To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com CINEMA & COMEDY: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician Concept: Gidon Kremer, Aleksey Igudesman, Richard Hyung-ki Joo Written by: Igudesman & Joo with additional texts by Gidon Kremer and Nadja Maleh Director: Nadja Maleh Produced by:Kremer, Igudesman & Joo Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche Dear Concertgoer! Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Tonights program is an attempt at dialogue. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium. Not for nothing is the title of this show Cinema and Comedy. Cinema—because a lot of the music we perform today has been featured in well-known (and less well-known) films. Comedy—because the universal language of music avails itself of humor to convey truths that defy more conventional forms of expression. Comedy starts where the tools of tragedy fall short. Tonight is not going to be a night of mere entertainment. You might laugh until you pee your pants, so to speak, but issues of the gravest significance underlie all our priceless wit. One glance at our subtitle, and you will see just how much is at stake: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician. This evenings protagonist, Gidon Kremer, is such an example of the classical musician. His real-life experiences serve as our inspiration, his writings as our starting point. Some parts of the show are biographical, other parts are the product of imaginative sympathizing and/or pure invention. We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better everyone wants to be a superstar! But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul. Cinema and Comedy takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down. So lets laugh together about whats laughable tonight, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels! We wish you a wonderful musical journey! We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo. Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love. Richard Wagner These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear this evening: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rota, Dunayevsky, Herrmann, Morricone, Miller, Chaplin, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, Barber, Piazzolla, Igudesman, Joo, Barry, Lai, Wagner, Brahms, Berg, Pushkarev, Perren, Fekaris, Gaynor and many more

The Latino Comedy Project's "300" parody, a video from the LCP's new sketch comedy show "AlienNation". Visit WWW.LCP.ORG or www.myspace.com/latinocomedyproject for more info!

A comedy 3,000 years in the making... Featured in Rolling Stone, CNN... Look for Smacky's newest at: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/laguna_beach/series.jhtml#/ontv/dyn/laguna_beach /series.jhtml "Summer of Stupid"

This is Carl Barron's performance at the Montreal Comedy Festival in 2006.

Who hasn't wondered what The Shining would have been like if it had been a romantic comedy? Honestly, who has? Appearently one person because someone took the time and made a trailer depicting just that.

This is my father. Yes, that is his real laugh. Enjoy :)

http://www.pspwareznet.com/ A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

The fifth ABC Family Sneak Peek, first shown 12/6/08 during Chamber of Secrets.

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Performed by the 25 most annoying voices in the music industry. Performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.

Funny clip, real humor :)

UPDATE: "Mystery Team" will premier at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009: http://mysteryteam-movie.com

Lizzy the Lezzy EPISODES 1-5. lesbian stand-up comedy animation. Lizzy talks about being a lesbian, coming out, bisexuals and straight men. Official Site: http://www.lizzythelezzy.com Lizzy's Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ruthselwyn Lizzy on Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Lizzy-the-Lezzy/1894309... Lizzy Tshirts & stuff: http://www.cafepress.com/lizzythelezzy Lizzy Ringtones: http://www.myxer.com/lizzythelezzy

Billu Barber - The upcoming comedy flick directed by Priyadarshan and starring Irfan Khan in the lead and also starring Shahrukh Khan in an important role. Also supported by a talented cast of Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav and Om Puri. Releasing on 13-Feb-2009.

http://www.gun.com.br ************* Primeira participação de Murilo Gun no Clube da Comédia Stand-up, no dia 12/11/2006, em São Paulo http://www.cotidianus.com.br

See what happens when 2 men recreate Transformers using only foam and whitegoods...

Download video here http://www.ziddu.com/downloadfile/2060127/Carlos_Mencia.flv.html hilarious stand up comedy about sex Carlos Mencia

Funny Aussie comedy/parody on flying in a Level D Simulator

Trechos do show de humor do Clube de Comédia em Pé