Sock Puppet Theatre!

Hello old friends and movie chums, and welcome back to the Comfy Chair Cinema. The cinema's been closed for a week because we at the Comfy Chair had other pressing matters. Those are all solved now, we're back, Ethel's back at her post at the popcorn machine, the concession stand's stocked with Lemonheads and Raisinettes (all sold at a nominal fee), and we're ready to serve the movie-going public again.

We here at the Comfy Chair Cinema saw a book in a bookstore (my, how revolutionary) this past week all about sock puppets. We picked it up and thumbed through it, then put it down and left it on the table. But we still had sock puppets on our mind. The Comfy Chair Cinema Chest of Drawers is filled with socks, unmatched and unused.

We figured it was about time we put those socks to good use.

And so that brings us to this week's feature, "Sock Puppet Theatre!" It's not a musical, so there's not really a reason there should be an exclamation point ending the title, but we put one there, and so you'll just have to live with it. The idea behind "Sock Puppet Theatre!" was taking a piece of dialogue (a Bob & Ray sketch is the first thing that came to mind, but since we at the Comfy Chair have already been wrist-slapped once for using someone's music, we nixed that) and having it reenacted by a couple of sock puppets. Well, we here at the Chair just happen to know another two-person dialogue - the Hucklebug Podcast. And so the idea was set.

All that was left was to slap together a couple of sock puppets and let the good times roll.

So please settle in, get your snack at hand (sold in the lobby, etc), and enjoy "Sock Puppet Theatre!" And for a special added treat, keep looking below to see the Special Bonus Outtake!

(By the by, for the first time ever we have here at the Comfy Chair Cinema a movie rated R for profanity. So if there are children present, you may want to send them outside to play.)

Special Bonus Outtake!

Yes, it's only those rarest of occasions when you get a special bonus for your Comfy Chair admission fee. You get one this week. And here's how it happened.

See, in making the above "Sock Puppet Theatre!" we had to make it logistically simple for the puppets to have time to get situated and in place and ready for the dialogue. To do this, we at the Comfy Chair made playlists in iTunes for each of the pieces of dialogue. However, to give us time to get ready and in place when the dialogue started, we needed a short piece of something to play while we were getting situated. There in iTunes, fresh from being used in the "Yodel of Love" movie, was "The Wedding March," 42 seconds long.

Perfect. In each playlist, right before the piece of Hucklebug dialogue, we inserted the 42-second "Wedding March." Lots of takes and that song, which, let's face it, ain't that great to begin with, really starts to grate on the nerves.

And so that explains this 23 seconds of fun.

Two Men, Two Clarinets

Hello, Comfy Chairers. Welcome to another week at the cinema.

This week, for the first time, we have a documentary! Filmed at the famed and now possibly annual Mr M Recital, it features Mr M and his friend David N playing a seriously difficult clarinet duet.

We'd been asked by Mr M to mention that the sound quality is quite poor, but we here at the Comfy Chair don't have to do that, because we're not using his recorded version of the piece, we're using ours. And we think our audio is just fine, thanks very much.

By the way, this piece has an added bonus - listen for a chorus of "When the Saints Go Marching In."

So get a musical snack in the lobby, some Bugles, perhaps, and enjoy the music.

Game Night!

Hello, movie goers, and welcome to a delayed opening at the Comfy Chair Cinema. We took an extra day for the long weekend. Ours was a very long weekend.

Have you ever thought about some of your favorite idols playing a game? Like, say Scrabble? Wonder how they'd do? Who would win? Well, this week's feature, "Game Night!" gives you an insight into what happens when The Biggies play.

So sit back, enjoy a box of Lemonheads (sold in the lobby at a nominal fee), and enjoy "Game Night!" (It has an exclamation point, but is not a musical, sadly.)