LOL WITH IT: Local hands in Down the Show

The third episode of Down the Show - produced by Abigale Bruley and a team of Philly comedians - opens with an introduction by Kids in the Hall funnyman Kevin McDonald.

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LOL WITH IT: Local hands in Down the Show

POSTED: Friday, June 15, 2012, 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Comedy LOL With It

Every Friday, Ryan Carey covers the people and events that are giving Philly the giggles.

The third episode of Down The Show — produced by Abigale Bruley and a team of Philly comedians — opens with an introduction by Kids in the Hall funnyman Kevin McDonald. The first sketch features a hilarious '80s-beer-commercial-style music video, in which the brewskies are swapped out for milk. Babes and studs frolic around in the sand and surf, guzzling quarts of 2 percent. Other noteworthy sketches include a commercial for the "My Talking Henry Rollins" doll, which has already made splashes on Philebrity and the Fuck Yeah Henry Rollins Tumblr, and the life doldrums of a baby standup comedian in "Baby Louie."

The centerpiece of the episode is a particularly entertaining sketch called "The Future Of Discourse (pictured above)," which stars members of former Philly sketch group The Sixth Borough Corey Cohen and Jason Messina (the sketch was written by Cohen). Two dudes at an office restroom are yakin' about their latest gadgets, and the dialogue is positively gibberish ... yet eerily familiar.

Says Cohen: "The tech jargon of today has gotten to this point where if you listen to a conversation people have now in another 20 years, it would be completely unintelligible. We just use buzz words now, for everything. Everything's got a pronoun with a capital title, you Facebooked somebody, you Googled that shit the other day. It was just supposed to be an extension of that."

Cohen originally conceived the piece as a one man sketch, with his character talking to himself. "Once I wrote the script, I defintiely wanted to get Jason involved. We had worked on a few live things since Sixth Borough, but we haven't done any video projects in a while."

Cohen, who also created the "Babie Louie" sketch, produces a free live comedy event called "The BIG Show" every Wednesday at 9 p.m. at Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.). Tomorrow night, head to the Tin Angel for a Corey Cohen Comedy Production starring The Daily Show's Adam Lowitt.

And for those of you with short attention spans (i.e. most of you), I'll embed "The Future of Discourse" by itself immediately below. Under that, check out all 20 minutes of the third episode of Down the Show.

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