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Originally published by SF Weekly October 19, 2005
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The Killing My Lobster comedy troupe has been tickling funny bones (and other body parts) in the Bay Area since 1997, when a bunch of Brown University crackups decided to reconstruct their old collegiate group, Out of Bounds. Actually, the first couple of years saw Marc Vogl, Erin Bradley, Paul Charney, Brian Perkins, Daniel Lee, Jon Wolanske, and other Lobsters toiling in anonymity.

But a 1999 Fringe Fest skit called Killing My Lobster Boards Flight 354 won the troupe a "Best of Fringe" award and garnered attention from HBO. Since then, KML (which was named via a drunken game of Celebrity) has played venues large and small, composing several new shows a year from scratch as well as offering the more free-form Killing My Lobster Kabaret and the annual Mustaches for Kids contest (both of which benefit worthy causes).

KML shows have focused on politics, travel, sports, science, financial windfalls, fairy tales, sex, and 21 other topics, all with sidesplitting results. Where magazine called the troupe "hip, irreverent, and brilliantly funny," while Comedy Central online deemed one KML show "An orgy of comic genius."

In November, the Lobsters will offer their latest comic tour de force, Nothing Is Original, a series of sketches created out of recycled ad copy, junk e-mails, yellowing photos, Hollywood screenplays, to-do lists, and random litter. KML is sure to prove, once again, that one person's trash is another person's treasure.