zombieman Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) Just in from ScareLA.Here's the link. It's being presented by the Upright Citizens Brigade, who has done some great comedy in the past. I just bought my ticket. Hope to see you there.Bill & Ted's Spooky Halloween Spooftacular For years, Universal Studios Hollywood put on an annual Halloween stage show starring Bill and Ted, lampooning the biggest pop culture happenings of the previous year. Recently, the show was canceled forever for being dumb and bad. That's why we decided to keep the tradition alive by presenting what we think Universal Studios' 2015 Bill and Ted show probably would have been. Because Los Angeles deserves an extremely unfunny, genuinely upsetting comedy show featuring empty pop culture references and two characters from a movie that has not held up well. No one is safe. Not even... The Avengers?! Edited October 21, 2015 by zombieman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodstampsFTW Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 You fucking scared me I thought it was coming to universal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTH316 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 SON OF A BITCH!!!!! If I wasn't filming a short this Saturday, I would go 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombieman Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 Really looking forward to this. Given that this is an improv group presenting it and given that it's $10, I have super low visual expectations. Pyro may consist of a sparkler But it's all about the writing. I have a feeling it will be funnier than many B&T of the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTH316 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I'm really hoping someone somehow records it so I can watch it on Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombieman Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) The show was 1 hour long. Stage is about 10ft by 8 ft. If you've been to a comedy club, you know what I'm talking about. The show started with a short video introducing people to the B&T show concept and why it was removed from Universal by an idiot blogger from Vice who was offended by the gay jokes. They then cut to every scene from the B&T moves where the two called each other fags. Very well done.The show itself was a series of sketches intermixed with the B&T actors. All of the sketches were of celebs being lampooned. The show pulled NO punches, and skewered everyone imaginable. They even lampooned several things that did NOT happen but they wish had happened. There were a few things that fell absolutely flat. For example, they had Darren Wilson (the cop who shot Michael Brown when he was attacked) in diapers crying like a baby. The audience didn't seem to get that one, but the guy who played him was really funny. The gist of the show was: B&T's telephone booth breaks down and Jerad from Subway comes to help them, only to steal the time machine with the help of Mr. Robot. Jerad wants to use the time machine to transport young children to their future where they will chronologically be over the age of consent yet physically prepubescent. There was no language filters on this show, so you can imagine the dialogue. In the best bit of the show, they roasted oversensitive bloggers. Just took them apart and made them look like the assholes they are. Bill Cosby was another major target. His bit fell flat, but the guy did a spot on Cosby. He ended up getting pummeled by Rhonda Rousey. One excellent skit was Robert Durst (look him up) being portrayed most excellently, and getting mistaken for Bernie Sanders by B&T. Politics were not a big part of the show, though. No Obama represented, but Trump and Clinton were lampooned briefly.The most clever part of the show was a running gag about "porno pants" which Jerad continually mentioned. Plants in the audience would stand up, saying "Porno pants? What does that even mean". Each time they were growing more angry and confused about the made up reference to nothing. Finally there were arguments between these "audience members" and the cast over this. Nice way to break the 4th wall.For a 60 minute, $10 show that involved about 25 cast members running a SINGLE PERFORMANCE, I am really amazed at the quality. As this is an improv group, I think a fair part of the evening was improvised. A couple of the actors had trouble suppressing laughter after a few clearly improvised lines. I do hope they bring this back (or better yet, Universal brings back the real deal).So, I'd like to say I recommend it, but since there's no way for you to see it, it doesn't matter...So, with that in mind, I did remember to use my voice memo app to at least make an audio recording of the whole show. Keep in mind the phone was in my shirt pocket the whole time, so there may be some distortion.[EDIT: Cannot upload it... I have an MP3 that I will gladly E-mail someone if they can upload it.] Edited October 26, 2015 by zombieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grindhousehero13 Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 awesome! I hope Universal just decided to finally defend their show key word=Show. The Problem I had as a fan was that okay if the joke offended people, scrap it (it has been done before the biggest case was the joke about Ledger being dead) People who were offended were even okay with just the joke being removed. The show in itself is like south park or Family guy yeah they say some pretty outrageous stuff but they never take the side of people who deserve the lampooning for example they screwed chick-a-fliet for their homophobic actions. But Vice as a whole needs to go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombieman Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 You can literally hear the whole show if I knew how to upload the audio file.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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