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  • Padma Lakshmi Does Improv Comedy, We Issue A Call To Arms

     

    OMFG. We just discovered that Padma Lakshmi took improv comedy classes at Upright Citizens Brigade -and just graduated from UCB's "Level One Intensives", after 4 six-hour classes. She gave her required graduation show the other night - open to the public - and, after searching the internet for video of this event like crazed, horny research monkeys, there's clearly nothing. Oh, a couple of Twitters about it, but no visual evidence. 

    So this is a call to arms. We MUST have video of Padma doing improv. This is our Lost Ark. Our Holy Grail. WE NEED THIS. If anyone ever sees Padma Lakshmi improvising anywhere, get that on video, and send it to us. remoteisland@nerve.com. Until that glorious day - and Oh, It Will Come - we'll have to content ourselves with this recap of the show, which apparently featured her wearing a see-through top and talking about wedgies...

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    Posted Mar 25 2009, 01:30 PM by Jake Kalish with | with no comments
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    Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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