- When Kevin decided to open a 50-seat podcasting theater, the concept wasn’t a surprise — It was a logical move for allowing fans to follow the incredible popularity of the online podcasts in the SModcast Network and the live shows. What WAS surprising was that the theater could only take in 50 folks per show, a number far below anything we’d seen offered live before from Kevin and crew. So, when the gang began to take a lot of the action to the Lovitz Theater at Universal Citywalk, and pack the rooms, it was obvious — In less than a year, SModcastle had already outgrown itself. So, this week, Kevin’s announced that the world’s first podcasting theater has grown up, and morphed into “The John Lovitz Podcast Theater”, where the SModcastle Lounge will take over the entire top floor and provide an incredible amount of new, exciting live programming — Complete with booze, and a heck of a lot more than 50 seats per show. So far, here’s the rough concept of the schedule starting THIS JUNE:
SMidnight @SModcastle Lounge starts Fridays at 11:30 with Acting with Mewes & Youse! Take to the SModcastle stage with Hollywood veteran and movie professional Jason Mewes, as you – the audience – partake in your favorite movies scenes with a real, live actor!
On Saturdays, SMidnight @SModcastle Lounge starts at 11:30: Babble-Off, with Ralph & Kevin. On this post-show podcast, we give you the chance to out-funny us ñ as you tell us your best stories or jokes! Make us laugh and you win a t-shirt!
But thatís not all weíve got planned for The Lovitz. Check out what we’re brewing for SMummer 2011 and beyond.
– The SMorgy Pajamma Jammy-Jam! To celebrate the opening of SModcastle Lounge, we’re launching a 24 hour podcasting marathon! 200 crazy sumbitches will spend the night in a house haunted solely by the unending navel-gazing of podcasting giants! Ever wanted to spend the night with Bryan Johnson or Katie Morgan? You’ll be doing just that in this once-in-a-lifetime experience! We’ll be serving lunch, dinner and breakfast, so bring your jammies!
– On Sundays, we launch our version of church: from 11am ’til 1pm, join me and Mewes for Jay & Silent Bob’s Sunday Morning Movie Triva Super-Challenge & Pancake Brunch. Eat amazing pancakes while we podcast a trivia game show that you play in table teams! Win cool prizes and get real fat ñ all before the Sunday afternoon movie matinees begin!
– During the next semester of Red State of the Union Q&A Class, toss back some beers as you hear more cast and crew tales of making it and taking it in the movie biz.
– I’m joined by Lovitz Theater namesake and comedy legend Jon Lovitz for The ABC’s of SNL, an ongoing series in which we reminisce with anybody who ever had anything to do with Saturday Night Live. Expect some Not Ready For PrimeTime Players, some writers, some founders, and LOTS of laughs.
– Now all SMarriages can begin as lifelong unions should begin: drenched in drinks and stuffed with food! And the audience can get as toasted as the guests on SMovieMakers!
– Gaming Events with Jason Mewes, such as this Saturday’s SModern Warfare: Call of Mewes! Expect a hockey tourney and lots of YooStar fun in the weeks to follow.
– Now that we’re Lovitz partners, expect lots more podcasting legends to hit the stage for monthly and weekly shows! Nerdist! WTF! Doug! I’m talking to you guys!
– Vulgarthon Film Festival! Nostalgia alert! See the flicks that put us on the map and listen to the stars behind your favorite Askewniverse flicks tell tales of how shit was way back when!
– Graphic Novel Theater: Dramatic renditions of comic books, read aloud! We pick three people from the audience to join a panel of pros on stage for a dramatic reading of legendary comic book stories. First up: my Green Hornet run from Dynamite. Which kinda leads to our favorite future plan for The Lovitz.
– JAY & SILENT BOB’S BABBLE-ON COMI-CON! That’s right: a bi-monthly comic book show will take over The Lovitz and offer three floors of vendors to shop, as well as a stage for programming ñ where you can see genre pros offer sneak peeks of their blockbusters long before they hit theaters and listen in as Kevin or Ralph interviews them about the movies you love!
There’s a lot more, including background information on the closure of the original SModcastle, in the full post at the Silent Bob Speaks blog. Congratulations to all involved on taking the world’s first podcasting theater and graduating it to a larger, easier-accessed venue in under a year. Between S.I.R. and the new theater, there’s a lot to love about SMod this Spring and Summer. Speaking of SIR…
SModcastle Graduates to the “SModcastle Lounge”!
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