWE returns the corner isolation treatment to eliminate Heath Slater, but in a “nobody could have survived that” fashion. We’re down to Edge, Jericho, Cena and Mystery Thing vs. Barrett, Tarver, Gabriel and Otunga. I’ll save Mystery Thing theories for the end.

I am mega-against Chris Jericho and Edge being on this team unless they bail on them at this point. Ideally they’d walk away with arms around each other and then start calling themselves the Buddies. Since that won’t happen, I’ll take them attempting to join The Nexus again and then when it doesn’t pan out they just walk away. I’m not promising that I wont’ refer to them as the Buddies regardless. I’d like to see a Jericho/Edge angle where they realize that while they’ve done so much in their career, they’ve never had the pleasure of protecting a champion. Then we’re treated to them trying to help each other and getting great satisfaction over each other’s victories.

I’m sure we’ll see John Cena do some sort of hulk-up at this point but I’d like him to fail miserably. The sequel to the initial beating would be fantastic. After they pin Cena (I recommend Otunga’s foot on chest) the rest of the Nexus should return to the ring and rip him to shreds. This should be followed up on RAW with a series of individual or tag team matches featuring Nexus.

If WWE’s 7th member is HHH and if he has some sort of positive impact on the match then I’m pulling out my hair and my alphabet goes from G to I from now on.

If WWE’s 7th member is The Miz then I’m intrigued. He could screw over Team WWE but he doesn’t need the push from three different directions. I do like classy title exchanges, so maybe he hands the U.S. title to Barrett in lieu of Barrett’s guaranteed title shot? This could also be the face push we’ve all been fearing.

If WWE’s 7th member is Daniel Bryant then I think we will finally be treated to some more specific feuds with Nexus. I’d like to see how they breakdown as individuals. I also think we should create a tag team out this group. I vote for Young and Slater (gives them more of a presence) or Tarver and Gabriel (most interesting combination).

Okay, jabronis. Leave your thoughts below, catch me on Twitter and if you’re in the Austin area, I highly recommend you join us at the ND on August 30th for McMahon!, a live dubbing of Monday Night Raw.

For the third year in a row we’re going to be involved with our favorite outdoor music festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest. We (The New Movement) are keeping our plans a secret but if you haven’t got your passes to the festival yet, we highly suggest you do this now. Also performing: Weird Al and lots of other really fun bands.

Also, this week has one of the craziest show counts of all time. Wednesday at 9:30p, Thursday at 9:30p, Friday at 8:00p, 9:30p and 11:30p, Saturday at 8:00p and 9:30p. More week highlights: possibly putting finishing touches on new Terp2it album this Thursday and Summerslam on Sunday. Expect more in-depth posts about those real soon.

Okay, bye!

3, 2, 1 Blastoff it’s another Roundup 9! This is the post where I list 9 notable things happening right now and it should be definitely called Notable 9 and not Roundup 9. When will I learn!!!!

#1. We’re about one month away from The Megaphone Marathons and that’s exciting. Groups from all over the country coming down to Dallas, Austin and New Orleans. It’s the first-ever comedy marathon that spans 3 weekends in 3 different cities!

#2. I had an In-N-Out burger for the first time last weekend. I’m ashamed and still full. Did you know that there are secret ways for you to order your burgers there? NOW I’M HUNGRY AGAIN. ALL BOLD PLUS ITALICS!!!!

#3. I’m excited about football season. All of the things I never thought I would get to experience as a fan of the team that won the whole thing are coming to an end. The only things left are a) Watching the team defend the thing and b) remembering the time the team won the thing. Also, football season doesn’t actually start for another two months.

#4. Comic-Con was last weekend and we world premiered our Comedy Central special The House That Drips Blood on Alex starring Tommy Wiseau who dominated our post-premiere panel.

#5. If you haven’t seen the trailer for the project yet, hit it up here on Atom.com. Then mark your calendars for the television premiere this October!

#6. Speaking of, we shared our Top 5 Comic-Con moments with Rare. Lists are fucking rad!

#7. The New Movement registered 145 new improv students in one damn day. I think a record was broken. TNM be the place to go for them Austin improv classes. In related news: we are hiring new improv teachers!

#8. This may have helped out with #7: Megaphone in the morning!

#9. Air Sex starts tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse. This October we head all over the damn place on the second ever world tour.

This weekend we World Premiered our Comedy Central pilot starring Tommy Wiseau and Joey Greco to a packed crowd at Comic-Con in San Diego.

This weekend we World Premiered the shit out of our fucking awesome amazing awesome Comedy Central pilot starring motherfucking Tommy Wiseau and Joey Greco to a crazy room full of wild fans at Comic-Con in San Diego.

Some details:

There was action everywhere at all times. People flocking to Tommy and Joey and saying nice things about the project, loving the trailer and making time to talk to us Studio8 folk.

Around 8:00p last night the line was wrapped around the corner and then again around the next corner. We can’t give away plot details but I’ll tell you what we told everyone who hasn’t seen it: It’s a horror that is confusing and intriguing and it’s also mysterious. And there’s a house that drips blood on a guy named Alex.

The crowd was really receptive at the screening, Q&A and everything else. The morning after we had one last autograph signing, this time with cast and crew and I debuted my new Twitter autograph machine which matched perfectly with my lines in the show.

If you’re new at this site then welcome! I also suggest you follow @OneBloodyAlex, @studio8, @studio8jared and especially follow @PizzaPartyInc.

We be parading all up and down San Diego today in celebration of our Comedy Central splash, The House That Drips Blood on Alex. If you’re new here then the above menu bar should direct you wherever you’re wanting to be. If you’re not new here then let’s celebrate that! If you’re medium here then we can also figure something out to make everyone happy.

Our full Comic-Con schedule is right chea.

What we’re doing at Comic-Con might be found on this twitter feed.