Comedian, improviser, director, writer, photographer, jerk.
Comedian, improviser, director, writer, photographer, jerk.
My new podcast on The Comedy Podcast Network launched today!
Do you like Sports? Do you like Comedy? Do you like one or neither of those things? Do you like the word ‘like’? Then The Sports Sports Sports Podcast is an excellent way for you to spend a half hour a week! Your comedian hosts Joel Anderson, Jordan Pomaville, and sports-outsider Phil Ranta (whose blog you are reading right now) bring you hilarious headlines, sketches, and interviews with the stars of sports punditry! All new episodes released every Wednesday on Comedy Podcast Network!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238664212850982
Still reeling from the season premiere of “Two and a Half Men”? We all are. You’re not alone. But you can keep working the lactic acid out of those funny bone muscles by seeing SNME with the best improv LA has to offer!
This week’s lineup:
Freedom Snatch (Andy Goldenberg, Mark Gagliardi, Tommy O’Rourke, Cameron Fife, Jimmy Guidish)
TuskegeeXperiment (Tammie Smalls, Dwana White, Stephen C. James, Jason Kelley, Marshall Givens, Edana Walker)
& Hosted by Bro Squad 5 (Scott Narver, Leeman Parker, Phil Ranta, Steve Sears)
There’s FREE BEER and tix are only $10 ($1 for students). But Phil Ranta has a few comps, so if you’d like to get in for FREE, send him a message. He can be found over there <————–
Screw “Two and a Half Men”! Come to this show and see Eleven and a Half Men and Three Women”!
Bro Squad 5 is coming to Sacramento for the 1st Annual Sacramento Comedy Festival and I’ll be teaching an improv workshop! Please spread the word, as this is going to be an amazingly fun class!
Special Workshop: F*ck Yeah! Improv
October 1, 2011
10:00 – 1:00pm
Instructor Phil Ranta has been doing improv for nearly a decade all over the world. For the past year he has been performing and teaching improv and sketch comedy with The Second City aboard their Norweigan Cruise Lines contracts in Hawaii, Alaska, and Canada. He was also part of the improv team “McShane” that won the Harold competition in the 2009 Los Angeles Improv Festival. He performs every Saturday night at 9:00 pm with his improv group Bro Squad 5 (brosquad5.com) at Second City Hollywood, writes and segment produces for the award-winning weekly sketch comedy show Top Story! Weekly (topstoryweekly.com) at the iO West Theater, and acts as CEO and Executive Producer of the Comedy Podcast Network (comedypodcastnetwork.com). He is neither an American Ninja, nor a Warrior.
We just got the flyers out there for our upcoming Sacramento tour to ComedySportz Sacramento, Blacktop Comedy, and The Sacramento Comedy Spot. It’s both classy, and fart butt. Click on it to see the whole dang thang! Oh, and you can get tickets by clicking on my schedule above, finding the show, then fronting some dollar dollar bills, you all.
It’s officially been a few days since I’ve made a show announcement! Oh, how I’ve missed you exclamation point! You are the first thing I want to type in the morning and the last thing I want to type at night! Better move to Mexico where sentences begin with an upside-down you, because it America I’ll just look like a poor grammartician. But I regress…
Lucky for you lucky devils, I have a show upon morrow’s eve (Saturday night for the non-olde Englishperson) at 9:00 prime meridian at Second City Hollywood with my improv comedy group Bro Squad 5!
We will have be performing with special guests The Terrible Twos and Triggerfinger. This is not one to miss!
Click the pic for more details! Or if you want to buy tickets directly, click on the “Schedule” tab on the top of this here website and click BUY next to tomorrow’s show. Or you can just send me your social security number and I’ll make sure you get in. Yeah. You’ll get in all right. Get in a whole lotta debt troubles. Wait, did I type that out loud?