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Universal Bar & Grill and David Daskal host The Raging Peanuts, give me motion... SO MUCH! Langdon Nation Podcast and Holiday Cheer!

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Merry Christmas from the Raging Peanuts, give me motion, Nice Peter, David Daskal, and many others involved in the creation of the magic right here: Sick or not, the Peanuts must rage. And rage we did on Saturday evening at the Universal Bar & Grill, our "living room" as Dances with iPhone would say. So many thanks to the multi-talented Dante Cimadamore of give me motion, who ever-so-sweetly allowed me to sing our buddy, Nice Peter's part in "Christmas With You" in the video above! He actually trusted me with a mic without any practice beforehand-- yeeee-ahhhh!! If you're in the mood for some really amazing music, we highly suggest you check out give me motion at immediately ! And let's be honest, who isn't in the mood for some really amazing music? Many extra special thanks to my bootleggah, "Dances with iPhone" haha, we have a good time here in PeanutLand. That sounds about right... yeah? We've been thinking about doing a Pea

Universal Bar & Grill - "A Night of Giving Thanks" with TRP & Friends-- AMAZING! Viper Room VIDEO! Langdon Nation-- YEAH! Sam's B-day Party! Xyzyx!

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Ahoy-hoy! The Raging Peanuts here! The Peanut Gallery is officially the BEST group of fands (friends/fans, coined by the merry and wise Matthew Gray Gubler) EVER!!!! You add SO MUCH to our shows and our lives!!! We cannot thank you all enough for your support and love!!! The energy in the Universal Bar & Grill last night was positively ELECTRIC! Y'all were ready to RAGE and ready to LAUGH!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! And truly, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for bringing SO many great donations to help families in need!!! There were so many amazing people there, and we're really hoping we haven't left anyone out here (or spelled their names wrong)... if so, spank Cory next time you see him! First off, HUGE thanks to Kelly Ann at Universal Bar & Grill for allowing the Peanuts to take over the evening, and for being SO generous and loving and OUTSTANDING! We love Kelly Ann, Megan, and everyone at UBG! We also cannot thank enough the wonderful artists who share

Langdon Nation Red Carpet 1st Anniversary Bash! James Kyson Lee (Heroes) on the show! The Raging Peanuts at the Viper Room! New show for FOX!

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Wow! First of all, I have to tip my imaginary hat to my hero, Mr. Langdon Bosarge. A year of a tremendous "big gay talk show" (as we so lovingly refer to LANGDON NATION in our theme song), tons of big-time guests with even bigger hearts that we have had the extreme pleasure of getting to know, and the love of a new family. Our birthday party celebrates not only Langdon Nation, not only HotTalkLA, but the family that includes you, our listeners and supporters from around the world. We cannot thank you all enough for listening live on ErrorFM, subscribing to us on iTunes, and sharing all your sweet comments with us on Facebook, Twitter, and in person at our listener parties and concerts! All my other many hats off to the lovely and talented crew of Langdon Nation: DoctaSlick/DD, Alfie Daniels, Bill Mahoney ("runs he board and the music drops, if he ain't home..." you know where he is!), Cory Pearman, and, special love to Mr. Vargus Mason, who co-hosted the first

Launching Darioush Restaurant in Beverly Hills!!

Hey, wonderful people! I've recently had the tremendous opportunity to help an amazing Chef, Darioush Danesh, realize his vision on Restaurant Row in Beverly Hills!! I am currently seeking all kinds of help, but as soon as possible, we'd LOVE to get together a trio of musicians to do jazzy, upbeat, FREESTYLE (YEAH!) music on our patio (totally open to lots of foot traffic on La Cienega, plus lovely incentives on our side). Please contact me if you would like to throw your hat in the ring before I open it up to the public (I'd SO rather have someone I already trust), or if you have any friends who would like this opportunity!! Thank you all so much for your support and love!!

The Raging Peanuts at the Viper Room, Universal Bar & Grill, Red Carpet Anniversary Concert for Langdon Nation, and more!!

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Wow, so many things are happening! First off, on behalf of the Raging Peanuts, I want to extend a HUGE thanks to all our amazing fans... You add SO much to our shows, really-- they just wouldn't be the same without your awesome laughter and much appreciated cheers and applause! YOU ROCK!! I dub thee "THE PEANUT GALLERY"!!! And a super special thanks to my best friend, Katie Walker, the first big supporter of the Peanuts. I was lucky enough to have her come visit to celebrate our birthdays recently, and it was amazing! We ate at our favorite restaurant, ma-ma-ma-Mao's in Venice, did a *special* photo shoot at the observatory, and got into a whole lotta trouble-- including a Peanuts show at our old stompin' ground, Liquid Zoo! We love you and miss you so much, Katie!! Move back to LA!!! We'd also like to say thank you to our family at Hot Talk LA, especially the host of our show, Mr. Langdon Bosarge!! Langdon Nation turns 1 this month, and we're celebrat

Jon Lovitz Comedy Club Universal Hollywood Live Behind the Scenes Footage: THE RAGING PEANUTS COMEDY BAND

It's THE RAGING PEANUTS gettin' ready to ROCK the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club!!!

Acting on TV including "Mad Men"! "MORE COWBELL!!! An SNL Musical!" in Hollywood! Super bad comedy band, THE RAGING PEANUTS Video: "Shots" (LMFAO)!

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Wow! 2010 has been such a whirlwind! I've been so lucky to spend SO much time on TV sets this year-- YAY! I can't even believe it! :) Most importantly, my OUTRAGEOUSLY RAD sister, Elisabeth, recently married the love of her life, Calvin Doorlag!! YAAAAAAY, DOORLAGS! :) Congratulations, and thanks for inviting the whole fam along on the cruisin' honeymoon! WHOAH! What a week! Just a few days later, the episode of "Mad Men" I appeared on aired! It is always so cool to see and hear yourself on TV! I hope everyone who wants that gets it... soon! :) I just can't get over it. Call me obsessed, but I LOVE TV! July was a beautiful month full of 12-14 hour days making TV magic... I miss it already! :) Today I had the pleasure of attending the "Married to Rock" Fashion Show in LA, and had such a blast!! And the other day, my totally tubular comedy band played a show at Universal Bar and Grill! "Old Hollywood in the Valley!" * That's their slo

Musical Theatre LA-> "MORE COWBELL!!! An SNL Musical!" Hollywood Fight Club Theatre! "Dick in a Box"!

I am so happy! I just got home from my very first rehearsal for "MORE COWBELL!!! An SNL Musical" at the Hollywood Fight Club Theatre , and it was AWESOME!! My wonderful director, Mike Bagood, is SO super cool, and was so insanely nice to me! We hadn't really decided which roles I would play, because I somehow finagled the part without auditioning (hehee... I was filming "Mad Men" during auditions!). You will never guess which songs I get to do... "Dick in a Box"!!! "Motherlover"!!! AND hopefully LUNCHLADY LAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is another actor in the production up for the Adam Sandler role, but I'm going to learn the guitar part after our Raging Peanuts Comedic Concert at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club tonight! Wish me many broken legs!! Hehee. :) The show goes up June 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th at 8:00pm!! Buy your tickets from WhoIsMary.Com early before they sell out (it's a very intimate theater)!! :) I'm inviting all th

"Mad Men" Shoot RULED! "Glee" Auditions, YAY! AND I booked AN "SNL" MUSICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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WOW!!!! I love life! Haha. :) Today was absolutely incredible. I have never been on a set with SO MANY smiling people! Everyone at Mad Men made me feel so at home... from the super cool costumers who fitted me with the CUTEST outfits to all those runnin' the show today! Mad Men really gives their actors the STAR TREATMENT!!!! I got my nails done, a Big Time Hollywood Haircut, and TONS of AMAZING catered cuisine!!! My sublime makeup artist, Margie, was SOOO magnificent and hilarious! I tried googling her, and... eep! She just MIGHT be an EMMY-NOMINATED MAKEUP ARTIST!!!!! :O! FOR Sex and the City !!!!! "Now, your character has been partying for a... WHILE... so I have to make you look pretty disheveled. But don't worry, I'll still make you pretty!" Like I said, best crew in the biz. :) :) :) Now, let me tell you, there is NOTHING like being on a set where they go ALL OUT to really set the scene. This episode of Mad Men takes place in the COOLEST beatnik-styl

Off to Michigan, PLEASE give my "Glee" Audition Video GOLD STARS to help me become THE NEXT "GLEE" CAST MEMBER!!!! :)

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YAY! The time is here!!! PLEASE give me GOLD STARS!!! GET ME ON "GLEE" PLEASE!!

"Tik Tok" LIVE on Langdon Nation-- HIT PODCAST!!! HotTalkLA Video from the Raging Peanuts! Kesha was on our future show, SNL!

Ke$ha on SNL?? How about the Raging Peanuts?? Seen in this video on the AMAZING hit podcast LANGDON NATION from HotTalkLA!!!!!!!!!

HotTalkLA Interview & Performance! The Raging Peanuts Concert!

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Prince o' Whales Concert! That's right, ladies and gentlemen... I got to be on Langdon Nation-- one of my FAVORITE podcasts!!! We had SO MUCH FUN!!! You can listen free on iTunes or at HotTalkLA's website ! "Don't you just love a good Monkey?" :) We all went to Mexicali after the show! Langdon Bosarge, Randy Wang, and Brian Whitman-- awesome dudes!! We also got to open for our buddy Nice Peter at Prince o' Whales in Playa del Rey!!! After the show, Pete and I had a live jam sesh and improvised crazy music for a bit. What a fantastic time!!! I've also decided to try doing my "Glee" Audition Song on guitar instead of piano. It sounds pretty cool, but it's a hard song!! "Can't Fight This Feeling," baby! VIDEOS from both our Langdon Nation Appearance AND our concert with Nice Peter are coming soooooooon!!!! :)

New blog!!

Woohoo! So... I was using WordPress, but tried Blogger for my "Glee" Audition Blog and fell in love!! "I made the switch!" Haha. Today I was lucky enough to sit in on "Uncle" Denny's voice-over session for Arco-- "straight up gas!" and it was so cool!! Very inspiring! I'm exhausted from work at the restaurant and practicing "Can't Fight This Feeling" (on keyboard + singing) over and over and over again! I caught up on some Hot Talk LA and posted a few videos of us singing at karaoke earlier this week!! :) Randy Wang, ladies and gentlemen!! "Can't Fight This Feeling" -- Me! Brian Whitman, you ARE a disco duck!! Woo!! Time for rest. Anyone reading this is totally amazing! :)