Tomorrow night, at the Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown will trot out over 50 comedians in two hours, 42 of whom will each be given under one minute of stage time apiece. is the third edition of their fabulously gimmicky comedy parade, which is capped off with longer sets from CJ Sulllivan, Liza Treyger, Chad Briggs, and Mike Sheehan.
, one of Two Hour's producers, is here to plug this special night with a list of 42 other things that share the show's 120 minute time frame.
To celebrate the Two-Hour Comedy Hour’s two-hour time window and our 42x42, here is a list of 42 things that also took two hours:
1. Making a good soup
2. Or a bad soup
3. Or a middling soup
4. Making an episode of The Soup
5. Creating Betty Boop
6. Diagnosing the croup
7. Forming a jazz-dance group
8. Decorating an embroidery hoop
9. Writing a trend piece about the millennial age group
10. Editing the Wikipedia entry for Anson D. Shupe
11. Conning a dupe
12. Jury-rigging a chicken coop
13. Watching and rewatching Duck Soup
14. Spending quality time on your front stoop
15. Listening four times to Little Jackie’s The Stoop
16. Flying to Germany to buy something from JOOP!
17. Touring the Twickenham Stoop
18. Writing an academic paper on Transformers’ Swoop
19. Adjusting and readjusting a basketball hoop
20. Fiddling with your Linux cloop
21. Writing a fanfiction comic book about X-Force’s Doop
22. Composing a love song to hot-rod artist Coop
23. Reading Swell Foop
24. Attempting and getting increasingly frustrated with yet another kale-based recipe from Goop
25. Contemplating the banality of existence while wandering The Loop
26. Taking a particularly terrible poop
27. Watching a few fights between Phillipe Nover and George Roop
28. Sketching a beautifully rendered sloop
29. Framing your beautifully rendered sketch of a sloop
30. Staring at your wonderfully framed beautifully rendered sketch of a sloop
31. Negotiating the sell price of a beautifully rendered and wonderfully framed sketch of a sloop
32. Coming to the slow realization that although you were able to sell an artful picture of a sloop, you’re too poor to ever actually own a sloop
33. Taking a really sad poop while thinking about how you’ll never have a sloop
34. Eating some middling soup from a recipe on Goop while watching a marathon of The Soup
35. Jury-rigging a chicken coop while listening to NPR’s trend piece on the millennial age group
36. Conning a group of dupes from the comfort of your front stoop
37. Impressing your entire Columbia film class because you totally edited together Duck Soup and Betty Boop
38. Copyediting academic fanfiction about a world where Doop and Swoop form a jazz-dance group
39. That sloop run was fun wasn’t it? Sloop.
40. Researching dumb words that end in “oop”
41. Coming to realization that you’ve really written yourself into a corneroop
42. Having a good, long cry under your blankets when you realize that the highlight of your week might be writing a really dumb list of 42 things. OOP. OOP. LISTEN WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE. OOP. OOP. OOP. HELP ME! HELP ME! OOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Katie McVay