Shawn Westfall

This was a joy to produce, host and perform in. Next shows are in March/April. Message me here to get on our mailing list to be among the first notified!

The ICU nurse who loved dogs and helping veterans was no angel.

"Tyranny is seldom (in the long run, never) imposed on people from without; it is a projection of their own pusillanimity" -- Northrop Frye

My favorite part of the holidays is getting an email wishing me Seasons Greetings & Happy Holidays from the mortgage company that sold my mortgage to another lender six weeks after closing

"The aim of education is to be able to distinguish illusion from reality" -- Northrop Frye

The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer Ranking the 100 best television episodes of the 21st century, from Mad Men to Succession to Game of Thrones.

Not one episode from Halt And Catch Fire? Not even S4E7, "Who Needs A Guy?" This list is invalid

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a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Me, a Matthew Lillard stan since "SLC Punk," when I got to S3 of "Halt And Catch Fire"

I’m now six episodes in, and as a card carrying Dan-Fan, I can’t be the only one noticing the similarities/analogues between “Pluribus” and Steely Dan’s “King Of The World,” even down to the geography #iykyk

Some of you plan to have the Roku 24-hour Yule Log channel on during holiday events this year. I plan on having that classic late-'70s claymation-Santa-riding-a-Norelco-electric-razor commercial on a loop.

We are not the same.

“A Christmas Carol,” but it’s just three books from my TBR pile, one of which is “A Christmas Carol” ruffling its pages in disappointment

Improvisers! He’s on to us! 😉

Only two couple episodes in on #Pluribus, but so far it seems to me as if its an exploration --- given the cult-like collective "group mind" of the "infected" and Carol's vehement antipathy to them -- of how everyone hates improv.

(😉I say this as an improv teacher and performer)

Wanna know what goes hard? Toots Thielemans’ harmonica solo in the outro of the original “Sesame Street” theme song. I was seated in front of a black-and-white Philco (yes, aluminum foil on the antennae) when the show debuted, and that solo is still with me. Note for note. GOATed.

I heard Mamdani is going to institute Stanis-Law (ski), where you have to constantly mine your own sense memories to locate motivation for your character

*sorry not sorry*

3-D Chess, I’m tellin’ ya. Right before the busiest travel season. People whose emotions are frazzled and whose dollars are stretched are going to be stranded, rerouted, forced to pay additional nuisance fees because of cancelled flights/reservations/accomodations. Masterful gambit, sir.

I’m at a Buc-ee’s in rural Virginia. My first time.

I’m never leaving.

“Fate specializes in practical jokes in bad taste: fate very seldom pulls out a card from the pack to help you” — Northrop Frye

This is very good

The funniest novel ever written.

Kingsley Amis, gone three decades ago today.

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Hey, fam -- let's say you couldn't make the rally in DC today due to a prior obligation. Do you have to return George Soros' money? Asking for a friend who already spent it on a really bitchin' Camaro

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Tonight at the DC Arts Center: the improvised Shakespeare show I direct/perform is back as part of the Rails Comedy 8 pm block of shows. Ticket link in replies!

Eating at Minetta Tavern this evening. I know the original in NYC was named after the Minetta Brook in Manhattan, but I always like pretending the one in DC was named after former US Secretary of Transportation (under the Bush I administration) Norman Y. Mineta.

Perhaps the best insight into Hamlet's character I've come across is from Auden's "Lectures on Shakespeare": "He is fundamentally bored, and for that reason he acts theatrically."

“The history of libertarianism in the United States cannot be separated from the business of selling collectible coins” — Quinn Slobodian, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right”

Tonight at Studio Theatre, 7pm

"The other day I had a dream where capitalists created terrorism in order to force the state to better protect the business community" - a character in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Third Generation" (1979)

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

The Merely Players: Improvised Shakespeare • Rails Comedy Shakespeare! But improvised! Watch DC's funniest comedians improvise the bard's play, all while incorporating Shaksespearean tropes, themes, characters, settings, and language. 🎬 CLICK HERE TO GET ...

Tonight at the DCAC in Adams Morgan, 8 pm. Tix in the link!