Famous Mysterious Actor Appears Tonight, And So Do I!

Salutations, Studio-audience Stalwarts!!

It's time once again to join check out The Famous Mysterious Actor Show at Curious Comedy Theater, Famous' permanent digs!!

This month's guests include:

Virginia Jones!

Broccoli Man!

Don't be the one who missed this crazy conglomeration of creative chaos!!!

Curious Comedy Theater
5225 NE MLK (between Alberta & Killingsworth)
(503) 477-9477

This Wednesday - November 4th!
9pm Showtime
$10 admission
All Ages!!!
Bring the Kids and Grandparents!!
(no pants-crappers please)




HILARIOUS POSTSCRIPT TIME:

I love the Famous Mysterious Actor show (next show Dec 2nd!), and I genuinely had a great time, but my set went a little short, and this is why.

Before the show, the suave and talented producer, J.D., took me aside and told me that I would have five minutes of mic time, and that he would "light" me when my time was up. Allow me to take you behind the curtain. When a comic has an alotted time, which she always does, an emcee or producer will raise a flashlight, wave a phone, or lift a candle to indicate that it's time to wrap things up.

I was onstage, and I did a little shucking-and-jiving with Famous before I started telling jokes, and I was in medias res when I got the light from J.D., which was an amber light that turned towards me and then away. I thought that it seemed soon, but it was more important to me that the guys stay on time and that the show run smoothly than for me to do every single joke that I had planned on. I start going into my final joke, as I have been programmed to do in a Skinnerian manner. A few lines in, I get the light again. I nod at it, to indicate that I understand it's time for me to get offstage, and I finish my joke to some applause, and I sit on the couch to do panel.

I'm sitting on the couch, and I get the light again.

Peering into the darkness, I see that a woman is using a camera that, instead of flashing a white light, points an amber light at the performers onstage. Perhaps it is taking a sepia photograph. I do not know. I do not care. This means that 1.) I have gone short on my time for no reason and that 2.) At some point onstage, I nodded knowingly at a woman who was taking my photograph, whom I now dislike.

Yaaayy! And later, J.D. slipped on Ethiopian food (that had recently been thrown at Cutter, whose suit was retired in the December show) and fell offstage. Serves him right for dressing as a woman and lighting me early.

The Stranger thinks about the Famous Mysterious Actor

The very funny Lindy Wood wrote blurbs for all the comedy events at Bumbershoot, I particularly liked her take on FMA.

FAMOUS MYSTERIOUS ACTOR
The Famous Mysterious Actor is a frightening specter. It has long hair, like a woman, or a hippie. It has a high-pitched voice, like a woman. Or a wild bird of some kind that speaks human language. It has a thing about Pixi Stix, like most women, and it wears a mask like Eric Stoltz in Mask or Jim Carrey in Look Who's Masking Now. Or a Mexican. It is very mysterious. It comes from Portland. LW

By The Kicking Of Some Bums...

Holli Pappan made me cry, then laugh, and then cry, at the perfectly miniature Famous Mysterious Actor costume she put together for Halloween. My dreams have died, but my soul sings free.

Something Famous this way Comes!

I can smell it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this pixy for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it screaming and throwing candy tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord

Well, if you told me you were Cutter, I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw pre-enactments, I saw them with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a stack of pies!

The Famous Mysterious Actor is throwing a Halloween Party at Berbati's Pan! Come out and wear a costume!