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OH FOR GOD’S SAKE

If you saw my earlier post, you know that Rob Paulsen and I were scheduled to do a live show at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Theatre this Friday and next.

Well, it turns out we’re going to have to reschedule both shows. The Lovitz has a completely new staff and they’re also under new management, so there are scheduling conflicts and other problems to work through. The good news is, none of us have to leave our homes, and THAT’S ALL I EVER WANTED

We’ll try to reschedule this bastard as soon as possible. In the meantime, your tickets to the May 24th and 31st shows will be refunded.

Sorry for any inconvenience, and let’s never speak of this again.

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hold on

Working on one last post. Should be up within the hour.

IT’S A DOOZY

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LET’S WRAP THIS UP NOW

When I was a little girl, my father was a big star.

He had a primetime variety show on ABC before I was born, and had segued into a huge career as a voice-over actor in the 70′s. He created voices for hundreds of well-loved cartoon characters, from Gargamel to Tigger.

And yet, with all his success, he could not handle the down time. He would absolutely fall apart when he wasn’t working.

I saw it so many times. Production would slow down, and my dad would get depressed. He would sit in the living room all day and night, waiting for someone to give him permission to be creative. I watched him get bitter and angry, and I promised myself that I would not let that happen to me. I would always find ways to entertain people, even if no one hired me to do it.

So when I was out of work in September of 2009, I started looking for something to do. The last time things had been that slow, I wound up hosting a talk radio show on KFI for three years. But talk radio had changed, and was really not a place for laughs anymore. So I decided to start a web site where I could just be a smart ass, and amuse people while I waited for things to pick up again. I just thought it would be fun.

I was right.

Regretsy was an incredibly fun thing to do, and for much longer than I had a right to expect. That’s an essential part of any project for me, because it’s the only way I can do my best. So I promised myself that when it stopped being fun, I would stop doing it.

Well, that day is here. Actually that day came and went quite a while ago, but the success of the site, the readership and the community have been very hard to give up. But now I really have no choice.

For one thing, I’m back to work. Animation is cyclical, and my turn has come around again. I have just finished working on three upcoming Pixar projects (including Monsters University, which is ADORABLE), and I have a leading role in a new show by Lauren Faust (My Little Pony) and Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends). Bronc and I are also in talks to develop SockPuppet Theatre for television.

Secondly – and perhaps most importantly – I have no more jokes left to tell about crafting. After nearly three and a half years, I’ve said everything I have to say about it, and now we’re just Bedazzling a dead horse.

SO WHAT’S NEXT

• On February 1st, Regretsy will become an archive. All the posts will remain, and you can still comment on them if you like, but I will no longer be updating it.

• The Regretsy forums will stay live and unchanged. There is a wonderful, supportive community there, and I want those people to remain there and enjoy it for as long as they care to.

Sockpuppet Theatre will continue to add new episodes on Tuesdays.

• Finally, I am reactiviating AprilWinchell.com, which is the site I used to run before starting this one. After I take a little break, I’ll start blogging over there again, and I won’t be relegated to writing about glue guns and fake mustaches. In the meantime, I’m making my old KFI and KABC radio shows available, as well as my enormous library of God awful music.

You have been an amazing audience and a wonderful, kind community. I have appreciated every day that you have allowed me to do whatever the hell it is I do. I hope you will allow me to continue to entertain you.

NAMASTE, BITCHES

Let’s Wrap This Up Now by Catbird Craft, as featured in The Regretsy Tarot Deck

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Hate Mail

If you were at the Regretsy book signing in Seattle, you heard me read some of my favorite hate mail. Ever since then, I’ve had this secret desire to do it again in a theatre setting, like a twisted version of Love Letters.

Well, Rob Paulsen and I decided to give it a try. We’ll be doing this live on January 25th, reading hate mail and flounces and angry Tweets and bad book reviews in a variety of cartoon voices. If you live in Los Angeles and want to come see whatever the hell this is, click here for tickets and show information:

Jon Lovitz Comedy Club and Podcast Theater

BUT HOLD ON

Our friends at UStream are going to broadcast this LIVE, so you can see it wherever you are. You can chat, you can complain, you can heckle us, and you can submit questions for the Q & A part of the show. And if you can’t watch it live, you can download the event from Ustream later, when you’ve sobered up.

Because we’ll have to pay for this ourselves, we’re going to do it as a Pay-per-View. But it’s only going to be $5, and a portion of that will go to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Hope you can make it!

Click here to sign up for the live broadcast