Touchblue

Have you ever felt like the person you just met is someone you already knew, somewhere before?   Let Eugene Cordero and Rene Gube help you discover how you know them in this fully improvised show based on interviewing YOU, the audience.

HOI is a long form improv comedy duo from Los Angeles, CA, bringing the funny from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (the former training grounds of Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Charlyne Yi, Derrick Comedy, Aubrey Plaza and more!) to the San Francisco area through an array of different scenes and characters based on audience suggestions.  Come out to have a night of laughs and leave knowing how you know HOI.

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Have you ever felt like the person you just met is someone you already knew, somewhere before?   Let Eugene Cordero and Rene Gube help you discover how you know them in this fully improvised show based on interviewing YOU, the audience.

HOI is a long form improv comedy duo from Los Angeles, CA, bringing the funny from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (the former training grounds of Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Charlyne Yi, Derrick Comedy, Aubrey Plaza and more!) to the San Francisco area through an array of different scenes and characters based on audience suggestions.  Come out to have a night of laughs and leave knowing how you know HOI.

Click thru for ticket info.

Bay Area! Touchblue is BAAAAACK!

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Dear Touchblue Familia,

Circle up, Guys and Gals… really lean in on this one. We need a team huddle. Stat.

It has been brought to my attention that Carl’s Jr. is currently running a commercial for their chili cheeseburger that is strikingly similar to our sketch, “Knight School.” Before I say anything more, take a look at the videos… and judge for yourself:

Here is the Carl’s Jr Ad, which premiered during the Academy Awards last Sunday, entitled “Did I Get It?”:

Now here is “Knight School” (a sketch that we shot & posted to the web in April 2005):

Have I been plagiarized? What do you think? Personally, I’m not comfortable saying that I have been outright stolen from. I understand that this kind of parallel thinking can exist when dealing with messy treats. It would be unfair for me to suppose that no one else on this planet could arrive upon the same comedic conclusions as mine. That’s just silly.

But.

I will say… that when I first saw the ad, I felt like pile-driving something.

Two days later, my top buckle instincts have subsided… and it’s now time to begin the healing slash revenge process. Any ideas? Hollerback.

**UPDATE
The situation is up on Digg.com… check out the article, and let’s Digg this thing up:

http://digg.com/television/Newest_Carl_s_Jr_Commercial_was_ripped_off_Videos

Dear Touchblue Familia,

Circle up, Guys and Gals… really lean in on this one. We need a team huddle. Stat.

It has been brought to my attention that Carl’s Jr. is currently running a commercial for their chili cheeseburger that is strikingly similar to our sketch, “Knight School.” Before I say anything more, take a look at the videos… and judge for yourself:

Here is the Carl’s Jr Ad, which premiered during the Academy Awards last Sunday, entitled “Did I Get It?”:

Now here is “Knight School” (a sketch that we shot & posted to the web in April 2005):

Have I been plagiarized? What do you think? Personally, I’m not comfortable saying that I have been outright stolen from. I understand that this kind of parallel thinking can exist when dealing with messy treats. It would be unfair for me to suppose that no one else on this planet could arrive upon the same comedic conclusions as mine. That’s just silly.

But.

I will say… that when I first saw the ad, I felt like pile-driving something.

Two days later, my top buckle instincts have subsided… and it’s now time to begin the healing slash revenge process. Any ideas? Hollerback.

**UPDATE
The situation is up on Digg.com… check out the article, and let’s Digg this thing up:

http://digg.com/television/Newest_Carl_s_Jr_Commercial_was_ripped_off_Videos