Mondays are the new Mondays.
Hello, friends and friends of friends.
My goodness, we’ve been making so many wonderful sketches in the last month, I forgot all about our last live show, Olde English: Rules! Well, we’re currently putting together some reels to send out to festivals and colleges (if you know of a venue you’d like Olde English to play, leave a comment) and we’ve been going over the footage from the show, and we thought you might like to see some of it, those of you who don’t live in New York or own helicopters (not a lot of you, I know).
The premise of the show (if you’re too lazy to click on the above link, or that one) was we each gave each other a set of rules to follow while writing new sketches. These assignments made up the show and below you’ll find four examples. The first one will be familiar to anybody who’s a regular visitor to the site (now contextualized with an introduction), but the other three sketches have never before been seen (except for by New Yorkers and helicopter operators).
Blind Date (Adam’s rules for Raizin)
3 Adams (Ben’s rules for Adam)
Supersonic (Dave’s rules for Raizin)
Monologue (Raizin’s rules for Dave)
July 31st, 2006 at 11:19 pm
There are no words. Supersonic is now my favorite sketch of all time. Damnit, I wish I’d seen OE: Rules!
For real. Everyone, everywhere, has to see this. I feel like I could cry from the greatness.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I appreciate Blind Date a lot more now that I know the rules (awesome rules by the way.) Supersonic was genius. And Dave is great.
August 1st, 2006 at 1:32 am
I love your shower curtain
August 1st, 2006 at 1:53 am
Thanks! I totally thought my rules were the sweetest.
And that shower curtain was a gift from our good friend Jo-Anne. Thanks, Jo-Anne!
August 1st, 2006 at 6:04 am
that was quiteclassic… more defined-by-rules sketches would be great!
August 1st, 2006 at 9:35 am
I’m glad i got to see this live (^_^)
August 1st, 2006 at 5:32 pm
I would love for you to either make your way back to the SF Sketchfest, or do a show at UC Berkeley. Oh, and thanks for the new sketches.
August 1st, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I know it’s not Chicago or San Fran, but if you guys decide to do an east coast thing…west virginia university really has a student body that would certainly support a show.
August 1st, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Jawsh–we’re totally down to come to West Virginia. If you’d help us set it up, we’ll gladly come perform.
The same goes for the rest of you–want us to come to your college? Tell us! If you can help us get the ball rolling, we’d love to come perform a new show for you.
August 1st, 2006 at 7:23 pm
What if we don’t go to college? What then? Huh!
I really wanted you guys to perform in the Best of the Best Sketchfest (http://www.bestofthebestsketchfest.com/), but it is probably too late for this year.
Write angry letters until they make you a last minute addition! They would be fools not to!
August 1st, 2006 at 8:03 pm
WTF, Ben? YES. Come to WV, but screw WVU–Come to my house. Carnegie Hall is right down the street!! If I thought you’d be willing to come to ME, I’d never have made plans to go to NY.
I mean, fuck!
August 1st, 2006 at 10:32 pm
You guys just kept raising the bar for one another, yet they all turned out hilarious. If I had known that Blind Date was one of the “Rules” sketches, I would have appreciated it much more. I guess what I’m saying is that these sketches are funny, but much more enjoyable once the audience knows the rules.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
hey you guys. you should come to chicago sketchfest again! pleeeaaaase. i will get down on my knees and beg.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:50 pm
How’d you feel about performing at a university in Vancouver? Eh? Caaaanaaaadaaa?
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:09 am
Hey Dylan — our policy is the same as ever. If you can convince someone to pay us, we’ll go anywhere.
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:24 am
When you say ‘pay us’… what does that include? Flights? accomodation? performing fee? it would perhaps cost too much to get you to australia -.-
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:59 am
You should come down and do Savannah, SCAD I can give you a contact to contact if you contact me via my contact.
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
long time listen first time caller:
Butler has a very good comment!
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Basically, if we can turn a slight profit, we’re satisfied, but we’re also satisfied if we wind up breaking even if it gets us new fans. So, yes, traveling to Australia is unlikely unless someone else is footing the bill for transportation, lodging, and food. However, sometimes we’ll travel to fesitvals where we end up losing money, like San Francisco, just because we like the place so much.
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:24 pm
I think Yale is a ripe venue for you guys.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Yale would be no problem for us–if you can get us a few hundred dollars and a space, we can be there in two hours.
WH–It’d be awesome to come down to SCAD. I almost went there. Let’s try and make that happen.
I think what we’ll do is prepare a packet of information which you guys can give to the people who write the checks at your respective schools. Sound good?
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
I think I’ll borrow this idea if it’s okay with you guys. I want to become better at sketch making and whatnot, so I think I’ll have friends throw ideas and regulations at me to help me grow.
On another note, 3 Adams (from an editors point of view) is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
I feel like I’ll never be this good, though. *sigh*
August 4th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Awesome.
You guys still using an XL1?
August 4th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
XL1S. Though I want to switch to the DVX100B.
August 5th, 2006 at 7:18 am
damn straight.
August 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Man, you guys put the fear of God into the state of Pennsylvania.
Adam is a editing champion.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
haha oh boy, these are amazing.
you ought to come to upstate new york. like. albany or somewhere near there. the northern lights? the egg?
somewhere like that.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Can you guys come to penn state? we’ll pay you! ooh! ooh! ask someone at no refund theater!!! :^D
August 16th, 2006 at 6:34 am
They say old english is spoken in Southern California.
You guys should come and check San Diego out.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Come to UAlbany. You have at least two fans here!
September 26th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
You should stop by UCLA! We need something funny.
March 18th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
OMG! I love this! Is there any way that you might post the rest of the content from “Olde English: Rules!”? Being an Albera resedent makes coming to Newyork to see your shows pretty well imposible, If you post the rest of the show, I’ll swere my undying algece to the Old English banner! not that i havent already, but I’ll do it again!