Live Wire!

We're producing a live mash up of comedy and music at Comix! I'm super excited to get this off the ground and am happier that DJ Cipha Sounds is on board to host. Tickets are only $12 and there is NO MINIMUM. Buy tickets here: comixny.com/event.aspx?eid=236&sid=710

Danny Bonaduce

For those who may have missed him the first time around or for those who couldn't get enough of him, he's baaaacckkkk! Danny Bonaduce, that is. I just started working on his press tour and can't wait to see him again. He'll be at Comix on August 10th & 11th hosting some pretty stellar NYC comedians and telling his crazy Hollywood tales. The dude is not a "phone it in" kind of performer but is a bundle of high energy so any of the four shows promise to be good. Click here for tickets and line up info. Save $5 with the promo code "DBVIP".

State of the Industry 2007

Greg Fitzsimmons reported for MySpace this year like Christian did last year which also was MySpace's first time out to the Just for Laughs Festival. I just caught some video of Andy Kindler's annual "State of the Industry Address" -- a must see event for anyone in the comedy industry -- and realized that I'm in the clip. Greg tells me and a few others not to walk on the red carpet because we're not celebrities. Watch the video and catch some interviews with just a few of the comedians we were hanging out with all weekend and learn about this annual roast of the people we know and love or love to hate.



--Kambri

The Round-Up

» To watch a clip of Christian Finnegan on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" pontificating on the latest in the lives of Paris, Britney and K-Fed click here.

» Roseanne Barr will headline two shows in one night at Comix on October 3rd.

» CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Tex in the City is looking for new shows to produce at Comix. If you have an idea but need help getting it off the ground, then Ballyhoo might be the answer. Submit your proposals to kcrews[@]comixny[dot]com.

» Kambri Crews was quoted in a funny article by Mandy Stadtmiller in the NY Post. Check it out.

Yesterday

I left the house calling out to Christian, "Bye, honey. I'm off to go fail upwards!" It's a quote from a little pep talk he gave me a long time ago when I was just forming Ballyhoo Promotions. "Life is full of frustrating disappointments, lost opportunities and little failures but the key is we keep failing upwards." Basically meaning that sure he might not get the part but the point is he was up for a role in an Eddie Murphy movie. Or I might not yet be able to snag a big client like say, Ri*hard L*wis, but Ri*hard knows who I am and would vouch for my work.

Turns out, I didn't fail yesterday. I just have a lot of work ahead of me. After discussing my memoir proposal, the literary agent said, "Let's get this ball rolling!" The publishing industry is virtually dead in the summertime so I am going to spend the next two months trying to write like a mad woman. I certainly was not in the position to meet with book agents 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. So even if I do fail at that and nothing ever comes of the proposal, I will have failed upwards.


With another visit to My Jailed Deaf Dad right around the corner, I hope to have some fresh new perspective and inspiration though I will NOT be smuggling in any more contraband. Yes, Dad, I am a "pussy" as you declared the last time I saw you.

Later I enjoyed wine on the roof of the Hotel Gansevoort with some lovely PR women who have some clients that could work well for future collaborations with me and Comix. If you haven't been there, I recommend it for the amazing view, and I don't mean the wet men walking around in open bath robes after having taken a dip in the pool. Eew. Ick.

I bolted from there over to the Barrow Street Theater with my friend Julie who was reviewing a rock operetta about the last year in the life of MLK, Jr. No, your eyes do not deceive you. I won't say more and will instead direct you to her review when it hits the Associated Press' wire. I liked being her plus one. She had a reporter's pad and a copy of the script. I'm jealous.

--Kambri
I want an AP reporter pad!