Michael Showalter at Union Hall (01/27/08)
The newspaper of record had a nice little profile on Yankee fan and ECNY award winning host Michael Showalter this Sunday.
• The Baxter at Rockefeller Center 6/15Whereas stand-up storytellers like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock tear through tightly scripted bits like comedic machines, Mr. Showalter’s routine is more akin to a college lecture (he does teach graduate screenwriting workshops at N.Y.U.) spliced together with music, pictures and jokes. In the course of a set he may play Train and Sufjan Stevens songs from his iPod’s “guilty pleasures†playlist; sing about mountaineering, erotica or adventure journalism; or even narrate news clippings with the aid of a PowerPoint slide show. After a year and a half on the road he had perfected enough material for his debut album, “Sandwiches and Cats,†released late last year on the JDub label. [NYTimes.com]
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