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Full Fall 2011 Orgo Night Script

Fall 2011 Orgo Night Script: [Roar] Tyler: Ladies and gentlemen, and organic chemistry students, back despite mugging people on 114th street, it’s the boxcutting-est band in the world, the Columbia University Marching give me your iPhone motherfucker! [Fanfare] Bree: Featuring: J. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn J. European Union: breaking down, and J. Justin Bieber: breaking...

Dec 16th

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Nov 9th

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Arrested Development Script: Harvard 2011

And now the story of a wealthy eight-team conference who lost everything, and the one school who had no choice but to keep them all together. It’s…Ivy Development. [Fanfare] Featuring: J. Columbia as George Michael Bluth J. Barnard as Maeby Funke and J. Penn as Steve Holt. [Who Owns] [Form television] [all action takes place inside TV] Columbia College awoke in his model home...

Nov 9th

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Sep 30th

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Albany Jokes-TOO HOT FOR HALFTIME!

Every so often, there are some jokes that are just too naughty to make it into a halftime script and they get cut before they can see the field. But we can reproduce them for you here in all their smutty glory. These particular additions to the script were denounced as belonging in the “inappropriate hall of fame,” but read on if you dare… TWO-STATE SOLUTION This week in New...

Sep 30th

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Albany Script (as performed 9/24)

COLUMBIA vs. ALBANY Sept 24, 2011 PREGAME Ladies and gentlemen, and Albany students, back despite popular demand, it’s the Cleverest Band in the World, the Columbia University Marching Band! [Fanfare] Featuring: J. Jose Delgado: Head Manager J. Hayley Peterson: Drum Major and J. Lauren Ackerman: “not the New York Philharmonic, but not the worst thing you’ve ever heard.” ...

Sep 30th

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Sep 30th

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Jul 13th

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Why Should I CUMB?

If reading our last post didn’t set your heart on fire, we’ve got the top four reasons why you should join the CUMB (the “b” is silent, like in “bass”) WE ROCK. Literally. In our repertoire, you’ll find such favorites as Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite,” Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You,” and Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.”...

Jul 7th

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So You Want to CUMB.

That’s great! Everyone should, really. There’s really nothing like it. But if you’re new to the game, you might have a few questions before you run to sign up. Luckily, educating newbies is exactly what the Cumblr is for (well, that and reblogging pictures of cute animals and stuff). Read on, and may all your questions be answered! Who are you guys? We’re the Columbia...

Jul 6th

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May 9th

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Get the band to blogs (again)

So much Orgo Night coverage to post! Our friends at Spectrum have a recap, as well as links to our video and script (on this very cumblr!). The always-popular Bwog review is also up. Give these guys some pageviews, comments, and CUMB love!

May 8th

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Orgo Night Video!!! →

The link to the full YouTube playlist from Orgo Night!

May 8th

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The script from Spring Orgo Night 2011!

Last night was Orgo Night! A full video will be up on YouTube by the end of the day, but, you know, we have finals too. Sit tight. In the meantime, you can enjoy the full script below! From the desk of Poet Laureate Tyler Benedict, with contributions from Devon Grandy, Aviva Hamavid, Will “Stoneface” Cybriwsky, Travis Alvarez, Evvie Jagoda, Jon Jager, and the general wit of the CUMB....

May 6th

Apr 29th

Spectrum's post on our V-Show Preview! →

Apr 29th

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Apr 29th

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Feb 14th

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Relive Football Season With The CUMB!

Has the winter snow got you longing for the days when you could scramble across a sunny gridiron? Us, too. Luckily, the Band has compiled this handy video playlist, which covers our entire undefeated 2010 football season! With one click, it’s September all year ‘round.

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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CUMB Beats Gawker To Punch, The Band Always Wins

It goes without saying that the CUMB is always on the cutting edge when it comes to comedy, but it’s nice to get some validation every once in a while. Like this Gawker post for DickiLeaks condoms, which came out almost two days after we made our DickyLeak joke at Orgo Night: “Recently it seems that Julian Assange has had his DickyLeak all over our governmental affairs, and he...

Dec 20th

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Bwog Review of Orgo Night →

The summary review of Orgo Night from our friends at Bwog! However, this review in the comments is really good. Thanks Peter Labuza, CC ‘11! Going into Orgo Night this year may have caused some anxiety. The Columbia University Marching Band, lovingly CUMB, is known for taking no prisoners when it comes to destroying all that is precious at this school. And with a semester that came close...

Dec 19th

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Fall Orgo Night Script! →

The script for the 52nd consecutive, 69th semi-annual Orgo Night! We came, we saw, we G(tb)^2. You can find a ton of scripts, past and present, here.

Dec 19th

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Dec 18th

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Dec 18th

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It's alive! It's alive!

Ladies and gentlemen, and CUMB fans, back despite domain-name wrangling and general clusterfuckery, it’s the Cleverest Blog In The World (tm)! After a year-long hiatus, the CUMBlog is back in business, making this your one-stop shop for all Columbia University Marching Band shenanigans. Check back here for videos, scripts, news updates and tomfoolery, and don’t forget that our...

Dec 18th

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Dec 4th

So what the heck is this 'Orgo Night' thingy,...

• Here’s what it is: http://www.wikicu.com/Orgo_night • Here’s what it looks like: http://blog.cumb.org/post/105146542 • Here’s why it’s awesome: http://bwog.net/2009/05/07/the-69th-semiannual-orgo-night G(tb)².

Dec 3rd

SCRIPT: Columbia vs. Harvard →

Nov 8th

Watch

Roar-ee the Lion has some moves, huh?

Nov 1st

Columbia vs. Yale (Halloween!)

Victory yet again! An enormously successful concept show! The script is available here. Happy Halloween, from The Cleverest Band in the World™!

Nov 1st

“In the far-away hamlet of Hanover home, lies a quaint little college where...”

– A very special poem that the Columbia Athletics censor wouldn’t let us read at Dartmouth last week.

Oct 24th

SCRIPT: Columbia at Dartmouth →

Oct 24th

Oct 17th

Columbia vs. Penn (HomeCUMBing!)

Victory! Well, for the Band, at least. We’d like to thank our fans and alumni for helping us make this an extremely successful HomeCUMBing show. The script is available here. Special thanks to Band alumna Becky Hersch for both her camera work and her voice-over commentary.

Oct 17th

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SCRIPT: Columbia at Princeton →

Fun fact: perhaps inspired by our own performance, the football team also dominated the Princeton Tigers, winning 38-0.

Oct 3rd

Sep 28th

SCRIPT: Columbia vs. Central Connecticut State →

We unfortunately don’t have any video from this show, but, as always, we have added the script to our Script Archive at CUMB.org for our fans’ perusal.

Sep 26th

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Everything was there but the band | Columbia... →

Spec realizes that the Band is still banned from Fordham.

Sep 23rd

Sep 6th

The Underground Tour →

The Band had great fun getting to know the Class of 2013 on today’s very successful Underground Tour. Here’s the script, for those of you who live and die with each of the CUMB’s performances (we know you’re out there… somewhere).

Sep 2nd

The Band on YouTube →

Follow all of the Band’s shenanigans, both past and present, on the Band’s newly-established YouTube account. Now complete with two Orgo Nights, a sketch, a Tax Day performance, a halftime show, and a Letterman appearance.

Jul 25th

Spring Orgo Night

Wow! What an Orgo Night! We had great weather, great turnout, great response, and, best of all, great fun! What’s more, Bwog gave us a glowing review! The script is available here. And so, we present to you our Spring 2009 Orgo Night in its entirety: The video is also available in HD over at Vimeo. Special thanks to Ben Theodore and Ivy Fortmeyer, our impromptu camera folk.

May 8th

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