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Nomad Bar
1213 Corona St
Austin, TX 78723
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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9:39 AM, May 18, 2012
Scores
The End of Summer Came Before Memorial Day 92
Euro Zone Thunderdome 74
Just the cumshaw 72
Chachi's Chancla's 55
Polenta Sounds Like Placenta 55
The Fucking Lasers 48
Spur-annosaurus Rex 47
Cuz Camp 45
Magicalist Screwnicorn 44
Huey, Dewey and Pooey 40
Cornered Whores 22
Pat Benatards 3
Words Are Hard!
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I have been on stage in front of an audience in one way or another for just over 26 years. Started off by trying out for a children's musical theatre company when I was 13 (mainly because I wanted to get into the pants of the girl who told me I had a nice voice and should try out). That led to many underwhelming roles in high school drama and then NOTHING for about 6 years.

Then, as luck would have it, I was driving around looking for my next ho-hum job when I heard an advertisement on the radio for an improv comedy show, ComedySportz. I took a friend of mine for her birthday, volunteered for one of the games and got a few laughs; more importantly, a resurgence for that heroine-like need of strangers being impacted by something I did on stage. I auditioned the following day and was invited to join the very next week...and I have not looked back.

Nowadays I pay the bills as a technical writer for a local startup software company and perform / write comedy whenever I get a chance. If I have one professional goal it is to invent a new font called "Sarcastic". I can be seen at ComedySportz, occasionally performing at The Hideout Theatre and various other improv venues as well as on-mic and behind the scenes with Master Pancake Theater.

My wife and I have been married since 1999. I met her while karaoke DJ'ing at the Common Interest. She was the manager so I married her for job security. We have two amazing sons who are catching on to my antics WAYYY too soon.

My life can be hectic at times but I wouldn't change a thing!

"Hey Dav, we want you to host a quiz show that is smartly written, hilarious at times, encouraged by booze, and puts you on a microphone. What do ya say?"

Shit yeah!

Last night was a rough one for anyone with ears. Not only did we all have to endure a sadistically funny round on Bad YouTube Karaoke, we also had to suffer through what was quite possible the worst verbal delivery of a GWD pub quiz in Nomad’s history! I still am not quite sure what got into me. I was stumbling over words like Mel Tillis with the hiccups! I was even struggling to formulate my own sentences! Not a good day for someone whose entertainment and daytime careers are based on the spoken word.

Still, you all stuck by me and we had some laughs. Some at my expense and some because, well, that is just the natural fallout of a GWD night.

I am so thankful Kim was there to pull me out of my pre-show techno-blunder frenzy. I hate being off my game. You really don’t realize how much of a badass she is. She is my anchor when I get too big-headed and she is my lifejacket when I am drowning in self-doubt. I am truly a lucky man.

The highlight of the quiz for me was Round 7’s Robot Shakespeare. It reminded me of my high school AP English class. We had numerous theatre students mixed in with some bow-heads, stoners, and jocks. I drew personal delight when the jocks were made to read aloud because it often sounded like they were reading a list of words. No punctuation, inflection, passion or life…just words broken up with an occasion oxygen break. The stunned silence and disbelieving stares they received was perfect revenge for the humiliation I got from those elitist ass worms in every other facet of adolescence. Talk about poetic justice!

So questions were read (and repeated…a lot) and answers were given. Scores were tallied and winners were crowned. Coming in 2nd place and persevering the outside din was Euro Zone Thunderdome! The real story of the night was the incredible performance by our winning team, The End of Summer Came Before Memorial Day! Despite their indefensibly wrong team name, they managed to pull off a final score of 92!

I hope you all had a good time. I know Kim and I did! Don’t forget the O’Henry Pun-Off this Saturday! Drop by and cheer on yours truly in a contest that celebrates the lowest form of humor…even lower than GWD team names!

If we don’t see you there then hopefully we will see you next week!

Until Then…

-Dav

 

 

Nomad Bar
1213 Corona St
Austin, TX 78723
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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9:15 AM, May 11, 2012
Scores
Next Thing You Know Gingers Will Be Allowed To Marry 70
Trouser Snakes 70
Romney Rainbow Punchers 67
I Just Blue Myself 65
Balls On A Bookshelf 62
Brutal Mercy 60
Desciples of the Possum King 57
Looser Chicken Bowels 54
Uncle Creepy's Naughty Secret 46
Cowboy Fireman Astronaught 16
The Butt Cracks 15
Here Comes the Pain Again
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8PM Thursdays at Nomad 		Dav (Dav)

I have been on stage in front of an audience in one way or another for just over 26 years. Started off by trying out for a children's musical theatre company when I was 13 (mainly because I wanted to get into the pants of the girl who told me I had a nice voice and should try out). That led to many underwhelming roles in high school drama and then NOTHING for about 6 years.

Then, as luck would have it, I was driving around looking for my next ho-hum job when I heard an advertisement on the radio for an improv comedy show, ComedySportz. I took a friend of mine for her birthday, volunteered for one of the games and got a few laughs; more importantly, a resurgence for that heroine-like need of strangers being impacted by something I did on stage. I auditioned the following day and was invited to join the very next week...and I have not looked back.

Nowadays I pay the bills as a technical writer for a local startup software company and perform / write comedy whenever I get a chance. If I have one professional goal it is to invent a new font called "Sarcastic". I can be seen at ComedySportz, occasionally performing at The Hideout Theatre and various other improv venues as well as on-mic and behind the scenes with Master Pancake Theater.

My wife and I have been married since 1999. I met her while karaoke DJ'ing at the Common Interest. She was the manager so I married her for job security. We have two amazing sons who are catching on to my antics WAYYY too soon.

My life can be hectic at times but I wouldn't change a thing!

"Hey Dav, we want you to host a quiz show that is smartly written, hilarious at times, encouraged by booze, and puts you on a microphone. What do ya say?"

Shit yeah!

Dav: Honey? It’s time to get ready for the quiz.

Kim: (murmurs something unintelligible)

Dav: Sweetie?

Kim: (Tarzan type speech) Bed feels SO good! Nice clean sheets…

Dav: Baby?

That was a recap of the moments before I left for the quiz…alone. In her defense, we do have a very comfortable bed and all of our sheets have a minimum thread count of 500.

It is a good thing I showed up instead of being lulled into bed by the sirens of Egyptian cotton because my faith in the intelligence of my quizzers was renewed! Apparently the recent rain clouds removed the annoying (and, according to one of my favorite movies, potentially deadly) brain clouds from your collective heads! Some pretty impressive scores last night! But don’t you fret; there was still evidence of the head trauma you received at the age of 6 when you banged your head against the wall because your mom realized that “attachment parenting” was just a bit creepy and suddenly cut you off the teat!

We had 11 teams battling it out for top honors. Against them though was THE QUIZ! She brought with her the usual arsenal of paradoxes, conundrums, witticisms, and moments of shared brain-fartmosphere! Starting you off nice and easy with a round of recent news she duped you into an audio round of “dance” music that had most of you completely stumped. Next she showed pity and served up a creampuff round of “pick the card suit” cuz, let’s face it, you all needed a confidence booster. Next up was a round on which you had to do well because I gave you three letters that were in every answer! The visual round was a fun one that had all of you reminisce about being in the kitchen with mom, making hazardous compounds! Then you had to jostle your bong resin-soaked noodles to come up with answers to marijuana terms and people named Bud. Some of you did well, the rest need to fill in the potholes in your brains!  Round 8 was random…

We had a first at Nomad last night. A tie for first place ended in a tie breaking round in which they tied again so we launched a second tie-breaking round. A winner was revealed. Taking 2nd place was the always formidable Trouser Snakes! Top prize went to a trio of geeky goodness called Next Thing You Know Gingers Will Be Allowed to Mary! Congrats to our top teams and to everybody else for hanging out and playing along. It would not have been the same without you!

Come back next week! Same quiz time. Same quiz channel! We will be here (If I can get Kim out of bed)!

Until then…

-Dav

Nomad Bar
1213 Corona St
Austin, TX 78723
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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9:44 AM, May 04, 2012
Scores
Cocktails & Kumquats 75
Trouser Snakes 74
Bloodbath & Beyond 68
Love & Raucous 65
Mittens Romney 60
The Fucking Lasers 60
Brutal Mercy 59
Great Minds Drink Alike 53
Dirty Birds 46
Ivana & The Trumps 43
Periodic Table Dancers 41
Team Apollo 37
Holy Rollers 33
Chet Simmons 14
Dubtep - Style Over Sub-wubwubwubwub-stance!
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8PM Thursdays at Nomad 		Dav (Dav)

I have been on stage in front of an audience in one way or another for just over 26 years. Started off by trying out for a children's musical theatre company when I was 13 (mainly because I wanted to get into the pants of the girl who told me I had a nice voice and should try out). That led to many underwhelming roles in high school drama and then NOTHING for about 6 years.

Then, as luck would have it, I was driving around looking for my next ho-hum job when I heard an advertisement on the radio for an improv comedy show, ComedySportz. I took a friend of mine for her birthday, volunteered for one of the games and got a few laughs; more importantly, a resurgence for that heroine-like need of strangers being impacted by something I did on stage. I auditioned the following day and was invited to join the very next week...and I have not looked back.

Nowadays I pay the bills as a technical writer for a local startup software company and perform / write comedy whenever I get a chance. If I have one professional goal it is to invent a new font called "Sarcastic". I can be seen at ComedySportz, occasionally performing at The Hideout Theatre and various other improv venues as well as on-mic and behind the scenes with Master Pancake Theater.

My wife and I have been married since 1999. I met her while karaoke DJ'ing at the Common Interest. She was the manager so I married her for job security. We have two amazing sons who are catching on to my antics WAYYY too soon.

My life can be hectic at times but I wouldn't change a thing!

"Hey Dav, we want you to host a quiz show that is smartly written, hilarious at times, encouraged by booze, and puts you on a microphone. What do ya say?"

Shit yeah!

As a comic book fan for as long as I can remember you would think I was a little upset to miss out on a Marvel super hero movie marathon culminating in the premiere of The Avengers at midnight. Well, you would be right! But with the amount of fun I had last night with all of you at the quiz, the anger quickly subsided and was replaced with a warm squishy feeling…at least until Round 7. It is no surprise that the dubstep genre originated in England. So did Jack the Ripper, the bubonic plague and bad oral hygene.

We ended up with a total of 14 teams at Nomad all of them fighting for that coveted $30 grand prize. No, wait. They were there to see what crazy antics yours truly would try to pull off. Actually they were there to ogle at Kim and wish they were the one taking her home later. Ok, seriously they were there for the BOOZE. You know what…they were there and that is all that counts. Some of them even brought their brains. Others left that detail off their things-to-bring-to-the-quiz checklist but at least they took up space!

The quiz was there too in all of her glorious, challenging, often times hilarious, and consistently irreverent fury. She brought with her questions that generated your own questions like:

  • Was Cash Cab a good enough show to warrant its own themed round?
  • When was the first time you were Rick Rolled?
  • France has a president?
  • Do Transformers have sex?
  • Will you buy me a shot and a pitcher of beer on my birthday?

All good questions but I am the QM so leave the interrogative side of the quiz to me!

After the wubwubwubwub reverberating dubstep trauma faded to a distant repressed memory and the final question was asked and answered, we had our top two teams. Taking 2nd place was Trouser Snakes! Happy birthday Seth! May the best of your days past be the equivalent of the worst of the days ahead of you. In a stunning come-from-behind upset victory was Cocktails & Kumquats. Their clever use of the joker mixed with some pretty high scoring rounds was their winning secret sauce.

As a final note to a pretty awesome night of quiz, I had a Hulk-off to determine the winner of a GWD pint glass. Jeff did a great job demonstrating gamma-irradiated angst but the house came apart along with his t-shirt when Seth’s alcohol fueled rage exploded in a cotton-rending spectacle!

Enjoy your weekend and we will see you next week when GEEKS WHO DRINK ASSEMBLE!

Until then…

-Dav

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