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Check here for periodical updates. (That is to say news about Andy Ross, updated periodically, not updates about newspapers or magazines, which some people call periodicals. Also, there will be no updates about the table of elements. Just stuff about Andy. Period.)


August 16th, 2010 - Andy will be performing at Told, a terrific storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind and produced by Heidi Grumelot. It's at Under St. Marks Place at 7pm.


July 1st, 2010 - Real Characters, Andy's storytelling show at Ochi's Lounge under Comix Comedy Club, is now a monthly show. Come check out an amazing line-up of storytellers and stand-ups every first Thursday at 7:30pm. Hosted by Andy Ross.


June 30th, 2010 - Andy contributed again to Comedy Central's Indecision Forever blog with a softball t-shirt in honor of Elena kagan's Senate confirmation hearings. You can download a PDF to make your own iron-on here.


June 28th, 2010 - At the Moth StorySLAM at the Bitter End, Andy told a story involving a Junior High crush and the worst talent show of all time.


June 17th, 2010 - Andy performed at the Moth StorySLAMat the Housing Works bookstore in SoHo. He told a story about family, loss, and Trivial Pursuit.


May 25th, 2010 - Comedy Central commissioned Andy to make some editorial cartoons for its Indecission Forever blog. He made them these Postcards from the News.


May 11th, 2010 - The next "Real Characters" storytelling show at Ochi's Lounge at 7:30pm. Storytellers and stand-ups present their colorful charcaters or selves with Andy hosting.


Mar. 31st, 2010 - Andy is putting up a storytelling/character monologue show called
"Real Characters" at Ochi's Lounge (the lower level of Comix Comedy Club at 14st Street and 9th Ave.) at 7:30pm. He'll host a fantastic line-up of storytellers and stand-ups.


Mar. 12, 2010 - The Apiary, a terrific blog about comedy in New York and Chicago, has started carrying Andy's comic Low Key every Friday.


Feb. 24, 2010 - Andy started a daily blog called "Wait For It..." which you can find here. It's mostly nonsense and puns, but there will be little gems of perfection sprinkled in as well.


Feb. 8, 2010 - The re-design of the website is in place. There's still more content to be added, but the new format makes it much easier to update. So, expect more up-to-date updates to be updated. Yup.


Feb. 1, 2010 - The Moth StorySLAM was tonight at Southpaw in Brooklyn. The night's theme was "Winter," and Andy told a story about cross-country skiing in gym class in rural Wisconsin. Also, there were pigs. In the story, not at Southpaw.


Jan. 26, 2010 - At Stories at the Creek tonight Andy will describe riding atop the t-bar of his father's Nissan Pulsar at age six. The night's theme is "Bad Habits," and he has had a few.


Dec. 19, 2009 - Andy directs Jared Logan and Dan St. Germain's sketch show, They Hated Each Other, at The Creek in Long Island City. The show reenacts great feuds throughout history, and it is off-puttingly funny.


Dec. 8, 2009 - The last Moth StorySLAM held at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe was tonight. Andy told a story about childhood adventures with his father and the day the ground fell out from under them.


Nov. 10, 2009 - Tonight's Moth StorySLAM at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe had the theme "Ambition." Andy talked about being passive aggressive, being at war, and being systematically taken down by a vegan co-worker.


Oct. 25, 2009 - Melancomedy comes to the venerable Annoyance Theatre in Chicago for a special one night only performance. Sandy Marshall of Schadenfreude directs. Tickets available here.

Melancomedy at the Annoyance


Aug. 9, 2009 - Andy will appear in a video (and has edited another) for Dave Croatto and Jesse Caesar's show, Toast of Manhattan, at the Parkside Lounge on East Houston tonight.


Aug. 3, 2009 - County Fair, hosted by Ross Hyzer and Jared Logan, tonight features Andy Ross along with Mike Lawrence, Ted Alexandro, and Kristen Schaal. If that's not a great lineup, then what is?


July 29, 2009 - At The Rejection Show's "I Lost on a Game Show" tonight, Andy will show video and talk about his two days losing on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? It should be excruciating.


July 27, 2009 - The Bitter End hosted the Moth StorySLAM with theme "Heat." Andy talked about cheesemaking byproducts, the legal system, and the lasting legacy of a good man.


July 6, 2009 - The Moth StorySLAM was at Southpaw in Brooklyn with theme "Busted." Andy laid out the mystery of a prank caller with a foul mouth and a landlord with an Irish brogue.


June 4-25, 2009 - Melancomedy, sad/funny stories that find humor in a minor key, runs Thursday nights at The Peoples Improv Theater at 8pm. Get $8 advance tickets here.

Melancomedy Flyer


May 21, 2009 - The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works in SoHo had the theme "Space" tonight. Andy told a cliffhanger about spending two months painting murals in a storage unit with an angry squatter roaming the halls.


April 15, 2009 - The Rejection Show at Union Hall has Andy and Jared Logan reminiscing about shooting a sitcom pilot in sub-zero temperature when the heating pipes busted.


April 6, 2009 - The Moth StorySLAM was at Southpaw in Brooklyn, and the night's theme was "Scandals." Andy talked about the night his student newspaper discovered a black student had been photoshopped onto the cover of the UW admissions packet. But, could they stay ahead of the scoop?


July 6, 2009 - Andy performed at his first Moth StorySLAM at the Bitter End. The theme was "Anxiety," and Andy recounted his fourteen hours spent waiting in a gameshow greenroom.


Feb. 24, 2009 - Melancomedy previews tonight at 7pm the PIT Theater at 154 West 29th Street in New York. Tickets are $5 at the door.

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