{"id":1898,"date":"2007-02-13T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2007-02-13T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T14:41:19","slug":"carolina-gets-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/carolina-gets-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina gets Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judd Knott alerts us to the 2007 Carolina Comedy Festival with Louis Black, Bryan Tucker and more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n*2007 Carolina Comedy Festival*<br \/>\nA week full of&#8230;well you guessed it &#8211; COMEDY!!!<br \/>\nFeaturing Comedy workshops, seminars, a movie and stand-up performances.<br \/>\nThe culmination of the week&#8217;s events will be a performance by Lewis Black<br \/>\nand several other comedians!<br \/>\nSee below for a detailed list of the week&#8217;s events. Wednesday, February 14 &#8211; Saturday, February 17<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>&#8220;The Princess Bride&#8221;<\/strong>*<br \/>\nWednesday, February 14th. 7:00 pm in the Union Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Student Comedy Showdown<\/strong>*<br \/>\n&#8220;Only the funny survive&#8230;to open for Lewis Black!&#8221;<br \/>\nCome out and compete for the chance to open for Lewis Black<br \/>\nThis event is open for UNC students and is FREE for spectators<br \/>\nThursday, February 15th. 7:00 pm in the Union Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Improv Workshop with Upright Citizens Brigade<\/strong>*<br \/>\nCome learn from UCB Creative Director Anthony King<br \/>\nAlso featuring Lennon Parhan and Reic Scott from UCB<br \/>\nFriday, February 16th. 2-4 pm in the Union Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Animation Workshop with Grey Blackwell<\/strong>*<br \/>\nDemonstration and advice from animation artist Grey Blackwell<br \/>\nFriday, February 16th. 2:00 pm in the Class of 2000 Lounge<br \/>\nFor more information go to *<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greyblackwell.com\/tv.cfm\">http:\/\/www.greyblackwell.com\/tv.cfm<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Class with Black<\/strong>*<br \/>\nA 50-minute period with the man himself!<br \/>\nTopics will include: Political Comedy, what REALLY makes him mad,<br \/>\nChapel Hill memories and much more&#8230;<br \/>\nFriday, February 16th. 4:30 pm in the Union Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Director Paul Feig<\/strong>*<br \/>\nDirector of *<strong>Arrested Development<\/strong>*, *<strong>Freaks and Geeks<\/strong>* and *<strong>The Office<\/strong>*<br \/>\nPaul will show an episode of &#8220;The Office&#8221; with commentary and host a Q&#038;A session<br \/>\nThis event is FREE and is open to the public<br \/>\nFriday, February 16th. 6:00 pm in the Union Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Carolina Comedy Club<\/strong>*<br \/>\nA comic variety show featuring improv and stand-up from; Todd Levin, Bob Powers, UNC Alum &#8211; Bryan Tucker, and the Upright Citizens Brigade<br \/>\nThis event is FREE and is open to the public<br \/>\nFriday, February 16th. 9:00 pm in the Union Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Stand Up Comedy Seminar<\/strong>*<br \/>\nHear from Lewis Black, Alonzo Bodden and Kathleen Madigan<br \/>\nSaturday, February 17th. 1:00 pm in the Union Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Comedy Writing Workshop<\/strong>*<br \/>\nBryan Tucker, a writer for &#8220;*<strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong>*&#8221; and &#8220;*<strong>Chapelle&#8217;s Show<\/strong>*&#8221;, joins authors Bob Powers, Todd Levin and writer\/director Paul Feig to explain the things you need to pursure a *career in comedy writing*<br \/>\nTopics include: writing and submitting for scripts, magazines and internet sites and what you can do as a student.<br \/>\nSaturday, February 17th. 2:30 pm in the Class of 2000 Lounge<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Lewis Black and Friends<\/strong>*<br \/>\nSaturday, February 17th. 7:00 pm Memorial Hall (tickets required)<\/p>\n<p>All seminars and workshops are free for UNC Students. $5 each for general public.<br \/>\nSign up via e-mail: comedyfestATunc.edu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judd Knott alerts us to the 2007 Carolina Comedy Festival with Louis Black, Bryan Tucker and more: *2007 Carolina Comedy Festival* A week full of&#8230;well you guessed it &#8211; COMEDY!!! Featuring Comedy workshops, seminars, a movie and stand-up performances. The culmination of the week&#8217;s events will be a performance by Lewis Black and several other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}