The Lampshades
The Lampshades is written and performed by Kate Flannery and Scot Robinson.
After 4 years of Saturdays at Improv Olympic West, they are proud to announce the Lampshades on DVD for sale at the IO WEST box office and their website.
For more information, stand up shows, benefits and to see their Music Videos go to their website www.theLampshades.com, or the Lampshades on Myspace at www.myspace.com/kassieshew
The Lampshades will be back soon to IO West playing the first Saturday of every month at 8pm!
Here’s what critics and celebrities have to say about the Lampshades…
“FUNNY!” – MEL BROOKS
“SUBTLE!” – BEN STILLER
“WE LOVE THE LAMPSHADES!” �the cast of NBC’s THE OFFICE
“GREAT!” KELSY GRAMMER JEFF GARLIN
“F@#%ING FUNNY!” -JOHN GOODMAN
“NICE SHOW”
“THE LAMPSHADES ARE SO TALENTED!” -JERRY STILLER AND ANNE MEARA
“WHAT A GREAT ACT!” -MICHAEL McKEON
“WOW!” -JACKIE BEAT
“THEY’RE FUNNY AND THEY’RE MUSIC IS GREAT” – JANINE GARAFALO
“I LIKE THE LAMPSHADES MORE THAN MY SLIPCOVERS” -SEAN P. HAYES
“SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED” -FLORENCE STANLEY aka Fish’s wife
“I’M A BIG FAN OF THE LAMPSHADES! " -BOB ODENKIRK
“THE LAMPSHADES SHOULD BE ON TV!” -HOWARD MORRIS aka Ernest T. Bass
“I LOVE THE LAMPSHADES AND THEIR WEBSITE”-Lily Tomlin
New York Magazine’s LA PICK for 2006!
Best Saturday Comedy Show of the year in LA WEEKLY’s BEST of LA issue
As seen at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in ASPEN
Recommended on FOX TV’s GOOD DAY LA
As seen on the Oxygen Networks’ Alanis Morisette Live!
“Flannery and Robinson have created bad-lounge-singer characters with depth, though, in the vein of Andy Kaufman’s Tony Clifton.”
-Comedy LA.COM
“Who needs friends or family? We have the Lampshades.”
-LA WEEKLY
“A male-female duo, fresh from the cruise ship circuit, spin rock, pop, and lounge into comic gold while they work out the kinks in their amusingly tortured relationship”.
-LA Confidential Magazine
ON THE WEB at www.theLampshades.com and on MySpace at www.myspace.com/kassiechew
New York Magazine’s LA PICK for 2006!
The Lampshades on YouTube links:
Live show.
Mandy Brandy.
Light My Fiya.
and
Kate Flannery’s MySpace Page.
Starring: Kate Flannery, Scot Robinson
Sunday Mainstage Sketch Show POP! Sketch Cage Match Top Story! Weekly
Monday The Armando Show The Lottery
Tuesday USS Rock n Roll Sweetness Powerhouse Local 132 Gypsy Lou
Wednesday DHT King Ten Trophy Wife Johnny Astronaut The Cartel
Thursday Dasariski iO West Cage Match The iO Rep Presents: Concept Album
Friday Friday Write Club iO Jam Opening Night: The Improvised Musical The Maggy Keegan Variety Hour
Saturday Beer Shark Mice Brand X God Squad iO All Stars The 313 The Lampshades
2009 FESTIVAL All Girl Revue BillyHawk Chris Farley Award & Armando Show Presented to Pat Finn by George Wendt Cream Delicious Moments with Brian & Ithamar Elite Delta Force 3 Festival Armando: Drew Carey Festival Armando: The Cast of The Sarah Silverman Program FORK Impromptu Splendor iO ld School Karen, Darrin and Aaron Knights of Comedy Ladies and Gentlemen LAICF Cage Match LAICF Harold Competition LAICF Sketch Cage Match Maestro If You Please Middle Seat Monkey Butler Pickle Duck Puppetropolis Quartet Red Bicyclette Revolver Second Nature Snake & Bunny So Fresh So Clean Soups You Like Spirit Fingers Sweats Presents: SWIM! Tang: The NERD Show Tanya's Nail Studio The Bed The Belmont Transfer The Del Close Award w/ The cast of Reno 911 The Duckie Boys The Ginger Man & Friends The Irish Mutts The Josh and Tamra Show The Mighty Stumps
Mainstage Special Shows 3 on 1 Adsit and Gausas All Or One Apple Bottom Gang Associates of Awesome b3oc Bobby Hot Stuff Bosma & DeWalt Bro Squad 5 with Take That, Germany! Broken Lizard National Tour Preview Show Brontosaurus Brosquad 5 Daily Double Dead Honkey Desk Piece Nation Dr. God Dr. God Revival w/ Napolean Dynamite's Efren Ramirez EXTRA STRENGTH Festival Audience Choice Award Winner Friday Forty Gausas and Adsit Granny's Squares Horse in Heels How To Kill A Nice Guy Husbands and Pimps Iron Sketch Kick Drum Decade Kind Strangers in HomoThespians: A Night of Unscripted Theatre Live Improv Movie Project Lusty Horde Mixed Doubles Quartet Moon County O.U.T.e (The Other Underground Theater Ensemble) Operocka Our Struggle Passing Tim... with Jeff Passino Poke Prather and Meier Purple Elastic Thunderf*cks Razowsky & Clifford Relationsh!t Rigor Tortoise Rohan Will Answer Ruben Sandwich Sassy Juice Silver City Pink Slick Moranis Tang Tarotdactyl TBA The Foster Kids The Ginger Man The Jerks The Jon and Eddie Show The Kremlin The New Young Americans The Really Late Morning Show The Sequels The Seven Year Plan Three on One Tigerpants Triceratops Turtle Beer Ultimate X-ecution Unpronounceable We Have An Uncle Dick Wonder Dudes Yes, We Are F**king
540 Runaway Alpha Chi Oman Ari and Abhaya Awkward Touching Benderdangle Best Pickup Line Ever Big Bennessy Book Club Briana Wang BROTOR Cherry Comedy Lab Live CoolTripp Dasariski presents: Dead Uncle Ted Dawn McElhare's “Ace's Wild” Days of Passion Drop the Baby Drug Puppy FIC Fiddling Nero Hammerspace Handsome Rob Heavy Petting Zoo Helaine Cira High Roller Anarchists I Hate Greg Castle Intimate Moments Jeff the Zombie Jessica Young Fundraiser for Jen Glaser King Koopa La Granja Laughter 4 A Change Lauren Schnipper Level 4 Level 5 Level 5B Level 6 Little Debbies Lynn 'n' Angi Match Game Meat & Potatoes Meg Swertlow's “The Irresponsible Girl's Guide to Having It All!" Monte Carlo Method Mooseknuckle Mr. Falcon Mr. Fusion mud My First Time w/ Cacky Nantucket Serenade Nugefield One Block Apart Open Mic Stand Up Pajama Jasmine PCH Pen Pal Pretty Bird Proletarian Improv Invasion Pterodactyl Quillenesschez Riverboat Gamblers Robert Downey Jr. Jr. Rodman and Shore Ron Babcock, “Hey World, You Just Got Babcock'd" Rosario Are You Stilwell Sasswich Sausage Fest Science Fair Shakedown Shakedown! Sheriff Hunter Shirley Jackson Presents: The Lottery Slappable Soul Snapkin SOCIAL SUNDAY Spank Drew Step and Repeat Stingray Assassins Student Cage Match Such Wild Ponies TAB Take That Germany Tall Boys Tentatively Marty TFO The Artists The Chosen The Conomy The Dollhouse The Latchkey Kids THIS AMERICAN MIKE Trainwreck Trainwreck Improv Trans Fat Orchestra Traveling Warfields Two Night Stand Victor's Secret Whiskerfish Wizard St. Cloud Wonder Jackson Captain Church Camp Fraternity Kitty Porn STEVE HOLT! The List