tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3326994351529296402024-03-18T23:35:30.016-05:00CRASSUSGeoff Crump and Nat Topping are Sketch Comedians in Chicago.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-73020107224296201302012-07-01T18:51:00.000-05:002012-07-01T18:51:28.743-05:00Some New Videos!Hey look! New videos!<br />
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3220 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago</div>
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Weds 5/9 – 5/30, 6/13 – 6/20</div>
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As Professional Comedians, we’ve worked up a pretty decent sized collection of sketches over the course of the last couple of years. So as a result the running order of the show will change from week to week. That means we’ll constantly be swapping in and out different sketches, adding new stuff we’ve just written and never tried before, and just generally running a fluid and crazy show. Every performance will be different, culminating in the final show where Nat actually won’t even be present. Geoff will do the last show by himself.<br />
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It’s going to be an extravaganza of comedy goodness. AND, we’ll have friends opening for us. Here’s the schedule for that:<br />
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5/9 Pat Raynor</div>
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5/15 Jack & the Wolf</div>
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5/23 Lindsay Williams</div>
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5/30 Jack & the Wolf</div>
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6/13 Claudia Martinez</div>
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6/20 Stuart Scotten</div>
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So come early, come often, and come have some fun with us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-47906947105146927932011-12-10T15:57:00.001-06:002011-12-18T16:08:14.340-06:00Underground Lounge 12/7/2011For Posterity!!<br />
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CRASSUS played the Underground Lounge on December 7th with improv stalwarts Old West Family Photo. Here was our running order:<br />
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Bag of Dicks<br />
Quick intro<br />
Full Circle on Film<br />
The Universe Song<br />
Prop Comic<br />
Fisting<br />
OreIda<br />
Guitarman<br />
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For the record, we loved the place. The bar is this dark, grimy hole in the basement of the Links Hall building. They played blues music until the show opened, and then rock and roll afterwards. Personally (this is Nat) it was everything I like in a bar. The stage is pretty sweet too, and the other acts were great. OWFP in particular had a really good set.<br />
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The OWFP people asked us to come back, and we loved it there so we'll be back in January on the 25th. Come check it out.<br />
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The Underground Lounge<br />
952 W Newport (Clark and Sheffield)<br />
Chicago, IL<br />
Show is at 8:00 and is Free<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0Chicago, IL, USA41.8781136 -87.62979819999998241.6887156 -87.837909699999983 42.067511599999996 -87.421686699999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-36210027691692061792011-10-17T12:41:00.000-05:002011-10-17T12:41:54.779-05:00...And We're BackWe took a little bit of a break - Geoff for some big life changes (including having a little baby girl), and me to focus on my true love, crying and masturbating.<br />
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That said, we're back to doing Stuff again. We had a show last Tuesday at SketchTest, which we neglected to mention to anyone, and we have another tomorrow! Brand new scenes tomorrow too, so if you people have the opportunity you should come out. It's free!<br />
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The Pub Theater's Sketch Test<br />
Fizz Bar, Tuesdays @ 7:30 PM</div>
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3220 N Lincoln,</div>
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So that's fun. More of those to come.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-22414116591799952542011-05-16T11:26:00.000-05:002011-05-16T11:26:54.484-05:00It's Not a Plug If It Already Happened...... but Geoff and I did Grafiti last Friday at the Playground.<br />
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Scenes performed were:<br />
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<em>Fish Are Caught With Pretzel Hooks (Fish Scene)</em><br />
<em>Homeless Prop Comic</em><br />
<em>Lessons Learned (Alamore)</em><br />
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I don't know why we bother giving scenes a title longer than three words, because inevitably on the set list we just write things like 'Fish' and 'Soap' and 'Waffles.' If anyone ever found one of our discarded set lists, they'd think it was the worst grocery list ever.<br />
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Anyway, the audience was great. Our first two scenes hit really well. We still got our laughs on Alamore, but it didn't go over as well as previous performances (Rockford, what up?) I'm not sure if that was a show placement thing or if our performances were just off, but whatever. I'm quibbling over something where you readers probably couldn't care less.<br />
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One other thing of note: a buddy of mine from my Intro Voice Over class was there with his group <a href="http://www.bigdogeatchild.com/">Big Dog Eat Child</a>. Their set consisted of them doing a bunch of comedic hip hop. It was great. Not sure how often they perform live (they do a lot of video stuff) but they're worth checking out.<br />
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Here's the video for 'What Up Little Kid?' Enjoy:<br />
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I mean, who doesn't hate kids, amirite?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-61898669705248828122011-02-09T13:41:00.000-06:002011-04-04T13:50:41.939-05:00Notes from Rockford<em>Posted this over at my other blog. Enjoy!</em><br />
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Last Friday, I had a chance to do something that I've always wanted to do. I got to travel to another city and perform comedy. And then they gave me money.<br />
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Sure, that city was Rockford; it was only about an hour and a half away; and the amount of money was a mere $150 split two ways, but you have to start somewhere.<br />
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Here's how everything came about:<br />
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Just before RvD's Sketchfest show in early January, I received a random email from someone I didn't know asking if RvD was 'available for booking.' There wasn't much info in the email, but I had the blessing of the group to at least ask him what the hell he was talking about.</div>
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Rockford does this show called "First Fridays" where the first Friday of every month they put on a concert/comedy show/art show. They usually have a couple of standups, a band and then a local Rockford sketch/improv group. That sketch group wasn't able to do the February show and, since the people in that sketch group had seen RvD, they wanted to know if we would come out and do the show. They couldn't offer much, but they would feed us drinks and food afterwards.<br />
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Well, it's hard to get a group of seven people to drop everything on a Friday night to run an hour and a half outside of the city to do a show. Particularly when you would have to put that show together in less than a month. One would need to be crazy to bother with that.<br />
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Well, luckily I know two who are crazy enough.<br />
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And so Geoff and I put together some Crassus sketches we had performed previously and off we went to Rockford, our significant others in tow.<br />
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We showed up at the event. It was at a cool 250-300 seat theatre in downtown Rockford. The event coordinator people whisked us off to the backstage area, told us how excited they were to have us, let us know that we were actually headlining and then got us some water.<br />
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We performed the set. The house was about as full as our sketchfest show. The audience loved us. The event people were really thankful that we came out. They paid us. They took us next store to this cool bar called Kryptonite (which I would highly recommend if you are in Rockford ever - good atmostphere, live music, great freshly made foccacia) and basically treated us as though we deserved to be treated well.<br />
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You contrast that with your typical show in Chicago, where sketch comedy and improv is literally everywhere and you have to beg friends and coworkers to even come to the show. It's just refreshing.<br />
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So here's to you, Rockford. Thanks for having us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-7054824535422116512010-07-18T12:38:00.000-05:002010-07-18T12:38:38.564-05:00Post Show Ramblings: Show #3 PICTURESWe had one wife and one girlfriend in the audience Friday night with camera phones, and the results are pictures!<br />
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For posterity purposes, the running order for our first Grafitti show at the playground was:<br />
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Reaching Out</div>
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The Haircut</div>
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Guitar Song</div>
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The new sketches were In My Shed and The Haircut, both of which did pretty well. I personally felt a little constricted when singing In My Shed, which I think might have been a result of doing this particular song for the first time in front of the audience and the fact that I was still flubbing some lines while practicing. I think this will be a case of the song sounding better the more times I perform it for people.<br />
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The Haircut was a lot of fun. It's a weird little piece and Geoff does a great job with the eccentric character, which makes it much easier to play the straightman. Plus, I got to wear a wig:<br />
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We have another show on Tuesday at Fizz Bar. Y'all should come out.<br />
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Look! Love!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-40655060263409578362010-07-14T12:39:00.000-05:002010-07-14T12:39:19.589-05:00SHOWSPLOSION!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Playground</div>
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Come see us and some other sketch groups try out some new wacky nonsense! Hooray nonsense!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-57069932291654149252010-06-28T11:50:00.000-05:002010-06-28T11:50:54.288-05:00Added Show - GRAFITTIGeoff and I have another showcase in July - Friday July 16th at the Playground! We'll be doing a couple of minutes for their Grafitti show at 10:00 PM. More info as we get closer, but here's the link to the <a href="http://www.the-playground.com/">Playground</a>.<br />
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Yay shows!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-43607257894558528072010-06-21T11:06:00.000-05:002010-06-21T11:06:16.187-05:00Upcoming Shows!Hey hepcats!<br />
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Geoff and I will return to the stage (at least) two more times in July for SketchTest!<br />
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Shows will be 7/20 and 7/27<br />
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We'll have new stuff and possibly some reworked older stuff. Fun times will be had by all, and more info to come as we get closer to the shows.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-21769769680816091372010-06-14T10:10:00.002-05:002010-06-14T10:15:23.530-05:00Neglect...... this blog has a bit. But it don't mean the boys of Crassus don't care. We just got other blogs to blog on and it's tough to blog on all blogs at all times. Plus we ain't been doing much lately. We recently opened up our most recent <a href="http://rvdchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/12-angry-sketches-opening-friday.html">Robot vs. Dinosaur</a> show plus we were a part of the Joe Janes <a href="http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/comedy/85988/365-sketches">365 Project</a>, so there was plenty going on. But we got a couple more showcase shows coming up in July and we will be writing more and more material in the coming weeks. Not sure why I bothered to hyperlink earlier, cause nobody comes to this place... yet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-6310912035399990612010-05-25T18:27:00.001-05:002010-05-25T18:27:49.442-05:00Lost Finale!I sort of got it....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-51454136965551388462010-05-19T14:05:00.000-05:002010-05-19T14:05:23.091-05:00Post Show Ramblings: Show #2, SketchTestIn keeping with long established CRASSUS tradition (meaning, of course, that we did it last time), here are some thoughts for this last show.<br />
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I’m Nat by the way. I’m one of the two guys. Hi.<br />
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For the sake of posterity, here was the running order for the show:<br />
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1) Warm up exercises<br />
2) Homeless Prop Comic<br />
3) Soap People<br />
4) Winnifield Lindsay, Literary Pervert<br />
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The show was part of SketchTest, which is like an open mic for sketch groups, hosted by the good folks of Jablonski at the <a href="http://thepubtheater.com/">Pub Theatre</a>. It’s the perfect set up for trying out new stuff and really just an all around good time for anyone who likes sketch and is interested in seeing works in progress. I would highly recommend the show, even when CRASSUS isn’t performing. Plus, it’s free for everyone involved.<br />
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It’s always fun performing something for the first time in front of an audience. As a performer, you can really feel what works and what needs more work based on the audience reaction. I would say the stuff that we tried this week was a little less like your standard sketch – homeless prop comic is more of a standup spoof; Winnifield Lindsay is very presentational in style; Soap People, while structured like a traditional sketch, has a pretty complex premise – so it was interesting to see what hit and where.<br />
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Overall, I’d say all three scenes went over pretty well, prop comic coming in at best received in my opinion and Winnifield Lindsay bringing up the rear but still having its moments of obscenely comic glory. Geoff and I now have an idea of what gets kept and what needs work as we continue to rewrite and refine. <br />
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A couple of the other groups cancelled at the last minute, so there was some extra time laying around. Geoff and I used some of that time to mess around with some warm up exercises on stage, which was actually a lot of fun. I think there’s a place for that kind of silliness in future shows.<br />
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Plus, one of the other performers played the saw. I have never seen that before.<br />
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MORE SHOWS TO COME!! Check back soon and huzzah for comedy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-29778793885116758542010-05-13T07:49:00.005-05:002010-05-13T07:49:00.510-05:00Show the Second: Fizz BarOH DAMN.<br />
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You didn't think we were done, did you?<br />
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CRASSUS appears <em>again </em>at SketchTest on Tuesday 5/18. <br />
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<a href="http://www.thepubtheater.com/">The Pub Theater's</a> Sketch Test</div>
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Fizz Bar @ 7:30 PM</div>
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3220 N Lincoln,</div>
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Chicago IL</div>
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Twelve minutes of new comedy that's EVEN NEWER than our last twelve minutes of new comedy.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-16414274848644590202010-05-11T23:11:00.006-05:002010-05-12T12:38:07.024-05:00Cherry Broken!So it happened. <br />
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The first time Geoff Crump and Nat Topping performed their two man brilliance, deemed Crassus, was tonight - approximately 4 hours ago. It was also the first time ever they flubbed their lines on stage. It started with Geoff Crump, no less then 15 seconds into their very first sketch. Luckily the brilliant performers called out the screw ups and moved on, and the rest of the evening went pretty smoothly. <br />
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For the sake of record keeping, this is how it went down: <br />
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1) Full Circle on Film <br />
2) Reaching Out <br />
3) Sex and Waffles <br />
4) Guitarman <br />
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The sketches were well received and, besides getting some pacing issues in control, the sketches will probably stay as is. I say the night was a success. <br />
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It was strange to realize that me and Nat, although working in sketch comedy together for a few years now, had not actually performed together since Robot vs. Dinosaur's production of "The Greatest Stories Never Told... Told!", which was RvD's first production, back in 2008. And I (Crump) have not been in a scripted show of any kind since then either. It's amazing how tough it is to get back into the swing of things. And I didn't feel nervous or anything, but I still fudged up and fudged some lines. Shaking off the cobwebs I guess. <br />
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Regardless, Nat and myself will start taking this city by storm. Indeed yes we will. Or at the very least we will make ourselves laugh by making others laugh at our dick jokes and overly analytical and mind bending dick jokes that are masked as thought provoking logic and fine art. Fun will be had. I ask you to witness it. Stay posted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332699435152929640.post-13837012013889688642010-05-10T13:45:00.001-05:002010-05-10T13:46:52.547-05:00CRASSUS ANNOUNCES THEIR OWN EXISTANCEKABOOM!!!<br />
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CRASSUS appears at SketchTest on Tuesday 5/11. <br />
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Fizz Bar @ 7:30 PM</div>
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3220 N Lincoln,</div>
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Chicago IL</div>
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FREE</div>
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We try twelve minutes of new comedy. Come watch and bring friends.<br />
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KABOOM AGAIN!!<br />
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Oh yeah, baby. That's some <a href="http://ibigbang.wordpress.com/">Big Bang</a> right there.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586128531549327178noreply@blogger.com0