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Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC Buster: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Playing cowboys and Indians as a kid in the neighborhood | Cowboys, guns, Indians, theme music |
| Dave Reichley: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Rents a house on a family farm. The kids come to him to help birth a cow. | birth, cow, farm, hooves, in over head, rope, rural |
| Ari Jacobson: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Dressed as a red Teletubbie for Halloween college party. Went into an alley to pee. Police car came up to him. Cop made him go into his house to prove | alley, college, cops, Halloween, handcuffs, lease, pee, Teletubbie |
| Nancy Murray: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Mark Illuminate: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Manil Suri: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Lynora Lawless: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Keiffer Mitchell: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Gus Demos: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Erin Drew: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Doreen Bolger: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Ben Doyle: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Anna Rhodes: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux Brother wanted a horse for Christmas and got a saddle | |
| Tim Devlin: Holidrama! | |||
| Sooz: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Ryan T. Shields: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Rebecca: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Mike Karas: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Martine Richards: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Jenny Young: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Dubside: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Dave Reichley: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Barbara Wilgus: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Anupam Manish: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Alex Hutchinson: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Manogian: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | Armenian dude with vignettes about hair. Standup-y | ||
| Dave Minges: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school | |
| Dave Mingus: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Dave Reichley: My Secret Weapon | November 8, 2012 | |||
| Dave Reichley: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Rents a house on a family farm. The kids come to him to help birth a cow. | birth, cow, farm, hooves, in over head, rope, rural | |
| Dave Reichley: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Dave Wurzel: What I Did for Love | February 15, 2007 | Story about a father’s true love for his daughter. | divorce, fathers and daughters, roman numerals, sacrifice | |
| Dave Zang: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | |||
| Davey L: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | Went to Boy Scout festival in England. A girl touched his knee, which allegedly gave him an 8th of an orgasim | ||
| David Alima: Workin’ It | May 3, 2018 | A man gets a job after college in a Kung Fu movie store and kills a rat to please his boss | 9/11, ice cream, job, killing, Kung Fu, movies, patience, Rat, samari sword | |
| David Chamberlin: Under the Influence | October 10, 2011 | |||
| David Cohen: Lies! | March 12, 2015 | Bad story about how his child lied about changing her contacts | ||
| David Cohen: Summer Camp Stories | March 10, 2016 | Went to boyscout camp and didn’t poop for 10 days to avoid the outhouse | ||
| David Ettin: My Big Idea | April 9, 2012 | open marriage | ||
| David Ettlin | December 11, 2025 | |||
| David Ettlin: Funny AF | April 12, 2023 | |||
| David Ettlin: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| David Ettlin: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | funny story, actually. being Jewish during Christma | ||
| David Ettlin: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | |||
| David Ettlin: The Stoop Popup at Warby Parker | May 2, 2016 | |||
| David Kessler: Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | |||
| David Koslowski: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | story about almost making it big in music | contracts, fax machine, indie label, money, representation, touring | |
| David Linden: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | |||
| David Marriott: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| David Page: Making Their Mark | November 18, 2016 | |||
Arthur Sutherland: Stoop at Loyola
Story Date: March 1, 2017
Nearly failed a religion class in college...Read More
Arty Hill: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
Story Date: January 23, 2020
Story about what it was like to play Coconuts in OC...Read More