Our own Bonnie McFarlane is taping her HBO special at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Readers of SHECKYmagazine.com know Bonnie from her wildly popular Seminude Revue columns. Those of you who don’t read our magazine may know Bonnie from her brief but impactful run on NBC’s Last Comic Standing (Season II). Bonnie sends along the following:

If you are interested in being part of these exclusive free, live television events – YOU MUST LIVE IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA AND YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER, please email us at THIS ADDRESS with the following information in both the subject line and body of your email:

1. Your full name

2. Your phone number(s)

3. Your email address (the one you pick up most often – be aware that many work email addresses mistakenly identify our emails as Spam so make sure you use an email address where you can receive our emails)

4. Which show(s) you want to attend, Put “ANY SHOW” if you can attend either of the two tapings including the early evening.

5. Number of tickets (2 tickets is the maximum number we can allow. If you need more tickets please have your additional guest request tickets under their name and email address. Thanks)

Example: Richard Pryor/(212) 555-1212 /wildcomic@pryor.com/ANY SHOW/2 tickets

Please refer to the shows as follows(YOU MUST BE AT THE SHOWS AT LEAST 1 HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME):

Show 3 – BONNIE MCFARLANE AND FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS–

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 – 6:30PM (LINE UP 5:15PM-5:45PM)

Show 4 – BONNIE MCFARLANE AND FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS–

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 – 9:00 PM (LINE UP 8:00PM-8:30PM)

“ANY SHOW” – MEANS YOU CAN ATTEND ANY TAPINGS. DON’T PUT DOWN “ANY SHOW” IF YOU CAN’T ATTEND THE EARLY EVENING SHOWS. IF YOU ARE FLEXIBLE ABOUT WHICH TAPING YOU ATTEND YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET TICKETS.

We will contact you via email or phone with a detailed confirmation if there are tickets available. You should hear from us within a few days of your email but at latest by WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2005 depending on when you rsvp. PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL US DUPLICATE REQUESTS THIS IS CONFUSING FOR US. If you have not heard from us by Wednesday evening, April 20, 2005 it is because we have run out of tickets. Since the audience is such an important part of the show if you and your guests have confirmed tickets for the show and do not attend we will be forced to remove you from our list for future free TV events.

SEE HBO ONE NIGHT STANDS OR MISS OUT ON SEEING WHAT HBO KNOWS IS THE FUTURE OF COMEDY!!

The Skirball Center is in NYC and is not to be confused with the Ski-Ball Center, which, we assume, is at Coney Island. (I’ll bet they get that all the time!) And we would provide you with more information, but, artists that they are, they’ve larded their website down with gargantuan Flash animation that may actually load sometime in this century.) Just know that the Skirball Center is in Greenwich Village, near Washington Square and take it from there. Now get out there, Bonnie McFarlane fans, and make this the best damn HBO taping there ever was.