Inqlings: Philly over Chicago in funny

July 20, 2010|By Michael Klein, Inquirer Columnist
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  • Chris Noth with fan Mary Stillings of Collegeville at the ribbon-cutting of the table games at Parx Casino.
  • Chris Noth with fan Mary Stillings of Collegeville at the ribbon-cutting of the table games at Parx Casino.
  • Justin Drabick, now a full-time CBS3 weekend meteorologist.

Philadelphia has defeated Chicago for the world championship.

If only it were the Stanley Cup Finals. It was in ComedySportz, the refereed improv show, which assembled teams from 20-plus cities at World Cafe Live last weekend. The Philly team outyukked the Chicagoans. Captain Jason Stockdale's team was rounded out by Kelly Jennings, Kelly Vrooman, who hosts Sprout's The Sunny Side Up Show, and Eoin O'Shea, who performed with the Second City troupe on tour and in Second City's Philadelphia-centric Nutterly Love show last year.

There's a Chicago-Philly convergence at work. The touring Second City is at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre through Sunday.

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Eagles casting call

Heery Casting is looking for Eagles fans for a series of promo videos. Send photo, name, phone number, and reason you bleed green to phillyeaglespride@gmail.com. Shooting will be next week.

On the tube

Tuesday's shooting schedule for Friday Night Lights - with stars Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton - will start in the early morning at Temple University at Broad Street and Polett Walk (formerly Berks Mall). Later in the day, they'll be at Frankford High in Northeast Philly.

CBS3 has affirmed the full-timeness of meteorologist Justin Drabick, who has been working there since April. Drabick, most recently at WBOC, the CBS and Fox station on the Delmarva Peninsula, will work weekends at the outset. Doug Kammerer is about a month from leaving for a big job in Washington, D.C.

TLC has selected three local couples for its Four Weddings show, in which brides attend one another's weddings and rate them. Cameras were at Annunciation Church in Elkins Park on July 10 and at Fonthill Castle in Doylestown on Saturday. Aldie Mansion in Doylestown is the target this Saturday. No date has been set for the episodes.

Blue Man Group, coming to the Merriam Theater Philadelphia for a holiday engagement, will unveil the tour's bill of fare Wednesday on Live! With Regis & Kelly (9 a.m., 6ABC).

The circuit

Sex and the City's Mr. Big, Chris Noth, may have seemed like a random choice to be the celeb guest at Sunday's opening of table games at Parx Casino in Bensalem. Then photog HughE Dillon spotted four Sex and the City-themed slot machines nearby, and it began to make sense.

WPHT talker Michael Smerconish and former Philly Police Commissioner John Timoney rode bikes side by side Sunday for the 65-mile Tour de Shore, which raised nearly $255,000 for police and fire funds. After hitting a large pothole at Mile 16 on Route 561 in New Jersey, Timoney quipped: "Jon Corzine left that for us. I hope my man Chris Christie fixes it for next year."


Contact columnist Michael Klein at mklein@phillynews.com. Follow his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider and on Twitter @phillyinsider.

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