I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

Get your head out of the oven. Matt DeCoster is doing a trapeze show.

For people who don’t know, Matt DeCoster is the ridiculously hard-boiled actor/comedian seen here—

—who with I was on Monkeydick and I directed his sketch show with Will Hines, flyer below

So, aside from being an improv comedian and a trial lawyer, he also is a trapeze artist. Yes, I know.

Alt-trapeze shows tend to be the same crowd as alt-burlesque scene—Busty Bedford Ave girls with tattoos and Bettie-Page-bangs and a lot of drag queens. Then Matt DeCoster comes out (with what Rob Huebel calls a “gay porn body”) in a spangly unitard and you’re waiting for him to start “cleaning up the bar” in the style of an 80s JCVD action-adventure. But instead he does the most physically grueling trapeze act you’ve ever seen.

Wednesday, December 17. 8 PM

Zipper Factory,
336 W. 37th St.
btwn. 8th & 9th Aves., at 8 pm.
Admission is $20

Matt sez: “These shows tend to get crowded and to start late. I believe you can make a reservation at TheZipperFactory.com.”

If you’re not convinced, watch this clip of Matt nearly killing a guy (UCB Manager Alex Sidtis) at the UCB Theatre Fight Club boxing match—Weapons of Matt DeCoster

Although you’re all distracted by the recent, unexpected death of Heath Ledger, I’d like to point out another fantastic Hollywood star recently taken from us too, too soon at the spry age of 70.

(I am mostly noting this because I have this picture already uploaded. But I just read her bio on Wikipedia... did you know she was married to Tom Poston? Bob, your wife left you for the handyman!)