Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard - Austin's Blurbs
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SICKEST F***ING STORIES I EVER HEARD
In case you missed it, here is a video of our first show. WARNING: Contains seriously sick stories of an obscene nature!
Sunday, February 8th
7:00 PM
The Alamo Drafthouse, South Lamar
Austin, Texas
The Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard is an exercise in comedy vérité that’s as bluntly provocative as its title. Five comics play poker onstage, betting real money, drinking real beer and telling real sick stories. As Time Out NY puts it: “Imagine if the Algonquin Round Table were to trade Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley for Howard Stern and Al Goldstein.”
Sickest was creating by Shaun Himmerick and Don Hall of Chicago's WNEP Theater as a cruder version of "The Wier". Having done successful runs in Boston, Chicago, and Seattle, Sickest is being brought to Austin by Asaf Ronen who helmed the New York version. Much like the reality-TV fad, the show taps into people's desire for entertainment that's drawn from the everyday life of the guest improvisers, comedians and musicians (which the occasional wild card non-performer thrown in). “It’s people letting down their inhibitions and just talking about anything,” Ronen says.
When all the ingredients add up properly, Sickest becomes a startlingly candid round robin of inventive filth, with obscenities and esoteric sexual jargon (e.g., donkey punch, Cleveland steamer) spurting back and forth across the stage. But it offers more than mere scatology. Anecdotes can range from awww-inspiring (a kitten playfully bats at someone’s scrotum during sex) to nauseating (a man jumps into a river and lands inside a barely submerged and considerably softened cow corpse); from friend-of-a-friend tales to chilling confessions. “I said some personal things that I’d never relay now,” Ronen says. “You forget your boundaries when you’re onstage.”
Our Next Line-Up:
Matt Bearden (stand-up, Premium Blend)
Charlie Hodge (morning deejay, KLBJ)
Jessica Shipley (a.k.a. Belle Starr, Texas Rollergirls)
Mike Wiebe (lead singer, Riverboat Gamblers)
with host/dealer Asaf Ronen
Who I'd like to meet:
Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard - Austin's Friend Space (Top 8)
Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard - Austin has 97 friends.
...two Tecate bottles in her butt, Wow! Hey folks, if you missed the last one don't miss the next Sickest F***ing Stories. And it is kid safe, if the kid is from a third world country.
