November 24, 2008

Undefeated at Life

Episode 4: Undefeated at Life

It’s not delivery, it’s hot coffee, an improv comedy show. Recorded November 23, 2008.

SCENES

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UPDATE Nov 26, 2008

Refill: Partial Lyrics

China is the biggest nation in the world
It’s got 100 billion people and all of them are girls (I wish!)
China, I’m coming! China, I’m coming!

In 12th grade I made a list
Of who I wanted to guest star on the album
That took five years, five years to write

What up? Slobodan Milosevic here on the track
Gonna make it hot, gonna bring the fire
Gonna bring Shaq, what up, Shaq Fu baby…

UPDATE Nov 29, 2008

Refill: Behind the Scenes - Chinese Democracy


Hot Coffee Show: behind the scenes - episode 4 (chinese democracy) from Hot Coffee Show on Vimeo.

7:02pm  |   URL: http://hotcoffeeshow.com/post/61389517/undefeated-at-life
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November 18, 2008

When You Coming Home?

Episode 3: When You Coming Home?

Not a palindrome: hot coffee, an improv audio show.

Scenes (news from 11/16/2008)

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UPDATE Nov 19, 2008

Refill: Behind the Scenes

3:45am  |   URL: http://hotcoffeeshow.com/post/60259283/when-you-coming-home
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November 10, 2008

We’ll Take Care of Ya

Episode 2: We’ll Take Care of Ya

84 colors of crayons: that’s hot coffee, an improv audio show.

Scenes (news prompts - links go to original stories) - 11/9/2008

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UPDATE Nov 11, 2008

Refill: Ringtones

The Internet Fireman is calling.

(Right-click, “Save as…”)

Internet Fireman (version 1)
MP3 format | M4A format

Internet Fireman (version 2)
MP3 format | M4A format

UPDATE Nov 12, 2008

Refill: Behind the Scenes

Who knew a story about network hacking would lead to such hysteria?

To satisfy demand, we have purchased the rights to an illicit paparazzi video that shows the episode being created/written/composed/etc. live, on the fly. Below is a clip. That’s hot coffee.

P.S. The perpetrator used a high-def camera; view the source video at Vimeo to see it in full-screen HD piping-hot glory.

6:35pm  |   URL: http://hotcoffeeshow.com/post/59015957/well-take-care-of-ya
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November 3, 2008

Someday Will Be My Day

Episode 1: Someday Will Be My Day (teaser)

Don’t put it in the fridge! It’s hot coffee, an improv audio show.

Skateboarding class vs. computer class, sneaking a bill past Gov. Schwarzenegger, Phillies fans forget how to celebrate, adapting to a new economy, Marilson Gomes dos Santos looks terrific winning the NYC Marathon.

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5:36pm  |   URL: http://hotcoffeeshow.com/post/57799397/someday-will-be-my-day
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November 2, 2008

What Is Hot Coffee?

Hot Coffee Show is an improv group based in Brooklyn, NY and features Chris Black, Geordie Broadwater, Nate Dern, Pippi Kessler, Matthew O’Malley, and AJ Wolosenko, all alumni of a successful long-form improv group in New England.  The group’s Web media is produced by Robbie Mitchell and Matthew O’Malley.

The group started with a series of weekly podcasts in fall 2008.  Using news prompts as a replacement for audience suggestions, we recorded 2+ hours of audio improv each Sunday night, including banter, sketches, and songs.  The material was hyper-edited down into shows lasting 10-15 minutes, including more fully-produced versions of the songs that retained the original, improvised vocals.

We quickly realized that people loved the short videos that accompanied the podcasts, so we upgraded and began releasing video versions of the shows along with the audio.  This made people very happy.

And now, we’ve come full circle.  As of March 2009, Hot Coffee Show is a live performance group.

Q:  What’s improv theatre?

A:  It’s where people make things up on the spot.  You know that show Who’s Line Is It Anyway? That’s a form of improv called short-form. We do a different style, called long-form, that uses audience-supplied details to create an immersive, non-stop story, typically up to an hour long.  Wikipedia explains improv more thoroughly.

Q:  What’s a podcast?
A:  It’s an audio file (MP3, AAC, etc.) that is published by someone (us, in this case) with some sort of regularity, and you listen to it just like you would any other audio.  You can download it manually, but the key difference is that a podcast allows you to subscribe to it: whenever you dock your iPod to iTunes, the program will download the latest episode(s) and sync it/them to your iPod.  Magic!  Other well-known Web broadcasters such as NPR and The Onion publish daily podcasts. Wikipedia explains this in more detail, too.

Q:  So what’s with the videos?
A:  We found that people don’t listen to long pieces of audio on the Web no matter how funny they are or how much love went into it.  It just doesn’t happen.  Put a video with it and you’re golden.

Q:  Wait, so do you guys make a podcast or videocast or are you live performers?
A:  We are many things to many people.

That’s Hot Coffee.

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