Time: Fri, 02-Feb-2001 05:05:41 GMT     IP: 134.161.76.197

Basically, my list looks pretty much like Howards. However I 
would have to add the one from the first one ever about how to 
get a date, that included a guy reading "Back that azz up" and 
possibly the bagel suit play by Neil. Oh, I would also have to 
add "A Discertation" by me and Howard, which we'll perfrom 
tommorow. That's all I can think of for now.

Time: Sat, 03-Feb-2001 09:00:25 GMT     IP: 134.161.70.245

I think that first and foremost, you should include "Adventures 
of Mr. Chair." Also, another fantastic sketch was the "Small 
Pecker" song performed on February 2nd.

Great job at No Shame.  I just started attending this winter.  I 
LOVE IT!

Thanks, 

Justin Aaron

Time: Sun, 04-Feb-2001 06:12:13 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.72

the order from last nights show:

1.My Overweight Sister's Underwear by Neil Van Gorder
  
  (short poop humor comedy sketch)

2. A Play About Nothing, Like Seinfeld, But Less Funny by Jesse 
Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle

  (comedy sketch)

3. Dairy Queens: The Frozen Lactate Specialist by Briggete Edgers

   (comedic monologue about ice cream lesbians)

4. I've Got a Little Pecker by Dave Stamp

   (comedy song)

5. A Dissertation by Jesse Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle 

    (comedy sketch with no pants= FUNNY)

6. Love is Blind by Andy Briggs

    (comedy sketch dealing with blind women and sodomy)

7. Stand Up Comedy by Elysia Hansel

8. Half and Half by Adam Lauritsen

    (dramatic reading)

9. Fantasimico, the Light Machine by Neil Van Gorder

    (comedic monologue about a superhero saving chickens with a  
light machine)

10. Vignettes Onboard by Luke Pingel

    (series of three dramatic monologues intertwined by a train 
conductor)

Time: Sun, 04-Feb-2001 06:39:15 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.72

1.My Overweight Sister's Underwear by Neil Van Gorder

theres nothing to kick off a good show like a little potty humor. 
it was basically leading up to the joke about freckles being 
poopstains on rick stone's face. i liked it.

2. A Play About Nothing, Like Seinfeld, But Less Funny by Jesse 
:
Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle

i wish i could remember more about this one, because i remember 
laughing out loud several times. But after all it was about 
nothing, aptly titled.

3. Dairy Queens: The Frozen Lactate Specialist by Briggete Edgers

Ahh, fresh blood coming into no shame. You seemed a bit nervous 
starting out, but this really got the crowd roaring, even in 
places that i dont think were intentionally funny. I loved this 
piece, and everyone i talked to enjoyed it too. 


4. I've Got a Little Pecker by Dave Stamp
 
Dave Stamp kicks ass!!! Not only a great guitar player and 
singer, but a funny guy and a pretty hip dude. The verse about 
the dildos in his wife's nightstand because of his condition was 
absolutely priceless. I nominate this for the best of.

5. A Dissertation by Jesse Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle 

a back and forth argument that seemed to be headed nowhere, until 
howard, jesse, and neil (who was sitting next to me in the 
audience) ripped off their pants. "Fuck you doctor-I'm not gay!"


:6. Love is Blind by Andy Briggs

Hmm...well the name of the game is no shame (yes im dr seuss) and 
this had none. crossed some boundaries...many...okay all 
boundaries of respectability here. not that taste is required, 
but most of the jokes were pretty cheap here. i still dont know 
who the hell andy briggs is...he didnt perform it. 

7. Stand Up Comedy by Elysia Hansel

i always think that you kick so much more ass when you arent 
reading or looking at a chart. last night when you finally gave 
up on that chart you made, everything started flowing after a bit 
of a rough start. Seriously funny. i always love the stand up 
portion of the show.


8. Half and Half by Adam Lauritsen

this really touched me. this was perhaps the most heartfelt piece 
weve had here. the story of his grandfathers death along with the 
relationship with his brother was a very emotional and difficult 
thing to do, and you did it well. my hat is off.


9. Fantasimico, the Light Machine by Neil Van Gorder

This rocked! the best NVG piece by far! flashing that light 
machine in the crowd and all that shit with the chickens and 
whatever it was about. i thoroughly was entertained. best of!


10. Vignettes Onboard by Luke Pingel

this was an experimental piece where i took three free writes 
that i had done, condensed them into a paragraph each, and put in 
a train conductor role to be the god-like figure. the whole point 
was that looking back is futile in hopes of bettering ourselves. 
i thought everyone did a great job reading it.

Time: Mon, 05-Feb-2001 02:47:01 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.15


:1.My Overweight Sister's Underwear by Neil Van Gorder
-Short. To the point. Has to do with poop. Doesn't get much better 
than this!

:2. A Play About Nothing, Like Seinfeld, But Less Funny by Jesse 
:Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle
-damn those guys were awesome. J/k. We had all of these ideas, but 
no plot. Most of this came from actual conversations we've had.


:3. Dairy Queens: The Frozen Lactate Specialist by Briggete Edgers
- Interesting. had some really good moments. Made even better by 
the unexpected audience reactions. Hope she comes back.

:4. I've Got a Little Pecker by Dave Stamp
-this man's talented. It's funny, because he has a small pecker! 
Probably the most tasteful song about penis size I've ever heard.

:5. A Dissertation by Jesse Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle 
-Always great to be in front of an audience sans trousers.

:6. Love is Blind by Andy Briggs
-Hope we didn't offend any blind parapelegics in the audience. 
This play was written in about an hour, and at times it showed. 
Still provided for some good laughs. ie "This doesn't feel like 
Uncle Herb's cock!" Very juvenile though, even for us.

:7. Stand Up Comedy by Elysia Hansel
-ummm... let's see. I think she needs to work on her stand up a 
little. She has good ideas, but they need to, I don't know, be 
funny. Still has a lot of potential.

:8. Half and Half by Adam Lauritsen
-great. Well written and heartfelt. I liked the lights off touch. 
Only wish the audience had been prepared for a serious piece.

:9. Fantasimico, the Light Machine by Neil Van Gorder
-Heeelarious. Good attention grabber in the beginning, and I like 
anything about chickens and cocaine. I think this baby goes in 
best of No Shame.

:10. Vignettes Onboard by Luke Pingel
-I liked this a lot. The conductor really made these unrelated 
pieces come together. 

GOOD SHOW ALL AROUND!!!

Time: Mon, 05-Feb-2001 04:01:43 GMT     IP: 209.240.220.221


Ok peeps out there.
To start off my review I wanted to just put some thoughts about the show out in the open.  This is
no shame and anything does go and I support that totally.  And without seeming prudish I want to
say that I felt ( and this is my opinion ) that there were way to many pieces with poop, penis,
masturbating and shoving things up your ass jokes.

Hey I like poop and I like penises and I like to shove things up my ass and I think all the
aforementioned are funny.  And I don't want any limits on my art or want to take any thing to
serious.  

Now what's my beef with these type of jokes?
There alltogether too simple and cheap.
Where's the cleverness, the work involved to create
a worthy piece of writing or even a good idea?

I am of course assuming that we as a group of people making art, fun theatre events, etc, want to
improve as writers and performers.  

So those are my honest thoughts about noshame for the moment and I would absolutely love,
adore, be really happy if we could keep an open dialogue with one another and present these types
of issues.

Time: Mon, 05-Feb-2001 04:28:30 GMT     IP: 209.240.220.221


I messed up and posted three of the same messages, how I know not.

I decided not to write a reveiw for each individual piece because I said what I really wanted to say
about no shame in the first part.

I wanted to add to the first part one thing.

No shame was started for people to invent new ideas, to try to break ground artistically and
experiment.  We don't have to be succesful.

Nighty night and we need to have a board meeting this week or weekend to discuss if we want to
move to a different space.  

Time: Mon, 05-Feb-2001 16:11:23 GMT     IP: 134.161.105.165

Personally I agree with Neil that we can all do better than poop 
jokes. I can say this because I believe that Jesse and I are by 
far the worst offenders on that regard. However it's still kinda 
nice to have an outlet where one can be juvenile and get away with 
it. People laugh, so I guess it's all good. It is much harder to 
come up with good, clean humor.

Time: Mon, 05-Feb-2001 18:58:44 GMT     IP: 134.161.105.146

hey do you guys want to have a board meeting on saturday 
afternoon? maybe at 3 at cup o joe? lemme know. im pretty booked 
up on sunday.

luke

Time: Tue, 06-Feb-2001 03:01:05 GMT     IP: 24.4.252.116

:the order from last nights show:
:
This was my first "no shame" experience and I had a lot of fun!  
Of course it helped knowing a few of the preformers.
:
1.My Overweight Sister's Underwear by Neil Van Gorder
:
  Neil, some of your humor I have to have explained to me!!  
:
  (short poop humor comedy sketch)
:

:
2. A Play About Nothing, Like Seinfeld, But Less Funny by Jesse 
:
Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle
:
I found parts of this humoress!!
:
  (comedy sketch)
:

:
3. Dairy Queens: The Frozen Lactate Specialist by Briggete Edgers
:
I really loved this one!  Isn't lifes simple day to day 
activities some of the funniest stuff!!  It sure reminded me of 
my parttime jobs in high school.
:
   (comedic monologue about ice cream lesbians)
:

:
4. I've Got a Little Pecker by Dave Stamp
:
I have to say I loved this song but hey, I sleep with the artist 
so I am a bit biased.  He is a good representive of the UNI alum!
:
   (comedy song)
:

:
5. A Dissertation by Jesse Wozniak and Howard Zimmerle 
:

:
    (comedy sketch with no pants= FUNNY)
:

:
6. Love is Blind by Andy Briggs
:

:
    (comedy sketch dealing with blind women and sodomy)
:

:
7. Stand Up Comedy by Elysia Hansel
:
Parts of this were funny.  Were we suppose to know about the 
chart, was that part of the act?  INTERESTING!
:
8. Half and Half by Adam Lauritsen
:

:This was a great dramatic reading!  Something that everyone goes 
through at some point in their life, loseing a loved one!  The 
single light gave a neat effect.
    (dramatic reading)
:

:
9. Fantasimico, the Light Machine by Neil Van Gorder
:
Neil - you are a SPAZ!!!  do the kids still use that term?!?!
Your first line . . .this is how I called the giant chickens
:was great at setting up the whole thing!  
    (comedic monologue about a superhero saving chickens with a  
:
light machine)
:

:
10. Vignettes Onboard by Luke Pingel
:
Luke - you did a great job on this.  Everyone read real well and 
you did a nice job writing it!!!  I hope you continue with this 
kind of stuff.  I see a future in it for you!!!
:
    (series of three dramatic monologues intertwined by a train 
:
conductor)
:

:
I look forward to attending more of the NO SHAME events!  Thanks 
for including an old uni-living in Hagemann, working in 
Redecker,partying at the hill gal from the mid 80's!!  

Time: Tue, 06-Feb-2001 17:34:02 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.21

luke,
     howie and I can go then, if you want to.

Time: Thu, 08-Feb-2001 16:00:17 GMT     IP: 208.240.124.20
**********
if you're looking for suggestions for "best of", i'm not a 
regular, but neil's "fantasmico" has got to be one of the best 
ever.  not just funny, but well thought out, written and 
performed.  the guy who drank milk back in october, i think, was 
also oddly entertaining, probably worth a shot at best of just 
because it was so different.  i like about everything jesse and 
howard do (even the blind parapalegic skit - which probably says 
alot about my sense of humor); you guys know their material 
better than me, i'd say pick one or two of their best and put it 
in best of also.  

dave stamp (the elder)

Time: Sun, 11-Feb-2001 18:34:46 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.80

Yesterday the board of directors met and we had a great time.
After I went home and read some of my physics book and took a 
nap for about an hour. It wasn't a very good nap though.  My mom 
kept coming into the room and opening and closing the dresser 
drawers.  She did this about four times. 
         
                          Deine Neil

Time: Mon, 12-Feb-2001 00:08:22 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.83

Don't forget to post flyers, advertise etc for NoShame on Friday.

Time: Wed, 14-Feb-2001 00:42:02 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.12

What's up?

Look for a little different no shame from the Howard/Jesse cartel 
this week. Ha! I'm keeping you in suspense! Just wait until 
tomorrow when my buddy tells me how to keep an idiot in suspense 
for 24 hours.

Howard

Time: Thu, 15-Feb-2001 23:41:27 GMT     IP: 134.161.231.207

are howard and jesse going to get naked? are they going to 
poop on stage? because poop after all, is funny. 

anyway fellas, im almost definitely going to be late tomorrow 
night as we have the tallcorn festival and my parents will be 
here.  i hope they come to no shame, and i hope howard 
and jesse get naked for them.

lukey pukey

Time: Fri, 16-Feb-2001 02:51:34 GMT     IP: 134.161.69.205

Luke, if you read this, do you need me to introduce the show with 
Neil? I would be down wit dat.

Howard "Might be naked and pooping" Zimmerle

Time: Mon, 19-Feb-2001 04:58:37 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.22

First of all, I want to thank the small crowd for making this an 
enjoyable show despite the lack of numbers. No Shame Rules... 
tell your friends!

Oh, and I will put an official order on the web soon.

1. Bombs over baghdad by me - I wrote this in about 30 minutes in 
response to W's stupidity. Mark my words, we will be at war 
within the next 4 years, and it will all be bullshit. 

2. Introduction to America by Woz- Our first effort at a serious 
play. Personally I think it hit on some good points but Jesse was 
too big on the "only white people matter aspect". Could have 
built more. Still a good piece.

3. Necrofelicity- Nice piece of work. For once the most 
inappropriate piece came from someone not named Howard or Jesse 
or Andy Briggs. But hey, this is no shame, and the play was 
funny. Hope this guy comes back. He gets extra props for smelling 
like beer when he came in.

4. Bigotry examined by me- in case anyone missed the allegory, 
green-eyed people represent blacks and left-handed people 
represent gays. As Neil put it, bigotry in its purest form. I 
just hope people will see this or read this and realize just how 
stupid bigotry really is.

5. (squiggle) by NVG- Yet another quality output by Neil. Good 
writing. I'm still amazed how he thinks of stuff like the giant 
wooden bike flying to the moon. Drugs?? Who knows. 

Five pieces. Sad, people. Seriously. 

Love ya,
Howard

Time: Mon, 19-Feb-2001 20:23:19 GMT     IP: 134.161.239.79

very little good to say about last Noshame. 
But rather dwell on the fact that it sucked which it did...
What was the deal with guys having sex with a dead girl not very 
funny just cheap.  Remember American Pie...Guy has sex with 
apple pie....funnier.  Guy has sex with the letter A from the 
english alphabet...funny. 

So hope pray think make next No Shame better or I will quit No 
Shame.  If you would try to continue it after I quit I would 
come and shout after each peice how I hate No Shame.  
I would submit pieces full of hate for No Shame...beware Neil 
will no longer do "the Shame".  

Time: Mon, 19-Feb-2001 21:30:19 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.87

Good idea Neil. Bail on the fledgling organization you helped 
create. Don't recruit better participants, just quit. Quitting's 
easier. Run from a challenge. I agree that the last No Shame left 
a lot to be desired, but what if the narcophelia skit hadn't 
happened? What the hell would the people think about three plays 
by two guys and one play by another guy? Who the hell wants to see 
that? We need participation. We need more people involved. Do we 
want to become "only if your play fit what we want" theater? 
Quitting is a coward's way out.

Howard

Time: Tue, 20-Feb-2001 03:10:24 GMT     IP: 134.161.242.113

Boo hoo hoo!  Unhappy are we?  Well well what can I say except.... 

Fuck you.

               Love Neil

Time: Tue, 20-Feb-2001 17:45:03 GMT     IP: 134.161.106.41

Neil,

Fuck you. Great! Creative! Never heard that one before! 

(mocking voice) "look at me, my name is Neil Van Gorder! I'm 24 
and live with my parents! I look like shaggy from Scooby Doo, but 
not as attractive"

If you have a problem Neil, tell the fans. Tell who's involved, 
don't just write some crap on the message board.

I spit on thee.

Howard

Time: Tue, 20-Feb-2001 18:18:54 GMT     IP: 134.161.242.113

creative is what I am. 
perhaps you should follow my lead.

Howard, your work for No Shame is less than stellar.  This is a 
direct reflection of you as a person.  Your thoughts in turn are 
less than stellar.  I sincerely think you should take some time to 
consider your worth as a human being.  

But since you undoubtedly wouldn't be able to view yourself in an 
objective light I have taken the time to rate your worthlessness.

On second thought, worthlessness is not worthy of me expending my 
thought energy on...in turn neither are you.

In the those famous words of the rapper Snoop Dogg " Bow wow yippie
yie kippy a, here's a big fat dick for your motherfucking mouth."

                         Hate unto you,
                                   Neil 

Time: Wed, 21-Feb-2001 06:16:39 GMT     IP: 64.12.104.32

i am the lord, and i ask that you love thy neighbor or some shit. 
do not think only of yourselves...this is all part of the bigger 
picture that i have in store for you. remember moses? we sent him 
the biggest rainstorm ever because...well i dont know why we did 
that... but the point is that moses never complained when times 
got hard. and moses was greatly rewarded, though only after we 
killed his ass off. and remember kevin costner? if you build it, 
they will come. well let me tell you, howard and neil, that we 
built this city on rock and roll. near, far, wherever you are, 
every breath you take, ill be watching you. and no shame. 

love,

jesus h. christ

Time: Wed, 21-Feb-2001 23:24:10 GMT     IP: 209.240.220.213


Hi everybody.

I, Neil Van Gorder convinced Howard Zimmerlee to help me perform an Andy Kaufmanesque
World wide wrestling federationesque joke with me.  
We were going to put an elaborate joke on fooling people around us but now 3 days into the joke
we realized this may not be such a good idea.  
We were going to have a staged fight at No shame and such but not tell anybody that it was
staged.
So that is what happened and the plans are kaput.

Time: Wed, 21-Feb-2001 23:46:47 GMT     IP: 209.240.220.213


I have one more thing to add to the truth.

I was a little frustrated with the last show when I posted the first message "very Little"

I saw Howard's message and I thought he had taken things a little wrongly which I thought was
interesting and so I suggested we continue this feud and turn it into a wrestling type feud. As I
said before we realized this was'nt the best idea so we decided to end the joke.

Time: Mon, 26-Feb-2001 04:16:29 GMT     IP: 134.161.76.197

No shame message board readers...

Be prepared for Win Howard Zimmerle's Money this Friday!!

It will be similar to Win Ben Stein's money on Comedy Central. 

It will have real audience participation and real monetary 
giveaways. So if you're smart enough, fast enough, and if you've 
got the guts... you can WIN HOWARD ZIMMERLE'S MONEY!

-Howard