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Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy

feed us words and we'll make stuff up

About Me

www.RAREBIRDSHOW.com
Philly-based longform improv comedy troupe.
Matt Holmes | Alexis Simpson | Nathan Edmondson

Entertaining your face so hard since 2003. We turn one word into a whole improv comedy show.

Notable performances include:
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater 's Del Close Marathon 2004 - 2007,
the Philly Fringe Festival 2004 - 2006, the Baltimore Improv Festival 2007,
the Dirty South Improv Festival in Chapel Hill, NC 2005 - 2007,
the Philadelphia Improv Festival 2005 & 2006, the DC Comedyfest 2007,
the Toronto International Improv Festival 2007, and performances at
the Magnet Theater and the PIT in NYC, and WIT in DC.

"A realistic, down-to-earth show... that's totally off the wall
...and swarming with magic robots."

My Interests

Improv, Comedy, Philly
AND JUSTICE!
and cake.

I'd like to meet:

sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads

Movies:

Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, This Is Spinal Tap, The Graduate, Amelie, Broken Wings, Go, Pulp Fiction, Office Space, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs, Shaun of the Dead, Billy Madison, Dirty Dancing, Blazing Saddles, The Big Lebowski, American Graffiti, Big, Overboard, Adventures in Babysitting, Back to School, The Shining, Back to the Future, Heathers, The Muppet Movie, Teen Wolf, The Jerk, A Clockwork Orange, They Live, The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, Breakfast Club, Coming to America, Sixteen Candles

Television:

Simpsons, South Park, Saturday Night Live - SNL, Upright Citizens Brigade - UCB, Kids in the Hall, The State, Monty Python's Flying Circus, SCTV, Mr. Show, Family Guy, Reno 911, Jackass, MAD TV, Wonder Showzen, STELLA, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Puppet Up, You Can't Do That On Television!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chapelle's Show, Get A Life, Thank God You're Here!, The Carol Burnett Show, MST3K - Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sifl and Olly, Adult Swim, In Living Color, Beavis and Butthead, Trigger Happy TV, The Whitest Kids You Know, Crank Yankers, Seinfeld, Strangers With Candy, The Ben Stiller Show, The Muppet Show, The Tracey Ullman Show, Laugh-In, Human Giant, King of the Hill, Futurama, Andy Milonakis

Books:

Truth in Comedy, Impro, Something Wonderful Right Away, Directing Improv, Improvise, Jill Bernard's Small Cute Book of Improv, www.whiteninjacomics.com, www.creasedcomics.com, www.toothpastefordinner.com, www.pbfcomics.com

Heroes:

the Upright Citizens Brigade, the Lonely Island, Broken Lizard, Monty Python, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Compass Players, Second City, Del Close

My Blog

______Review us!_______

Hey, did you see one of our Fringe shows? You can post a review with the CityPaper at http://www.citypaper.net/fringe/2007/show.php/id/123/...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PST

PHILLY FRINGE FESTIVAL!

This Friday is the start of the Philly Fringe Festival. We have 8 shows (at 8 and 10) on four days; Friday the 31st, Thursday the 6th, Saturday the 8th, and Saturday the 15th. Each show is a half-hour...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:53:00 PST

Mid-Atlantic Smorgasboard round-up

the Mid-Atlantic Smorgasboard was awesome. There were great sets frm the Screaming Puppets, Kojo Mante, and John Mumma; and the Comedy Pigs were wonderful hosts. bonus level: we wrote someTERRIBLE POE...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:08:00 PST

When is our birthday?

Hey, so thanks everyone for the Birthday comments on our (I think it was approximately around this date a few years ago that we had our first meeting to officially start our own improv group, so it's ...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:46:00 PST

Delaware!

Hi, I'm in Delaware. or at least we will be this Friday for a big improv and sketch comedy festival at the Schwartz Center in Dover.  If you know where Delaware is or are in it right now, you sho...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:39:00 PST

How utterly collegiate

The problem with most contemporary improv shows is that there is a failure to assimilate the most important themes of human existence. Since the dawn of man's consciousness, he has wres...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:48:00 PST

insulin is sooooo romantic

last friday was a show. big thanks to the N Crowd for hosting us. also HELLO and THANKS to the sexy hilarious Drexel Footbal Team for attending, and making out with cheerleaders, and crushing tin cans...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:36:00 PST

ANAGRAMS

Anagrams for RARE BIRD SHOW WEIRD HARBORS BRA RIDER SHOW OH REWARD RIBS HARD  BI  ROWERS I DRAW HER ORBS RED HAIR BROWS WEIRD ROB RASH OAR BIRD SHREW WARS BE HORRID SHOREBIRD WAR RAW BIRD ...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:50:00 PST

PALINDROMES

A nut for a jar of tuna A Santa at NASA Elf farm raffle Gary knits a stinky rag gigawatt ottawa gig if i had a hi fi Oh cameras are macho Panic in a Titanic, I nap Stack cats Trash Tim Smith's ar...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:26:00 PST

___Hey, join our mailing list!!!!___

Hey myspace friends!    -Do you want an alert before each of our shows?   -Do you want to know when and where you can see some great improv comedy?   -Do you want news up...
Posted by Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:03:00 PST