The Ten celebration!

The Ten is now in theaters and on August 2nd David Wain hosted a little shin dig at the Blender Theater in Manhattan to celebrate the film's release. Dubbed "the night before the Ten", comedians, musicians, musical comedians, comical musicians and Ken Marino were among those in attendance. Follow me won't you, through a little replay of the night's festivities.

David's opening act.



David originally ran on stage with his vocal cords blazing but his mic on silent.
Take two, with the insistence of DJ Mr. Blue, and David dished out
another rendition of the Spice Girls' "Wanna Be".



After his song and dance, David welcomed the co-writer of the Ten on stage, Ken Marino!



David and Ken joked about Tony Soprano's heavy breathing then welcomed Seth Herzog to the stage!

Needless to say, Seth rocked it. The outfit, the socks, everything. He busted out some moves, the moonwalk was involved and possibly the robot, I can't be too sure because he flowed. He just flowed. After wowing the crowd with his introductory dance he proceeded to shake his junk in front of a lucky audience member's face and taunted said audience member throughout his bit. Made for good laughs but I think that young man is still questioning his own sexuality. Seth spoke of many things including playing Jessica Alba in the Ten and dealing with the always smoking French while visiting France, but the one thing that will always stick with me is the following line: "Now I understand why women are always doing this *re-adjusts bottoms*, they keep riding up!"

Next came an awesome set by Craig Wedren and Amy Miles.



Rashida Jones joined them after their first song.



After a few songs the band stepped down and David and Ken welcomed Amy Poehler to the stage.

I've heard stories of Amy being a really really sweet person. Believe them. Though she greeted the crowd with two middle fingers firmly directed towards us and shouted a few "suck it motherfuckers", she's actually a really sweet person. Why? Just cause. Sweetness surrounds her like an aura. Amy stayed for the entire show but sadly only had a few minutes on stage. The crowd loved her. She told a joke which was coincidentally the very same joke David Wain shared when he first introduced himself only thirty minutes or so earlier. The joke you ask? Something along the lines of "I flew in from LA. I got tons of magazines and books and newspapers to read on the plane to catch up, but as soon as I got on the plane I was out like a light! I slept for the first twenty minutes!" David joked they must have snagged it from the same joke website. Amy spoke about SNL running out of ideas and possibly turning to her uncle who continues to push OJ jokes on her. Old OJ jokes. Jokes involving him being chased by the police in a white Bronco. Still, they can use his ideas as inspiration.

Michael Showalter's Ten Commandments of making a great sandwich!



Michael sets up his Ten Commandments of great sandwich making with Zak Orth on lead guitar.

I have two more videos from Michael's bit but youtube has deemed them too large to upload so for the time being I will direct you to a video shot by another audience member which includes the first four minutes of Mike's set (here) and I will transcribe Michael's Ten Commandments of making a great fucking sandwich, using his own words from these non-uploadable videos of mine. The commandments aren't transcribed in full, but you get the powerful gist of them.

1. Bread is king. Bread is to sandwich what song is to band. Bread is to sandwich what shoe is to foot. Bread is to sandwich is what love is to life. Bread is king.
   
2. Mustard goes with everything. If you have two pieces of bread, mustard and anything else, you have a delicious sandwich. If anybody tells you it's the same thing as mayonaise you can tell that person they are a liar and a fake and a fucking asshole because mustard goes with everything!
3. Nothing is off limits and everything is in play.
   
4. Toast it. Toast it. Toast the thing. Toast the motherfucking thing.
5. Pickle.
6. Sun dried tomatoes are total bullshit! When I said nothing is off limits and everything was in play I was not referring to sun dried tomatoes because sun dried tomatoes are off limits. (he went on to say they are shit and if he wanted to eat shit he'd go to the shit store)
7. What is the missing link? You've made your sandwich, you've taking a bite - (to audience member) no it's rhetorical you fuckin dick. It's for you to decide. You need to be there in the moment. You've made your sandwich, you've taken a bite, something's missing, what is it? Start with mustard! Go down from there. Does it need more mustard? Ask questions of your sandwich. Settle for nothing less than perfect because you have an opportunity with your sandwich to make something that will last forever! No fucking one slice of cheese, one slice of bologna, suck it, fuck it - no! You have an opportunity to make something that will last for an eternity! Find the missing link!
8. (there is no number eight)
9. Have fun. Really, have fun. Have fun making your sandwich. Yeah, have fun! Because if making a sandwich isn't fun, then make something else, because making a sandwich is fucking fun! So if you can't have fun making a sandwich then make something fucking else!
10. I stopped recording after nine but I'm sure ten had something to do with mustard. Though, like number 8, I don't think there was a number 10. Really just the Eight Commandments of making a great sandwich.

Craig, Amy, Rashida, Blue and the Band perform a song.



All songs performed were written specifically for the Ten. The soundtrack is
entirely original and completely amazing. It will hopefully be released on disc.



After a few more songs by the artists Ken and David welcomed Janeane Garofalo to the stage.

Footage can't be found because Janeane doesn't appreciate this type of buffoonery. She shared with us a story of being filmed at a show asking her audience for prescription pills and having the video leaked onto youtube. It was a fiasco of sorts. You see, she wasn't abusing prescription pills, she was using them to lessen her lower back pain. Which was caused after she fell off of a golf cart. Which happened as a result of being drunk. Which has since been resolved after Amy Poehler showed up at Janeane's house with two cups of coffee and enough fear to strike into Janeane to set her straight. And it worked. If you ever find yourself falling off the wagon, or on it, I'm still not sure how that expression goes, phone Amy Poehler and she'll be right over with two cups of coffee.

Ken and David welcomed the band back onto the stage along with Peter Salett.



And then David Yazbek entered the stage and gave a great solo performance.
I was too entranced to document it. My apologies.



And so began preparation for a group sing along!

Taking it higher and HIGHER!



On stage is David Wain, Craig Wedren, Mrs. Wedren, Amy Miles, Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones,
Peter Salett, Seth Herzog, Michael Showalter, David Yazbek, Ken Marino, the Russian, the band and Mr. Blue.

We sang this song twice. The first time it was great but they forgot to end it properly with the um.. proper ending. I'd fake an understand of music, but I won't fool you. If you haven't heard the song "Higher and Higher", the end has a sort of dramatic finish, and we forgot to end dramatically the first time so Michael Showalter demanded we sing it a second time. It was an awesome second take and the band nailed the finish. Mike then asked that we do it again, just for the hell of it. But sadly we didn't.

Preparing for the final hoorah.

The end of the Ten celebration.