On Friday, March 12th 2010, some of the funniest and weirdest stomped upon stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles to raise money to help rebuild Haiti. They read tweets, one got naked and all flapped their wings with Yo Gabba Gabba. A 30 minute video has been available on iTunes for $2.99. A longer version of the event will be released soon (Edit: March 30th) for DVD purchase and streaming at Amazon.com.
Please visit these sites and donate to this incredible cause. You'll see Ben Stiller, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Jenny McCarthy, Steve Agee, Michael Ian Black, porn stars, Brian Posehn, Sarah Silverman, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and a naked Mad Men plus so, so, so much more. Look real close, and you can see my head and hands in the front row! Come on, people! What else do you want?
I'm still buzzing over this incredible event from last Friday. I'm still jet lagged too. Here are some behind the scenes shots from "Night of 140 Tweets" backstage at UCBLA and at Birds Restaurant from the eye of photographer Robyn Von Swank.
The DVD and download will be available on Amazon on March 26th. Pre-order now.
The official line up came in from Paul Scheer. This is what we were treated to last night:
Matt Besser • Brett Gelman • Rob Delaney • Jon Daly • Chad Carter • Natasha Leggero • Paul F Tompkins • BJ Porter • Nick Thune • Whitney Cummings • Michael Ian Black • Eddie Peppitone • Harris Wittels • Paul Rust • Ben Schwartz • Alex Blagg • Neil Campbell • Katie Dippold • Josh Fadem • Brian Huskey (Twit Pic) • Alec Sulkin • Scott Aukerman • Sarah Silverman • Ronna and Beverly • Rainn Wilson • Brendon Walsh • Joe Wengert • Jensen Karp • Chantal Claret • Freddie Gibbs (Twit Pic) • Dave Holmes • Rob Riggle • John Ross Bowie • Greg Fitzsimmons • Samantha Ronson • Andrew Donnelley • Dave Foley • Tom Lennon • Kerri Kinney • Mike Schur • Alan Yang • Damien Fahey • Doug Luusonhop • Michael Hitchcock • Dragon Boy Suede • Paul Feig • David Wain • Casey Wilson • Ben Stiller • Jason Woliner • Dana Gould • Jackie Clarke • Greg Berhandt • Chelsea Perretti • Dan Harmon • Rob Schrab (TWITPIC) • Demi Moore (TWIT PIC) • Ashton Kutcher (TWITVIDEO) • Brian Poeshn • Wilmer Valderrama • Diablo Cody • Liz Meriweather • Jordan Rubin • Bob Saget w/ John Stamos • Jeffrey Ross • Neil Mahoney • Jen Kirkman • Stephanie Pratt • Kelly Oxford • June Diane Raphael • Sasha Grey (TWITPIC) • Adam Scott • Martin Star • Todee • Will Ferrell • Owen Burke • Weird Al Yankovic • Ilan Hall • Ethan Suplee • Damon Lindelof • Carlton Cuse • James Gunn • Mary Lynn Rasjkub • Steve Agee • John Cho • Jarrad Paul • Justin Long • Ed Helms • Mindy Kalling • Brea Grant • Brian Greenburg • Nick Kroll • Lake Bell • Ellie Kemper • Rich Sommer • Peter Sciettra • Muno (Yo Gabba Gabba) • James Urbaniak • Rob McElhenney (TWITPIC) • Kaitlin Olsen • Glenn Howerton • Charlie Day • Deanna Russo • Nia Vardalos • Ian Gomez • Neal Brennan (TWITPIC) • Michael Colton • John Aboud • Dane Cook • Jenny McCarthy • Janina Gavankar • Bill Simmons • Sam Levine • Shannon Elizabeth • Matt Walsh • Morgan Walsh (TWITPIC) • Chris Romano • Andy Milonakis • Ardin Myrin (TWITPIC) • Will Sasso • Garfunkel and Oates • Dan Levy • Daryl Wright • Mike Phirman • Kyle Kinane • Jordan Morris • Jesse Thorn • Kulap Vilaysack (TWITPIC) • Kevin Seccia • Ariel Schrag • Colton Dunn • Adam Pally • Curtis Gwinn • Eric Appel • Chris Kula • Gil Ozeri • Aaron Bleyart (TWITPIC) • Mike Mitchell • Eric Filipkowski • Caprice Crane • Tricia McAlpin • Eugene Cordero • Matt Braugner • Aziz Ansari • Nathan Fillion • Busy Phillips • Aubrey Plaza • Emily Maya Mills • Codi Fisher • Joanna Angel • Cameron St. Clair
On video:
Rob Corddry, Joe Mande, Adam Lisagour (@LonelySandwich), Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray, Michael Showalter, Dave Ferguson, Questllove, Jon Lajoie, Andy Cohen (Bravo TV), Abby Elliott, Jake Fogelnest, Tom Scharpling, Eugen Mirman, Hannibal Buress, Olivia Munn, Har Mar Superstar, Kevin Pollack, Caiss St. Onge, Jon Glaser (as Detroit Tiger's Coach Jim Leland) and Kevin Smith
(Edit: Rick Demint's Portroid site has been updated. Rick takes these terrific Polaroid shots of comedians with autographs. His archive hosts many photos of those who participated with links to their Twitter account. It's pretty great.)
140 Comedians, actors, performers and personalities from stage and screen will gather at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles tonight to read their Tweets to the Twitterverse and beyond. The event is sponsored by Funny or Die and Stillerstrong. All proceeds will go to Artists For Peace and Justice to benefit the Haitian School Initiative. This blogger and Tweeter (with hardly any followers...whatever) will be there.
A DVD of the event will also be produced. Pre-order is available on Amazon. It will be available on iTunes for download on March 22nd.
FunnyorDie put shows us the madness behind the scenes.
Back from this incredible night of celebrities, writers, funny people and Tweets! Just waiting on line outside the UCB Theatre felt like a red carpet (thank GOD it wasn't) of whose who in television and film. I thought my DVR had thrown up on the sidewalk. There were familiar faces galore: Rainn Wilson, Paul Feig, Brian Poeshn, James Urbaniak, Rich Sommers (nice ass, there Harry), UCB familiars such as Chad Carter, Seth Morris and Matt Walsh, Jackie Clarke, add, stir....repeat.
The UCB stage was decorated with birds in cages, honoring the symbolic Tweet bird. Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer hosted with their own famous brand of laid back goofiness, kicking off the show by reading a few of their own crafted tweets, and introducing each guest reader, all the while guiding this overwhelming ship. What felt like a potential logistical nightmare of Tweeters of fame (holy crap! Demi Moore! Ashton! John Stamos?! Uh oh alternative comedy fans...Dane Cook!), turned into a mostly well timed line up of 170 plus. StillerStrong's very own founder Ben Stiller was present to read his Tweet and bust some balls. James Gunn, Michael Ian Black, Dave Foley, Tom Lennon, Sarah Silverman, Steve Agee, one after the other, funny tweet after funny Twitpic, the event flowed with minor technical bumps. For instance, some Twitter people didn't know how to leave the stage. Instead of jumping off stage left or right, some ended up walking aimlessly, or tried to go back to the curtain. This was charming in its confusion. Hell, it's UCB. Everthing is spontaneous and delightfully unpolished.
In order to include some missing well knowns that Tweet, videos of notable Twitterers such as Michael Showalter, Chris Hardwick, Kevin Pollack and Director Kevin Smith were beamed on screen.
UCB is right next door to the favored neighborhood Birds Restaurant, whose name ironically matched the Twitter spirit. The venue closed down their restaurant for the after party, to which all Twitter participants hung out until the early hours.
It was an amazing feat handled in the spirit of technology, fun and charity. Just wait until the DVD comes out!
Check out the Portroids blog, where a list of all the participants with links to their Twitter account is being compiled. (http://www.portroids.com).
On Friday, March 12th 2010, some of the funniest and weirdest stomped upon stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles to raise money to help rebuild Haiti. They read tweets, one got naked and all flapped their wings with Yo Gabba Gabba. A 30 minute video has been available on iTunes for $2.99. A longer version of the event will be released soon (Edit: March 30th) for DVD purchase and streaming at Amazon.com.
