The Top 5 lists of 2009 continue…

Tabitha Vidaurri, The Sixth Borough

5.) Seeing the fabulous all-female improv group Children of a Lesser God open for Tim Meadows at Second City with Emily McGraw and Meg Favreau this summer during our Chicago trip. The show was hysterical, and we had a romantic tapas dinner beforehand.

4.) The January edition of Steal This Show at Connie’s Ric Rac. It was during what had to be the coldest night of the year, and the heat was broken. The audience huddled around space heaters and the comics were bundled up in coats and scarves during their sets. Brian and Paul of Secret Pants played a special edition of “Bush or Batman” with Corey’s parents, and Corey was wearing a skin-tight Star Trek jumpsuit the entire time. But really, just another typical night at the Ric Rac.

3.) Philly Sketchfest. Yes, this was recent, but it really was one of the most fun shows I’ve ever been a part of. I am a big fan of the joke told by our host, Bing Supernova, that goes “I love to masturbate on Sundays, which is why I was fired from Dairy Queen.” Allegedly there was a girl texting in the front row, but I thought the audience was pretty great. They were certainly shitting their pants with laughter during the Feeko Brothers’ set, which was good, because the Feeko Brothers were rubbing fake poo on their faces. (Thank you Dave, Matt and Ben and everybody else who put together Sketchfest, it really was a hoot.)

2.) BONERAMA! The all-female comedy show at The Shubin Theater in July. Meg Favreau did most of the work, while I danced to The Go-Go’s and told werewolf/period jokes. It was so great to watch standup by Mary Radzinski, Carolyn Busa, and Katrina Ohstrum, and to see charmingly deranged characters by Alexis Simpson and Jaime Fountaine. We had a classic Meg and Rob sketch explaining how to have sex, and the show ended with being touched, literally, by Kristen Schier as a crazy, amazing clown. What can I say? Girls just want to have lunch.

1.) The Kids and the Hall’s new series Death Comes to Town. Not only did we get to watch behind the scenes footage since the show’s inception, but the trailer provides evidence that the Kids have not lost their edge, if anything, it looks like they’ve gotten even more diabolically funny with age. The God of Comedy has answered my prayers, and not surprisingly, he is Canadian.

Honorable Mentions: Going to the Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horror Marathon with Rob B. and Doogie, karaoke with the Secret Pants gang, and the beautiful, ever-changing enigma that is Pat Kelly’s butthole.

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