Bye Buddy: The Game Show Where Friendships Fail for Good!

Overview

Bye, Buddy

A dark comedy game show about the messiest breakups of all: friendships.

Bye, Buddy is an interactive performance that dives into the often-ignored emotional terrain of ending friendships. Inspired by the high-energy format of The Price is Right, the show turns the painful and awkward experience of platonic breakups into a series of chaotic, hilarious, and sometimes devastating games. Guided by two dynamic hosts, audience members are brought into the action, playing, cheering, and witnessing different styles of friend breakups, from ghosting and slow fades to direct confrontations and explosive fallouts.

Unlike romantic relationships, friendships rarely have clear scripts for how they should end. Bye, Buddy embraces that ambiguity, using humor as a tool to reveal the deep emotional complexity of saying goodbye.

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About the Artist

Liam Paris is a comedic performance artist blending standup, sketch, video, and digital media. His work fuses humor with existential themes, using audience interaction to explore grief, identity, and connection in surprising ways.

Lea Devon Sorrentino is a conceptual multimedia artist using dark humor and storytelling to examine burnout, labor, and cultural expectations. Her immersive work critiques success under capitalism with personal, uncanny performances.

Liam and Lea collaborate and produce Long Shot, a monthly experimental comedy show featuring never before seen work that builds local lore.

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