Real Characters

A showcase of New York's best storytellers, writers and comedians

SAVE THE DATE - JUNE 13

Oh boy, this month’s REAL CHARACTERS show at McNally Jackson is crazy packed with talented writers and performers. Come out to see readings and stories by:

Steve Guttenberg (actor, author of The Guttenberg Bible)
Dave Hill (This American Life, author of Tasteful Nudes)
Baratunde Thurston (The Onion, author of How to Be Black)
David Crabb (The RISK podcast, Bad Kid)
and
Joanne Solomon (The Moth, De La Guarda)

Hosted by Andy Ross. Produced by Ann Marie Lonsdale.

REAL CHARACTERS
June 13th at 7pm
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street in SoHo
Free

Carlos Kotkin reading from his memoir, Please God Let It Be Herpes, at May’s REAL CHARACTERS show. Super funny and terrific.

Find Carlos’s book at his website, and check back here for more videos from last month’s show.

(from left to right: Margot Leitman, Eliot Glazer, Carlos Kotkin, Rachel Dratch, Paul Simms, and Andy Ross. Photo courtesy of Yvonne Brooks.) Thank you to everyone who made April’s REAL CHARACTERS show such a rousing success—the performers, the audience, the staff at McNally Jackson. It was a terrific evening. Check back here for videos as we post them.

(from left to right: Margot Leitman, Eliot Glazer, Carlos Kotkin, Rachel Dratch, Paul Simms, and Andy Ross. Photo courtesy of Yvonne Brooks.)

Thank you to everyone who made April’s REAL CHARACTERS show such a rousing success—the performers, the audience, the staff at McNally Jackson. It was a terrific evening. Check back here for videos as we post them.

Rachel Dratch Interview

Rachel Dratch has been doing a ton of charming, funny interviews in support of her new memoir Girl Walks Into a Bar. Here’s a particularly great one from Chicago Public Radio.

Give it a listen, and then come see Rachel read at the next Real Characters show May 9 at 7pm at McNally Jackson Books.

Upcoming Real Characters performer Eliot Glazer has a terrific web series called It Gets Betterish. Check out the super funny episode above and see the rest of the series here.

Then, make sure to come see Eliot on Wednesday, May 9 at 7pm at McNally Jackson Books.

Paul Simms in Shouts & Murmurs

Paul Simms—writer for Letterman and The Larry Sanders Show, creator of News Radio, producer of Flight of the Conchords—has a new Shouts & Murmurs in The New Yorker, and it’s hilarious.

Give it a look and then come see him read at the next REAL CHARACTERS show on May 9 at 7pm at McNally Jackson Books in SoHo.

(Illustration by Bendik Kaltenborn for The New Yorker)

Comedian George Gordon telling a funny, scary, and moving story at the 2011 Halloween REAL CHARACTERS show. (That’s why he’s dressed up—because it’s Halloween. I swear.)

Lauren Sharpe—actress, writer, member of the New York Neo-Futurists—performs one of her short plays at last month’s REAL CHARACTERS. See more of Lauren’s terrific work here.

Save the Date - May 9th

We couldn’t be more excited about May’s REAL CHARACTERS show at McNally Jackson. Make sure to mark your calendars to see an incredible lineup of writers and storytellers, including:

Rachel Dratch (SNL, author of Girl Walks Into a Bar)
Paul Simms (The New Yorker, Flight of the Conchords, News Radio)
Eliot Glazer (It Gets Betterish, Shit New Yorkers Say)
Margot Leitman (host of Stripped Stories)
and
Carlos Kotkin (The Moth, author of Please God Let It Be Herpes)

Hosted by Andy Ross. Produced by Ann Marie Lonsdale.

REAL CHARACTERS
May 9th at 7pm
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street in SoHo
Free

Thank you to everyone who made last week’s REAL CHARACTERS show such a smashing success. David Javerbaum, Jeffrey Joseph, Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Lauren Sharpe, and Kambri Crews were all terrific. As was the audience at McNally Jackson.

Here are some photos of the evening by Yvonne Brooks. Visit her website here.

Tonight - April 11 at 7pm

REAL CHARACTERS is tonight at 7pm at McNally Jackson

featuring

David Javerbaum (The Daily Show, author of The Last Testament: A Memoir by God),
Kambri Crews (author of Burn Down the Ground),
Jeffrey Joseph (The Tonight Show, Comic Strip Live)
Blaise Allysen Kearsley (host of the How I Learned series)
and
Lauren Sharpe (Bored to Death, The Neo-Futurists)

Hosted by Andy Ross. Produced by Ann Marie Lonsdale.

If you don’t come, you’ll be smitten by the vengeful hand of God. If you do, you’ll be smitten with our adorable, talented lineup of performers. Words are fun, you guys.

7pm (but get there early for seats)
McNally Jackson
52 Prince Street in SoHo
Free

Make sure to tune in to WNYC tomorrow (April 4) at noon to hear upcoming REAL CHARACTERS performer Kambri Crews on the Leonard Lopate Show. She’ll be talking about her excellent new memoir Burn Down the Ground. Then, come see Kambri on April 11 at 7pm at REAL CHARACTERS at McNally Jackson.

Make sure to tune in to WNYC tomorrow (April 4) at noon to hear upcoming REAL CHARACTERS performer Kambri Crews on the Leonard Lopate Show. She’ll be talking about her excellent new memoir Burn Down the Ground.

Then, come see Kambri on April 11 at 7pm at REAL CHARACTERS at McNally Jackson.