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Never Mind the Mollusks, Here's Killing My Lobster
By Gabe Weisert
From Heeb Magazine.
Originally published from Heeb, 2003.
(c) 2003, All rights reserved.
Everyone scoffed when Brown grads Paul Charney, Jon Wolankse, Marc Vogl and Daniel Lee announced they were taking their college comedy act on the road. But eight years after graduation, the four-some - plus a few new additions - have clawed their way to the top of the pot. Killing My Lobster (which translates to "bumming me out" in suburban dork) has San Francisco audiences rolling in the aisles and is posed to blow up nationwide. Known for the irreverent, literary, and smart slapstick routines, the Lobster crew performs sketches about, for example, a guy whose lifelong dream is to ride the G-spot - Kenny G's tour buss - or two dot-commers who hawk their online potato-selling Web site, E-potato, to a dubious venture capitalist. "We don't have a mission, other than to present the absolute funniest ideas and situations we can think of," says Wolankse. Now that they've been named "Best Laugh Factory" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, screened their material at Sundance last year (reportedly winning Robin Williams as a fan), and recently started talking with both Comedy Central and HBO, it would seem their mission's accomplished. See 'em while they're buttery: www.killingmylobster.com.
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