August 15th, 2008
Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet
I was lucky enough to play the villain in the latest Fat Guy on Adult Swim. It’s a parody of that David Bowie movie “Labyrinth”.

Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet

MATT BESSER TO PERFORM TEN-WEEK RESIDENCY AT COMEDY DEATH-RAY

Comedy Death-Ray, Los Angeles’s premier comedy show, is proud to announce that Upright Citizens Brigade founding member and the pride of Arkansas Matt Besser will be recording sets over the next few months, exclusively at CDR’s Tuesday night program, and will be releasing them the very same week on UCBcomedy.com.

Fans have delighted to Mr. Besser’s antics over the six-year history of CDR, with recent exploits including “Skittles 4 Wittels,” “The Upstager,” and “The Guy Fixing The Air-Conditioner.” Audiences have oft wondered what a concentrated dose of Mr. Besser would offer. At last the wondering must cease.

"Comedy Death-Ray is the Olympics of the alternative comedy world,” Mr. Besser replied when asked for comment. “It was a dream come true when my residency was accepted. For the last three years I have trained at CDR to be able to meet the challenge of the comedic decathalon I will perform these bits with all my heart, not just for the comedy nerds in the CDR audience, but also for the comedy nerds in the middle of America. I do these ten sets for you.”

Mr. Besser will appear at the popular comedy spot ten separate Tuesdays through October. In these ten weeks, Mr. Besser will attempt all ten disciplines of comedy in an effort to reach “the perfect ten:”

1. Topical
2. Blue
3. Satire
4. Parody
5. Multiple characters – no costumes, no props; voice only
6. Musical
7. Impression
8. Physical
9. Stand-up – one word suggestions given the week before over internet and stage
10. Improvised – crowd work, taking suggestions

"I’m neither deluded nor vain enough to consider myself the Michael Phelps of comedy,” Mr. Besser continued. “I am more like the Kerri Strug. I just want one gold night and I will give everything to get it. Even if I bomb the first nine Tuesdays, I will limp to the stage, maybe only standing on one tired old bit, but I will perform that bit with all my heart.”

The excitement starts this Tuesday, 19 August 2008, as Mr. Besser shares the bill with fan-favorite Todd Glass and Saturday Night Live’s Casey Wilson, launching his ten-night-stand with a surprise bit guaranteed to both amuse and shock the audience into convulsions of laughter.

"This is for all the comedy nerds in all the towns across this great land of ours – like Topeka, Harrisburg, Dover, Little Rock, and a few more that I can’t remember now,” Mr. Besser beamed. “God bless the Comedy Death-Ray for giving me the opportunity to achieve my dream.”

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June 25th, 2008
BEST SONGS FOR WEDDING

PRE-CEREMONY music
Belle & Sebastion
Yo La Tengo
Phish
REM
Ben Lee

COCKTAIL HOUR
Metallica - “Enter Sandman”
BOC - “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
The Kinks - “Destroyer”
Joan Jett - “Dime in the Juke Box”
Led Zeppelin - “Rock and Roll”
The Gossip - “Arkansas Heat”
The Darkness - “Thing Called Love”
Frank Black “Calistan”
Neutral Milk Hotel “Holland 1945”
Elvis Costello “Veronica”
Trusty “Mad Religion”
Jerry Jeff Walker – “LA Freeway”
Replacements – “Unsatisfied”
The Damned “Love Song”
The Stranglers “Peaches”
Rolling Stones “Street Fighting Man”
AC/DC “Dirty Deeds”
Social Distortion “Story of My Life”

Invitation to dinner
REO Speedwagon “Ridin the Storm Out”

Grand Entrance song
Les Miserables “Can You Hear The People Sing?”
- start it at :46 seconds

DINNER music
Neil Young “One of These Days”
Beatles - “If I Fell”
The Weakerthans “Left & Leaving”
The Clash “Train in Vain”
Arcade Fire “Rebellion”
Modest Mouse “Florida”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Heavy Metal”
The Mountain Goats - “This Year”
The Weakerthans – “Watermark”
Ani DiFranco – “Buildings & Bridges”
Steve Earle – “Someday”
Phish – “Bouncing Around the Room”
Amy Miles – “Kill to Know”
Ben Lee “Cigarettes Will Kill You”
Built to Spill “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss”
Pavement – “Shoot the Singer”
Yo La Tengo – “Our Way to Fall”
The Hold Steady – “Chip Ahoy!”
David Bowie – “Suffragette City”
Blues Traveler “Run Around”
Europe - “The Final Countdown”
Laura Pausini- “Due”

DANCE SONGS
Missy Elliot – “Lose Control”
The Go Team! - “Huddle Formation”
“Hips Don't Lie” (Wylcef) - Shakira
“Crazy Thing Called Love” – Queen
Joe Budden “Pump It Up”
Pete Rock and CL Smooth "The Creator"
"Ooh Wee" Mark Ronson and Ghostface
Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
Kanye West – “Gold Digger”
Flo Rida – “Low”
“Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix)” - Beastie Boys
Lil Mama - “Lip Gloss”
“Keep It Real” – Faith Evans & the Lost Boyz
DMX - “Party Up”
Lil Flip, DMX, Young Buck - “Tear It Up”
Madonna- “Crazy For you”
Lady Sovereign - “Random”
N.E.R.D. - “Lapdance”
Outkast - “Bombs Over Bagdad”
Le Tigre - “Deceptacon”
Avril Lavigne & Lil Mama “Girlfriend”
Mystikal - “Shake Ya Ass”
Public Enemy - “Lost At Birth”
Ludicris - “Stand Up”
Beastie Boys - “Shake Your Rump”
“Jump Around” - House of Pain
Dee-lite “Groove is in the heart”
Pitbull “The Anthem”
Rhianna (Jay Z) - “Umbrella”
Bobby Farrell from Boney M – “Ma Baker”
Ying Yang Twins “Salt Shaker”
Daddy Yankee - “Impacto”
Dan Balan “Ma Ya Hi”
Pat Benatar-“Hit me with you best shot”
Janet Jackson “All For You”
Wu Tang Clan – “Wu Tang Aint Nuthin To Fuck With”
Public Enemy – “Burn Hollywood Burn”
The Go Go’s – “We Got the Beat”
CSS “Alala”
Peaches - “Boys Want to Be Her”
Midnight Star - “No Parking On the Dance Floor”
Justice “B.E.A.T.”
MIA - “URAQT”
Queen – “Keep Yourself Alive”
Lil John “Stick That Thing Out”
Outkast “Hey Ya!”
Kanye West – “Stronger”
Petey Pablo – “Show me the money”
Sean Paul “We Be Burnin”
”Sweet Child of Mine” - GnR
The Chemical Brothers - “Block Rockin Beats”
The Police “Everything She Does Is Magic”
Abba - “Dancing Queen”
Dancing with Myself - Billy Idol
Men without Hats - “Safety Dance”
Missy Elliot “Can’t Stop”
B52s - “Planet Claire”
Kelis - “Milkshake”
The Cure - “Boys Don’t Cry”
“Venus” – Bananarama
Beatles - “Help”
“I Wish” - Stevie Wonder
Nirvana- Smells like teen spirit
Dead or Alive “You Spin Me Around”
Anita Ward “Ring My Bell”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”
Beyonce & Jay Z - “Crazy In Love”
Gap Band - “You Drop the Bomb On Me”
RUN DMC - “It’s Like That”
Run DMC - “Tricky”
Tom Tom Club - “Genius of Love”
Michael Jackson - “Billie Jean”
“It's Raining Men” - The Weather Girls
“C'mon Everybody” - Elvis Presley
Yaz “Don’t Go”
Van Halen “Panama”
Aha “Take On Me”
Bruce Springsteen “Hungry Heart”
Grease - “You’re The One That I Want
KISS - “Detroit Rock City”
Kenny Loggins “Footloose”
Duran Duran "Her Name is Rio"
The Cure - “Just Like Heaven”
Blondie - “Heart of Glass”
Sex Pistols - “Anarchy in the UK”
Ramones - “I want to be sedated”
Beatles - “All My Loving”
Motorhead “Ace of Spades”
DMX - “We Bout to Blow”
Adam & the Ants “Stand & Deliver”
Christina Aguilera (Redman) – “Dirrty”
Soulja Boy Tell`em – “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
“Everytime We Touch” - Cascada
Clipse “Grindin’”
Kottonmouth Kings “Everybody Move”
Dan Hartman “Instant Replay”
Bonde Do Role “Solta o Frango”
Donna Summer “Last Dance”
Boston “More Than A Feeling”
Oingo Boingo - “Dean Man’s Party”
Usher – “Yeah!”
Gwen Stefani – “Just a Girl”
Talking Heads – “Burning Down the House”
Sir Mix A Lot – “Baby Got Back”
Chic - “Good Times”
“Double Dutch Bus” - Frankie Smith
Vamos Muchachos - Pepe Deluxe Beatitude Freestyle
Kinks “Picture Book”
Epik High “Paris”

SLOW DANCE
Ben Folds – “The Luckiest”
Bright Eyes “First Day of My Life”
Aerosmith “Dream On”
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” The Platters
Chris Isaak “Wicked Game”
REM “ Fall On Me”
The Killers “Mr Brightside”
Gary Wright “Dream Weaver”
“More Than Words” - Extreme
“If You Don’t Know Me” – Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
“At Last” - Etta James
“Wonderful Tonight” Eric Clapton
Erasure “Oh l’Amour”
“True” - Spandau Ballet
Alphaville “Forever Young”
“You’ll Never Find” “Lou Rawls
“Crazy” - Willie Nelson
“Colour My World” Chicago
“Best of My Love” – Eagles
“I Will Always Love You” - Whitney Houston
Journey “Open Arms”
Journey- “Small Town Girl”
Johnny Rivers “Swayin to the Music”
John Lennon “Stand By Me”
Procol Harum - “Whiter Shade of Pale”
Percy Sledge - “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Bob Marley “Is This Love”
Portis Head - “Sour Times”
KISS - “Beth”
Bronski Beat (duet with Marc Almond) "I Feel Love"

First Dance
Frank Sinatra “Moon River”

Father/Daughter Dance
“What Will I Do” Irving Berlin

Cake Cut
Fat Boys “All You Can Eat”

Everybody Leave Song
Bad Brains “Pay to Cum”

December 21st, 2007
Besser's Best Music of 2007

*no particular order

Best Albums
1. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
2. Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
3. J church - The Horror of Life (remember Lance)
4. Ben Lee - Ripe
5. Great Nothern - Trading Twilight for Daylight
6. Pinback - Autumn of Seraphs
7. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
8. Lavendar Diamond
9. Hallelujah the Hills - Collective Psychosis Begone

Best Singles Off Internet
1. E from L.O.S.T. "Honestly" www.myspace.com/efromlost
2. One Trick Pony "Box Song"
3. Lincoln Bedroom "I Just Want to See Her Face Again"
4. Ninja Academy - www.myspace.com/ninjaacademy
5. Whole Wheat Bread "Old Man Samson"
6. Dragoon www.myspace.com/dragoonmemphis
7. The Whips www.myspace.com/thewhips
8. Ben Swift www.benswift.net
9. Bonde do Role - Salto o Frango
10. CSS - Alala

Best Non-comedy TV Shows
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Eureka
3. Prison Break
4. Smallville
5. Dead Zone - RIP
6. Journeyman - RIP
7. 4400 - RIP
8. Life on Mars
9. Torchwood
10. Lost

Best Ways to See Besser in Next Six Months
1. Walk Hard
2. UCBcomedy.com - launches in Jan.
3. The Very Funny Show www.tbs.com/shows/veryfunnyshow/
4. Drillbit Taylor
5. Asssscat on DVD & Comedy Central
6. Wild Girls Gone - maybe a little longer than 6 months
7. Wanted: Undead or Alive - zombedy avail on DVD
8. The Mighty B - Cartoon on Nichelodean in Spring
9. www.myspace.com/mattbesser for new MySpace Toms
10. www.myspace.com/crossballsdebateshow for Crossballs
11. at UCB Theater in LA in Asssscat & America's Best Comic

October 23rd, 2007
Lance Hahn the lead singer/song writer of the pop/proto emo punk band J Church died on Oct. 21.
This was one of my favorite guys in one of my favorite bands. I never met him. We exchanged a few emails and he was really nice. But most importantly I loved his music. He has a great voice. Lyrics you can understand and always interesting. He'll be missed. All I can say now is if you never gave J Church a try then let me recommend the songs...
1. My Favorite Place
2. At the Cannery
3. She's So Mean
4. Jane, Vanessa, and I
5. Reaching for Thoreau
6. Fascist Radio
7. Stupid Lesson - ( my favorite live recording ever on my favorite album with best title "The Procession of Simulcrum/ Map Precedes Territory")
8. Alone When She Dies
9. Crop Circles
10. You're On Your Own
11. Dramatic History of a Boring Town ( hilarious)
12. Rich Young and Dumb
13. Closing Time in an Early Town


Stupid Lesson
Another stupid lesson I didn’t want to learn,
Standing in the rain waiting for my turn,
It's my human condition that makes my world complete,
But tonight I just want to go home,
And a chance to dry my feet

No-one gets a second chance,
No-one knows the reason to the rhyme,
It might not make a difference,
No-one knows or has that kind of time

Your condescending tone has kept me up at night,
I didn't say a word and I'm left with hindsight,
Your eyes look right through me,
While mine look through the rag,
I don't want your cause and I won't wave your flag

No-one gets a second chance,
No-one knows the reason to the rhyme,
It might not make a difference,
No-one knows or has that kind of time

I didn't want to say this but now I know it's true,
Inspiration turns to dogma and I wipe it off my shoe,
It's my human condition that makes my world complete,
But tonight I just want to go home,
And a chance to dry my feet

No-one gets a second chance,
No-one knows the reason to the rhyme,
It might not make a difference,
No-one knows or has that kind of time

October 11th, 2007
UCB Season 2 dvd released.
order at
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because we're giving away a "super cool" t-shirt with every season 2 DVD.

October, 20 - 10PM
"God Sux"
UCB Theater LA
LA’s most faithful atheists congregate together to question the almighty. Watch these comics share their experiences with religion and how some were transformed from altar boys to skeptics. Don’t miss this chance to laugh so hard that you will challenge your beliefs. Matt Besser Marc Maron Jim "UBoat" Underdown

October 20 - midnight
"Best of F'd Up & Illegal Videos"
Part of Offensive Fest Dr. Aggro Cocky and Mr Aidnotfunny will present the most offensive videos of the year with special guest Paul F Tompkins.

Oct. 29 - "The Very Funny Show" on TBS.com
I made ten comedy videos for TBS.com with a bunch of funny people from UCB theater.Check it out in October 29.
First three episodes: Oct. 29
Fourth and fifth episodes: TBD
Sixth and seventh episodes: TBD
Eighth, ninth, and tenth episodes: TBD


Nov. 3 - "America's Best Comic" - 10pm
UCB Theater LA
A parody of Last Comic Standing where Andy Daly and I do all of our stand-up characters. This episode is the audition round so we'll be joined by TBD


November 8 - 6pm
Museum of Television and Radio
NYC
The Paley Center (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) is putting together a panel discussion with us: Upright Citizens Brigade with Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh.
Paley Center info


November 11 - 8pm
Irving Plaza Asssscat - NY Comedy Festival
Asssscat with Besser, Roberts, Poehler and Walsh.
plus Horatio and surprise guests! When: November 11th : 8 p.m. Price: $20 Event Phone Number: 212-777-6800 Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza Neighborhood: Gramercy 17 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 212-307-7171
Asssscat at Irving Plaza tix



Nov. 17 - 10pm
"420 Show"
If u no, u no.
UCB Theater LA


Crossballs: the Debate Show
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