UCB-LA: Pop Genius w/ Pardo, Besser, PFT, & Andy Richter! 8.31.08 - 930PM - $8

[Liezl]

The show is this Sunday.. get your fill of Mr. Tompkins before he leaves us forever.

9:30 pm — $5
Sunday August 31, 2008
Andy Richter, Matt Besser, Paul F. Tompkins, more!
ADVANCE RESERVATIONS ARE SOLD OUT
There will be a stand-by line for this show.
http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/shows/1805

Pop Genius
Pop Genius is an audience interactive gameshow that tests your knowledge of pop culture. Host Jimmy Pardo is searching for a pop culture genius, an expert on everything from Condi Rice to Bo Bice to the Wendy's Triple Stack. Think you know Brad Bird from Robert Byrd? Katherine Heigl from Rob Smigel? Prove it! See clips played form pop culture, and you have to guess how they end. Your only hints come from comedians including Matt Besser, Andy Richter and Paul F. Tompkins.

[Michael Blacklist]

This is tonight!

It also looks like there are more reservations up for grabs!

Exclamation point!

[Ian Brill]

This was real fun. After seeing this show I'd really like Andy Richter to be a guest on Never Not Funny.

[Liezl]

It's nice to see the evolution of this show, with Pardo at the reigns,
he was able to keep the show going when the contestants were
at a lack for words.


Jimmy getting to know our audience members, and uncomfortably touching their leg.. repeatedly.


"tell me... how uncomfortable is this interview right now?"


Our contestants, birthday girl Julia and Ian Sklar


Jimmy gets distracted by an audience members fine head of hair.


our coveted prize of the night, a high school musical sing-a-long journal.


one of several robot dances that night


PFT recovering from a brief seizure after Ian gets an answer right.


".. it's not Andrew Shue"
The previous game of identifying pop culture items/icons has
been replaced with name the parents of the celebrity spawn.
the answer was barbara streisand and elliot gould, a surprise to everyone.


the last challenge was to sing the songs on the ipod, and have
the panelists guess the artist. Ian did such a great job at
massacring the song that he was given a 2nd chance.
(only to find out afterwards it was for no points.)

[punkdc]

Did PFT take off his civil war hat before sitting down? This show seems great, but do my lack of pop culture doesn't seem like my cup-o-tea.

[Babs]

Jimmy gets distracted by an audience members fine head of hair.


".. it's not Andrew Shue"

I SOOOOO BADLY wanted one of the panelists to note the hairstyle similarities between these two. As soon as that douchebag mullet man came in i was hoping Jimmy would see him.

Such an great night! Richter was awesome. PFT's coat made him look like a hunchback but he couldn't see it.
"Hilarious pink" and "There sure are a lotta Billy Joels in here" are favorites. What was the other one...wet cats? But Ian singing the first time, oh my god, I could not stop laughing. My whole body hurt after that.