Duck Soup: The Play, with Mike Spiegelman as Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho)!

IMPOSSIBLE PRODUCTIONS presents
DUCK SOUP The Play
A COMEDY FROM SOUP TO NUTS



WHEN:
January 5 - 28, 2007. Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm. Sundays @ 3pm

WHERE:
The Dark Room Theater, 2263 Mission Street, SF, between 18th & 19th

TICKETS:
$15 at the door; Buy Tickets Now!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Ring in the New Year with Impossible Productions latest madcap romp, DUCK SOUP: the Play, our tribute to the Marx Brother’s classic antiwar masterpiece. Make a resolution to see this revolution and experience the irony as you laugh at self-righteous politicians unaccountably misspending the peoples’ money and starting unnecessary wars for indefensible reasons!!

Pandemonium reigns in picturesque Freedonia when widowed ex-First Lady Mrs. Gloria Teasdale is called upon by the president to yet again bail out the current administration from its most recent financial woes. At the end of their fiscal rope, Freedonia’s government reluctantly concedes to her lone condition. The price for her $40 million donation? She installs her flamboyant paramour Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) as President. This news, however, comes much to the chagrin of Ambassador Trentino, crooked diplomat from the neighboring nation of Sylvania.

After years of trying to incite sectarian violence, Trentino is suddenly seized with an idea: He can simply woo Mrs. Teasdale into marriage to extend his influence over Firefly. He then schemes with notorious gold-digger Vera Marcal in an attempt to catch Firefly with his trousers down; and to sweeten the plan, he sends in former newsboys Chicolini (Chico) and Bells (Harpo) as spies to help shuttle the situation between Sylvania and Freedonia to the verge of a terrible preemptive war!

Is this war just a front? Does it matter what is is?!? Or is a cigar just a cigar?

DUCK SOUP: the Play is an Impossible Production, brought to you by Erin Ohanneson (producer/tech), Jim Fourniadis (writer/director) and Cameron Eng (producer); and it stars Mike Spiegelman, Gerri Lawler, Cameron Eng, Glenda Solis, Jim Jeske, Alexia Staniotes, Andy Wenger, Damien Chacona and introducing Melinda Adams.

Laundry Basket & Spiegelman at the 2007 SF Sketchfest

Friday, January 12, 10PM $10

The Darkroom
2263 Mission Street. SF, CA 94110...Call 415-401-7987 for info.
Appearing With: Power Up! With Sean Kelly/Latino Comedy Project

Comedy headliner Laundry Basket was on stage riffing when MC Mike Spiegelman asked LB to wrap it up. The back-and-forth banter proved the two had chemistry, and the rest is comedy duo history. Laundry Basket's take-no-prisoners approach to bleeding-edge comedy is well supported by the straight-man professionalism of Mr. Spiegelman. Laundry Basket & Spiegelman have performed at Los Angeles’ Steve Allen Theater and opened for comedian Neil Hamburger. Also performing: Karen Spiegelman and Bucky Sinister.
www.myspace.com/spiegelmania

“It's for laughs. The basket is known as the funny one, with Spiegelman as straight man; even though he's (it's?) not actually speaking, LB still delivers some zingers, backed up by the impeccable timing and goofy self-deprecation of his human counterpart.”
– Hiya Swanhuyser, SF Weekly.

2006: It's over, finally

Highlights:

Worked a week at the SJ Improv with homie John Hoogasian.

Recorded 21 interviews with the movers and shakers of SF Comedy with Ian Jensen for the Mike and Ian Podast.

Our interview with Comedy Coach Neil Lieberman is now on CD. That's right, I'm an Executive Producer of a Laugh.com CD.

Joe Donogue, Bucky Sinister, Harmon Leon and I were the Problems, a spoken word sketch comedy group. We headlined the Hemlock, had a run in the Darkroom, played the Purple Onion and got written up in the SF Weekly, twice.

Comedy Duo Laundry Basket & Spiegelman played LA's Steve Allen Theater and opened for Neil Hamburger. We also get press for Basket of Justice, our cop show, from the SF Weekly.

Hosted the 3rd Annual SF Comedy Club at 50 Mason Comedy Competition.

I got to host my favorite awful movies at the Darkroom's Bad Movie Night. Myself and two other smartasses with microphones heckled such films as Wired, Traxx and Deep Throat.

Check out my online performances of 2006 here and here.

Fun fact: I got a call back to be PC in those Mac/PC commericals. Enjoy the money, assholes.

I miss you, Cousin Sylvia. RIP.

My niece Zelda was born in 2006. Welcome, cutie.

Also, I'm looking for a new day job.