Knock knock.Who’s there?Fate.Can you come back later, Fate? I’ve got my hands full.No, I’m Fate. That’s not how I work.Oh, well, in that case…
Despite working in the same office building, Natalia Storie and Catfish Baruni didn’t begin their friendship until after running into one another at a poorly-attended sketch-writing workshop held at the local VFW hall.
“Hey.”
“Hey.”
Impossibly, the two were paired up by the workshop’s facilitator and tasked with writing a scenario for a comedy sketch, one which took place at the customer service counter of a discount department store. The result was praised as being “not bad.” After the workshop ended, the unlikely friendship between a grouch and a dummy found themselves with no money for bus fare and a mighty need to return to their respective hobbit-holes. The duo, making use of their combined comedy talents, began busking. Ultimately, the two only made “nickels and dimes” that night. But the effortless comedic chemistry they discovered has been finely honed since that fateful night and is now regularly described as “otherworldly” and “transcendental,” as well as merely “acceptable.”
Nickels and Dimes grabs hold of the threads of everyday conversation, taking topics like nerdom, depression, food, and friendship, and braids them together into a self-deprecating rope of comedy, pushing the result onto an audience uproarious with laughter and tears.
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