4/28/2005
MAY REJECTION SHOW LINEUP ANNOUNCED
The Rejection Show
“Failure is fun!”
The Rejection Show returns to P.S. 122 on May 18th!
The Rejection Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected and “turned down” material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and human beings whom display their creative “failures” live on stage.
The Rejection Show
May 18, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM
Hosted by Jon Friedman
Featuring:
Mike Albo
(Author, The Underminer)
Andrea Rosen
(Comedian, Variety Shac)
Nick Stevens
(Comedian, The Shark Show)
Chad Darbyshire, Drew Dernavich, & Matt Diffee
(Cartoonists, The New Yorker)
& The winner of the "Air Guitar with a Llama Contest!"
Plus "Rejection Inspection," special guest clapper with “Rejectee” (The rejected Rejection Show mascot,) & more rejection surprises!
May 18, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM - $7
150 1st Avenue and 9th St.
F train to 2nd Ave., R to 8th St., 6 train to Astor Pl.
212.477.5829
Tickets available via Ticketweb.com or at the P.S. 122 box office
“Failure is fun!”
The Rejection Show returns to P.S. 122 on May 18th!
The Rejection Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected and “turned down” material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and human beings whom display their creative “failures” live on stage.
The Rejection Show
May 18, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM
Hosted by Jon Friedman
Featuring:
Mike Albo
(Author, The Underminer)
Andrea Rosen
(Comedian, Variety Shac)
Nick Stevens
(Comedian, The Shark Show)
Chad Darbyshire, Drew Dernavich, & Matt Diffee
(Cartoonists, The New Yorker)
& The winner of the "Air Guitar with a Llama Contest!"
Plus "Rejection Inspection," special guest clapper with “Rejectee” (The rejected Rejection Show mascot,) & more rejection surprises!
May 18, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM - $7
150 1st Avenue and 9th St.
F train to 2nd Ave., R to 8th St., 6 train to Astor Pl.
212.477.5829
Tickets available via Ticketweb.com or at the P.S. 122 box office
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/28/2005
Tips from Jon F.
1. When brewing your own coffee at home try adding one chocolate chip into the filter. It'll give you a nice hint of chocolate without over doing it.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/28/2005
4/26/2005
SEB for me!
Jon F. has a new best friend and her name is Slippery Elm Bark!
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/26/2005
The email read at WYSIWYG (actual email sent to coworkers)
Dear Everyone,
As you may have heard tomorrow is my last day here. I got a job working for a marketing company. Their main goal is to examine their product, a “Mirror Hat” and their various innovative marketing techniques and its effects. The “Mirror Hat” looks like a regular hat except it is covered in mirror sheets. Imagine if all of the fabric on your hat were mirrors. That’s a mirror hat. I really believe in this product. I think it’s the latest and greatest in hat. On Monday morning I am to report to work and wear the “hat” around the city. I’ll have a notebook and a wind blocker. I’m supposed to record the reactions of males ages 14 – 90 and ask questions to anyone milling about. Some of the questions are as follows.
1. So, what do you think of my hat?
2. Do you like this hat?
3. Look at these mirrors on this hat.
4. Would you wear a mirror hat?
5. What do you all think of this?
6. Hat!
7. What’s your deal?
8. But seriously, mirror hat?
I’m a bit nervous about this but I think I can handle it. After all I did organize the fax room. Thanks for the memories.
Best,
Jon F.
There's more here www.tremendousrabbit.com/writing
Thanks ya'll.
As you may have heard tomorrow is my last day here. I got a job working for a marketing company. Their main goal is to examine their product, a “Mirror Hat” and their various innovative marketing techniques and its effects. The “Mirror Hat” looks like a regular hat except it is covered in mirror sheets. Imagine if all of the fabric on your hat were mirrors. That’s a mirror hat. I really believe in this product. I think it’s the latest and greatest in hat. On Monday morning I am to report to work and wear the “hat” around the city. I’ll have a notebook and a wind blocker. I’m supposed to record the reactions of males ages 14 – 90 and ask questions to anyone milling about. Some of the questions are as follows.
1. So, what do you think of my hat?
2. Do you like this hat?
3. Look at these mirrors on this hat.
4. Would you wear a mirror hat?
5. What do you all think of this?
6. Hat!
7. What’s your deal?
8. But seriously, mirror hat?
I’m a bit nervous about this but I think I can handle it. After all I did organize the fax room. Thanks for the memories.
Best,
Jon F.
There's more here www.tremendousrabbit.com/writing
Thanks ya'll.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/26/2005
Bitter Herbs
This year I did not participate in the horseradish eating contest but I did extend my afikoman finding winning streak to three consecutive years (under the kitchen seat cushion.)
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/26/2005
4/21/2005
Marketing job
I will post my farewell letter to my co-workers that I read at WYSIWYG on the writing page of my website (www.tremendousrabbit.com) soon.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/21/2005
Welcome
Welcome to Our Week
Rififi Cinema Classics
April 21st - 8pm
332 E. 11th St.
Hosted by Jessi Klein & Nick Kroll
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/21/2005
April
Double April's at the April Rejection Show! What a crazy world.
Thanks to Mike, Sara, Jane, Susanna, Glen, PC, Diffee, Cole-Kelly, a chicken, Odd Todd, Visa, Jon B., Marko, 122, Holy, and everyone that came to see the show.
I'll be at Welcome to Our Week tonight at Rififi if anyone wants to come say hi. I'll put up more details in a few.
Thanks to Mike, Sara, Jane, Susanna, Glen, PC, Diffee, Cole-Kelly, a chicken, Odd Todd, Visa, Jon B., Marko, 122, Holy, and everyone that came to see the show.
I'll be at Welcome to Our Week tonight at Rififi if anyone wants to come say hi. I'll put up more details in a few.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/21/2005
4/20/2005
Thanks!
WYSIWYG was a great time last night. A truly supportive fun crowd and a well organized intelligent show...what more can you ask for? Thanks to the gang at WYSIWYG for having me and a big thank you to all of the other readers who were all fantastic.
Elizabeth Spiers (mediabistro.com/fishbowlny)
Daniel Radosh (radosh.net)
Michelle Collins (youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com)
Brian Grosz (blog.doctorgrosz.com)
Andy Horwitz (andyschest.com/wp)
Check them out!
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/20/2005
4/19/2005
Three
Wysiwyg tonight, The Rejection Show tomorrow, Welcome to Our Week on Thursday............(slight dry heave....recover....breathe....mini dry heave....recovered!)
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/19/2005
4/12/2005
"Clap with Rejectee" Contest!
Keep those haikus coming in! Got some great submissions so far...
Enter the "Clap with Rejectee" Contest and you can be the one clapping with Rejectee "The rejected Rejection Show mascot" at the April 20th Rejection Show.
Rejectee claps to "We Will Rock You" by Queen to open every Rejection Show. It's terrible.
To enter:
Tell me in a haiku why you should win this contest.
Winners also receive two free tickets to the show.
Send submissions to
jon@rejectionshow.com
Enter the "Clap with Rejectee" Contest and you can be the one clapping with Rejectee "The rejected Rejection Show mascot" at the April 20th Rejection Show.
Rejectee claps to "We Will Rock You" by Queen to open every Rejection Show. It's terrible.
To enter:
Tell me in a haiku why you should win this contest.
Winners also receive two free tickets to the show.
Send submissions to
jon@rejectionshow.com
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/12/2005
4/08/2005
April 20th
The Rejection Show returns to Performance Space 122 on April 20th!
Listen to the new "Rejection Show" piece from NPR's All Things Considered that aired April 5th!
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
"A Visit to The Rejection Show"
The Rejection Show
"Failure is fun!"
April 20, 2005
Hosted by Jon Friedman
Featuring:
Mike Daisey
(Author, 21 Dog years, All Stories Are Fiction)
Sara Schaefer
(Comedian, Sara Schaefer is Obsessed With You)
Jane Borden & Susanna Hegner
(Freelance joke writers for SNL’s Weekend Update)
PC Vey, Glen Le Lievre, & Matt Diffee
(Cartoonists, The New Yorker)
&
The winner of the
“Clap with Rejectee Contest!”
Plus
Adam Cole-Kelly's
Rejection Inspection
and more rejection surprises!
Enter the "Clap with Rejectee" Contest and you can be the one clapping with Rejectee "The rejected Rejection Show mascot" at the April 20th Rejection Show.
Rejectee claps to "We Will Rock You" by Queen to open every Rejection Show. It's terrible.
To enter:
Tell me in a haiku why you should win this contest.
Winners also receive two free tickets to the show.
Send submissions to
jon@rejectionshow.com
What is The Rejection Show?
The Rejection Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected or “turned down” material
of writers, comedians, cartoonists, and artists whom display their creative “failures” live on stage.
April 20, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM - $7
150 1st Avenue and 9th St.
F train to 2nd Ave., R to 8th St., 6 train to Astor Pl.
212.477.5829
Tickets available via Ticketweb.com or at the P.S. 122 box office
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*SPECIAL OFFER*
This month we're offering a two-fer deal with the good folks at The WYSIWYG
Talent Show! See WYSIWYG on the 19th and The Rejection Show on the 20th
for a combined total of only $10 — saves you four bucks! Call the
P.S. 122 box office at 212-477-5288 or visit Ticketweb.
Featuring:
Elizabeth Spiers (mediabistro.com/fishbowlny)
Daniel Radosh (radosh.net)
Jon Friedman (tremendousrabbit.com)
Michelle Collins (youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com)
Brian Grosz (blog.doctorgrosz.com)
Frank Beekman (accidentalnewyorker.blogspot.com)
Andy Horwitz (andyschest.com/wp)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our Price: $7
Tickets available by clicking HERE or at the P.S. 122 Box Office
------------------------------------------------------------------------
What are they saying about The Rejection Show?
"Ever wonder what you're not seeing? Each month comedians perform pieces that have been rejected by anything from Conan O'Brien to The New Yorker..."
–TIMEOUT NEW YORK
“Novelists, TV writers, stand-up comics, cartoonists, filmmakers, recording artists, dramatists and poets come together for a friendly but edgy celebration of failure.”
–LA TIMES
"In New York, audiences are finding that failure is fun!"
–ABC NEWS
"'The Rejection Show' is a refuge for the rebuffed, a haven for the heave-hoed,
a destination for the deep-sixed."
–NEWSDAY
"…Not just a brilliant idea, it’s a well executed one."
–COMEDY CENTRAL SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER
"'What do you get when you display a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make the cut at the New Yorker, Conan,
and a bevy of other shows and publications? Evidently, some funny shit.”
–GAWKER
"True to it’s maxim, ‘Just because it’s been rejected doesn’t mean it’s not good,’ the show continues to attract an audience that can relate.”
–FLAVORPILL
Listen to the new "Rejection Show" piece from NPR's All Things Considered that aired April 5th!
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
"A Visit to The Rejection Show"
The Rejection Show
"Failure is fun!"
April 20, 2005
Hosted by Jon Friedman
Featuring:
Mike Daisey
(Author, 21 Dog years, All Stories Are Fiction)
Sara Schaefer
(Comedian, Sara Schaefer is Obsessed With You)
Jane Borden & Susanna Hegner
(Freelance joke writers for SNL’s Weekend Update)
PC Vey, Glen Le Lievre, & Matt Diffee
(Cartoonists, The New Yorker)
&
The winner of the
“Clap with Rejectee Contest!”
Plus
Adam Cole-Kelly's
Rejection Inspection
and more rejection surprises!
Enter the "Clap with Rejectee" Contest and you can be the one clapping with Rejectee "The rejected Rejection Show mascot" at the April 20th Rejection Show.
Rejectee claps to "We Will Rock You" by Queen to open every Rejection Show. It's terrible.
To enter:
Tell me in a haiku why you should win this contest.
Winners also receive two free tickets to the show.
Send submissions to
jon@rejectionshow.com
What is The Rejection Show?
The Rejection Show is a comedic based event that embraces the rejected or “turned down” material
of writers, comedians, cartoonists, and artists whom display their creative “failures” live on stage.
April 20, 2005
P.S. 122 @ 8PM - $7
150 1st Avenue and 9th St.
F train to 2nd Ave., R to 8th St., 6 train to Astor Pl.
212.477.5829
Tickets available via Ticketweb.com or at the P.S. 122 box office
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*SPECIAL OFFER*
This month we're offering a two-fer deal with the good folks at The WYSIWYG
Talent Show! See WYSIWYG on the 19th and The Rejection Show on the 20th
for a combined total of only $10 — saves you four bucks! Call the
P.S. 122 box office at 212-477-5288 or visit Ticketweb.
Featuring:
Elizabeth Spiers (mediabistro.com/fishbowlny)
Daniel Radosh (radosh.net)
Jon Friedman (tremendousrabbit.com)
Michelle Collins (youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com)
Brian Grosz (blog.doctorgrosz.com)
Frank Beekman (accidentalnewyorker.blogspot.com)
Andy Horwitz (andyschest.com/wp)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our Price: $7
Tickets available by clicking HERE or at the P.S. 122 Box Office
------------------------------------------------------------------------
What are they saying about The Rejection Show?
"Ever wonder what you're not seeing? Each month comedians perform pieces that have been rejected by anything from Conan O'Brien to The New Yorker..."
–TIMEOUT NEW YORK
“Novelists, TV writers, stand-up comics, cartoonists, filmmakers, recording artists, dramatists and poets come together for a friendly but edgy celebration of failure.”
–LA TIMES
"In New York, audiences are finding that failure is fun!"
–ABC NEWS
"'The Rejection Show' is a refuge for the rebuffed, a haven for the heave-hoed,
a destination for the deep-sixed."
–NEWSDAY
"…Not just a brilliant idea, it’s a well executed one."
–COMEDY CENTRAL SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER
"'What do you get when you display a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make the cut at the New Yorker, Conan,
and a bevy of other shows and publications? Evidently, some funny shit.”
–GAWKER
"True to it’s maxim, ‘Just because it’s been rejected doesn’t mean it’s not good,’ the show continues to attract an audience that can relate.”
–FLAVORPILL
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/08/2005
4/06/2005
Seasons
Outside is the new inside.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/06/2005
The Rejection Show on NPR's All Things Considered
Here's the link to a new story on The Rejection Show that was covered by All Things Considered on NPR from April 5, 2005
Enjoy!
A Visit to the 'Rejection Show'
Enjoy!
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/06/2005
4/04/2005
Too Fur!
This month we're offering a two-fer deal with the good folks at The WYSIWYG Talent Show! See WYSIWYG on the 19th & The Rejection Show on the 20th for a combined total of only $10 - That saves you dollars and makes a lot of sense (see that.)
Call the P.S. 122 box office at 212-477-5288 or visit Ticketweb, right here.
Call the P.S. 122 box office at 212-477-5288 or visit Ticketweb, right here.
// posted by Jon Friedman @ 4/04/2005
