January 23rd: Little Brooklyn in the 'burgh

This upcoming Monday, the spelling bee continues with "burlesque month." Beloved bee founder bobbyblue is on vacation -- filling in for him will be burlesque star Little Brooklyn, who will co-host, record scores, and do an act before the final round.

Anyone can watch, but be sure to show up early if you want to spell -- we have to cut off the list at 20 spellers.

The Williamsburg Spelling Bee
Monday, January 23rd
Sign up at 7, compete at 7:30
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
No cover, open to all.

*BOB*, our spelling guest star

This Monday night, in the absence of beloved bee founder bobbyblue, burlesque superstar The World Famous *BOB* stepped in as co-emcee. She drew a huge audience of admirers and was utterly charming in her duties of signing people up, recording the scores, and encouraging applause for contestants who were eliminated.

Photo by Semyon. More here. Maybe you can find yourself in this big crowd photo.

with winners Sarah, Christina, and Pete

January 9th: our winners!

C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u-l-a-t-i-o-n-s to...

Sarah Helfinstein (tied for first)
Christina Stubbs (tied for first)
Pete Kane (3rd)

The World Famous *BOB* was amazing! Some video was shot, so maybe we can get a clip on the site sometime.

In the meanwhile, if you are in New York and have cable, you can see a one-minute segment about the spelling bee on TimeOut New York on-demand cable, channel 1112. It's under "Around Town" and then "Pete's Candy Store."

Next Monday: comedy! Next bee: January 23rd!

January 9th: World Famous *BOB*

The spelling bee starts again in 2006 on Monday, January 9th. Beloved bee founder bobbyblue is on vacation -- filling in for him will be burlesque star The World Famous *BOB*. She is really famous and funny and very excited about doing this!

One-time only! Even if you can't spell at all, come watch this one.

The Williamsburg Spelling Bee
Monday, January 9th
Sign up at 7, compete at 7:30
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
No cover, open to all.

All the links your heart desires:

The World Famous *BOB*
Pete's Candy Store (including a map to the bar)

Winner, December 12th bee

Our last set of tickets to the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was won by Tom Landers!

Next bee: Monday, January 9th.

The Good Morning America piece should air on some Sunday, any Sunday, in January.

The next bee: Monday, December 12th

Featuring: Round One Holiday Words!

Yes, round one will be chock full of tricky words from Christianity, Judaism, Kwanzaa (well, really just the word "kwanzaa"), Wicca, and Hallmark.

December 12th
Sign up at 7, compete at 7:30
Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg
No cover, open to all.

Winner gets tickets to Bingo: The Musical! Second and third place win bar tab.

anecdote

So, on Wednesday, I did a comedy show at which the host, a comic named Theron, introduced me as, "Co-host of the Williamsburg Spelling Pee."

Everyone laughed. Flustered, he followed up with:

"Uh, yes, the Williamsburg Spelling Pee ... it comes right after the Math Poo."

Good Morning America

From my contact at GMA: "Looks like we got bumped a couple of weekends in a row. Now we're looking ahead to January. That's what happens with an evergreen feature story sometimes."

I'll let you know when it's going to finally air (if they tell me)!

by Rebecca Sealfon (e-u-o-n-y-m)

Here is an article about the spelling bee in the Brooklynite.

November 28th recap

First prize winner Dilip Babu won tickets to the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

A big thanks to our sponsor!

Spelling Bee on German Public Radio

This was recorded October 14th, at the Finals, by Sascha Storfner.


It is mostly in German, but that kind of makes the English bits in the middle funnier. dhjsjhdskhdfskhsd Kiss My Spelling Bee kljfskdljfsdlkfjsdlfsd beer.

Featuring bobbyblue singing the theme song, Tim Moyle talking about beer, and Jonathan Lill singing "onomatopoeia."

L train as sex object

Pete's has a new poster for the spelling bee and for Comedy Show & Tell. It's a "Back to School Mondays" theme, with a creepy little girl straddling a train on the Williamsburg Bridge.


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