Friday, May 8 brings the third-annual Stranger Gong Show to Chop Suey, where a parade of talented citizens—professional and amateur, old and young, sweet and sour—will make its way across the stage, and one lucky winner will be showered with prizes including $300 cash!
Like every year, each act will have a minimum of 45 seconds and a maximum of four minutes to perform and try not to get gonged by our panel of judges. What kind of acts are we looking for? The usual: Jugglers, magicians, jug bands, tap dancers, strongmen, yodelers, standup comics, sword swallowers, contortionists, slam poets, marching bands, mimes, bird callers, puppeteers, tuba players, hula-hoopers, comedy skits, chanteuses, ventriloquists, clog dancers, celebrity impersonators, Butoh dancers, vaudeville acts, burlesque dancers, accordionists, air bands, actual buttholes—and any other unique and entertaining acts.
Sign up for the competition and find complete show and prize info right here. (Or sign up in person the night of the show—complete info on how to do this is here as well.)
In the meantime, here’s something to inspire you, from the original G.S.
Did you mean Friday, May 8th?
Uhhh April 8th was days ago.
Just callin your attention to it..
Ack! Yes, fixing, thanks.
I thought it was moving to Neumo’s this year… no?
Can we preemptively block Princess Schmooquan? Please?
YESSSSSS! So excited.
“No actual buttholes” unfortunately means that I can’t even walk out on stage, let alone perform an act. Sheesh.
That video was really fun. Thanks.
Pile of coke, please.
No “actual buttholes.” I guess that means I can’t do my Erica Barnett impression. Oh well, I wasn’t really looking forward to walking around all night with a stick up my ass anyway.
Yay! I can’t wait for this. I have missed it every year so far. Not this time, damnit. I am going.
Hilary Carlip is awesome. Read her book called “Queen of the Oddballs”, where, among other things, she reminisces about being an extra in the movie Xanadu and making out with one of the other female extras. 😀
Thanks for a trip down memory lane – I went to college with Hilary (she was my friend’s room mate) and it was great fun to have her around.
yes hilary carlip is incredible. check out her book that came out last year: a la cart – she has collected grocery lists that she’s found for more than 2 decades…so she finally took her favourites out of the collection, and actually wrote up characters who she thought would have made the lists, then she got (WONDERFUL) hair, makeup and wardrobe people to turn her into those people and go into a store and get photographed in character – all in all about 26 different characters.
the book’s site is http://www.alacartthebook.com/ (be sure to let the video load on that main page and watch it!)
…if you click through to http://www.alacartthebook.com/bookandnew… you can find the 2 part NPR interview with here, where she asked listeners to send in their grocery lists, and she picked one out and was transformed into who she thought the writer of the list was – after the makeup and such she wasn’t too far off from the author of the ‘winning’ list!