City Desk » Wet Hot American Summer http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:53:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Stella at 6th & I Historic Synagogue, Todd Barry at DC Improv http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/12/01/stella-at-6th-i-historic-synagogue-todd-barry-at-dc-improv/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/12/01/stella-at-6th-i-historic-synagogue-todd-barry-at-dc-improv/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:49:36 +0000 Mike Riggs http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=11313 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.

I've got a real soft spot/hard on for David Wain in particular, as he voices the warden on Adult Swim's underrated Superjail. Some clips below (the first is Stella as a group, the second is Wain in Superjail.)

And now, Superjail:

Another good comedy show this week is Todd Barry (the bongo player from The Flight of the Conchords), who performs Thu., 12/4, at the DC Improv. Barry delivers his lines at a snail's pace and without ever raising his voice, and magically manages to keep you on the edge of your seat:

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