Breathe! It's Over! Breathe!

We slept till NOON we were so exhausted from last night's Oscar party. This year we had 200 in attendance --woah, that's a lot of ballots to score!-- and a major panic crisis to kick things off when the CABLE WENT OUT!!! I downed two beers and had a minor meltdown in the green room bathroom, slipped the Time Warner guy $50, a bottle of champagne and some tickets for shows and VOILA! It was fixed just after 7:00. About 40 minutes after we were supposed to open the doors so it was very hectic and stressful from that point out. Ah well, at least it went on after that.

Sean McCarthy wrote up a nice re-cap along with video taken a the top of the event. You can see me and Sara on the far left furiously grading the tons of trivia entries we received.

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--Kambri
Breathe, Kambri, breathe.

My Oscar Party in Today's NY Post

I've Got Friends in High Places

My friend Eric Drysdale, gamillion time Emmy winner for writing for a couple of cable shows, up and quit his day job and has started his own blog: edrysdale.com/blog/. Eric also bestowed one of the most amazing, unique, special, memorable wedding gifts to me and Finny when he snapped 3D photos with his camera, developed them into slides and presented them to us in an antique carrying case equipped with its own special view finder scope thing. Come over to our apartment some time and I'll make you look at each and every slide. They rule. Anyway, bookmark his site as I'm sure he will be doing something clever and entertaining on a regular basis. Plus, he's nice.

ALSO...my friend Susie Felber gave birth to a child and, unlike JLO who is cashing in a Six Million Dollar check, she is actually talented. Susie and her absurdly cute boy Hugo have gone and gotten a gig of their own. I wish she were my mom. Really. Here they are in all their Vlogging glory: http://babble.com/cs/blogs/toddlertube/default.aspx

--Kambri

Ummm, Holy Crap!

Reserverations for my annual Oscar party tomorrow are pushing 250. Um, I don't know if I have enough man power to handle that. AND the NY Post is supposed to run something in tomorrow's Pulse section. Too much of a good thing?

Radio Clip, Oscar Jokes for the Actual Oscars, Debbie Harry & More!

Christian was on Elliot in the Morning in DC on DC101 (zowie they have a lot of listeners!) and plugged my Love, Daddy site. They just posted the audio clip and he made me laugh out loud a few times. Especially when he called my dad the Fonzie of the Deaf community. Here's the clip for you to enjoy . He starts talking about me and my family about mid-way through.

To listen to his whole hour on the show, visit the Elliot in the Morning site here: http://www.eitmonline.com/live.html

As for Christian, well, he's busy writing Oscar jokes. Yes, for the party we're hosting (we're up to 120 RSVPs already!) but also for the actual Oscars. You read it right. Dude is writing jokes that have a slim chance of being spoken on air during the freaking Academy Awards. At our viewing party on Sunday, we'll have a running tally of what jokes actually make it through. (We're guessing zero.)

Um, what else? Debbie Harry is coming to John Robert's show at Comix tomorrow. So is Babydaddy from Scissor Sisters and Amy Carlson from Guiding Light. Some menagerie, huh?

--Kambri
This beats living in a trailer any day.

Free Academy Awards Viewing Party

No cover charge and no minimum purchase required! Discounted food and drinks available all night.

Hosts Christian Finnegan & Kambri Crews will have the whole Comix bar and showroom to enjoy with big flat screen TVs showing nothing but the Oscars. We'll have ballots for sale with chances to win some fabulous gift packages and random drawings and trivia prizes, too. Even if you show up late, you won't be out of the running to go home with a prize.

Doors open at 6:30 so if you're into the red carpet coverage you won't miss out. Oscars start at 8:00.

Everyone is welcome and there's plenty of space for all of us, so invite anyone and everyone who loves the Oscars or gambling!

** To reserve a spot at our Academy Award Gala 2008, please RSVP to kcrews@comixny.com with your name and number of party in attendance **

Sunday, February 24th @ 6:30 PM
Comix
353 W. 14th Street (near 9th Ave.)
New York, NY
NO COVER / NO MINIMUMS

Check out www.comixny.com or call 212.524.2500 for more.

Family Hour w/Auntie Sara

Friday 2/22/08 - 7:00 PM Ochi's Lounge (COMIX)
353 West 14th St. just east of 9th Avenue
New York , NY Cost:

NO COVER, 1 item minimum...and FREE COOKIES baked by generous comic H. Alan Scott (http://www.halanscott.com/)!

We proudly accept donations to our official charity, the Comedy Cures Foundation (http://www.comedycures.org/)!

Hosted by Sara Benincasa (MTV News, MTV's "Total Request Live," ChooseorLose.com)

Hayes Hargrove (The Groundlings)
Greg Barris (Heart of Darkness)
Craig Baldo (Comedy Central, The Onion)
Cousin-in-Residence Kambri Crews (Ballyhoo Promotions; LoveDaddy.org)

Billy Lyons (Comix)
Elaine Williams (All My Children, One Life to Live, Waiting for Guffman)
Sara Schaefer: "In a city where so many people are trying to out-cool each other, Sara wears her obsessions on her sleeve...[a]offbeat, humorous, and hugely enthusiastic personality."-Family Hour veteran Rachel Kramer Bussel, Gothamist