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Male Companions Comedy Explosion
Here are 3 new episodes of “Male Companions” For you viewing enjoyment. There will 5 or 6 more coming out in the next 2 months to complete the first season. Josh and also have a new series called “Living the Dream” that we’ll be shooting in spring and should be out by the summer. Special thanks to everyone that has helped make these videos possible (Sam del Pilar, Shannan Click, Chip Yamada, Mark Thornton) Male Companions – Episode 3 – “Gangster Sprite“
Male Companions – Episode 4 – “Shannan’s (Sophies) Choice”
Male Companions – Episode 5 – “Michael McDonald Hold Music” Tia Carrere introduces ‘The Fishtank Ensemble’
Fishtank Ensemble has finished up a month of touring on the East Coast and in California and Nevada. These have been some of the best shows we’ve ever had. I’ve truly been blow away by the support and enthusiasm of everyone who has come out to a show, bought our CDs or pre-ordered our upcoming CD and/or hosted us at their house. A couple venues even threw us a pre-party and an after-party. . . how cool is that? Fishtank Ensemble is putting the touches on our 3rd CD which should be available sometime in march with lots touring through the rest of the year to support it. I’m getting ready to do a long weekend of shows with the lovely and talented Jessica Fichot. We’ll be playing in Reno and several spots around Tahoe and Truckee from Feb 4-7. We’ve become regulars at Northstar at Tahoe playing the ice skating rink and two great restaurants Moody’s and Baxters. Maybe it’s the free lift tickets that keeps us coming back? Remember that show we played at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the LA County Holiday Celebration . . . that Djordje flew back from Serbia for to play for 5 minutes . . . we’ll here’s the video . . . complete with million dollar camera angles and introduction by Tia Carrere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SW2OCUJrKg&feature=player_embedded East Coast Tour in January? Really??
So I’m waiting to catch a flight to Portland, Maine to start a 2 and 1/2 week tour of the east coast with Fishtank Ensemble. We’ll be doing a whole bunch of shows in and around New York City and showcases for a big industry conference, The Association of Performing Arts Presenters, or APAP. We’re trying to crack into a more lucrative level of concerts and we hear this is the way. I guess we’ll see. By the way, check out the new design for the Fishtank Ensemble website, thank you Mark Thornton. The Doug and Josh Comedy Explosion at the Downtown Comedy Club on Jan 1 & 2 was a great success. Thanks so much to everyone who came out. I think it’s safe to say that those shows launched our stand up comedy career. We’ll have more shows coming up in Feb so stay tuned. (you can subscribe to the RSS feed or copy and paste the URL into a ‘reader’ like google reader). By the way, the Downtown Comedy Club is a great club both for comedians and the audience. They are very supportive and nurturing to comedians, and there’s no B.S. drink minimum so you should really check it out. They have shows every weekend. Last, but definitely not least, check out this awesome video I made of my niece Prisca. Whenever the music starts playing (which is often), she starts dancing. It’s too cute. Christmas Eve Show and a Comedic New Year
I recently finished a tour playing guitar with Italian singer Gerardo Balestrieri all over California. We had a great time playing his music (which i highly recommend checking out) and staying with the friends we’ve made all over the state. Years of touring for Fishtank Ensemble have finally paid off in that we have friends with jacuzzis all over the state that love hanging out and partying with a gypsy band. And for this we are very grateful. You too can bring the band home with you, just get a jacuzzi, come to one of our shows and come talk to us after the show! Anyway, Fishtank Ensemble has one more show for 2009! It’s a 5 minute spot in the ‘Holiday Celebration‘ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Christmas Eve. Djordje is even flying back from Serbia just for this show, then going right back for 2 more weeks. The show will be live on PBS and streaming on the web on KCET. In even bigger news, January 1 & 2 the ‘Doug and Josh Comedy Explosion‘ will be headlining a weekend of comedy shows at the illustrious Downtown Comedy Club. We are extremely excited about this and are preparing a show that you will never forget. These shows will essentially launch our stand up comedy career. If you’re an old friend and have been telling me for years that you have to come out to see a show, and you never have (almost everybody i know), now is the time. And finally, here is the 2nd installment of our sketch comedy series ‘Male Companions‘. On tour with Gerardo Balestrieri
At this moment i find myself sitting on a deck at the top of the mountain in beautiful Big Sur. We are a couple of days into the a three week tour with Italian singer Gerardo Balestrieri. The songs are mix of originals, turkish, greek, gypsy and mediterranean music. Also on tour with us is Fabrice Martinez of Fishtank Ensemble, his brother Roland on bass and clarinet who came in from France for the shows and our good friend Sean Tergis, on percussion. Check out our list of shows below.
The Doug and Josh Comedy Explosion has 3 shows coming up. Dec 10 at the Tribal Cafe in LA with Chiparus and Tim Smolens. We’ll also be playing 2 shows at the Downtown Comedy Club on January 1 & 2 to kick off the new year. Here is a somewhat older video Josh and I did as audition for a TV Show that in retrospect, is really funny (and very true)
Well, Fishtank Ensemble has just finished up 3 months of touring all over the US and recording our 3rd album, as of yet, still untitled. The reactions we have gotten from people have been really encouraging. We we’re in a lot of places for the first time and we had great, enthusiastic crowds almost everywhere. I heard music and entertainment do well in depressions, that’s cool. Here is a great looking video that was taken at the Sacramento World Music and Dance Festival. . . In Foxycock related news, we have officially changed our name to ‘The Doug and Josh Comedy Explosion’ in an attempt to market ourselves better. (A lot of people didn’t like the name Foxycock for some reason, I don’t know why). We’ll have more episodes of Male Companions coming real soon and well as some comedy shows. The next one will be Friday, Nov 6 at the Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles. September 2009 Update – Here Comes the Night
I am on tour with Fishtank Ensemble for this whole month. We are playing throughout the Southwest and Midwest. Check out our schedule here. We’re working on a bunch of new songs because we’ll be going into the studio at the beginning of October to record our third album. This album is shaping up to be our best yet. I am especially excited about a pop/gypsy song I wrote (with the rest of the band) called ‘Woman in Sin’. We except to have the album ready by early of 2010. In Foxycock news, we just posted a new video for our song ‘Here Comes the Night‘. This song actually goes back to the days of Don Salsa (mid 90’s) so it has been waiting for about 14 years to see the light of day. We’ll also have the second episode of our sketch comedy show, Male Companions, out very soon. Without further ado, here is the brand new video: Fishtank Ensemble summer touring plans . . .
It’s the end of July, 2009. It’s incredibly hot here in LA and we (Fishtank Ensemble) are getting ready to set off on 2 months of straight touring. We have never hit the road this hard yet, so we’ll see how we all hold up. We’ll be playing up and down the west coast United States, all over California, the Mid-West (including the Chicago World Music Festival which we are very excited about) and the South-West (Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado). Check out our touring schedule here:
When we finally get home at the end of September, we’ll be going straight into the studio to record our 3rd album, which we expect to be ready by the beginning of 2010. el douje news – 2009
It’s summer 2009 and there is a lot going in the world . . . especially in the world of writer, guitarist, comedian ‘el douje’. There is a new sketch comedy show from the makers of Foxycock entitled, ‘Male Companions‘. Also, Foxycock has finished and released their second album, ‘The Lost Powerchord‘, for free download on their website. Yeah, we know, it’s crazy . . . for free! One day, when you think of the internet revolution, you will think of the name, Foxycock, and ponder how it changed your existence. When a band such as us, is willing to give away, for free, several years worth of our greatest comedic content, you can’t help but wonder how this is possible and what reaching effects this will have on the future destiny of mankind. In more down to earth ‘el douje’ news, Fishtank Ensemble, is touring extensively in the United States throughout August and September of 2009. Check out all of the touring plans here. I hope to see you at show, sometime soon. Dear World: Introducing . . . Male Companions.
It’s the new breakthrough sketch comedy show from the people that brought you Foxycock! Here is the complete first episode of ‘Male Companions‘, a hilarious sketch comedy/sit-com hybrid web series about two best friends who hang out so much that the neighbors are starting to wonder. Their compromising lifestyle of habitual co-showering, shooting comedy sex-tapes, and constantly working out together, makes them tragically appear more and more gay. Includes supermodel Shannan Click and Feodor Chin as the buff asian dude brought in to make the guys seem less gay (which backfires and makes them look twice as gay), and supported by Anna Curtis and Mark Thorntorn. Produced by Joshua Murphy, Doug Smolens, Chip Yamada, Shannan Click and Sam del Pilar. We have a new youtube channel specifically for this new sketch comedy series Male Companions here. Please rate. subscribe and comment and check out our other videos at FoxycockComedyRock. . . . and don’t forget we just released our new album, ‘The Lost Powerchord’ . . . for free . . right here at www.foxycock.com. |
