Friday,
January 18, 2002

8:00 pm

Dirty and Cheeky

Dirty Dick Donnelly and Cheeky Charlie Chaucer (a.k.a. Dirty and Cheeky) are the premiere Anglo/American swinginâ comedy team working in the U.S. today. A comedy duo that was born in a time when Sinatra was cool and the cocktails were cooler. A time when the Catskills were hot and Joey Heatherton was hotter. A time when a comedian not only told jokes, but sang a few songs, did one hell of a tap number, and guessed your dateâs weight just by squeezing her head. Dirty and Cheeky never forgot these timeless traditions and have brought them stumbling and screaming into the here and now.

Dirty Dick Donnelly lives up to his name. He loves to have a drink and tell stories. His favorites include getting drunk and being intimate with Sammy Davis JR's eye-socket and discovering Leonardo DiCaprioâs dark secret while doing a guest spot on TVs mega-hit "Growing Pains." He's a loveable cross between Groucho Marx and Dean Martin by way of Johnny Rotten. As Dirty likes to say, "Always leave them with a song, and if you canât leave them with a song, leave them with a sore throat and an empty wallet. That's the Vegas style, baby."

Cheeky Charlie Chaucer is the perfect dim-witted English comic foil- imagine Dudley Moore with a sprinkling of Rain Man and youâll get the idea. The ever-excitable Cheeky is prone to fiery rants about everything from U.S. involvement in W.W.II ("It was only when you started losing valuable beach front property in Hawaii that Hitlerâs gassing of the Jews wasnât quite so palatable was it!") to the incompetence of the French ("If they could build a better tunnel we'd still have a bloody Princess, wouldn't we?").

Dirty and Cheekyâs spontaneous repartee is polished and time-tested, and if their routines sometimes break down and reveal humiliating moments of their private lives, as well as the pr@@ivate lives of the various celebrities they have "known", all the better. Although their humor is steeped in a healthy dose Borscht Belt chicken soup, itâs ladled out with an eye to the 21st century. The boys always close, of course, with a show -stopping musical medley that can mix everything from Rogers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" to Prodigy's "Firestarter."

Friday,
January 25, 2002

8:00 pm

The Bad Astronauts

The Bad Astronauts are:

Hannah Cabell
David Marcus
Simone Perrin
Gregory Pierce

The Bad Astronauts do zany, original sketchwork for all ages and pH balances. They blasted off at the Duplex Theater last year and then orbited The Present Company last spring.

At the Red Room, The Bad Astronauts will teach you how to eat right with their educational hip-hop group, "Word Up!" They'll also take you to YMCA where the notorious Fear has his first swim lesson. Then you'll head west to the gold rush where just about anything could turm up in a sieve.

Saturday,
February 2, 2002

10:00 pm

A Couple of Naked Babies

Join Brian Huskey and Seth Morris of NY's legedary Naked Babies as they present an evening of entertainment that will give new meaning to the phrase "Two fellows presenting an evening of entertainment".

Friday,
January 11, 2002

10:00 pm

Canned Family

In the summer of 1999, five veterans of New York City's alternative comedy scene teamed up to form Canned Family, a sketch comedy group with two goals: to make people laugh, and to volunteer once a week at a soup kitchen to feed hungry homeless children.

Canned Family is batting a solid 500.

In less than two years, Canned Family has written, directed, produced and performed four original full-length shows, and has earned frequent appearances at Gotham Comedy Club, Luna Lounge, and many other comedy venues throughout the city.

Avoiding parody, politics or impersonations, Canned Family frolics in its own alternate universe ..

Where vampires audition for Broadway musicals.

Where squirrels run the most successful advertising agency on Madison Avenue.

Where Bigfoot works for your Human Resources department under the name David S. Asquatch.

Where socialites sipping cocktails shuffle about with their pants around their ankles with no clue as what's causing all the static electricity.

Where crotches talk.

The group's dynamic is driven by sharp writing contributions from all five members, and acting talents which have been seen and heard in several national television and radio commercials.

The members of Canned Family, together and separately, have performed at Caroline's, Gotham Comedy Club, Luna Lounge, Comic Strip Live, Stand Up New York, Surf Reality, the Aspen Comedy Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival, PSNBC, the Fringe Festival, and anywhere that comedy is to be found in New York.

Friday,
January 18, 2002

10:00 pm

the Irwin Smalls Trio

The Irwin Smalls Trio is Adam Felber and Michael Bernard. They have been beloved fixtures of the New York comedy scene for several years, performing just about everywhere. Their show "Irwin Smalls Presents" ran for a year at The West Bank Cafe and then for another year at Surf Reality.

Nowadays they mostly rest on their laurels, answer fan mail, and prepare their enormous new show. Look for it this spring. Adam Felber is a comedian, improvisor, and writer. He can be seen in "The Next Big Broadway Musical" (fully improvised!) and "Felber's Frolics" (at Ye Olde Tripple Inn). Writing credits include PBS's "Wishbone" and "Women Are From..." (which is currently in development at Paramount/MTV films). Adam can be heard as a panelist and occasional fill-in host on National Public Radio's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!" some