Darlings!
We hope that life is treating you right, challenging you, and respecting your boundaries while still encouraging your evolution as a human in a loving way. We also
hope y'all ready to PARRRRTAYYYY! We’re getting very, very -
nearly excruciatingly - excited for our
bevy of Halloween events! We also have like,
five million things to do to prepare, so forgive us (or thank us?! Do you hate these?) for the relative brevity of this edition of your Dygest.
Last week was loooovely.
Dan Harmon fell in love with
Flula Borg . (How could he not?! He makes us associate Germans with “upbeat feel good comedy” which we did NOT see coming. It’s great for their brand. Germany, take note!
Knight him! Or whatever your government’s vanity option is.)
Zach Sherwin hosted another 5 star edition of
The Crossword Show and contestant
Emily Heller took home the prize and the glory. She’s
SMART. Keep her on your side.
Melissa Villaseñor sang her heart out and her friends ate that heart up and gave it back to her in the form of adoration.
Judah Friedlander actually
should be the future President, like, for real. He crowd-worked that audience into a (safe and delighted) frenzy.
Eliot Glazer's Haunting Renditions was even moooore haunting with the addition of a Masked Singer situation! (The situation was, in fact,
Nicole Byer. Not the notorious “The Situation” Mike Sorrentino brought into this world via the nefarious portal of the program
Jersey Shore and recently released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion. I know, it seems impossible that someone like The Situation would do tha
t. As
Lellyan Dynasty used to say, "be wary of who you make your heroes, darlings." And then she'd hock a loogie into a boot.)
Saturday we had two wonderful shows with wonderful folks, why don't you just color
us lucky!
Felicia Day’s book release event
was sold out, and the house was packed with happy, lovely, attentive people, ready to
embrace their weird (title of her book but also the general mood.) Felicia and
Will Wheaton were engaging and hilarious, and our own
Samee Junio served as a handrail as people came to the stage to get their books signed. Now,
THAT’s The Dynasty Difference™. Saturday night was
Danny Jolles jawin’ for an hour, and we honestly would’ve watched him for 3 more. Danny is the perfect combination of heart, optimism and realism. Oh, and he is, like The TBS Channel, very funny. Sunday’s
Everything’s Great was SpooOoOoky, especially because Addie didn’t even show up in the flesh! She showed up IN THE SPIRIT. Yes, there was a ghost host in the house and we flarkin' loved it.
NOW IT’S THIS WEEK!
TONIGHT it’s the dream team of
Up & Up serving it
Sunnyside Up (& Up!) TEAM COCO’s wünderchild
MOSES STORM will host and the rest of the cast of Hulu’s SUNNYSIDE will invade! We’ve got
JOEL KIM BOOSTER, AYO EDEBIRI, SAMBA SCHUTTE, KIRAN DEOL and
KAL PENN! THURSDAY it’s the storytelling show comprised of stories that thought they’d never be told…
RISK! It’s a podcast, it’s a show, it’s hosted by
DAVID CRABB, and it features a line-up of different storytellers each time. This month’s edition includes
IFY NWADIWE, NICOLE BLAINE, and
MARA WILSON!
FRIDAY Time Out LA presents LA’S Comics To Watch: LA STORIES! With host
JANE BORDEN and a bevy of talent including
JAMES DAVIS, PAUL DOWNS, AHMED BHAROOCHA and more! SATURDAY... its’ the day we’ve been waiting for! **
Our Halloween celebrations BEGIN!** First up, at 7pm come for an epic
Dynasty BooNight a lineup of our very favorite folks including
MARGARET CHO! REGGIE WATTS! FORTUNE FEIMSTER! MEGAN GAILEY! FRANKIE QUINOÑES! plus
puppets and a real life
SAW PLAYER! ("You'll have to Saw it to believe it!"
Awechhh! Ploot! - Lellyan Dynasty) and hosted by our eternal love,
DANIEL (spider!) WEBB! Getting a ticket for the show INCLUDES your ticket for the
DYNASTYLAND party afterwards! (You can also get DynastyLand tickets separately, but like, why?!) We’ll have a bar for the night, the theater will be decked out with spoooooky things, and we’ll be partying
DynastyLand style starting at 9pm. (DynastyLand style = we open up all the nooks and crannies of the theater for you to explore in an immersive, multi-room party extravaganza!) We’ll have
tricks, treats, performances, dancing, seancing, puppets, drinks, and goodies from our friends at
Old Pal Provisions (we’ll call smoking weed “blowin’ ghosts!” for the night! Isn’t that fun?) and sweeties from our friends at
VanLeeuwen Ice cream.
SUNDAY we’re doing our first public family event! After hosting some VERY delightful birthday parties for our nearest and dearest kids, we’re doing it up for you! Bring your kids, bring the whole fam, or just bring yourself- at 2pm it’s a
Li’l Dynamos Halloween party. We’ll be screening
vintage Halloween cartoons, having a
costume parade (with prizes!), handing out candy, and attempting to turn our award-winning
Owl’sBeard cotton candy into adorable ghosts. Photo ops will abound, so bring your kids before they wreck their costumes at school and trick or treating!
Sunday night we have
BILL BURR, but it totally sold out to his podcast fans before we were even allowed to announce it! (Sorry Bill Burr fans! Maybe next time! FYI, we don't respond well, or at all, to aggression!)
MONDAY is one of the few remaining
Harrmontown live podcasts. As of the moment of sending this email, that show is not yet sold out, so if you want to see the gang live before the show wraps up, get one of the remaining tickets quick!
Oh so much to do! So many spiderwebs to spread!
See you this weekend!
Jamie and Vanessa
PS: Even though we technically shouldn’t mention it until next newsletter, we’d be remiss not to remind you that on HALLOWEEN itself we’re screening one of our very favorite movies,
Young Frankenstein. Come watch the
Mel Brooks’ classic on the big screen for a guaranteed ALL TREAT night. Come dressed as your favorite character from the Mel Brooks-iverse for a chance to WIN BIG PRIZES. (Probably Lindt!)
