Podcasts about annoying actor friend

Are all the Christmas or Holiday or Birthday gifts you receive… surprises? So often we make lists of “wishes” and our family and friends grant those wishes, exactly. While this is incredibly generous and kind, it leaves out one of the best parts of opening a gift: the surprise. One year, I decided to start a family tradition and change things around with what I call the WTF gift. All year long we look for an item a particular person would love to have, yet when you remove its original packaging and give the gift wrapped, the receiver would have no idea what it was. Thus begins the game. When you unwrap this unpackaged gift, you think to yourself, “What the @#&% is this?!” and try to guess what it actually is. There's a timer and scoring too, so it doubles as a competition. Hilarity and stories ensue. Our WTF gifts have become a family-favorite event every Christmas now, with everyone trying to outdo the prior year. {My hot matcha tea almost came out of my nose this year from laughing so hard.}  Imagine, though, taking this crazy concept and applying it to other areas of your life… My special guest this week on the Storytelling School Podcast is a satirist who knows all about turning things on their sides. What comes first when creating satire? How do you get rewarded as a writer before you actually get paid? How do you take the mundane and find the funny in it? What's the real reason behind why someone would take the time to express anger about you sharing your authentic stories? In this episode, my marvelous guest Andrew Briedis takes us behind the curtain and discusses his process for coming up with satire. He also talks about the anonymous actor parody account he ran on Twitter and demonstrates how he heightened, changed, and re-heightened a satirical sketch he wrote for Leslie Jones on SNL. What you will learn in this episode: What essential storytelling element you can learn from soap operas How to find your way into the story What it's like to be in the SNL writers room Who is Andrew? Andrew Briedis is a writer and actor. He's written for The Golden Globes and Saturday Night Live and developed a Netflix feature film. His book #SOBLESSED: the Annoying Actor Friend's Guide to Werking in Show Business debuted as the #1 best-selling theatre and parody book on Amazon. Andrew has also made appearances on the web series Turning the Tables and on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Currently, he does random stuff on TikTok in his spare time. Links and Resources: @andrewbriedis on TikTok @andrewbriedis on Instagram @andrewbriedis on Twitter @actor_friend on Twitter #SOBLESSED: the Annoying Actor Friend's Guide to Werking in Show Business by Annoying Actor Friend Storytelling School Website @storytellingschool on Instagram @storytellingSchool on Facebook

HAPPY 300TH EPISODE! It only took two seasons! Play along as Robbie Rozelle (@divarobbie - Songs From Inside My Locker), Andrew Briedis (@andrewbriedis - SNL, Annoying Actor Friend), Sarah Jenkins (@sarahmjenkins - Cats), and Justin "Squigs" Robertson (@squigsrobertson - Lights of Broadway) join Bryan, Kevin, and Kimberly for wine, broadway talk, theatre games, bad puns, and Hudson Whiskey. Become a supporter on our Patreon: https://bit.ly/2Q2zELG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An episode that is #SoBlessed to have the return of actor Ryan Nicolls and the debut of Andrew Briedis, the mastermind behind the Annoying Actor Friend twitter account. Andrew reveals the art of being verified on twitter, his social media advice and whether there is life after verification. Also, do surgeons humble brag as much as actors? Do you have thigh rub? How long do the effects of trolling a message board of a Broadway show last? Blaze would like to give special thanks to his parents, Gandhi and Mother Theresa. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're live from BroadwayCon! Play along as a gaggle of guests including Jeremy Jordan, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jay A Johnson, The Hamilcast Podcast, and Annoying Actor Friend join Bryan, Kimberly, and Kevin at the booth for a flask of whiskey, broadway talk, theatre games, bad puns, and more flask-based booze! Become a supporter on our Patreon: https://bit.ly/2Q2zELG

This week we’re bringing you a tale of friendship, overnight stardom that was two decades in the making, the power of social media, and two theater nerds’ love of that 90s classic, Jurassic Park…..Or something like that.    

This week Rory talks about the audience reaction during the first performance of Hamilton after the election and is joined by guest Andrew Briedis, the man behind the hilarious twitter handle "Annoying Actor Friend." Andrew has a unique journey and tells us why he feels #blessed to have gone from musical theatre actor to social media personality to writer. Andrew explains how two shows Rory performed in, The Book of Mormon and Happy Days: The Musical, were both turning points in his life.

The internet is a pretty crazy place. You can buy anything from shamwow towels to assault weapons, watch anything from adorable cat videos to genre defying porn (these account for 97% of the internet’s overall use), and have video conversations with people across the globe. One of the less touted feats of the internet is that it allows us to be anyone we want to be. Today’s guest was one of the first people to really tap into this concept and use it on social media. Andrew created a parody twitter account called Annoying Actor Friend that assumed the role of, well, your annoying actor friend. It completely stuck a nerve with the Broadway community and suddenly Andrew became the Bruce Wayne to his Twitter account’s Batman.

If you've been paying attention to the Broadway press over the last few days, you know that the incredibly popular--and incredibly anonymous--social media personality Annoying Actor Friend has identified himself. World, meet Andrew Briedis. Wonder why he did it, what he got out of it, and why he picked now to reveal himself? Take a listen and find out!