In tomorrow's schedule, wedged between "Doing the Right Thing: Jewish Ethics in the Modern World" and "News Media Malpractice: Mis-Covering the Middle East," is a 7 p.m. performance by Stella (Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain), the absurdist supergroup responsible for Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and the short-lived and eponymous Comedy Central series, Stella.

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First: I would've enjoyed his comedy routine last week at the 9:30 Club much more if I had never, ever heard of him.

I'd already seen most of his jokes on YouTube and his Myspace page, and he didn't deviate from what he's done before. I was almost envious of the people around me who were hearing his routine for the first time and laughing their asses off.

But there was something else that kept me from enjoying the show: the 9:30 Club's seating arrangements. Darby's event was a "seated show," yet the venue was intended for standing-room-only events. Ergo, the 9:30 Club provided a few rows of folding chairs on the main floor, as well as bleacher-style benches on either sides of the balcony. But because they don't actually sell you seats, just admission, it's up to the patron to find a spot. We (there were two of us) tried to sit down several times, only to be told "seat's taken."

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This past Thursday, to prodigious applause and a minimal throwing of old fruit, the City Paper launched its 2008 Fringe & Purge blog.

Ever since, we've been positively inundated with questions, compliments, and offers of a decidedly salacious nature. Rather than responding individually, I've decided to offer some answers right here, for all to see.

After the jump:

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