Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Seattle & Q Television

Ten West returned from the 2005 Sketchfest Seattle www.sketchfest.com and we wanted to thank John Simon & his family for building a special bed in their home to accomodate Stephen's freakishly long frame, as well as the lovely Karen Gruber (gold club member of the amazing but now defunct comedy troupe Bald Faced Lie) for housing Jon even though he is an oily guinea-dago-wop.

Big thanks also to Val Bush, Heidi Tripple, Ian Johnston, Rachel Foote, John Boyle, Cory Nealy and Co. (the list would be impossibly long b/c everybody in Seattle was wonderful except for some guy named Dusty who stole Jon's dark chocolate bar and blamed it on a street urchin). Thanks to all the amazing performers from the other troupes that we saw over the weekend inc. Elephant Larry from NYC, Becky & Noelle also from NYC, Prank the Dean from SF, Flaming Box of Stuff & Champagne from Seattle, and The Animal Club from Chicago. We also saw a sneak preview of a group called The Cody Rivers Show and we loved what they did at the late night cabaret, "Push!" Ten West also performed at Push! and would like to publicly announce at this time to never drop acid again.

Ten West met so many wonderful people on their trip to Seattle & they would be honored to return again next year!

When Ten West returned home they were contacted & booked to perform on The Q Network. The show was called Queer Edge, hosted by Jack E. Jett, and Jon & Stephen had a wonderful time. The taping took place Sept. 13 and the segment will air Friday, Sept. 17 at 8pm.
For more details about QTV check out their website at www.qtelevision.net Special thanks to the gays for giving Ten West their first TV appearance.