Olympics of Mel & El

This is what Mel & El do backstage after every show.

Some people train for thousands of hours to become the best swimmer or runner in the Universe and some people get exhausted just watching the Olympics on TV. Not surprisingly, we are the latter. But if there was an Olympics of Ridiculous and Fun, we would train, compete and represent the United States with slightly inappropriate songs and stories that would change the world.

In lieu of this Silly Olympics, we will be presenting Mel & El: Our Sorta Kinda Gay Time of the Month this Thursday at 92YTribeca. Contrary to the title, this show is AFS (Appropriate For Straights). So in between watching mostly naked Olympic Volleyball players hug it out every time they make a point, go getcher tickets!

It's all happening.

Gather your friends.

Let's do this, People.

(Get your tickets HERE)

With our VERY hysterical and ENTIRELY gay special guest BEN LERMAN!

INFO & TICKETS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH

7PM

92YTRIBECA

MAKE YOUR RESERVATION

* And, remember, if you'd like to celebrate any kind of Life Happening (birthday, bridal shower, divorce, coming out) at the show, just bring a group of 6 or more and the Celebra-tee will receive a personalized RAP from Mel & El. It's a hoot. Email melandel@melandel.com for more details.

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Um, also, if you are in the NYC-area and a person who likes to apply makeup to your face, we have a STRONG SUGGESTION. Check out this class with Makeup Guru Erin Williams. She's done our makeup for photo sessions (see above!), film shoots, weddings - we don't leave home without her. It's a great fun thing to do with a girlfriend or two! All the information below:

Brush Up Your Look
Thursday, August 30
6:00-8:00pm
Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th & 37th Streets), Floor 16, Room M
$35 per person
Limited availability of 12 spaces
Email erin@erinsfaces.com to reserve your space in the class.
PLEASE NOTE - 48 hour cancellation policy - agreed to upon signing up for the class

*Make a great first impression with makeup techniques that will help you look and feel your best for auditions, on camera work or just general tips for life in general.

*Learn how to do everything from contouring a cheek to smoking out an eye.

*Get answers to all of your makeup and skincare questions with specific product referrals.

You're already good at your makeup, wouldn't you love to be GREAT?

Scare Tactics!

You know what this isn't? Cookies.

We would never use scare tactics to help motivate you to come to our show unless by scare tactics you mean cookies. You have another day to enter the MEL & EL COOKIE CONTEST** (all details below)!

And, in conclusion, this Thursday!

Get your tickets HERE

With our very famous special guest Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's Ask Me Another, The Moth)

INFO & TICKETS

THURSDAY, JULY 12TH (That is so soon!)

7PM (The correct time for stories and songs!)

92YTRIBECA (A place you should go more often!)

MAKE A RES

** Enter to win "MEL & EL'S CODEFRIENDENT COOKIES" from the Mason Jar Cookie Company at our next show:

1) Purchase your ticket for MEL & EL: Our Time of the Month at 92YTribeca this coming Thurdsay, July 12th!

2) Send us an email (melandel@melandel.com) or Facebook message with your ending to the sentence "Cookies are almost as good as friends because..."

3) The best answer-er will be announced at the show and receive their mason jar of goodies.

C is for Cookies! (And Contest!)

Dear Friends,

Even though on Sesame Street they have been forced to start explaining to kids that cookies are a "sometimes" food and not something to binge on like a maniacal monster, we still love them. Cookies, that is.

In light of this cookie love, we offer you the MEL & EL COOKIE CONTEST where you can win our very own cookie blend from the Mason Jar Cookie Company called "MEL & EL'S CODEFRIENDENT COOKIES". Delicious? Delicious.

Here's how to enter to win:

1) Purchase your ticket for MEL & EL: Our Time of the Month at 92YTribeca this coming Thurdsay, July 12th!

2) Send us an email (melandel@melandel.com) or Facebook message with your ending to the sentence "Cookies are almost as good as friends because..."

3) The best answer-er will be announced at the show and receive their mason jar of goodies.

This is gonna taste so good, you guys.

Spread the word!

XO,

Mel & El

Basically, it's in a week!

Get your tickets HERE

** And - remember - if you are celebrating a special occasion,

bring a group of 6 or more to the show and you will receive a personalized RAP!

(Email melandel@melandel.com for details!) **

With special guest Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's Ask Me Another, The Moth)

INFO & TICKETS

THURSDAY, JULY 12TH (An impressive date!)

7PM (After 6! Before 8!)

92YTRIBECA (Very well air-conditioned!)

MAKE A RES AND GET ONE STEP CLOSER TO COOKIES!

 

Mel & El & Current Events

It was a simpler time.

El: Um, Mel?

Mel: Yes, El?

El: Did you hear about...

Mel: ...the fact that the Supreme Court upheld Obama's health care reform?

El: Er...yeah...but also about TomKat?!

Mel: There was no way to live and breathe and not hear about that.

El: Do you think she'll be Katie Holmes again instead of 'Kate Cruise'?

Mel: Riiiiiight. Remember when the 'Kate Cruise' memo went out?

El: I wish that if I decided to change my name that all news outlets would get some kind of fax about it.

Mel: Yeah, like "Attention all News and Entertainment Media, 'El' shall now be referred to as 'Jazz'.

El: Why would I ever change my name to 'Jazz'?

Mel: I have no idea. I was just going with a hypothetical.

El: Well, it was ridiculous.

Mel: It's five hundred degrees out. My brain is boiling. Leave me alone.

El: Fine.

Mel: Anyway, we shouldn't be joking about The Cruise Family because Xenu is watching.

El: Well, maybe Xenu and his followers would like to come to our show!

Mel: I think we're too sarcastic for Scientology.

El: Good point. Are there funny Scientologists? Only Serious Scientologists come to mind.

Mel: I need to end this conversation before we get put in Scientolo-jail.

El: But tell people that our next show is coming up soon and it's gonna be a doozer.

Mel: Really, a 'doozer'?

El: A Tom-Cruise-er!

Mel: Your brain is boiling. Be quiet.

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE,

BUT THIS THING IS HAPPENING AGAIN!

(And, apparently, it's gonna be a doozer.)

** And - remember - if you are celebrating a special occasion,

bring a group of 6 or more to the show and you will receive a personalized RAP!

(Email melandel@melandel.com for details!) **

Get your tickets HERE

With special guest Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's Ask Me Another, The Moth)

INFO & TICKETS

THURSDAY, JULY 12TH (The middle of July!)

7PM (The perfect time!)

92YTRIBECA (The best kept secret slightly below Canal Street!)

XENU SAYS "MAKE A RESERVATION"

 

More, please.

We just celebrated five years of performing as Mel & El last week at our show, Mel & El: Our Time of the Month. It was pretty fantastic to have all kinds of old friends and new friends there with us. Our favorite thing is how people continue to come back and bring new folks with them. We are always really grateful (and other annoying words) for that. We hope Our Time of the Month continues to be a place where all kinds of silly people can come together, hang out, listen to our nuttiness and enjoy themselves. Yes, that would be good.

Five Years! (Actually twenty-three years!)

Not much has changed from this...

...to this...

(...except that Mel has figured out how to pluck her eyebrows 

and El has stopped wearing "Lambada" tops).

PLEASE JOIN US THIS THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH 

AS WE CELEBRATE

FIVE YEARS OF MEL & EL!

Mel & El: Our Time of the Month

Really bloody funny. Period.

INFO & TICKETS HERE

THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH

7PM

92YTRIBECA

RESERVATIONS ARE A SMART IDEA

Shame, Shame, Shameless...

Mel: Hey, El?

El: Yes, Mel?

Mel: I just logged into Facebook and saw something.

El: Then did you say something?

Mel: What?

El: It's...don't worry about it.

Mel: Ok, but I saw a picture of my baby advertising our show.

El: I don't know what you're talking about...

Mel: It was posted from your profile.

El: Oh, THAT! Yeah, I thought it would be fun and cute!

Mel: That's a pretty shameless tactic.

El: People pimp their babies on every reality show!

Mel: I know that. But we are not A Kardashian or A Spelling or A Real Housewife.

El: Not YET! But what if I do...THIS?

 

If I could speak, I would tell you to go check out Mel & El's show!

Mel: Stop posting pictures of my baby to try to sell tickets to this show!

El: Fine. We have another selling point anyway.

Mel: What's that?

El: It's our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MEL & EL SHOW!

Mel: I know that!

El: We're gonna hold hands, walk down Memory Lane and sing all of our favorite songs.

Mel: I tuned out at "hold hands".

El: Mel, it's gonna be great. With or without THIS!

Does my coy face make you wanna come to see Mel & El?

Mel: I hate you.

El: You love me.

Mel: I know that.

IT'S IN, LIKE, A WEEK!

 

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW!

 

Get your ticket HERE

INFO & TICKETS HERE

THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH (8 days away!)

7PM (A nice time!)

92YTRIBECA (The downtown Y, not the uptown Y!)

RESERVATIONS SUPREMELY SUGGESTED

On Memorial Day, But For Mothers Day (Better Late Than Never)

This is just like us except for all of the ways that it is not.

Happy Memorial Day! War is a nightmare. Veterans are remarkable. Grilling is not my thing.

But I do like to do something on Memorial Day. And today I didn’t do anything particularly Memorial Day-like because I have a baby. (Drink!*)

I was supposed to meet El in the park to enjoy Nature and cheese and other wonderful things, but it was too difficult for me to coordinate with the needs of this (amazing and wonderful and I’m so grateful to have him...) newborn of mine.

I have become The Miranda in our co-defriendent relationship. Let me back up. I realize it's been tens of years since Sex and the City was a TV show, but I think many women currently in their 30's still have the habit of classifying themselves as variations on those characters. With full self-awareness and a healthy amount of self-loathing that I am even bringing this up, I share that I am now The Miranda (when she had a baby and was suddenly unable to attend brunches and fun gatherings in the easy-peasy way in which she used to and therefore felt like a totally unrecognizable version of herself and a bit of a social outcast who wore stretchy pants with flowy over-garments). Obviously, the only things that I actually have in common with Miranda are the baby, the Type A personality and the sarcasm. I am not a red-headed lawyer with a full-time nanny. And El, if we are to keep this pop-culture metaphor going, is not Samantha shoving me into a cab home with my baby, or Charlotte projecting all of her baby issues onto me or even Carrie balking at the site of my giant, lacta-boobs. Actually, she's totally the Carrie, then. But she is an awesome Carrie who is amazing with babies and does not wear skinny belts around her bare midriff.

But, people, I’m pretty sure my point is that this motherhood thing is really tricky. So I am feeling very grateful for my mother and all the moms I know who, at this moment, are doing their best to make it work. And I am very grateful for all the cool people I know without babies who try to help new moms not feel like total weirdos. And also Veterans.

Happy Mom-orial Day!

XO,

Mel

* If you came to our last show, you would understand The Baby/Boyfriend Drinking Game. If you want to learn about that and other fun things, come to OUR NEXT SHOW which is coming up on Thursday, June 14th!

Read Me.

Hello Friends,

We have so much to tell you! But we'll make it quick because we know you have to go do that thing.

1ST ANNUAL FUNNY SONGS FEST! We'll be participating in this fantastic new festival along with every other person that mixes music and funny. Go here for gig details and check out the festival site for more!

WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, CAN YOU VOTE? Take a quick trip HERE and help us win a little prize at the FUNNY SONGS FEST!

Favorite Music Based Comedy Show: Mel & El: Our Time of the Month

Best Comedy Music Band: Mel & El

Funniest Song Written By A Comedian: write in Fagnet or whatever your favorite is!

PATRICK MAKES AMAZING MUSIC! The adorable genius who puts all of our ridiculous thoughts to music has his own album out on iTunes. It is some singer-songwriter goodness. Download his whole album (iTunes search: Patrick Spencer) or if you want a Patrick Spencer intro, download "Day Gone" or "Alibi". His talent embarrases us and also makes us so happy. Here's the album cover. Album!

OUR TIME OF THE MONTH IS COMING! We will be back in June with the 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF MEL & EL show. Yup, we're five. That sounds about right. Round up your girlfriends and boyfriends and let's have a very terrific time together! Reserve HERE.

INFO & TICKETS HERE

THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH

7PM

92YTRIBECA

RESERVATIONS SUPER-DUPER RECOMMENDED

XO,

Mel & El

You. Yes, YOU.

Dear You,

We are totally talking to YOU. You, with the face. Wearing the clothes. Reading these words.
 

This is embarrassing, but we kind of have a crush on you. We didn't wanna say it but now it's "out there" and that's awkward. We'd love to see you in a couple of days at our fun-as-heck show. We promise not to act too weird around you. We even wrote a brand new song for you. Just for YOU. And we'll try not to totally stare at you when we sing it. 

In conclusion, YOU.

With love,

Us

INFO & TICKETS HERE

May 10th (just 3 days away!)

7PM (it's like Happy Hour, but a show!)

92YTribeca (it's right off of the train...EVERY train!)

RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED

It's Fun To Win Things!

We were just sitting around thinking about how much more fun a day is when you WIN SOMETHING in it. And then we found out we won A Thing. Our web series, THE MEL & EL SHOW (haven't watched it? HERE IT IS!) won BEST WEB SERIES at the Las Vegas Comedy Film Festival. Terrific! We're so happy and once again want to thank the awesome producers, cast and crew that made it happen.

INFO & TICKETS HERE

SIX REASONS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN US

Pop Culture Gossip + Performance Art

I don't know...what to do...with this.

MEL: Hey, El?

EL: Yes, Mel?

MEL: Did you complete your taxes?

EL: No, but I did catch up on last week's episode of The Voice.

MEL: As all people should.

EL: The talent to hot mess ratio is skewed a little bit this season.

MEL: And that's just when you consider the judges.

EL: Blake McCountry always wants to 'mentor' tiny blond girls.

OUR savior

Dance party at the recording studio. It's always fun if Patrick's there.

As folks around the world celebrate Passover and Easter and do a whole lot of yapping about gods and lords, we want to take a moment to acknowledge OUR savior. His name is Patrick Spencer Bodd and he is the composer and accompanist of all of our music. We come up with silly words and, occasionally, the faintest whiff of a melody and he makes a song out of it. We would call ourselves Mel & El & Patrick but it doesn't rhyme, so we can't. But we CAN sing his praises. And we will. Especially because today is Our Savior's birthday. 

Happy Birthday, Patrick Spencer Bodd! You are the most terrifically wonderful human being. We appreciate that you are very smart about music things. We are grateful that when we say that a song passage sounds "meh" or "wicky wacky", that you are able to translate that into a tweak that makes it better. When thinking of you, we also like to toss around words like "genius", "good at every damn thing", "too patient for words" and "cute as a button". We wish you All The Good Things in the year to come and are so lucky to have you on our team.

And guess what? Patrick not only writes very talented music for us, he writes very talented music for his own self. Yes, he is a top banana singer-songwriter. He will soon have his debut CD available (it's really good!) and in its honor he'll be playing a couple of songs at our next show. It's gonna be terrific.

Get your red hot tickets now and join us for all of the funniness and the very well made music, too.

Guess what?

We are gonna fashion that new baby into a hat 

and do a show!

Mark your calendars. 

May 10th. 

7PM. 

92YTribeca. 

Mel & El: Our Time of the Month

 

Be there or...you will miss it.

LAST SHOW FOREVER!

It would be exactly like this. But a baby.

El: Mel?

Mel: Yes, El?

El: Do you realize that this Friday is our LAST SHOW FOREVER?