Distinctive

Shit, Johnny Knoxville just walked by. Finally a celebrity sighting I can buy into. Evidently Eva Longoria was sitting next to us in the diner yesterday, but I don't know what an Eva Longoria is, but Knoxville, I know a Knoxville when I see one. The diner in the hotel is a pretty hip place, very celebrity laden. Rumor has it William Macy eats here every Sunday with his kids, Sofia Coppola holds a lot of meetings here and Kate just came back from the bathroom to say that Buster from Arrested Development is currently in the diner.



Fun. Random choice of place to stay and it turns out the be the hip hovel.

Speaking of celebrity sightings. The Schadenfreude show was the nexus of everyone who's anyone or perhaps it was anyone who's everyone. TV's Ike Bainholtz, TV's Josh Meyers, TV's Gillian Vigman, TV's Jill Benjamin were in the house as was Bart Kias' House's Bart Kias. Steve and Erik from Broken Lizard came out and couldn't have been nicer, they're working on a new movie called Beerfest and were enjoying hitting a show in the calm before the storm of production. All in all very good night in the very hip and Chicago-esque Las Filas. We've marveled at how non-L.A. this area of Las Filas feels with a bunch of Wicker Parky and Bucktowney bars. Every single person here has told us "don't get spoiled, this is an anomaly."

The showcase went well, but just a great night with great firends beyond that. I think for the first time in our non-careers we just didn't care, we cared about getting laughs, but that's all we cared about. I know it's overstated that you should "just have fun" during high pressure shows, but for the first time ever we literally did that, we just had fun, and it was, and we made our friends laugh, and that became our only mission. We were the first act, we came out for our first bit, an old sketch that pits a Hipster vs. A Meathead as they vie to be the first to claim the new neighborhood bar for their own, and as the first joke hit we could see the front row filled with all our L.A. friends. Ike, Gillian, Josh, and Jill Benjamin. They all have very distincitve laughs and as they started laughing it was our only mission to keep THOSE laughs coming. Hearing Ike & Gillian laugh is it's own drug.

Best joke of the night:
Justin: I.D. please.
Kate: How long's this bar been here?
Justin: About 15 minutes.
Kate: What's this place called?
Justin: "Place." We were going to call it "New Orleans Superdome Gang Rape"...but you just can't call a club that anymore.

Well the hard part's over, now we just need to wrangle any meetings we can while we're here and then track down our buddies for another drink tonight and missions will have been accomplished.

Props out to Ray Delphinas for enjoying being a Short-Haired chick of the week fan!

And here's our David Lynch hotel.



Seems like a good enough place to get hooked on heroin.