Okay, this is kind of awesome. Second City has posted an excerpt of “Talkin’ ‘Bout The Balkans” featuring Fran Adams, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, David Razowsky, Ruth Rudnick and Amy Sedaris on its website (“Celebrating 50 Years of Funny”)! The video quality isn’t great, the audio is muddy, and the camera is far away (and doesn’t follow the performers), but it’s still a lot of fun; you should definitely watch.
While you’re on the site, check out some of the other photos, videos and more from Second City’s history — there’s some great stuff in there.
(h/t DB and Twitter user N9ineTimesblue!)
Awesome!! Thanks for posting this! :) It’s so neat to see stuff that Stephen did before The Report and even before The Daily Show!
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too too cute!
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Oh….that was just beautiful. I feel like I miraculously stumbled upon a time machine that took me to where I never thought I could go:)I don’t really know what they were singing about, but I love seeing Stephen in graduation garb. Ah, the things to come!
Forgive me if I’m ignorant, but that piece wasn’t entirely improvised was it? I’m guessing it was part of their more set program.
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Man I miss these three together! Especially Paul and Stephen. What the hell has happened to Tad?
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Isn’t he still trapped in the emergency underground bunker set?
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I liked Steve Carell’s line “Thank you for explaining the problem so precisely. I’m sure they will stop fighting if we ask them very nicely.” I hope the reason Paul Dinello hasn’t been around is that he is too busy doing lost of exciting things. It must be a bit difficult for the Second City people who haven’t become quite so famous. Obviously talent plays a big part in success or failure in entertainment, but such a big role is played by contacts, timing, personality, looks and dumb luck than a lot of talented people never seem to get much recognition.
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