from the idle class
article by Marty Shutter

AWSMRadio EP19 with Sherman Edwards

i sat in with the guys from Awesomonster last week. i ate spaghetti, helped sing the intro song, played a game (and won) and was interviewed about stuff.

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By Shani Silver



Meet the boys turning cancer research into a laughing matter. Kinda. Tomato/Tomatoe is a self-improvisedcomedy show formatted as a live sitcom featuring Kevin Miller and Sherman Edwards, two charmingly mismatched roommates. For the third time, the show will be presented to audience members in an effort to raise money for the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute. Tickets are $20, a small price to pay for some monster laughs.

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September 10, 2010 By Tina Smothers

A great philosopher once said, “If you want to know something, ask a question.”  We took that advice two steps further: we wanted to know a whole bunch, so we asked three questions.  In fact, we asked the same three questions to several improv teams in Chicago, hoping to get a glimpse into the comedic process, and maybe even learn a thing or two about what makes them tick.  We’re super-especially interested in improv teams who have formed organically (i.e. not by audition) in order to explore and discuss team dynamics.  Our first victims-er-guests are Sherman Edwards, Warren Phynix Johnson, Ramon Smith, and Darwin Smith of the improv team BLACKOUT. We asked them the same questions separately. Here’s what they had to say …MORE

July 14, 2010 By Brian Agler

“That’s how you intro some shit.” He was right. “He” is Warren Phynix Johnson, one of the four members of BLACKOUT, along with Sherman Edwards, Ramon Smith, and Darwin Smith. He had just finished introducing the night’s opening group, Challenger, and as he was walking back to the green room, he stopped to meet me at the bar to tell me tell me that what I had just witnessed was a proper introduction. Again, he was right. Johnson gave one of the loudest, and most energetic introductions I’ve seen on an iO stage. This, however, was not an anomaly. Rather, it was just the BLACKOUT way…MORE

January 14th, 2010 6:27 pm CT Chicago Second City Examiner

Tomato/Tomatoe, a two actor/multi-character show created by two Second City trainingalumnus is a semi-improvised live sitcom and is airing the fourth episode through January at (shhhhhhh) The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, IL. Despite the venue not being the Second City – this near perfect execution of a send-up of the sitcom is hilarious and is not to be missed. Don’t worry if you’re like me and you missed the first three episodes – they catch you up…MORE

Semi-Improvised Show Satarizes While Embracing Sitcom Conventions

Jan 14, 2010 Kimberlee Mulherin

Tomato/Tomatoe stars Kevin Miller and Sherman Edwards and is directed by Neal Sachman. This is the fourth “episode” of the hour-long sitcom from the comedy team titled “The Rift”. The three previous episodes are “The Pilot Episode”, “The Very Special Episode”, and “The Amnesia Episode.” The three previous episodes were produced for Donny’s Skybox at The Second City…MORE