The first casualty of comedy/reading shows…is innocence.

We at How To Kick People have been receiving a lot of complaints from audience members who are tired of Bob and Todd weighing down all of their stories with maudlin laments for lost youth and regret over their horrible, irredeemable choices. "Just get to the part where you farted and everyone laughed," read all of the audience comment cards, without fail. "Maybe you should have a show where you all do nothing but whine about how old and lost you all are," read only one comment card written by an eight year old pauper, wise beyond his years, who cleans up the theater after the shows in exchange for some medicine.

It's How To Kick People: Stay Gold, Ponyboy. A show about youth. About the magic of everything being new. A show brimming over with dewy-eyed reminiscence for a time when we could ask members of the opposite sex if we could watch them pee without being labeled "aberrant."
Joining Bob and Todd and maybe C. Thomas Howell (Not Really!) will be Jonathan Corbett, seen on Chappelle's Show, Premium Blend and at the Montreal Comedy Festival; Amanda Melson, seen all over town, writer for Sara Shaeffer is Obsessed With You; Tom Shillue, recently the star of his own half-hour on Comedy Central, and special guest Walter Salas-Humara, founding member of the legendary alt-country band The Silos.

Todd Levin's writing has appeared in Glamour, Salon, Modern Humorist, The Hermenaut, The New York Post and, most frequently, his own web site (www.tremble.com). He has performed his stand-up comedy and read his work in venues all over town, including Eating It at Luna Lounge, PS-NBC, KGB Bar, East Side Oral, PS 122, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and Beyond Words: Stories On Stage, at the Here Theater Arts Space. He is presently writing his first collection of essays, tentatively titled, The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness.

Bob Powers has been performing in New York and LA since 1996. He's performed at Eating It, Avant-Garde-Arama at PS 122, and the Improv Olympic West. His writing has appeared in Flaunt Magazine, The New York Press, Jest Magazine and The Onion. Bob is also the creator of the website www.girlsarepretty.com. This winter has seen two of Bob's one-act plays produced in Manhattan with the Horse Trade Theater Group.