Meg Favreau: Writer, Comedian, Person Who Likes Food

Wanted: ROCKSTAR NINJA Marketing Assistant!

megfavreau — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:41:02 +0000

Our Marketing Firm is looking for a ROCKSTAR Marketing Assistant who is also a NINJA. Do you DO COCAINE? Have you SLICED A MAN OPEN with your SHURIKEN? IT IS ALL OKAY as long as you do not mind making cold calls!! We are looking for someone with the grace of HATTORI HANXOU MASASHIGE and the voice of JIM MORRISON. KNOWLEDGE OF MICROSOFT OFFICE A MUST! DO NOT APPLY if you have never been on a major 25-city concert tour or broken the Bushido Code. That would mean you are NOT a rockstar or a ninja! This is an ENTRY LEVEL POSITION, but we do have some expectations!!!

We are a FUN place to work because we have FREE SODA and use that fact to HIDE OUR SADNESS.

To apply, send your RESUME and a SMALL TOKEN stolen from the HOUSE OF YOUR ENEMY or a SETLIST FROM YOUR LAST TOUR. Salary DOE. Evenings and weekends a must. NO BASSISTS.

Two More Opportunities to See All the Darkness in My Heart: 2/21 and 2/28!

megfavreau — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:43:32 +0000

I’m performing my one-lady sketch show, All the Darkness in My Heart, two more times! Come see me at the iO West in Hollywood on 2/21 or 2/28 at 8:30 p.m. For only $5, you can see me AND another show:

2/21: American Dropout
2/28: Who the F@#% is Brian Brown?

You can read more about my show and buy tickets on the iO website.

Previously on YOUR LIPS ARE GONE

megfavreau — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:23:54 +0000

Previously on YOUR LIPS ARE GONE:

Andrea lost her lips. Gerrod lost his lips. Steve discovered that his lips were stolen — by Frank. But then Frank lost Steve’s lips. Ben lost his lips. Michael lost his lips. Greg and Jen had a relationship-ending misunderstanding because neither of them could form words. Sylvia lost her lips. Jade lost her lips. Everyone meditated on why birds have lipless beaks. Brian lost his lips. Harriet lost her lips, and then a dentist on the street diagnosed her with gum cancer because he was able to see straight into her mouth. Immediately after the diagnosis, the dentist lost his lips.

And the Lip King watches all…

Now — the explosive SECOND EPISODE!

Video: Short Shorts

megfavreau — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:20:50 +0000

People of LA: Come See My New Show, All the Darkness in My Heart, on 1/16!

megfavreau — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:32:56 +0000

I’m premiering a solo sketch comedy show, All the Darkness in My Heart, on Monday, 1/16 at the Improv Comedy Lab (8162 Melrose Ave). Do not worry — this is not a “one person show,” even though it is technically performed by one person. I would not subject you to that crap. Rather, I will make you laugh with my comedy stylings.

The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5, and can be purchased online or at the door. Well, technically, at the box office around the corner from the door.

Still not convinced? Read this show description!

Open your heart to Meg Favreau, and she will fill it up with absurd, dark sketch comedy. Also, she will teach you the secrets to good health, (almost) eternal life, and other things that will currently remain secret but are totally worth learning. Warning: ONCE SHARED, THESE SECRETS CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN.

Meg’s work has been featured in the Chicago Sketchfest, Seattle Sketchfest, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and Boston Improv Festival, and her writing has appeared on publications including McSweeney’s, The Huffington Post, and The Big Jewel. One time she won an eating contest. This may or may not have anything to do with her show.

Directed by Brian James O’Connell.

The Shell Monstrosity

megfavreau — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:33:57 +0000

In my Marketplace Money interview, I mentioned a humanoid shell creature my grandmother gave me as a child. I just remembered I have a picture of it, which I took before I threw it away just two years ago. Paaaaaaack rat!

Actually, according to Wikipedia, if I was a true pack rat, I would have incorporated the shell into my nest, or at least traded it instead of getting rid of it: “A peculiar characteristic is that if they find something they want, they will drop what they are currently carrying, for example a piece of cactus, and ‘trade’ it for the new item.”

Mmmm. Nest cactus.

Happy Holidays From Meg & Rob

megfavreau — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:33:43 +0000

Please accept these good tidings from Meg & Rob:

Rob and I made these for last year’s holiday comedy show at Johnny Brenda’s, Nobody Ever Dies on Christmas (Except Toshiro Mifune). If you’re in Philadelphia on December 22, I highly recommend attending this year’s offering, Keep the Change Ya Filthy Animal: A Yuletide Variety Show.

Listen to Me on Marketplace Money This Weekend!

megfavreau — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:46:36 +0000

I’m on Marketplace Money this weekend talking homemade gifts that don’t suck. Listen online (I’m at the end of the episode), or find the local air time for your NPR station.

In Regard to Your Pest Knowledge

megfavreau — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:14:42 +0000

Dear RELIABLE PEST CONTROL,

What’s the average lifespan of an ant/wasp/bee/snake/or rodent? I have a PEST of an undetermined AGE and SPECIES in my house. All I know is that it is a PEST, and I want to know how soon I can expect it to DIE IN MY WALL or possibly IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR if it is being SHOWY. I asked the police to pull FINGER PRINTS off of the BOX OF CEREAL that the PEST had eaten. They said they didn’t think the prints would MATCH ANYTHING IN THEIR DATABASE, but they would add my prints FOR FREE. Thus, this day was a FINANCIAL WIN. (That is also a side tip if you want to get FREE FINGERPRINT PICTURES. Take anything you can get in this economy!!!) Anyway, please let me know if I have a RODENT, BUG, SNAKE, SPIDER, or ???????????.

Sincerely,
Glen Avondale

Little Old Lady Recipes Is Out Today!

megfavreau — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:25:43 +0000

Buy it on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, or at independent bookstores that know what’s what.