Horse Fight, Wed. 8/13 at 9:30: Kroll, Forrester, Aziz, ECN, More

[ErikNielsen]

Hi! After last month's resounding success, Horse Fight is back for another month. This month's show features some of my favorite comics from Los Angeles and beyond. (Unlike November's show, which will feature some guys I'm pretty much indifferent to.)

NICK KROLL
Nick started doing comedy in New York, where he worked extensively with John Mulaney. He was later selected for Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. A regular at the UCB, Nick has been seen on VH1's Best Week Ever, and was a regular on ABC's sitcom Cavemen.

BRENT FORRESTER
Brent Forrester's writing resume includes some of the past two decades' most acclaimed TV comedies: The Simpsons, Mr. Show, King of the Hill, The Ben Stiller Show, and more. He's currently a writer on NBC's The Office. His boundless enthusiasm and lifelong dedication to the craft of comedy make his rare live performances well worth seeing.

AZIZ ANSARI
He's from New York. He's the guy from Human Giant. You know him as Aziz Ansari. (This show has turned awfully New York-heavy... that's not a bad thing.)

ERIN FOLEY
Erin Foley started her career in New York. A two-time performer at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Erin has also done stand-up on Comedy Central, and her acting credits include HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and the film Almost Famous.

TONY MOSCHETTO
Horse Fight is proud to welcome Tony Moschetto to the West Coast. A native of Boston, Tony headlines shows across New England, where he is widely respected as a true "comic's comic". He's appeared on Comedy Central, and also once grew a 67-pound pumpkin.

MATT MANSER
Known for his sharp writing, Matt is a native of Michigan. He's currently the co-head writer of Big News, IO's popular news-themed sketch comedy show. Matt also lives across the street from me, and may be trying to start some sort of feud? I hope not. I don't like feuds.

LAUREN ASHLEY BISHOP
A native of Arkansas, Lauren started doing comedy in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles recently. Sometimes she wears a bee costume on stage, but I don't think she's doing that on this show.

Hosted by ERIK CHARLES NIELSEN
That's me. I started doing comedy in Boston, took some time off to go to graduate school, went back to comedy when that didn't work out. I went to the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2007, and my credits include "The Erik the Librarian Mysteries" on 60frames.com and the History Channel's "History of the Joke". Erik is excited to bring five minutes of new material to the stage for this show, including a bit that he's done three times so far and received four applause breaks for, and an extended joke about butterflies.

All of this stuff happens at the R Bar in Koreatown. The show is free, but it is 21+. The bar requires a password for entry; as the flyer says, the password is "nobody puts baby in a corner".

[megalope]

Woo!

[yumitree]

erik, eventually you are going to have a show and i will be in attendance of said show. sadly, that isn't happening this month, but other people should be there.

[scottbox]

I got a chance to check out Tony Moschetto at the Walsh Brothers G&S comedy show. Very funny stuff. Really good, solid bit-writing.

[ErikNielsen]

In an unfortunate development, Craig Anton has had to bow out of this show.

In a fortunate development, I have got Ryan Stout to bow into the show.

Further developments are forthcoming?

[ErikNielsen]

Okay -- Ryan Stout is out. Nothing against Ryan -- he's a great comic, and we're definitely looking forward to having him on the show in the future -- but we felt this change brought the show back to its original conception. We really envisioned a show featuring a guy whose last name started with "An". Craig dropped out, we abandoned the plan, and we grew to regret that. So we took steps to rectify the situation.

Aziz Ansari is in.

(I don't know who qualifies as "we". There's only one of me. Also, could one of the mods please change the thread title?)

[ErikNielsen]

Also: possible special guest from the East Coast!

(In addition to the regular guests from the East Coast, who are admittedly also special, but I announced who they were.)

(Thanks, mod!)

[mattmanser]

I will attend this show!

(I'm booked, so I kind of have to. But I'd attend anyway.)

[alberstein]

Erik, The fact that you wrote a bio for each performer is awesome. You have effectively proven to me that you are the shit.

[ErikNielsen]

Thanks to everyone who came out! Also, to the comics! Also, to the bar staff!

(The bar staff don't read AST.)

Aaron, you do realize writing forty-word summaries of people and things is basically my day job. If that makes me the shit, I get paid $750 a week to be the shit. (And also to do some light data entry, and occasionally fill in on customer service.)

[megalope]

Link to set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/megalop...7606721221167/

This was a great show, of course. (A horse, of course?)

I'm sorry guys. I'm really tir

[SteveAgee]

Cool slide show, Megalope. Is that through flickr?

[Babs]

Aziz's beard is getting more terroristastic by the day

[ErikNielsen]

Horse Fight is now the no. 19 Google result for the phrase "Horse Fight"! I couldn't have done it without you! This newspaper in the Philippines had better watch its back!

(Actually, I don't know if I could have done it without you. Does the number of replies a message board post gets influence its position on Google? If not, I totally could have done it without you, so never mind.)