https://chelsea.ucbtheatre/performance/36158 In mid-2009, I had been doing a storytelling show at UCB for a while. It was going well, but I was getting burnt out on it. I asked the artistic director at the time, my good friend Anthony King, if I could do something different. I said maybe Id like to host a talk show someday. He said he was down, but only if I made the show a staging ground for some of my weirder ideas. He didnt want to see me mimic a traditional talk show, he wanted me to put it in my voice. He also insisted I call it The Chris Gethard Show to force myself to do so. The show quickly took on a life of its own. I interviewed the coolest kid from my high school on stage. I interviewed the girl I went on the worst day of my life. People were shot with paintball guns, electrocuted, and choked unconscious in a tiny black box theater. We drove cross country in an RV and got in some brutal arguments that lead to me being abandoned on the side of a highway in Texas. We gave a nice night to a kid from Ohio named Fesh. We convinced Diddy to show up. Many people contributed to it, but there was a core group, myself and Shannon ONeill and Will Hines and Don Fanelli and Bethany Hall and the goofballs in our house band. Looking back on it with some perspective, this stretch of my life was perhaps the most inspired creatively Ive ever been. I was lucky to be a part of it, and lucky to lead the charge. After a few years, our show became the public access television show it is today. We took what we built at UCB and invited dozens of talented comedians and filmmakers and musicians and artists to come share that world, and they transformed into a much more positive, open, hopeful thing. It stopped feeling like the grueling battle of wills that was the stage show and became something that cast a wider net and that I am even more proud of. We are on the cusp of moving on from public access to a new platform on basic cable and its daunting and exciting and inspiring in all sorts of new ways. But before we do, were returning to our roots one last time. We are heading back to our old home at the UCB Theater to see what happens when we bring it back. Its going to be crackers mcgee. Get your tickets fast when they go on sale! This one is going to sell out quick. Seeya there - Geth
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:55:43 +0000
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