Atlas Riffed

Following critically-acclaimed performances in New York, Boston and Chicago, comedians Matthew Filipowicz and Josh Bolotsky present Atlas Riffed!: A Live Riffing Of Atlas Shrugged Part One — a live, second-by-second running comedic commentary in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

“We all know that the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy had a massive lack of impact whatsoever on our national political debate,” said Matthew Filipowicz. “We wanted to capitalize on that general lack of impact and widespread cultural irrelevance.”

“If there were ever a moment that America, united, red states and blue states, cities and the heartland, was crying out to have two left-leaning comics provide a live running commentary over a failed adaptation of a famously unreadable libertarian romance novel, that moment is now,” said Josh Bolotsky.

Matthew Filipowicz is a comedian, cartoonist, satirist and progressive talk radio host. His work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Nation, the London Times, RT TV and countless sites in the progressive blogosphere including Salon, Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. He is the host and producer of the monthly progressive political comedy show, Laughing Liberally Milwaukee.

Josh Bolotsky is a New York-based comedian, an online organizer, writer and performer who has lent his talents to The Other 98%, the Yes Men, US Uncut and the SEIU. He enjoys vegan chili and writing about himself in the third person.

The pair plan to “make one of the worst films ever made actually fun to watch — while slowly but surely advancing their covert crypto-communist agenda on an unsuspecting public.” The performance is at Urban Harvest Brewing Company, 1024 S. 5th St, Milwaukee, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.

For more information, visit atlasriffed.tumblr.com.

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