MOVIE! MOVIE! Improv

Auteur(s): Billy Merritt
  • Résumé

  • Improv icon Billy Merritt directs The BIT Comedy Network's improv troupe as they take a genre and a title and improvise a double-feature. YEP! A double-feature with an improvised animated short followed by an unscripted feature film.
    2024
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Épisodes
  • The Grand Cosmic Hotel: A Novelization - Part Two
    Feb 14 2025

    Happy Valentine's Day from the BIT!

    The Grand Cosmic Hotel is BIT's Tribute and Valentine's Day "Card" to Wes Anderson.

    The GCH is inspired by The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's signature visuals, audio choices, and tropes, along with many curated suggestions from Billy's followers. Our cast and editor have never worked harder.

    We watched many Wes Anderson films and shorts, carried on seemingly endless discussions, and wrangled our inner angels and demons to deliver BIT's first two-part audio cinema masterpiece.

    Part One:
    Chapter 1 - The Bucarest Envoy
    Chapter 2 - The Brass & Woodwind Retreat
    Part Two:
    Chapter 3 - The Aviary Life of Tilda Garrafalo
    Chapter 4 - The Sport of Taxidermy

    The characters are as quirky as they come and the score is moving and entertaining!!

    As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and sound effects were added in post.

    If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it.

    DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt
    EDITOR/PRODUCER: Hill Kane
    MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Thea Marie Thorkildsen

    CAST:

    • Dean Aisles: The Duke (Part 2)
    • Terry Armstrong: Thierry Dupree - Asst. Concierge
    • Amber Bellsdale: Lavender Lottingham - Femme Tragique
    • Peg Davis: Spy No. 3 and Big Slim - Trumpet Player (Part 1)
    • Hill Kane: Gertrude Simone - The Grand Concierge and Mrs. Ylva
    • Brent Kohler - Chef Chef, Jimmy Sax -Tuba Player, Spy No. 1, and Delivery Peasant
    • Yuehan Liu: Olivia Finch - GCH Florist, Flautist, and a literal finch
    • Jason Luna: Gary Woodwind - Non-Fiction Author and Clarinet Player
    • Don Slovin: Ralph Picolin - Asst. Head Waiter and Bassoon Player
    • Jason Spiro: Fritz Frankenwiel - Maitre D'Hotel, Taxidermy Emcee
    • Thea Marie Thorkildsen: Spy No. 2 and Ylva The Norwegian Taxidermist
    • Michael Watzka: Quiet Guy Obsessed with Riddles, English Horn Player, and Tilda Garrafalo
    • Flannery Wilson: Windy Wilkinson - Great American Novelist

    Musical compositions used include:

    "Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.


    Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.


    Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

    "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt
    © 2024 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved

    Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

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    40 min
  • The Grand Cosmic Hotel: A Novelization - Part One
    Feb 14 2025

    Happy Valentine's Day from the BIT!

    The Grand Cosmic Hotel is BIT's Tribute and Valentine's Day "Card" to Wes Anderson.

    The GCH is inspired by The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's signature visuals, audio choices, and tropes, along with many curated suggestions from Billy's followers. Our cast and editor have never worked harder. We watched many Wes Anderson films and shorts, carried on seemingly endless discussions, and wrangled our inner angels and demons to deliver BIT's first two-part audio cinema masterpiece.

    Part One:
    Chapter 1 - The Bucarest Envoy
    Chapter 2 - The Brass & Woodwind Retreat
    Part Two:
    Chapter 3 - The Aviary Life of Tilda Garrafalo
    Chapter 4 - The Sport of Taxidermy

    The characters are a quirky as

    As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and sound effects were added in post.

    If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it.

    DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt
    EDITOR/PRODUCER: Hill Kane
    MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Thea Marie Thorkildsen

    CAST:

    • Dean Aisles: The Duke (Part 2)
    • Terry Armstrong: Thierry Dupree - Asst. Concierge
    • Amber Bellsdale: Lavender Lottingham - Femme Tragique
    • Peg Davis: Spy No. 3 and Big Slim - Trumpet Player (Part 1)
    • Hill Kane: Gertrude Simone - The Grand Concierge and Mrs. Ylva
    • Brent Kohler - Chef Chef, Jimmy Sax -Tuba Player, Spy No. 1, and Delivery Peasant
    • Yuehan Liu: Olivia Finch - GCH Florist, Flautist, and a literal finch
    • Jason Luna: Gary Woodwind - Non-Fiction Author and Clarinet Player
    • Don Slovin: Ralph Picolin - Asst. Head Waiter and Bassoon Player
    • Jason Spiro: Fritz Frankenwiel - Maitre D'Hotel, Taxidermy Emcee
    • Thea Marie Thorkildsen: Spy No. 2 and Ylva The Norwegian Taxidermist
    • Michael Watzka: Quiet Guy Obsessed with Riddles, English Horn Player, and Tilda Garrafalo
    • Flannery Wilson: Windy Wilkinson - Great American Novelist

    "Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.


    Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.


    Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

    "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt
    © 2024 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved

    Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

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    38 min
  • A Christmas Hoagie (Shipwrecked at Sea or Dead)
    Dec 25 2024

    Merry Christmas from Billy and the BIT CREW

    The BIT elves worked overtime to deliver this BONUS Christmas day episode.

    Captains' Cove is a seaside town with a lighthouse and a shipwreck that is absolutely obsessed with sandwiches. As 2024 winds down and the residents prepare for the Annual Turkey Cutting Competition, love is in the air, and mayo is in their bags (IYKYK).

    Documentarian Winston Hartsdale is filming a historical documentary, SHIPWRECKED AT SEA...OR DEAD?, about the WW II shipwreck visible from the town's beachfront. The town, which is not interested in history, has other ideas for Harstdale's subject matter.

    As romance blooms between sandwich enthusiasts Hannah Hoy and Thad Justin, most of the town is focused on the upcoming competition. Thad is back in town after a long absence to investigate the new sandwich shop but keeps bumping into the lovely Hannah. Will he choose love or expose the town's scandal?

    Local soap shop owner April Sprinkles and her bestie May Flour take their job as contest judges very seriously. There are unconfirmed rumors that May lost her left pinky finger in a booby-trapped turkey in the 2021 competition. There are also rumors that these two have had mutual crushes since high school.

    Former cobblers Lucente and Guiseppe now serve hoagies and subs with mysterious (but tasty) ingredients. Their newly remodeled shop has attracted the attention of Thad and Jason Meatcutter, the Meat Code Enforcement Officer.

    You'll also meet Olive Sharpe, the town's official Mustard Supplier. She won her position in a previous competition and is a condiment curator with some interesting theories about mayo and mustard.

    The town ghost is likely that of Walter Hartsdale I, our documentarian's grandfather. His efforts to connect with his heir are frustrated by WH III's non-belief in ghosts.

    The lighthouse keeper is also a landscape painter who embellishes his works with murderous and cannibalistic elements. He does not like being upstaged by the brewing romance.

    As always, this podcast is 100% unscripted. Music and sound effects were added in post.

    If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them it's a Holiday present from Billy Merritt.

    DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt

    CAST:

    • Konrad Andrew
    • Amber Bellsdale
    • Luke Bovard
    • Hill Kane
    • Brent Kohler
    • Deema Lazar
    • Laura Powell
    • Jason Spiro
    • Don Slovin
    • Thea Marie Thorkildsen
    • Flannery Wilson

    Production Engineer: Hill Kane

    "Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.


    Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.


    Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

    "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt
    © 2024 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved

    Inquiries + Notices + Requests: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com

    Voir plus Voir moins
    34 min

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