LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE
April 10, 2005
By James Verini
Actors abound in Los Angeles, of course, but there are actors and then there are actors, and then there are improvisational actors like Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and Hugh Davidson, who jump around on a creaky stage, faking voices and limps and tearing off and throwing on preposterous costumes and wigs and handlebar mustaches, for close to four hours a night.
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May 23, 2004
By James Verini
‘You are about to witness the single most important sporting event to take place in Los Angeles County since the 1984 Summer Olympics!” hollered Rich Shea to a group of perhaps 100 rain-soaked and rather bewildered-looking UCLA students who had gathered before a makeshift stage in the middle of campus. Though the event may have piqued their adolescent attraction to the bizarre and base, or offered an alternative to studying, they almost certainly wouldn’t have called it important, or a sport, much less one begging comparison to the Olympics. (more…)
May 23, 2004
By James Verini
‘You are about to witness the single most important sporting event to take place in Los Angeles County since the 1984 Summer Olympics!” hollered Rich Shea to a group of perhaps 100 rain-soaked and rather bewildered-looking UCLA students who had gathered before a makeshift stage in the middle of campus. Though the event may have piqued their adolescent attraction to the bizarre and base, or offered an alternative to studying, they almost certainly wouldn’t have called it important, or a sport, much less one begging comparison to the Olympics. (more…)
