Top Story Weekly

Two bankers try to tell Dov Charney the bad news about American Apparel’s impending bankruptcy - but one of them can’t resist Charney’s sexual charms!

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AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 66: “Lost in a Mosque-erade”

Starring Sean Cowhig (Gary), Tammie Smalls (Caroline) and John Druska (Dov Charney)

Directed by Michael Hughes

Levi Johnston pulls together the top political minds of Wasilla, Alaska to plan his run for mayor that will be featured on an upcoming reality show!

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LEVI’S TEAM by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 65: “Working Class Heroes”

Starring Jimmy Guidish (Levi Johnston), Christopher Biewer (Buddy), Brian Vestal (Henry), Artemis Pebdani (Chastity) and Melissa Okey (Sarah Palin)

Directed by Tom Repetto

Last year Top Story! Weekly was fortunate enough to be selected as the Best Scripted Show in the 2009 Del Close Awards. Nominations for iO West’s Del Close Awards came out over the weekend, and Top Story! Weekly was thrilled to once again receive a nomination as Best Scripted Show! Here’s our cast member Sean Cowhig announcing the awards with Maggy Keegan:

In addition, we’re very excited that so many of our cast members, writers, guest stars and colleagues received votes in other categories!

The Jon Crowley Excellence in Bartending Award: Our cast member Brian O’Connell, our Sunday night bartender Molly Prather, and our guest star Nick Bush

Best Waitstaff: Our Sunday night server Vanessa Ramos (who just did an awesome set in our show!):

Also, Rebecca Stevens, who’s guested with us, and Eliana Horeczko, who’s written for us.

Hardest Working Intern: Our former house manger Lauren Miller

Best Andy Dick Black Box Theater Show: Upstate, with our cast member Tommy Bechtold

Best Loft Show: Cuban B’s Improv Fiesta with our writer and guest cast member Andy Harris

The Nick Armstrong Sexiest Player Award: You want a sexy show? Three of the five nominees for Sexiest Player are in our cast: Matt Moore, Sean Cowhig and Tommy Bechtold!

If you’d like to check out the sexiness, watch the hot Moore-on-Cowhig action in this scene from our Matthew Gray Gubler show (Sean and Matt enter around 3:00, and the sexy action starts around 4:00):

And there’s more Sean and Matt sexiness, including a striptease and some Moore-on-Garguilo action, at the beginning of this show:

Best Line: “I’m ladling water on his tail because he’s a merman,” cast member/director Mike Hughes, Those Who Oppose Us Will Stand Knee Deep in the Blood of Their Children

Coach of the Year: Cast member Brian O’Connell

Student of the Year: Our house manager Tiffani Mills

Teacher of the Year: Guest Star Aaron Krebs

Best Harold Team: Trophy Wife, featuring cast members Rachael Drummond and John Abbott and guest star Mike Coen

If you’d like to vote, and you’re a student or alumnus/a of iO West, just head over to the Del Close Awards website and cast your ballot!

And check out some photos of us at last year’s ceremony here and here!

Mel Gibson’s still hosting a morning talk show - but as hard as he tries, he can’t quite stop talking like he did on those taped phone calls with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva!

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WAKE ME WITH MEL…AGAIN by Matt Blitz and Kristina Adelmeyer - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 61: “There Will Be True Blood”

Starring Phillip Wilburn (Mel Gibson), Jim Nieb (Darren), Gregg Lopez (Lloyd Blankfein), Tammie Smalls (Whoopi Goldberg) and Tommy Bechtold (Dick Cheney)

Directed by Michael Hughes

Mel Gibson’s hosting a morning talk show - but he can’t quite stop talking like he did on those taped phone calls with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva!

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WAKE ME UP WITH MEL GIBSON by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 60: “The Heat Is On”

Starring Phillip Wilburn (Mel Gibson), Jim Nieb (Darren), Shannon Ayers (Lindsay Lohan) and Derek Reid (Announcer/Michael Steele)

Directed by Tom Repetto

Fans watching the US-Slovenia World Cup match have to deal with a fan who gets into the game of kicking balls a little too seriously!

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WORLD CUP’S BALLS by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Oil”

Starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Gary), Sean Cowhig (Lester), Derek Reid (Simon) and Rachael Drummond (Bartender)

Directed by Michael Hughes

Apple has overtaken Microsoft in overall market value. Will this all the PC guy can take from the Apple guy?

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F*** YOU APPLE by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 55: “What’choo Talkin’ ‘Bout, Top Kill?”

Starring Phillip Wilburn (PC/John Hodgman) and Christopher Biewer (Mac/Justin Long)

Directed by Michael Hughes

From the makers of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” comes this summer’s newest romantic comedy hit - ripped straight from today’s financial pages!

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MY BIG FAT GREEK DEBT by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 51: “Spill, Baby, Spill!”

Starring Brian Vestal (Matt), Melissa Okey (Caroline), Brent Pope (Greek’s Debt), Shannon Ayers (Nia) and Derek Reid (Announcer)

Directed by Michael Hughes

At President Obama’s press conference after the nuclear summit, a reporter with an uncanny resemblance to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a lot of questions about America’s nuclear stockpile!

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NUCLEAR SUMMIT by Andrew Payne and Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 49: “No More Kings”

Starring Matthew Harris (Barack Obama), Matt Moore (”Frank”), Artemis Pebdani (Helen Thomas) and Shannon Ayers (Reporter)

Directed by Michael Hughes

The signing of President Obama’s health care bill is such a “big fucking deal” for Joe Biden that he can’t control himself!!

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BIG F***ING DEAL by Matt Blitz - from Top Story! Weekly Episode 46: “A Big F***ing Deal”

Starring Phillip Wilburn (Joe Biden), Matthew Harris (Barack Obama), Artemis Pebdani (Nancy Pelosi), Jim Nieb (Harry Reid), Jason Kelley (Marcellas Owens) and Neil Garguilo (Rusty)

Directed by Michael Hughes