Sara Benincasa is a citizen journalist for the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose Street Team. Her political blog and video news reports can be found on MTV’s social activism website, ThinkMTV.
Sara likes politics, but she loves comedy so hard it makes her want to freak the eff out and set an imaginary pile of money ablaze. Her weekly show Family Hour with Auntie Sara, a FREE family-themed (but not family-appropriate!) live show happens at Ochi’s Lounge at Comix every THURSDAY at 7:30 p.m.
Sara wrote the sometimes-funny, sometimes-raunchy, occasionally-insightful, always-entertaining "SJ1000" sex and dating blog on Nerve.com’s Blog-a-Log.
She also hosts Nerve.com’s Tub Talk with Sara B., a show in which she interviews comedians and humor writers in her bathtub.
She used to be a contributing writer to the Onion News Network, but she had to give that up to spend more time coming up with punny names for sexual positions (FYI, the "Cirque du Ho-lay" involves a trapeze.)
She is a frequent-ish guest on the Sirius Network’s Maxim Radio Channel, as well as the political Indie Talk Channel and the Cosmo Radio Channel.
Website
Think.MTV.com/profile/SaraBenincasaNY
Influences
Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, MST3K, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Judy Tenuta, Tina Fey, Eddie Izzard (because I like costumes and brilliance), Amy Poehler, The State, the Kids in the Hall, Sandra Bernhard, all the comics I knew at Emerson College
She puked on her prom dress in a Crash Romeo pop punk video once. Another time she played a dead lady on a beach. She was wearing a sundress with spaghetti straps, and it was 25 degrees out. Her boobs did not fall off, but it was a close call there for awhile. Also this one time, she played this guy's annoying girlfriend, and then it turned out the guy was gay. This has maybe also happened in real life as well as on celluloid.
Sara Benincasa's Interests
General
Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy.
Web video. Web video. Web video. Web video. Web video. Web video.
Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex.
God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God. God.
Music
If Jay-Z and George Michael did a duet, the world would be simultaneously so much gayer and so much straighter, and the space-time continuum would collapse in on itself, which is why Clive Davis needs to make that shit happen YESTERDAY.
Movies
Have you seen Sleepaway Camp II? Do yourself a HUUUUGE favor and go see Pamela Springsteen torture innocent teens at camp.
Television
We should really all be watching more MTV, especially when/if Sara's disturbingly lifelike visage is on it.
But the Internets have so much to offer us, like TUB TALK: THE LOST EPISODES!!
AND DON'T MISS ALL-NEW TUB TALK EPISODES WITH AUTHOR JONATHAN AMES, COMEDIAN ADAM WADE, AND DIRECTOR BRENDAN COLTHURST IN FEBRUARY 2008!
Columbia University In The City Of New York
New York,New York
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Finally!
Clubs: Life Changing Career Switching and Skipping Class to Do Comedy 507
2005 to 2007
Montreat College
Montreat,North Carolina
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Took a Bible course with a fundamentalist preacher--and got an A!!!.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
New Brunswick,New Jersey
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Being in high school but taking a summer course.
I am the opposite of super rich. Business is ridonkulously slow during the summer because pizza parlor is right across the street from a high school - which is the main staple of my business. So I will not have business until next semester. I will work 70 hours a week and GO CRAZY....YAY!!!
So the other day I got this picture text message of this sexy bitch and I was all like, "Who is this sexy bitch?" Then I was like, "This sexy bitch can only be one person, and I know who it is." Also, you are totally Valley Pizza Joint's FRIEND! I'm excited. I actually didn't make the webpage, my friend Nicole made it but I'm glad you can get a good look at the place where I have to spend 70 hrs a week! YAY!
On Sunday, July 6, 2008, DEL Presents First Sundays at Carolines featuring Smokey, Hadiyah Robinson, Timmy Hall, Eddie Bryant, Lawrence Owens & Marshall Brandon. You're in for a treat. First Sundays is a fundraiser. For every person that comes out to this show, we donate a portion of the ticket sales to My Sistahz Keeper Nonprofit Organization - an organization dedicated to helping families in crisis in the New York/New Jersey areas.
Come out and laugh your butt off for this great cause. Hosted by yours truly, DEL and music by DJ Jeff Haze. Make your reservations by calling (212) 757-4100. See you at the show!
(1) Eliza Faria-Santos (2) Helen Hong (3) Dan Goodman (4) Charlie Gaeta
for SIX measley minutes, YOU could win an automatic bid into next month's semi-finals - and the top three finishers of THAT move on to the FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR Championship Showdown in December!
You gotta be in it to win it!
Bring your best SIX minutes, bring your clutchness to Ochi's (@ Comix) - *AT LEAST* FIVE OF YOU WHO SIMPLY SHOW UP WILL GET TO PARTICIPATE!
353 West 14th Street (b/t 8th & 9th).
1/2/3/A/C/E/F/L to 14th Street.
Guest Performance by "Impending Mustache."
Fun Times For All.
NO COVER.
You *MIGHT* be one step closer to winning 500 DOLLARS!
Ma'am, That picture of you and the pasta is way to cute. I think the both of you did in fact rendezvous at our favorite burmeses place. Auntie wendy and Unko Kenny lived at 68th and 2nd, I think Burmeses was around 80th and 2nd. BAM! 6 degress of seperation from 9 years ago.
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