Tonight’s the night! It’s the live premiere party of Dinner With Family With Brett Gelman And Brett Gelman’s Family at Cinefamily … and it’s free. Free. Like Willy or UV radiation.
You should go. We’re going. Let’s all go. There’s gonna be a live screening, appearances by co-writer/director Jason Woliner, a lot of LOL-ing and possibly some ROFL-ing depending on your blood sugar levels. Register here.
Anyway, to prep ourselves for this momentous occasion, we’ve gone through Brett Gelman’s entire life to find our Top 5 Favorite Moments in Brett Gelman. You know, because someone’s always funnier live when you know that to get to that point, they had to gloriously impersonate 1,000 cats in front of a live audience to develop their comedic style (don’t ask questions, see below).
So, here they are, in no certain order.
A brilliant misdirection takes one of Brett’s short stories from a dystopian Apple nightmare to something entirely unexpected.
It’s really hard to resist Brett Gelman when he’s talking about riches with his face at genital level.
A moving, psychologically riveting performance piece in which Brett describes the distinct personalities of a literal kilo of cats. Accompanied by dance, of course.
Brett’s Jewish, white ’80s hip-hop artist persona, Rat Tail, whose “current whereabouts are unknown,” spits sick rhymes about butts and how economical he’s being by spreading jam on two of those bad boys at once. It was “transcribed from a cassette tape discovered a year ago, wrapped in a ball of human hair in a garbage dump in Guadalajara, Mexico,” according to a post about it on Vice. So, foreshadowing.
You just can’t beat the first time Brett Gelman and friends enjoyed what Adult Swim calls a “lively night of dining, tasty showbiz chit-chat, and psychological torture.”
Also, check out Brett’s new, non-familial version of Dinner with Friends on Adult Swim this Friday, February 13th at 12:30AM.
