A comedic collision of Creative Loafing and Cannibal Corpse happens this Saturday

One of The Commodore’s guiding principles is a goal to both support and create work with a point of view that is rooted in the community in which we all live. Kelly Buttermore, co-founder of the improv theater on the border of Ybor City and Tampa Heights calls the concept “comedic placemaking,” and they’re asking me to join in for the second installment of “The Catch Up.”

Hosts Landon Cassman and Commodore co-owner John Lasavath (alum of American Stage in St. Pete) describe the action as a blend of “The Daily Show” and Weekend Update from “Saturday Night Live,” but with a Florida twist.

“We use real headlines from the local news and satirize the unique events that occur in our state,” Cassman, an alum of Second City company who also worked in media in Chicago, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

Improvised character interviews, comedic sketches, and filmed bits are all part of it along with an interview with a newsworthy member of the local community—last month, it was someone pretending to be Palm Harbor-based Sheila the chimp (the oldest of her species, mind you).

I can’t live up to that, and no way I’ll be as interesting as Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz who appears in the show after “The Catch-Up.”

Tampa Bay, in many ways, is the global cradle of death metal, and Cannibal Corpse’s presence here is proof. For this show, founding drummer Mazurkiewicz isn’t playing music, but telling stories from his life, which a troupe of improv comedians will then turn into performance.

“The Catch-Up” and “Commodore Corpse: The Paul Mazurkiewicz stories” both happen at The Commodore in tampa on Saturday, March 30—but are separately-ticketed events.

More information is available on CL’s event calendar.
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