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Audience of Two Selected For 2009 Sarasota Improv Festival

We are thrilled and delighted to announce that we will be performing in the 2009 Sarasota Improv Festival on July 10th and 11th at the Florida Studio Theater!  Here are the reasons we are thrilled and delighted:

1. The Sarasota Improv Festival is awesome and we can’t wait to perform for new audiences and meet other hilarious individuals
2. We are going to a Rays game on Sunday the 12th and will hopefully get to see the deity known as Evan Longoria IN THE FLESH.

If you will be in Sarasota that weekend, come rock and roll with us!  If you will not be in Sarasota that weekend, but would like to donate some money for plane tickets to us, that is cool also!

Podcast #7: Opening Day

Podcast #7 is finally here!  And it is jam-packed with the following audio features:

• Baseball
• BASEBALL.
• BASE-BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Mania & Desperation

LISTEN VIA CLICKING!

HOLY CRIPES YO! I STRAIGHT UP TURNED INTO A DAMN EAGLE!

THANK YOU SO MUCH Y’ALL

This and more pix by Keith Huang here.  Thanks Keith!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see Why Are We Friends–we are so grateful for all of your support and promise much more hotness and magic coming very soon.

Audience of Two Presents: “Why Are We Friends?”

Audience of Two is proud to present an evening of brand new comedic merriment for your viewing delight this Friday and every Friday in March at 9:30 at the PIT for the meager sum of just $10!  It is an awesome and fantastic show!  But don’t take our word for it–here’s what The Onion’s Decider-NY has to say:

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. It’s these same features that undoubtedly helped them to win last year’s Sketchprov Festival at the PIT.

“Why Are We Friends?” answers many questions:

• Are you still making home-made knives? (YES)
• Do personal chefs go to heaven? (THERE IS AT LEAST ONE THERE)
• Is Binghamton the same as Yonkers? (NO)

We have also figured out why Ben and I are friends–OR HAVE WE?!  This post will not reveal the answer.  The only way to find out is to buy tickets to the show:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/57563

Check out pix from the show (by the ever-amazing Keith Huang) here!

SPECIAL GUESTS (Friday March 27th only!): HOBART AND MICHAEL!

Podcast #6: “Jonquils and Juleps”

Podcast #6 is in the mix!  Featuring, among other things…

• A speaking goldfish with grandfatherly ambitions
• 25 Spinglies on the Jazz-Bo Tip
• Sad hipster music
• Action and redaction

KICK IT WITH SOME BOOM JAMZ!

IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED…

…Sam has succumbed to the pressure and commenced Twittering.  There will be Audience of Two updates as well as more general musings upon the state of Things.  Prepare to have your mind blown in 140 letters or less.

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Audience of Two will be featured on the 2nd
Annual T.C. Boyle Festival of Live Stuff
on WHFR!  Tune in all day starting at 1PM
on Sunday 2/22--and tune in HARD at 4:30
for Ao2!

Things Ben Has Eaten This Week #6

Things Ben Has Eaten This Week is a regular feature that is the result of Ben eating things during Ao2 writing sessions while Sam looks on in horror. Sam thinks there is humor to be found here, but take it from Ben: There is only pain.

A lot of times I don’t get a chance to eat before I do a show, and have to wait until later to grab a bite.

Since that can be any time from 9-11 at night, I’m usually pretty starved. Unfortunately, there are basically three options for late night eats around the PIT:

1. A terrible pizza place

2. Another, different, but equally terrible pizza place

3. Mustang Sally’s.

Sally’s is the bar where PIT performers gather and booze it up after the show. We get a discount on drinks and food. However, even with 10% off, the food is still ridiculously expensive, so I tend to eat a lot of fries, onion rings, and mozzarella sticks.

These things are not dinner.

So this week, I opted for a Cuban sandwich. So what if it cost $14.95? I was hungry.

It tasted like paper towels.

I ate the whole thing, and was still hungry.