tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55090062011-12-14T19:11:33.704-08:00Blog by Comedian/Actor/Writer Byron Yee and my so called life in LAByron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-76635972727537400912007-08-02T07:41:00.000-07:002007-08-02T07:47:32.088-07:00

Fringe Central is in a vacant space at the corner of Carmine and Varrick (7th Ave). I walked in and there was activity. People were buying tickets. I put what postcards I had in the postcard wall.Up the street, I had my first slice of pizza from Bleecker Street Pizza. It was good and solid with a crispy crust. To me, the crust makes the pizza.I checked out my venue for the first time. It's at the

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Here's a curious building on the street where I'm staying. It says "Free Public Baths of the City of New York". It's on 11th St near Ave B in the East Village. There's a plaque that says it was used in the filming of "Ragtime", the 1980 Milos Forman film. It looks like it's now an office building as there are ominuous don't block the drive way or you will be towed signs in front.

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So arrived at 6:30am at JFK, got on AirTrain at 7:05am. After fiddling with the machines and getting a $5 AirTrain ticket and a $7 LIRR ticket, I barely made it onto the 7:28am Jamaica to Penn Station train. Miraculously, I was at Penn Station in under 20 minutes or so. After lugging my two 50lb bags up the steps and onto the streets, I hailed a cab and $15 bucks later I was on 11th St at A at my

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So it looks like "Paper Son" will have at least on more hurrah this summer at the NY Fringe Festival. The application and certified check are in the mail. Compared with other fringes, the NY is a juried festival and due to the structure, you are guaranteeed NOT to cover your costs. But the theatre press should cover and shows do come out of the NY Fringe and make it to Broadway and OB. more

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Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American. There I said it.

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Larry "Bubbles" Brown called me a few minutes ago letting me know that the comedy grapevine had put out the word that Richard Jeni committed suicide earlier in the day. I never knew Jeni but he was at one time one of the hottest comics working. He apparently was suffering through some health problems which is probably why he took his own life. We'll find out soon enough.It got me to thinking

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I am a registered Republican. I consider myself a moderate, kind of like Schwarzenegger. I have many Libertarian views and would consider myself a social liberal and fiscal conservative.Tonight, Bill Frist was able to attach to the Port Security bill the online gambling prohibition bill. I play online poker. I've gotten pretty decent at it. It is what I do for relaxation. Frist is running for

Byron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-1149189291915485532006-06-01T12:11:00.000-07:002006-06-01T12:14:53.350-07:00

So the WSOP starts in less than a month. I finally made Silver Star on PokerStars and if I can't win a seat into the Main Event, I'm hoping to build my W$ bankroll enough that I can directly buy into some of the smaller events.I'm playing some freerolls and such but the real reason I'm going to try and blog more regularly is the PokerStars freeroll for bloggers that is coming up.I joined

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(Ansel Adams photo of the Manzanaar Monument)So we had a great weekend skiing in Mammoth. Conditions were great, a little cold and breezy, but the snow was fantastic. Going up the weekend after MLK Holiday meant that the town wasn't sold out and only a few times was there a lift line of any consequence.Manzanar, the Japanese internment camp, is on US 395 on the way to Mammoth between Lone Pine

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After watching "Munich", I rented "One Day in September" through Netflix. It is an Academy Award winning documentary about the 72 Olympic massacre. I think it's a more gripping film than Munich because it contains an interview with the sole living member of the Palestinian terrorist group that took the Israeli atheletes hostage and later killed them. It is also quite amazing at how inept the

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Terrence Malik has made four films. I have seen three of them; Badlands, his first, I have yet to see. I remember seeing Days of Heaven when it first came out many, many years ago. It was a beautiful, haunting picture and I even liked Richard Gere in it. Linda Manz was the little girl in it and she narrated it.Terrence Malik, I believe, grew up near Bartlesville, OK so I was always interested

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Let me start by saying I know a male to female transsexual (she's also preop, a dominatrix, and a feminist activist who's been featured on Dateline NBC). In fact the story of how Ric Fergeson told me he was becoming Susan Stryker was a monologue I orginally did as I was developing my one man show.I had met Ric when I was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma and we both got into student

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I think Munich is the best film I've seen this year. 2005 was a tough year because no film got to me or touched me in any way. It is a flawed film but I can overlook that for its ambition. Hey, if you're pissing off both the Palestenians and the Jews, then it can't all be bad.Eric Bana is finally coming into his own as a leading man and he does a very good job of carrying the film. Geoffrey Rush

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Aside from the obvious jokes I can come up with, "It's the beans that made them gay", I thought Brokeback was a very good but not great film. Heath Ledger was terrific as well as Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, and Linda Cardellini (Jake Gyllenhall was just okay - he didn't suck - or maybe he did - but I don't think he was completely up to the task.). The sex scenes weren't too uncomfortable

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So I'm back from driving 3,000 miles over nine days. Here's the trip report.We left on Wednesday, Dec 21st to Las Vegas where we stayed with the in laws. Traffic was much worse than normal as we left around 3:30pm and didn't make in to Vegas until nearly 10pm.Las Vegas to Vail, Thursday, Dec 22nd. Got up and left at 6:30am. It's been at least 15 years since I've been north of Vegas on I-15.

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Last week I had the pleasure of seeing J.O.B. - The Hip Hopera. I had orginally seen it at the 2003 Edmonton Fringe where I had returned with Paper Son as a warm up for my Los Angeles run. J.O.B. was a huge hit on the Canadian circuit and they consistently sold out. I never had a chance to meet with them but when I found out they were coming to LA, I started to e-mail Eli and Jerome about my

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So the CAPE event last Thursday was loud and little networking was done by me. It was held at SUR (I guess the couldn't afford the E) at Robertson & Melrose and was held in a small gallery type room next to the restaurant. Hey, the beer and wine were free. Tamilyn Tomita was there (she had her name tag on) and someone who probably was Garret Wang but his nametag only said "Garrett". I had a nice

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I'm headed to the CAPE party tonight - a networking event for Asians in Entertainment where we all sit around a bitch about how there are no Asians in front of the camera so everyone's now behind the camera. All the TV roles go to the same five actors.Anyway, Manhola Dargis of the NY Times just posted a scathing review of "Memoirs of (three Chinese actresses playing) a Geisha". The last paragraph

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My friend Lary, aka "Poker Girl", always forwards me stuff she finds amusing. I found the falling girl mind numbingly amusing. If she gets stuck then click on her and move your mouse. Enjoy.

Byron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-1134005949892537462005-12-07T17:35:00.000-08:002005-12-07T17:39:09.893-08:00

So I've never really done any analytics on my website, Paper Son, but I recently added Google Analytics to it and I've gotten some interesting results.Apparently I'm #1 in a Google Serp for revenge poems. The poem on my site is from Angel Island and it's about revenge but I get at least one or two visitors a day who's looking for a revenge poem.Are there that many people out there looking for

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So I'm bringing this blog back - not that it went away but the fact is, I don't think I've got what it takes to be a blogger. But, what the hell, let's give it the good ole college try.The whole "Situation: Comedy" which preceded this is a long drunken rehab memory ago. The show itself was a miserable failure and I stopped watching it after I was cut in the first half hour. I had to ask

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After reviewing the document, I pretty much have to shut up after this. I'll be signing it and returning it to the production offices later today which means I won't be able to say too much more. The cover letter from Arnold Shapiro (one of the Exec Producers) said they received nearly 9,000 entries for the contest. I don't have a call time for tomorrow and the non LA people are flying in

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I received an 86 page document which I have to sign and turn in by tomorrow. I need to really look at but when I do, I don't believe I'm supposed to say anything more about my participation. I'll try and post one more time before I execute the contract and turn it in. I'm no lawyer and this looks pretty restrictive. I'll post some of the more interesting paragraphs before I stop posting here.

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The top 5 is now the top 10 . . . The producers have changed the rules somewhat and the top 5 (round 4) is now the top 10. The non LA contestants are flying in on Monday. I am supposedly off the hook for Monday and everything will be crammed into Tuesday - Thursday with the decision to made on Thursday night. They are Fed Ex'ing a change in the contest rules to me and there are more forms to

Byron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-1099698037866541052004-11-05T15:32:00.000-08:002004-11-05T15:40:37.866-08:00

Faking Reality . . . So, today we shot me in front of a wiring closet pulling RJ45 cables and talking to the camera. Then we went over to the field producer's house in West LA where I talked about my script and then they filmed me packing my suitcase, getting into my car and driving off. So to recap, we shot at a place I don't work anymore and shot at a house that's not mine (complete with a

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Guess what? More changes . . . Now we've scrapped the me driving away from my apartment and no interview back to the interview. And I've been asked to bring an overnite bag which we'll then go to the producers place and have them film me packing and unpacking. The field producer I talked to (a different one from yesterday) is travelling on Saturday which leads me to believe they are getting

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I have sneaking suspicions at this time . . . So they've changed the two hour interview for Friday afternoon to just some B roll footage of me getting into my car in front of my apartment (to be shot Friday morning) and driving off to go to the Monday thing. Ahhh, the Monday thing. For the first time, they have told me that I am supposed to be someplace for an all day Monday shoot. The

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Still more questions than answers at this point. I've taken a look at scheduling and it's literally five full weeks of production to put this together with a half week for Thanksgiving and a half week at the end, just in case. What's this going to be worth? According to the WGA, the compensation 15 minutes and under, non network, low budget will be $8691. (See http://www.wga.org/minimums/

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Things are moving rather quickly and I've finally received some information about this contest. I am scheduled to be interviewed by a field producer on Friday, November 5th. By Monday, November 8th they will determine the top five and they are expected to be in Los Angeles immediately to pitch the show. They will announce the final two on November 12th and the production of the show is scheduled

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I've been told to expect a call from a field producer shortly. They may also want to get some B-Roll on me. So far so good . . .

Byron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-1099413772044463532004-11-02T08:28:00.000-08:002004-11-02T13:48:17.460-08:00

Denial on Betsy's Blog . . . . First off I want to thank Betsy who put up a blog at http://bmcn40.tblog.com/ several weeks ago about Situation: Comedy. I only found it last week and posted that I had made it to Round 3 where I eventually got called out by an anonymous poster. There were many in Round 2 (more than 50) who have been holding out hope they would advance. To the best of my knowledge,

Byron Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08552189378214258381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509006.post-1099354546699693892004-11-01T16:14:00.000-08:002004-11-01T16:15:46.700-08:00

. . . one of my friends on my professional/personal reference list just called me and said that the background firm was asking about me. Calls are finally being made which is a good thing . . .

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What is the definition of "A Professionally Produced Play on the Legitimate Stage"? The answer to that definition may or may not keep me out of the next round. But more on that in just a sec . . . So last Friday (Oct 29) was the day that I had arbitrarily set as the deadline on whether or not I made it from Round 3 to Round 4. It was purely based upon my interacton with the production company

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Hi. I'm Byron Yee and this is my blog. More can found out about me at my website, www.paperson.com. I've had this for a year or so but haven't been compelled to put anything up until now. I'm actually doing this to document my involvement/participation so far in Situation: Comedy, the reality show upcoming on Bravo in 2005. As of this moment, I am in the top ten (or better known as Round 3) of

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