Drop by for the daily dose of missives about fancy parties, upcoming productions and promotions in NYC written by me, Kambri Crews, producer and publicist to comedians and more!   Thursday, November 16, 2006 Omigod, Blane McDonnagh is Upstairs! Yes, "Blane McDonnagh" or, in real life, Andrew McCarthy is totally upstairs and just, like, shook my hand. --Kambri Link - 10:35 AM -   Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Tonight & Beyond Tonight's Hot Tub Variety Show at Comix tonight is a winner with David Cross, Michael Showalter, Jon Benjamin joining the regularly adorable hosts Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler. I'll be staying for the show as a few friends will also be dropping in and tonight really is my last chance to see anyone and have a bit of fun before the next two weeks gets really haywire. Come on out if you want to see a GREAT show for only $15 with no minimums. I forgot to mention that I am letting the producers of Don't You Forget About Me conduct some interviews for the documentary in our space. So that means tomorrow morning I have to leave Andrew McCarthy to go meet Jon Lovitz for an in-studio spot with JV & Elvis before heading over to Conan O'Brien to tape that show. Tomorrow is by far one of the more, "Holy crap, I could still be in a shed in Texas," kind of days. I'm trying not to burn out completely but the amount of work piling up is getting a little out of control. I haven't done laundry in so long, I wore bathing suit bottoms as underwear. --Kambri Today: commando. Link - 9:57 AM -   Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Big Week Look for Jon Lovitz all over the place including on Conan O'Brien's show on Thursday. He's promoting his headlining gig at Comix this weekend for which tickets are still available. Um, what else? Tonight is an amazing line up of old Chappelle's Show and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn regulars, including Colin, to benefit the American Cancer Society Upper Manhattan Chapter. No time for play really, but work is definitely FUN these days! Oh, well, I DID go to Madame Tussaud's the other night with Grand Central Marketing to pick up the Diamond Award for Best Entertainment Marketing in the World! The pics of Keith & I interacting with Elvis and others are few but funny. I missed the photo opportunities of Keith breaking a glass of wine with our brand new award or my getting a FULL glass of red wine spilled down the entire front of my go to BCBG wrap dress. Luckily the print is busy and the spill was at the bottom of the dress where Keith noted no one would be looking since they're all looking at my breasts. True dat. It was a fun night but the only time I've been able to go out at all and even that was for work! --Kambri Link - 3:55 PM -   Monday, November 13, 2006 SNL Re-Cap Okay, Saturday Night Live was "off the hook" or whatever the kids say these days about insanely awesome and surreal nights. We were center stage balcony, think back to the Clay Aiken sighting and you'll know these are awesome seats. Oh, and we were seated behind Stephen Baldwin. Alec Baldwin is the best host of all time, Kristen Wiig really shined and the whole episode actually had great moments of hilarity. Christina Aguilera was the musical guest and realy rocked the first number. I'm not a big fan of the second song but she can belt a freaking tune! Surprise guests included Steve Martin (which I scooped), Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Tracy Morgan & Tina Fey. Afterwards, Bryan gave us a tour of the writer's room and the SNL offices including his own. He also showed us a clip of a music video he and his co-workers (Andy Samberg and two SNL writers whose names are in the video but for the life of me I can't understand) threw together in about 20 minutes. They put it up on YouTube and it's strangely addictive and hilarious, more so when you know Bryan and his two perfect little Gerber baby girls he has at home. We then all piled into cars and headed to Asia de Cuba for the after party. At one point Christian stopped the conversation and noted, "We're at the fucking Saturday Night Live after party!" Then we ate. --Kambri And it was good. The after, after party, not so much. Link - 11:48 PM -   Tonight Jim Gaffigan & Christian Finnegan join the lineup for "Laugh it Off", a special night of stand up comedy to raise money for the Mental Health Awareness Campaign on Monday, November 13th at Comix. Monday, November 13, 2006 - 8:00 PM COMIX 353 West 14th Street New York, New York 10014 212.524.2500 Matt Johnston of "It Takes a Thief" on the Discovery Channel will host Jim, Christian and others. Tickets are $25.00 and are available by calling 212.524.2500 or at www.comixny.com. --Kambri Link - 5:39 PM -   Saturday, November 11, 2006 Rumor Has It That Steve Martin will be making a guest appearance on tonight's SNL hosted by Alec Baldwin. Woot! I slept in today so I'm rested for the show and the super late night after party. --Kambri Link - 3:26 PM -   Friday, November 10, 2006 I Was on JV & Elvis Okay, not "on" them but on their show. Elvis was "smitten" with me when I walked in with Andy Kindler for Andy's appearance on the JV & Elvis radio show on 92.3 Free FM. He had me get on the mike and be a part of Andy's appearance so he could flirt. Alas, I am married but we had a good time because Andy is hilarious and a terrific radio guest. Andy is co-headlining at Comix with Maria Bamford tonight for two shows and one show tomorrow night. Details and tickets are available at www.comixny.com. For the JV & Elvis blog write up --with pictures!-- click here. --Kambri Link - 3:08 PM -   Thursday, November 09, 2006 What do Alec Baldwin & I Have in Common? We'll both be at Saturday Night Live this weekend! He is by far the funniest man on TV right now and Christian & I were finally able to make it to see the show together. This time I'm going thanks to our friend Bryan who, I hope, will have at least one sketch make the final cut so I can laugh REALLY loudly at everything he wrote. But for now, I'm wrapping up things here in the office so I can head into the showroom for the sold out South Toward Home benefit. For you Andy Kindler fans, listen to JV & Elvis on 92.3 Free FM tomorrow at 11:00 AM to catch him live on the air promoting his co-headlining gig with Maria Bamford this weekend at Comix. And tomorrow night, I get to dress up and go out with Keith and the other folks at Grand Central Marketing to pick up the award for the Best Marketing Campaign in the World for the Meow Mix House. It's been a v. good week! --Kambri ALEC BALDWIN! Link - 6:07 PM -   South Toward Home Show is SOLD OUT! Are you a big fan of David Cross and hoped to see him tonight at Comix for the South Toward Home comedy benefit? First the BAD NEWS: The show featuring: David, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis, Eugene Mirman, and more is SOLD OUT for tonight so you'll have to wait for another time. The GOOD NEWS: Proceeds from tonight's show will profit South Toward Home, a non-profit organization created in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina! Even more GOOD NEWS: David Cross will be BACK on the Comix stage November 15th performing on the Hot Tub Variety Show hosted by Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braumohler. Also appearing that night are Michael Showalter & Jon Benjamin. Even BETTER NEWS: The tickets for Hot Tub Variety Show are only $15! Buy your ticket in advance online at www.comixny.com/ or by calling 212.524.2500. --Kambri Link - 3:36 PM -   Tuesday, November 07, 2006 Christian was interviewed by Todd at Dead-Frog.com. It's pretty insightful in terms of comedy. Read it here. Also, enjoy him in this short clip from Best Week Ever: --Kambri Link - 1:15 PM -   Monday, November 06, 2006 Two Contests for Chances to Win Two VIP Passes Alex over at the Best Week Ever blog and The Apiary are running two separate contests for me in which you and a guest can win two passes to Comix good for ANY and ALL shows from Nov. 7 - 13! It's a helluva line up we have, too. Here's one:BWE CONTEST: What's the Deal With the Free Comedy Tickets?!? One of the great things about New York is all the wonderful places at which you can pay to sit in a room and watch another person attempt to make you laugh while standing up. Our friends over at Comix, Manhattan's newest premiere comedy club, have offered to give away a VIP pass that will admit two people to any and all shows at the club this week. And they picked a good one, as David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis, Maria Bamford, Andy Kindler, Eugene Mirman, The Whitest Kids You Know and some dude named Christian Finnegan are all performing at the club in the next few days. You could have yourself a marathon of hilarity! For more information on how to enter and win, visit this info pagesimply send an email to kcrews@comixny.com. The winner will be notified by 5pm tomorrow (Tuesday). Good luck - and no heckling! And here's the other: VIP PASS FOR 2 TO EVERY SHOW AT COMIX THIS WEEKWere you thinking of checking out the South Toward Home Benefit, featuring David Cross, Janeane Garafalo, Zach Galifianakis, and Eugene Mirman on Thursday? Or were you psyched for the Whitest Kids U Know homecoming show? Or perhaps the Maria Bamford/Andy Kindler double bill was more your style? How about ALL OF THEM? **SPIT-TAKE** A VIP Pass for TWO good for EVERY show at Comix this week (11/7 -11/13) will be given away randomly to one lucky entrant. You must be 18 or over and live in the NYC area. Click here for more details and to see the hefty upcoming line-up at COMIX. Email theapiary@gmail.com with the subject line: EVERY SHOW AT COMIX THIS WEEK --Kambri Link - 8:27 AM -   Sunday, November 05, 2006 Wilmer Valderrama and Stuff Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser have taken Fast Food Nation, the non-fiction book, and turned it into a fictionalized dramatic film. It was interesting and informative and the performances were terrific but it really was just so-so. It was too long and some of the story lines just didn't take hold enough. The Eric & Richard were at the AMMI special screening for donors with most of the male cast like Bobby Cannavale (very compelling as the slaughterhouse manager), Wilmer Valderrama (also very good), Paul Dano (from Little Miss Sunshine and perfect at the angst ridden teen role) and others. Before the Q&A, I challenged Julie to find out why the moderator from here for Glenn Close and here for Bennett Miller annoys me. "He has a way with interviews that I want to see if you catch," I told her. Sure enough, he didn't let me down and said a statement with a query inflection at the end. Julie called it right away. Afterwards we enjoyed the wine and treats and wandered through the museum chatting about cow meat and the movie. I commended Wilmer at a job well done and mentioned that Tommy Chong and I had spent a great deal of time together last week during which we chatted about That 70s Show and Wilmer. It was a nice, brief conversation after which I mentioned to Julie, "Christian is going to FREAK when he finds out who I was just chatting with!" When I got home, Christian --still wearing a tux from his time with K-Fed and a private corporate gig-- was sitting on the couch. "Guess which celebrity I met tonight that you will be SO jealous I talked to?" "Wilmer Valderrama?" BINGO! First guess! "YEP!" I exclaimed! "Oh my God, you met Wilmer Valderrama on the same day I met K-fed?" He asked. "HIGH FIVE!" Christian is obsessed with using Wilmer as a punchline to any joke regarding celebrity and what not. In fact, Christian used him as the punchline for a joke during the Best Week Ever 100th episode party at Marquee even though Wilmer was there. Anyway, the movie should have been a documentary but I guess there were just too many legal issues. The dramatized account falls flat despite the horrific ending scene which will never leave me and amazing acting. I'm guessing the critics will pan it, but we'll see soon enough. It opens in theaters very soon. --Kambri Borat, however, was GREAT! I am very cultured and socially relevant. Link - 2:05 PM -