The other day I took the boys to Apex to swim….btw, Apex has a fantastic swimming pool, if you've never seen it nor swam in it. Anyway, there was a Mom there with her kids, and she was calling for one of her boys across the pool. His name? Marco. Seriously. At that moment, I had to make a quick decision. Do I launch into typical smart-ass comedian mode and yell "Polo?" Or do I swallow my comic tendencies and avoid the confrontation? Ultimately, my fatherly instincts overtook my comedy leanings and I didn't say anything. But I yelled "Polo" several times in my head. And my head thought it was damn funny.

The G-man is sitting at the breakfast table, having some hot chocolate - the kind with the marshmallows in it. He asks me, "Daddy, is marshmallow two words?"

In all my infinite wisdom, I try to explain to him that "marshmallow" is one word, but he, at 3 years old being smarter than me, says, "Yeah, but marsh is a word and mellow is a word, right?"

"Right, son. But marshmallow is one word."

"So you can take marshmallow and break it apart to make two words and and put it back together to make one word?"

"Yes."

"So can you marsh stuff? Can you mallow stuff?"

- J

FYI: There is no public April show - the Avenue Theater has some big thing on our regularly scheduled night, so we picked up a private gig this month at a school (we're always available for those) and we'll be back on the third Wednesday of each month in May - May 16th, to be exact. We'll keep you posted on that show.

The Rodents of Unusual Size Comedy Improv Troupe is very proud to announce that our next show (Wednesday, February 21) will be a benefit for Edison Elementary School (a DPS school in NW Denver, where my 6 year old is in first grade)!  That's right, we've decided, after spending some time in the lunch room at Edison - have you seen what they're feeding your children? - that the school could use some more funds and that we could help out with that.  So we're raising the price of our show to a more appropriate "benefit show price," or $20, and we're going to give at least half of the money to Edison for their Special Needs department (The lunch room thing?  Just kidding.  It's not Soylent Green - it's just nachos).  And to make it worth your $20, we're going to be twice as funny as usual....oh, wait, I guess I'm not allowed to say that, because it's improv and you never know.  Okay, then, uh, well, then, we'll have a very special guest opening our show!  Yeah, that's it!  Matthew Taylor of A.C.E Comedy will be performing bits from his "Tales From An Englishman" series, which he's known for, at 7:00, and the ROUS will hit the stage at 7:30.  Whew, I'm glad we got that figured out.

Also, if you eat at Bang! (the restaurant, on 32nd between Lowell and Julian) the evening of the show, they'll take 10% off of your bill and donate some portion of your bill to the school.  So make a night of it! 
 
See you there.  Details below.  GIF of our flyer is on the "pictures" page of our MySpace site.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
7:00 p.m.: Matthew Taylor's "Tales From An Englishman"
7:30 pm: ROUS!
$20 cover ($10 for 18 and under), includes one drink.

The Avenue Theater
417 East 17th Avenue
(303) 321-5925
www.avenuetheater.com

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-- 
Jeff Chacon
Rodents of Unusual Size Comedy Improv Troupe
(303) 520-6878 Hotline
rodentimprov@earthlink.net
www.myspace.com/rodentimprov
www.rodentimprov.com

Well, it has finally stopped snowing in Denver. After seven straight weeks of snow and freezing cold temperatures. And now it's nice outside and everything is melting.

I wonder if we're going to miss the snow, now that it's going to be gone. I mean, I've never heard so many people say, "I can't wait for spring" this early in a year. But don't you think the snow is sort of like an old friend who came to visit and never left and now, 2 months later, he's packing up his toothbrush and his old roll out foam sleeping mattress and leaving? Which means, if you follow my infallible logic, that we're going to miss him. Yes, even though he made our lives a living hell for 6 or 7 weeks and he can't cook and you caught him watching your pay-per-view porn several times (on YOUR credit card!), we're all going to miss him. One day, and it'll probably be sometime in May, because that rhymes nicely, Denverites the world over are going to put down their margaritas, stop basking in the sun, turn, and look at each other and say, "Damn. It's too nice. I wish it were snowing again. Remember how our cars bottomed out on the ice in the alley and then got stuck in front of Bob's house on a daily basis? And remember how that same creepy guy kept coming by and asking you for $15 to shovel your walk on a daily basis? And remember how the stores didn't have any groceries because the delivery trucks couldn't get through all the storms and so we ate Top Ramen for 7 weeks in a row? I miss those times."

Yeah, we're going to miss the snow. Not.

Blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah.  Blah.  Blahblahblahblah!

"By the time a child reaches nursery school, he or she will laugh about 300 times a day. Adults laugh an average of 17 times a day." – Some important scientist...

 

Tired of sitting inside, eating leftover ham and watching it snow?  Itching to get out, see some live performance, and laugh your newly enlarged ass off?  Yearning to rediscover your inner child?  The Rodents of Unusual Size Comedy Improv Troupe is very proud to present its first 2007 improv and sketch comedy show, Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 7:30 p.m. at the Avenue Theater.   417 East 17th Avenue.   $10.00 gets you in and gets you a drink, so come out and laugh with and/or at us!  Hey, you'll probably get back those 283 laughs that you're missing.  And it'll be good for you:

 

"When we laugh, natural killer cells which destroy tumors and viruses increase, along with Gamma-interferon (a disease-fighting protein), T-cells (important for our immune system) and B-cells (which make disease-fighting antibodies). As well as lowering blood pressure, laughter increases oxygen in the blood, which also encourages healing." - "Science of Laughter" Discovery Health Website

 

Hopefully it will have stopped snowing by then and you can all get your cars out and get over there, but if you can't, we'll bring a snowplow to your street to dig you out!  Oh, wait, wait, the Mayor says he already did that.  Uh, yeah.  Anyhow, we CAN promise that, if you make it to the show, you'll have a good time and you'll laugh and you'll increase those tumor-killing cells, so you won't have to go see your doctor and when he calls begging you to come in for a checkup you can laugh at him, too!  Increasing your tumor-killing cells yet again!  See that?  It's a cycle.  A healthy, healthy cycle.  A Catch 23.  Or something.

 

See you there!

I went to Mexico over the Thanksgiving Holiday.  I got sun, free drinks, good food and a free show on the beach.  Let me tell you my story.

--> --> I was staying at a resort in Rivera Maya just south of Cancun.  Two resorts down the beach was a nudist resort.  Well, that's all fine and good with me.  But the group I was with thought it would be "interesting" to go check it out.  Translation, the boys wanted to see boobs and the girls wanted to see pee pees.  Hey, I'm up for seeing a little meat and two veg.  So we walked down the beach and just stopped short of going on the forbidden beach.  The rest of the group was a little hesitant about going forward were I was ready to "take the plunge".  So, we're all standing there by the fence and a couple of us notice some movement on the other side.  At first we didn't think anything about it.  Then we notice the movement.  It was a woman doing her thing on top of her man.  They were just going to town.  Most of my group was totally shocked that people would do that while other people were around.  Me, I thought, I just saw free porn.  Now, these people didn't care if anyone was watching.  They didn't even care when a waiter came up and dropped off their drinks while they were in the middle of their sexcapades.  After that just seeing naked people was kind of uneventful.  I'll not forget that moment for a long time.

The last Tuesday ROUS Comedy show (and the last 2006 show) is tomorrow night the 28th - 7:30 p.m. at the Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue. We're moving to Wednesdays in 2007, so come on down and say goodbye to Rat Tuesdays forever! Or until we're asked to go back to Tuesdays. Whichever comes first. I'd bet on us being asked to go back first, because forever is a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you - There's something else. Wednesdays. In the new year.

See you manana!

Hosted By: ROUS
When: Tuesday Oct 24, 2006
at 7:29 PM
Where: Avenue Theater
417 East 17th Avenue
Denver, CO 80212
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