Podcast by Bits Per Second
On the inaugural episode of WELCOME TO AMERICA, our mime extraordinaire Vlad talks about some of his favorite musicians to come out of France and Canada, including Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Mireille Mathieu, and many others. Some of Vlad's favorites: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CVrgf5sfTtWbtSF5QD0Sc?si=7ead2e8c16694541 Vlad also recommends this Yves Montand Music Hall special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKCKojW6Ow The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets are available at www.bitplayers.net Opening and closing music by Damien Baby (http://damienbaby.bandcamp.com/)
In our look back at 2023, Jim, JT, and Amy reflect on an awesome year in bitstory, Amy recounts her improv intensive in the UK in which she workshopped with (swoon) JOSIE LAWRENCE, and the three discuss Christmas songs that deserve to be added to the canon. JT's choice: Sabrina Carpenter, "Santa Doesn't Know You Like I Do" https://youtu.be/ZWzpFdr-KDw?si=ucTAPfLAzVmkXQGe Amy's choice: Jo Anne Worley, "The Gift of Maggie" from The Mad Show https://youtu.be/ExhL8yzG2qc?si=z9kTzgrNo90pXxD8 Jim's choice: Ariana Grande, "Santa Tell Me" https://youtu.be/nlR0MkrRklg?si=aZKymRghjTFMbrBL Opening and closing music is "Frosty the Snowman (in the style of the Jack Frost Band)" by The Bit Players featuring Frank on vocals, Devon on keys, Chase on sax, and Jim on drum machine Some incidental music by Damien Baby The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets are available at www.bitplayers.net Bring the fam to see our Family Friendly Funnies show on Wednesday 12/27 at 7pm! For the grown-ups, we have our New Years Eve show coming up as always, with shows at 7, 9, and 11pm. Get your tickets early!
Jim, Karl, JT, and departing musician Drew try to count the number of Bruins jerseys Karl has bought and discuss other purchases we've regretted over the years. We also wrap up the summer season and talk about weird shows we'd like to produce soon, our first theater experiences, our first R-rated movies, Weird Al, Andy Dick's football comedy, and very current celebrities such as Chris Hansen and Sarah Palin. Come see Drew perform his last two shows this weekend! Friday 8/25 and Saturday 8/26 at 8pm. Will he go to Connecticut to retrieve his talkbox? Bits Per Second is the official podcast of The Bit Players, who perform improv every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Come see our Family Friendly Funnies show on Wed. 8/30 at 7pm! TICKETS! www.bitplayers.net Opening and closing music is "Apathy" by Dorisduke, the band that is 3/4 current and former Bit Players. Buy their music here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com
On a long-delayed episode of the Bit Players Movie Club, Jim, Chase, and Kenney talk EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, which swept the Oscars shortly after we recorded this. Then Jim quizzes the others on Best Picture winners that have lost their relevance. Apologies for the inconsistent audio quality. We're returning soon with new episodes and a new microphone. Stay tuned! Find out where to watch EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once The Bit Players Movie Club is a part of THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Continue to check this feed for weekly content that will leave you contented. The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: chaseceglie.bandcamp.com
Today on the season finale of DISCOVERING AMERICA, Vlad tells of the change in status that happens when a Russian immigrant comes to the U.S. Vlad performs improv comedy most Friday and Saturday nights with The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net Theme music is by Damien Baby, featuring Bit musicians Devon and Chase: damienbaby.bandcamp.com/
Today on DISCOVERING AMERICA, Vlad starts with a rundown of all the Soviet holidays, then segues into some stories about his childhood home. Featuring a brief special guest appearance by Karl, of the I CAN TEACH HISTORY podcast! Vlad performs improv comedy most Friday and Saturday nights with The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net Theme music is by Damien Baby, featuring Bit musicians Devon and Chase: damienbaby.bandcamp.com/
On this week's DISCOVERING AMERICA, Vlad discusses employment in the Soviet Union and how it differed from that in the U.S., with a brief detour into the mashed potato experience in both countries. Vlad performs improv comedy most Friday and Saturday nights with The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net Theme music is by Damien Baby, featuring Bit musicians Devon and Chase: damienbaby.bandcamp.com/
In honor of Marcel Marceau's 100th birthday, we're reposting Vlad's excellent talk about the history of the great mime, as well as Vlad's training with him.
In this week's DISCOVERING AMERICA, Vlad talks about how he learned the language and how it was connected to every part of his American experience. And why he can't ask for a fork or a sheet, or go to the beach. Vlad performs improv comedy most Friday and Saturday nights with The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net Theme music is by Damien Baby, featuring Bit musicians Devon and Chase: https://damienbaby.bandcamp.com/
Today Jim talks to all his fellow performers in the COMEDY CORNER STANDUP NIGHT: Andy Syron, Karl Magner, Vlad Tenenbaum, Devon Mello, and Kim Tingle. We all discuss our influences as well as the most unanswerable question: why would anyone want to do standup? See us all do standup this Thursday, March 16, at 8pm at The Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Suggested admission $10 at the door. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available here: www.bitplayers.net Opening and closing music by Dorisduke, the band that is 75% current and former Bit Players. Find their music here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com
Welcome to DISCOVERING AMERICA, where the Bit Players' resident Russian mime Vlad tells Jim about his experiences adjusting to American life after growing up in the Soviet Union. Today he talks about his first impressions of the country and why the airport represented his first taste of freedom rather than the hellscape of bureaucracy it represents to us. Vlad performs improv comedy most Friday and Saturday nights with The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net Theme music is by Damien Baby, featuring Bit Player musicians Devon and Chase. Buy their music here: damienbaby.bandcamp.com
This week we watched Jim's suggestion, 2007's crime thriller THE LOOKOUT, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Then Jim leads the group in a game based on the seven other movies in the 8-movie DVD set on which THE LOOKOUT appears (it's also available here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-lookout). The Bit Players Movie Club is a part of THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Continue to check this feed for weekly content that will leave you contented. The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: chaseceglie.bandcamp.com
Today the Movie Club discusses SUMMER WARS, a 2009 Japanese animated film suggested by Kenney which we all liked very much. SUMMER WARS is available to watch here: https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2006716773 Kenney's genealogy for the family in the movie, as well as the hideous image Karl references at ~27:00 can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/0Q0IHKV The Bit Players Movie Club is a part of THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Continue to check this feed for weekly content that will leave you contented. The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: chaseceglie.bandcamp.com
Today on I CAN TEACH HISTORY, History teacher Liz teaches her comedian husband Karl about the Progressive Era, Teddy Roosevelt, ketchup, and Ida Tarbell, as well as muckrakers, who were in many ways the paparazzi of their day. Meanwhile, Karl teaches Liz about the movie with the cars. Karl's I Can Teach History videos are visible on his TikTok @kahlmagnah91. I CAN TEACH HISTORY is a member of the BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday night in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music is "Tantalus" by Dorisduke. Their music can be found here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com
Hi Bits Per Second subscribers! Although we've changed our title to THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK, this is still your home for BITS PER SECOND and all Quittin' of Bitsin'. Now when you search for "Bit Players" on your podcast app, the first thing you see is us instead of someone like Scoot McNairy or Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Check back for more podcast silliness, and come see The Bit Players at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI, every Friday and Saturday night! Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music by DorisDuke. Buy their stuff at dorisduke.bandcamp.com.
Today the Movie Club discusses Chase's pick, 1969's PUTNEY SWOPE, directed by Robert Downey, Sr. For a meal like the one Karl is eating throughout the episode, visit your local Cumberland Farms store. PUTNEY SWOPE is available to watch here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/putney-swope The Bit Players Movie Club is a part of THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Continue to check this feed for weekly content that will leave you contented. The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: chaseceglie.bandcamp.com
Jim and Danny discuss the recent departure of the Bit Players' Artistic Director and champion, Frank, and delve into some Bit Players history. And also why Pierce Brosnan is really the best James Bond and why Tommy K's is an incredible video store that outlasted expectations. Be forewarned: this episode is sincere and dangerously lacking in the sort of ironic detachment usually guaranteed herein. Listener discretion advised. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available here: www.bitplayers.net Opening and closing music by Dorisduke, the band that is 75% current and former Bit Players. Find their music here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com
Karl's pick this week for Jim, Kenney, and Chase to watch is SUPER (2010), directed by James Gunn and starring Rainn Wilson and Elliot Page. Find out what Karl's fondness for this movie truly reveals about him as a person. Spoilers abound. Here's where to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/super The Bit Players Movie Club is a part of THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Continue to check this feed for weekly content that will leave you contented. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: chaseceglie.bandcamp.com The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI.
Welcome to I CAN TEACH HISTORY, where Liz (an actual US History teacher) and Karl (her husband, an improvisor and comedian, and not a very good History student) discuss a real historical topic on which Karl is the worst student ever. On this prémiéré épisode, Liz and Karl discuss the founding of the Jamestown colony, which Karl learns is not in Rhode Island. Karl's I Can Teach History videos are visible on his TikTok @kahlmagnah91. I CAN TEACH HISTORY is a member of the BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK. Keep checking this feed for more fun! Theme music is "Tantalus" by Dorisduke. Their music can be found here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com
Jim and Karl decide to revisit SERENITY (2019), already discussed in the Bits Per Second episode #FishMatrix, and they take Chase and Kenney along for the ride. Surprisingly, there's a lot more to unpack, as Karl offers a theory about the villain that he is completely unable to back up and immediately has to rescind, and Kenney chastises the filmmakers for being uninformed on video games. Then Jim leads the gang in a quiz about the real but nonexistent movies that appear in trailers on the DVD. Theme music is Chase Ceglie's "Losing My Mind." Chase's music can be found here: https://chaseceglie.bandcamp.com/ The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets are still available for the Bits' NEW YEARS EVE shows(this Saturday 12/31, for those still on the Julian calendar) at 7pm and 11pm, so come laugh in the New Year! Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net
The BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK will be live soon! Also, join the Bit Players for NEW YEARS EVE HI-JINKS on December 31 at 7pm, 9pm, and 11pm. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm. Our theme music is by Dorisduke (dorisduke.bandcamp.com) Be sure to check out our Bit musicians here! today-is-tomorrow.bandcamp.com chaseceglie.bandcamp.com damienbaby.bandcamp.com
Jim, Danny, and Bit Players techbro/filmbro/resident documentarian Gene talk about laserdiscs, Disney rides, and movie theater experiences. The Bit Players perform every Friday at 8pm and every Saturday at 7pm and 9pm at The Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. If you're listening on the day this drops (Saturday 7/16), you still have a chance to get entered into the raffle for two free tickets to see Jay Leno at the Firehouse this coming Wednesday! All you have to do is come see one of our shows tonight. Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
SEASON 5 BABY!!! Bits Per Second returns as Jim, Karl, Frank, Izzy, and James zoom together while the Firehouse is dark for a weekend, some from quarantine. Together we discuss who the most athletic Bit might be (believe it or not, there's some controversy) as well as what it's been like to be back on stage regularly after being closed for over a year, and a detour or two into our week with Jay Leno. Keep your eye on this feed for some hot new stuff coming soon as THE BIT PLAYERS PODCAST NETWORK begins! The Bit Players perform every Friday at 8pm and every Saturday at 7pm and 9pm at The Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Purely promotional Jimisode. Come join us for MATCH YOUR WITS WITH THE BITS TWO! Our second online trivia night to raise money for the Firehouse Theater. Friday 8/21 at 8pm. Get your tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1042940999480727 The Bits are back on stage! Every Saturday at Newport Blues Cafe. Go to bitplayers.net for more details. A good NewportRI article about us: https://www.newportri.com/entertainment/20200820/newport-based-bit-players-keep-laughs-going-though-in-new-ways-and-places Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to be able to get back to our comedy home as soon as we can. If you can, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Karl and Jim discuss the Bits' very successful trivia night from last weekend, then veer into comic book movies and Karl's recent experience with Masterclass. David Lynch's Masterclass trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr2e6j4qF7w David Lynch's "iPhone commercial": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
In honor of our upcoming MATCH YOUR WITS WITH THE BITS Trivia Night, Jim and Karl host McCaughey Standard Trivia's JUSTIN PIMENTEL, and Jim turns the tables and throws some very obscure trivia back at him. MATCH YOUR WITS WITH THE BITS takes place on Zoom this Friday 6/26 at 8pm. Go to www.bitplayers.net to get your tickets and get teamed with a Bit Player of your own! https://www.facebook.com/events/616814105594199 The nonprofits that Jim mentioned can be found here: https://thewomxnproject.org/ and http://www.tgijp.org/ And the voting initiative that Justin mentioned is here: https://votesaveamerica.com/adopt-a-state/ The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Jarrod, Jim, and Karl look at 2018's GOTTI, starring the always-at-11 John Travolta and directed by Kevin Connolly, best known as the kid who shows Elly May around in THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (1993). And also--Dios mÃo--Stacy Keach! The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Get ready to MATCH YOUR WITS WITH THE BITS at the Bit Players Trivia Night! Each team will partner with a Bit Player to have fun and win prizes. Fri. 6/26. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Check the Bit Players social media for more details. The Bit Players have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed while the theater is still closed. If you like what you see, take what you would have donated to our PayPal this week and give it to Black Lives Matter (https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019) or a similar organization for social justice and equality. Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Today we watched the heartwarming wrestling comedy FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, starring a pre-Swedish-death-cult Florence Pugh as the WWE Diva wrestler Paige. After a bit we segue into a side discussion of THE WRONG MISSY, an Adam Sandler production that is way better than it needed to be. FIGHTING is available on Prime and Hulu, MISSY is on Netflix. The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. The BIT PLAYERS TRIVIA NIGHT is coming! Each team will partner with a Bit Player to have fun and win prizes. Fri. 6/26. Check the Bit Players social media for more details. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
This week Jarrod, Jim, and Karl watched BERNIE, the 2011 film based on a true murder, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Baker Dill himself Matthew McConaughey. We discuss predatory funeral directors, intra-Texas rivalries, and the presence of iPhones in a movie that takes place in the '90s. The movie is available on Prime, and also for free on Tubi, YouTube, Pluto, PopcornFlix, Crackle, Roku Channel, and I'm pretty sure some UHF channels. The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Jarrod, Jim, and Karl all watched SERENITY, the 2019 film starring Matthew McConaughey in full Lincoln Continental mode as a fisherman who's given an offer he can and should refuse. BUT THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN THAT. 2/3 of us loved this movie and the other one is Jarrod. The movie is available on Prime. The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ justice
Jarrod, Jim, Karl, and Devon talk complying with reasonable public safety requests, house tasks they don't mind doing, their favorite concerts, tribute bands, and the ubiquitous likability of Weird Al. Weird Al Yankovic's Disney Channel special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9q71RsQfo For those unfamiliar with Victor Borge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMEkNhulsI The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Jarrod, Jim, Karl, and Annemarie discuss tools like a bunch of tools. Bob Vila not allowed. There's no wrestling in this show but there's a lot of Tim Taylor grunting. THE MADDENING (1995), starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Danny (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) Huston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tguGL83NU8Y The Bit Players WOULD be performing every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater. We are currently closed due to the governor's order and safety guidelines, but we look forward to performing for you again in the future. Please help us #SaveTheFirehouse! The Bit Players want to make sure we have a home to go back to when the quarantine is over. We have funny stuff all over our Facebook (The Bit Players) and Instagram (@bitplayers) as well as a variety of stuff coming to this feed. If you like what you see, drop some money at https://www.paypal.me/firehousetheater so that we can pay our bills and keep the laughs going! Tell your enemies! Opening and closing music by DorisDuke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players. Buy their latest album, NEED, here: https://dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Jim, Jarrod, Karl, and James discuss trees, running away from home, roller blades, their crumbling bodies, and the classic film, Baby's Day Out. Then special guest Kellie comes on to share the latest Poke scandals in Providence. We need your help to #SavetheFirehouse . During the Covid-19 health crisis, we have been unable to keep you laughing in our theater but the bills are piling up. Please help us keep the laughs going by donating to www.paypal.me/firehousetheater if you can! We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jim, Jarrod, Karl and Conor discuss the Parks and Rec reunion special and timeless wonder that is Amy Poehler. They also delve into some positive news for a change. A big happy birthday to our friend Eli P! We need your help to #SavetheFirehouse . During the Covid-19 health crisis, we have been unable to keep you laughing in our theater but the bills are piling up. Please help us keep the laughs going by donating to https://www.paypal.me/firehousetheater if you can! We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod and Karl welcome on Annemarie and Elizabeth to discuss their short video project "Steph QuaranTammie, MLM scams, Annemarie's love story,their reckless youths and fake ids,first concerts, first cars, the versatility of the term "just sayin," and some bizarre practice Annemarie refers to as "Pigeon Sippin'" The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, and Karl welcome Andy and Chris for a lovely conversation about The Land Before Time, militia groups and ideas that come much too late. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, and Karl welcome back Rachelle to discuss the finer points of Zoom etiquette and quarantine hygiene. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, Karl, and Elizabeth welcome Frank on to talk about the upcoming improv master class that he and Jim will be running. They also break down when their parents first broke their hearts, quarantine procrastination, and what should and should not be on Bravo. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, Karl, and Tim revisit our favorite action heroes, euphemisms for death, Tik Tok, and the weeks of the Covid-19 shutdown blending together. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Karl, Kim, Tim, and Devon check in with rules for the dos and don'ts of social media during the shutdown, as well as their music recommendations and revisited movies to get you through those lonely nights. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, Elizabeth, Annmarie, and Karl discuss their quirky family traditions, including Thanksgiving Ham, stuffin' muffins, and pig murder. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, and Karl discuss life on lockdown, what they're eating, what they're working on, panic buys, and their spouses, or "spice's", waning patience being locked up with desperate performers. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets and gift certificates are available at http://www.bitplayers.net. We are currently closed per the Governor's order and safety guidelines, but look forward to performing for you again soon in the future! Opening and closing music by DORISDUKE. Buy or listen to their new album NEED at https://dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ , on Spotify, AppleMusic, or wherever you stream!
Jarrod, Jim, Karl, and Kim discuss sex ed videos, tea rooms, and clam cakes, then finish up with a long game of HotSpot. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at https://www.bitplayers.net/ AS OF NOW the theater is still open and shows are still scheduled. The Firehouse is an under-100 capacity theater. Our remaining open is not to be taken as a dismissal of safety concerns. Please use your discretion, wash your damn hands, and avoid hoarding. Opening and closing music by Dorisduke. Buy their new album, NEED, here: https://dorisduke.bandcamp.com/
Jarrod and Jim welcome Elizabeth and Andy to discuss their opinions on the Oscars, for which they have each viewed AS MANY AS two of the movies nominated. Elizabeth is excited about having jury duty coming up. Andy hates something that most of the world considers unhateable. At 06:35 Jarrod mentions that Jim has seen "almost as many movies as Lisa Pasonelli." Lisa is a teacher and film critic whose reviews can be found here: https://thecriticalcritics.com/author/lisapas/ and Jim has still not seen nearly as many movies as she has. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at bitplayers.net. Check back for more info on the Bits' HITTIN' THE RHODE TOUR for which we're planning to perform in every city and town in Rhode Island. Theme music by Dorisduke, whose new album NEED is available at dorisduke.bandcamp.com.
#2020: Leave Everyone Alone Today it's a Jarrod-free episode, as he was at Foxboro causing the Patriots to lose. As a result, nobody talks about wrestling in this episode. Jim, Lobo, and Frank discuss the Bit Players' latest New Years Eve show, and try to examine what characterizes the '10s as a decade. Beware! Mild Rise of Skywalker spoilers at 34:00. Spoiler discussion lasts about 90 seconds. The Munsters Theme, composed by Jack Marshall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCnvH2E-6A Come see the Bits' first sketch show, ARE WE HAPPY YET?, directed by our own James Tabor, on Thurs. 1/16 at 8pm! The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music is by Dorisduke. dorisduke.bandcamp.com
In this episode recorded in August 2017, Jarrod and Jim welcome DYLAN EBERLE, former Bit Player and current geologist, and ADAM WAZ, current professional photographer, to talk about The Force Awakens, Universal Basic Income, and Staind. Jarrod, Dylan, and Waz are all members of the band DORISDUKE. Check back soon for a new episode featuring the band, who'll be discussing their new album, NEED. https://dorisduke.bandcamp.com/ The Bit Players perform improv comedy every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. BYOB. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net.
Here's the audio from Vlad's one-man show about his training with Marcel Marceau, recorded live at the Firehouse Theater on March 22nd, 2018, on what would have been Marcel's 95th birthday.
This is Part 2 of a 2-part episode. Those just discovering us may want to listen to the previous episode, "#ComingToAmericaTODAY." In Part 2 of our epic interview, Russian mime extraordinaire VLAD TENENBAUM tells us more about making his home in Lynn, Mass., takes us through a game of Soviet Russia true/false, introduces us to some Russian animal noises, and finally, gives us the epilogue of his pizza story. The Russian novel Vlad's talking about is The Master and Margarita: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-50th-Anniversary-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143108271/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=master+and+margarita&link_code=qs&qid=1573920062&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1 There's more Vlad coming soon to the airwaves: first, the audio of Vlad's one-man show about his training with THE Marcel Marceau, and later we'll be recording a prequel interview where Vlad tells us more about his time in Soviet Russia. So stay tuned for our next episode, "The Phantom Red Menace," or: "Mime and Punishment." The Bit Players (and Vlad) perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. It's always BYOB and tickets available at www.bitplayers.net.
On this episode, we divert a little bit from our usual format of Jarrod insisting on talking about wrestling to talk to our friend VLAD TENENBAUM, Russian mime extraordinaire, about his experience leaving Soviet Russia in the 80s and making his new home in the U.S. of A. This is episode 1 of a 2-part series. Premium members (friends of ours) can access the entire episode right now by subscribing (coming over for drinks and listening). If you like Vlad's story, check back soon for a bonus episode which features the audio from Vlad's one-man show about his training under Marcel Marceau. The Bit Players (and Vlad) perform every Friday and Saturday night at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. All shows are BYOB. Go to www.bitplayers.net for tickets.
Jarrod, Jim, and James--or the Triple J Squad, as they like to be called--discuss the new Dave Chappelle special, the VMAs, prison shows, and mid-2000s Steve Martin movies. Jarrod is going to Wrestlemania and continues to annoy Jim with this fact. Vermin Supreme is a performance artist and is running for President again in 2020. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Tickets available at www.bitplayers.net. Theme music by Dorisduke, the band that is mostly Bit Players.
We won an award from RI Monthly! We didn't win the award from Motif Magazine (but Providence Improv Guild, a good theater, did, and they don't have doll heads in their basement, no matter what Jarrod tells you). And Jay Leno--JAY LENO--visited our theater one night. But we mostly talk about what vegetables are disgusting. At about 24:00 Conor and Karl walk in and ruin everything. We discuss a character Karl probably shouldn't have done, but on the positive side he had a really good poop earlier today. Jarrod's dog Gracie is @graciehoudini on Instagram. The Bit Players perform every Friday and Saturday at 8pm at the Firehouse Theater in Newport, RI. Visit www.bitplayers.net for tickets. The opening and closing music is by Dorisduke, the band that is 3/4 Bit Players and Bit Player alumni.
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