Watch “Barton, Fink” from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Oil”

Another sketch I wrote – co-wrote, actually – from the Matthew Gray Gubler Top Story! Weekly show – only this one is without Criminal Minds‘ Dr. Spencer Reid. Brent Pope did a great job here as the congressman who thought the U.S. government should apologize to BP.

After apologizing to BP for President Obama’s “shakedown,” Texas Congressman Joe Barton has a lot more people to apologize to!

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BARTON, FINK (PARTS 1 AND 2) by Derek Jeremiah Reid and Michael Hughes – from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Oil”

Starring Brent Pope (Joe Barton)

Directed by Michael Hughes

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Watch “World Cup’s Balls” with Matthew Gray Gubler from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Summer”

Okay, I didn’t write this sketch – Matt Blitz did – but I’m posting it on my blog for three reasons: it features our guest star from this past Sunday, Matthew Gray Gubler aka Dr. Spencer Reid from CBS’ “Criminal Minds;” it’s about the USA in the World Cup, which is super timely this morning; and it’s hilarious. Sometimes there’s nothing funnier than watching a guy get kicked in his junk.

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WORLD CUP’S BALLS by Matt Blitz – from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Oil”

Starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Gary), Sean Cowhig (Lester), Derek Reid (Simon) and Rachael Drummond (Bartender)

Directed by Michael Hughes

Watch “To iO West and Beyond!” with Matthew Gray Gubler from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Summer”

Matthew Gray Gubler – Dr. Spencer Reid from CBS’ “Criminal Minds” – guest starred in Top Story! Weekly Sunday and could not have been nicer – or funnier! Here’s the opening sketch from that show – based upon a comment that Gregg Lopez made over a year ago when we were picking names for the show, about the likelihood that someone might confuse our show’s name with the name of a certain Pixar franchise whose latest installment opened this past weekend!

A misreading of a title brings an excited couple to iO West for what they think is a showing of “Toy Story 3!”

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TO iO WEST AND BEYOND by Michael Hughes – from Top Story! Weekly Episode 58: “(61) Days of Oil”

Starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Sam), Kipleigh Brown (Jennifer), Rachael Drummond (Michaela) and Phillip Wilburn (John Ratzenberger)

Directed by Michael Hughes

The Top Story! Weekly Cast with Matthew Gray Gubler!!

Here’s the Top Story! Weekly cast with Matthew Gray Gubler on the iO West Mainstage right after rehearsal on June 20, 2010 – Matthew and Emo Philips did the show that night! Videos of the sketches from the show will be up in the next few days – check out our website or our YouTube page!!

Left to right: Rachael Drummond, Melissa Okey, Derek Reid, Matt Moore, Mike Hughes, Brent Pope, Kipleigh Brown, Matthew Gray Gubler, Artemis Pebdani, Sean Cowhig and Phillip Wilburn

Matthew Gray Gubler and Emo Philips in Top Story! Weekly! Sunday June 20 9pm iO West!!

This Sunday night, June 20, at 9 at iO West, two very special guests join Top Story! Weekly! In the cast that night will be Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Dr. Spencer Reid on CBS’s hit drama “Criminal Minds” and who co-starred in the biggest indie hit of last summer, “(500) Days of Summer!”

And our guest standup will be our good friend, the one and only Emo Philips!!

You won’t want to miss this very special edition of Top Story! Weekly – if you want to buy your tickets in advance, you can do so here.

See you Sunday!

(I’m directing this and would love to see you there!)