Thanks so much to everyone for helping us sell out our run of We Know What’s Up at The PIT! We’ll have more Ao2 shows soon…in the meantime, come check out Benjamin and myself at 7pm every Wednesday improvising with our house team Ontario. Admission is free all night long, AND THERE ARE CHEAP BREWS TO BE HAD ALSO.
Special Thanks to Evan Hensleigh of Futuraprime for the awesome graphic above. It’s a reference to one of our new sketches, “The Secret Lives of the Authors.”
You can tell just by looking at us--WE KNOW WHAT'S UP
OH YES–at long last, it’s here: Audience of Two’s latest and greatest evening of sketch comedy glory. We Know What’s Up plays at The PIT January 9th, 16th, and 23rd at 8pm for just $10, and will feature special guests Rue Brutalia and The Foolhardy Manor. If you have ever wanted to know what happens in Sam’s Fantasy Taxi, the Legend of Saltimbanco the Cat, or the exact nature of Ben’s relationship with Marty Cizmar, then buy your tickets at once! See you there…
Tune in to Thursday’s Inexplicable Dumbshow, a fine and marvelous podcast which will be interviewing Sam today. And stay tuned for updates on the next Ao2 run of sketchtacularity at the Peoples Improv Theater in January 2010!
Have you read our profile in the Austin-American Statesman? If not, DO NOT PANIC–you can find it right here (PDF).
We were thrilled to be the opening and closing guests of Tomahawk’s recent 24-hour improv blitz at the Sage Theater. Check out the play-by-play here; thanks to Tomahawk for inviting us, and congrats to ‘em for being hilarious the WHOLE ENTIRE TIME.
The reference to the song “In the Jailhouse Now” is intentional, because I am imprisoned in a waiting area while Ben checks his enormous suitcase with nary a Dunkin Donuts Coolatta in sight, and it is early in the morning my friends.
Here’s a picture from our appearance on WHFR a while back. We’re gearing up for our trip to the Out of Bounds Sketch Comedy Festival in Austin, TX–more updates soon!
We are back from Sarasota, where we saw numerous hilarious groups filled with incredibly awesome peoples, played an excellent show to a sold-out house, received kind words from Jay Handelman of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and rocked the living bejeezus out of Mississippi Queen at a local karaoke bar. In celebration of these facts, we are having ANOTHER AWESOME SHOW FOR YOU TO COME SEE: TheAudience of Two Variety Hootenanny, 11 PM on Saturday 7/18 at 210 Front Street (in the heart of the South Street Seaport), where will be performing and playing host to the following excellent guests:
Spiritual Curtains Feminist Theatre Collective and Non-Exploitative Coffee House/Crystal Garden (sketch comedy from Guerrin Gardner and Kate Comer)
Stand-up comedy from the inimitable Roy Koshy
Exquisite improv stylings from Married Nate & Ashley (Nate Starkey and Ashley Ward)
Musical magnificence from Brooklyn’s own The Kites (in their penultimate performance!)
Tix are only $10 and will be available at the door, and delicious beer and wine will be available as well. Come on down for some late-night hilarity and marvel at Ben and I’s sunburns!
Which two dweebs are headed to the Sarasota Improv Festival today and will be posting hilarious and informative Twitter updates here and here? These two dweebs. BOO-YAH TO YA HOO-HA!
Click here for the history of Audience of Two. Hoist the Futtock Shrouds Athwartships!
PROFILES IN COURAGE
-Kaitlin Ballard of the Austin-American Statesman recently profiled Audience of Two for the 2009 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. Read it here!
BREAKING Ao2 NEWS
→New sketch shows coming soon. In the meantime, check out Sam & Ben every Wednesday at 7pm on the PIT's house improv team Ontario, part of Super Free Wednesdays! →Amount of Doritos eaten by Ao2 in last 48 hours: so many. →Degree to which Ben is a punk-ass whilst playing co-op mode in "Super Mario Brothers Wii: so much. →Check out Sam's new podcast, "The Road 2 Shambala."
"Determinedly dorky sketches and bouncy songs" TimeOut NY
"Audience of Two was deliciously weird. They had a great give and take between the two performers, and made good use of the wacky guy vs. straight man dynamic. And one of their sketches included a song which used the lyric “principal of awesome school,” which, you can’t beat that. Their other sketch featured the two players reciting a litany of health-related complaints that approached Beckett in terms of absurdity." Emily Hulme, amNY
"Somewhere between debilitating awkwardness and absolute commitment lies Audience of Two. Their latest show, Why Are We Friends?, answers its own question: Ben Masten and Sam Dingman have mastered the art of exploiting their relationship for comedic gain.
In their latest mix of bright sketch and song, the duo manages to sell even flimsy premises - a ditty about decimating one another in yet another game of Halo, for instance - with smarts and winning chemistry." The Onion'sDecider-NY