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Hello citizens!

After a brief hiatus, the minds of TSF Sketch have released a new installment of "Yesterday's News -- Today!" For this week, the future looks back 100 years to the Obamas' first Halloween in the White House, corrupt elections in Afghanistan, and the scarcity of swine flu vaccines.

You can watch the video below, on TSF's Youtube channel, on http://ynt.tumblr.com, or on our Facebook fan page.

See you yesterday,

Erik

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Erik Voss is the former T-Shirt Guy of Theatre Strike Force. He isn't allowed to wear a firearm anymore.

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Hey folks!

Here is the latest video of "Yesterday's News -- Today!" for the week of Oct. 19, 2009. The future looks 100 years in the past to a week of balloon hoaxes, racist judges and talkative Kennedys.

You can view the video below, on our Facebook fan page, or by subscribing to our Youtube channel.

See you yesterday,

Erik

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Erik Voss is the former T-Shirt Guy of Theatre Strike Force. Now he is incredibly cold.

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Hello citizens!

Former T-shirt Guy Erik Voss here. TSF Sketch, the comedy writing team of Theatre Strike Force, has launched a new Web-video series called "Yesterday's News -- Today!"

In the year 2109, the government propaganda department will release weekly newscasts covering the headlines from 100 years in the past (the year 2009). Like all government media, these broadcasts will have their share of biases and inaccuracies, which at times will be so absurd they might just seem humorous. But make no mistake: in the future, comedy of any kind is dangerously unpopular.

We will be posting these broadcasts every Monday or Tuesday. You can also view them on our Facebook fan page, or by subscribing to our Youtube channel.

See you yesterday!

Erik

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Erik Voss is the Former T-Shirt Guy of Theatre Strike Force. His friends agree he's a lot more fun to be around now.

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Attention ladies (and most gents): a few weeks ago America was blessed with a new sex symbol. Let’s take a moment to bask in the geeky glory that is:



I’ll wait for the nerds to stop screaming about how I’m a bandwagon fan and how I don’t deserve to like Star Trek because I don’t know Khan’s full name.

(Are they done?)

The new franchise (“Star Trek: The Search for Mo’ Money”) is doused in a sheen of hotness; it is full of youthful, energetic actors that fit snugly into the familiar roles, and who stand to make more money off of them than Shatner could have dreamed of. Through this hottie overload, for some reason its our favorite Vulcan, played by the lurvely Zachary Quinto, who induces the most girlish sighs out of the audience, more than even Captain “My Head Is Shaped Like A Shoebox” Kirk. Why is that, gentle reader?

It is because the movie-going public is slowly realizing something TSFers have known for years: smart is sexy.

Read on to discover just how sexiness can be tied to improv (it's possible!)...

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Hey there!

Are you itching to perform comedy for a live audience? No? Just itching, then? Okay...

Hey, you! Did you catch "Captain Herpes" over there? Yeah, crazy, huh? Anyways... you look like you're interested in doing improv. You may not know it yet, but you are. 

Theatre Strike Force would like to announce its new improv training program starting in the Spring 2009 semester!

In these sessions, you will learn the style of improv comedy TSF performs regularly on campus. Our top performers will instruct these sessions, which will feature exercises in spontaneous performance, various improvised "games," and general improv technique and theory.

The goal? To make you a more confident comedic performer and the newest member of the Theatre Strike Force team. So if you're interested in learning and performing improv comedy at UF and joining Theatre Strike Force, this is the place for you.

This training program is FREE, and no experience is necessary. Even if you've never performed before, come out anyways. It's a ton of fun and a great way to perform comedy with an interesting group of people.

The sessions will meet Mondays, 7 to 9 p.m., at a location TBA.

Space is limited, so if you're interested, please contact us at via the contact page as soon as possible to register.

We're looking forward to working with you!

Erik

Erik Voss is the president of Theatre Strike Force. He was voted "Loudest Moo-er" in the Animal Day Parade in Ms. Miller's 1st grade class. He was 19.

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It's summer in Gainesville, and the city is on fire.
Gas prices keep our windows down and our wallets empty. Economic woes are making us sweat even when we're out of the heat. Some men, it seems, just want to see the world burn.

So what do we do? Do we place our hopes in an idealist politician to clean up the streets? Do we channel our fear to fight our enemies on our own terms? Or do we simply ask...
...WHY SO SERIOUS?

Come laugh away your worries with a wild night of FREE improv comedy with Theatre Strike Force. Starting Friday night, people will laugh.

Meet us at the auditorium (room 1064) in Weimer Hall, the journalism building that is located across the North Lawn from the Reitz Union. Show starts at 10 p.m., and seats are first come, first serve, so get there early!

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"Mission accomplished."  

Not since "premature ejaculation" have two words jumped the gun more.

We did it, troops! With four shows booked at dorms across  campus, I think it's safe to say we're well on our way in liberating campus residents from the hands of tyranny... the tyranny of not having enough improv shows.


It all begins this Sunday, July 20, at 5:30 p.m., when TSF will entertain the residents of Springs Residential Complex during an afternoon barbecue. Afterwards, we'll regroup at the Beaty Towers Commons at 8 p.m. for another show for a group of high school students.

On the evening of Wednesday, July 23, we'll move into the Murphree Area to perform as part of MAC's Alcohol Awareness program, which runs from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.

A week later, on Wednesday, July 30, TSF will resurface at the Jennings Basement for a show at 8 p.m.

So tear down that statue of Albert A. Murphree! Paint those thumbs! Tighten the crotch harness on that flightsuit, because TSF's got a full-scale invasion on its hands!

Soon enough, we'll be kicking down your door in the middle of the night and screaming at you to watch us do improv. Now, you can enjoy shows that stretch on for years and years, with no real exit strategy. And if you thought Abu Ghraib was fun, just wait until you see what we'll do with our games "Moving Bodies" and "Slideshow!"

USA's got IRAQ; TSF's got IRHA. With any luck, our IR-- will like us better.

Stop on by, now.

Erik Voss is the president of Theatre Strike Force. He studied international relations from stall graffiti in dormitory bathrooms.

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Not long ago, Theatre Strike Force spawned some great performers, who spun off into their own troupe, called The Norsemen.

These performers graduated at the height of their popularity and split ways, some heading to Chicago and others to L.A.

Catching up with the L.A. crew shows that they're doing pretty well. 3/5 of The Norsemen (Zach Huddleston, Brandon Barrick, and Eddie Geller) formed the iOWest Harold troupe: Local 132.

The troupe shot to success very quickly, winning last year's Harold Competition, making the rookie team into a bonafide iO House Team. This is a pretty big deal.

Look them up right now and you'll see they're taking part in this year's Harold Competition as well, though now as a veteran team. They just completed their first round and defeated [troupe name removed to soften their shame]. If you're in L.A. do your best to get out there and watch some recent TSF and UF grads do their thing.


Local 132 with their trophy last year.

Continue reading this story to see how one TSF freshman suddenly appeared on the iO West scene. INSANE.

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If I could draw a graph Here's a graph I drew, representative of the number of celebrities in the world at any given time in the last 40 years. While it's obviously not scientific or anything beyond theory, I think that it's true.

As you can cleary see, as we dance past the 60s and 70s, there is a slow, but steady increase of the number of Sonny Bonos and Scott Baios in the world. Late in the 80s, as cable television becomes more popular* and everyone has the option of viewing endless movies on their very own betamax, we see the number of celebrities more than double. After that is when it gets interesting. Over the course of the 20 years that followed, every comedian got a sitcom deal, regular nerds made giant leaps in computing and become ubernerds, and the internet revolution began.
*- 1981: MTV gives a face to Elvis Costello, millions boycott the network.

Thanks to the internet, it seems as if we're getting to a point where celebrities are so numerous, they're the #6 ranking minority in the country (behind Pacific Islanders, ahead of Werewolf Americans). These days, with a webcam and a free YouTube account, any Tom, Dick, or Harry (by way of his little brother, Charlie) can become a mega-celebrity.

It's many a-child's dream to become a star one day, but with the ease of digital video and the speed of broadband, it might happen sooner than they'd like (and for something they'd rather not be famous for). Remember Gellieman (the Aicha kid)? Well TSF decided to take a guess* at what his life might be like after
being thrust into internet celebrity at such a young age. Check it out.
*- No, I didn't write this incredibly long entry just to pimp a TSF sketch. But check it out anyway.

Gellieman - Aicha - Where Are They Now? (Part 1)


Part 2
Part 3

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