Comedians Raise Funds For A Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding ‘Museum’ In Their Hallway

It’s not a campaign for potato salad

After streaming ESPN’s “30 for 30the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding Olympic figure skating scandalMatt Harkins and Viviana Olen a “museum” dedicated to Kerrigan and Harding

Just how critical are a dual comedians about their endeavor? According to their Kickstarter bio, “very unequivocally serious.” They echoed that view to The Huffington Post, saying, “We are entirely prepared to take this to a limit.”

As of Wednesday, a dual had surpassed their medium fundraising idea of $75, with roughly double that donated to their endeavor. The campaign, that started Tuesday, will tighten on Mar 5.

According to a campaign, a supports will go toward “the increase of chronological papers (Tonya and Nancy pix).” And if there is adequate interest:

Matt and Viviana can start appropriation artifacts, promote some-more open access, and curate grander exhibits. This includes people’s crafting projects, polish figures, chronological reenactments and other Tonya and Nancy associated creations that can be deemed partial of a informative response to this eventuality and therefore combined to a museum’s collection.

“They wish to blow adult cinema unequivocally large and hang them adult in a hall,” a Kickstarter outline reads. “Their favorite cinema are ones that have Nancy and Tonya together. Tonya is always looking during Nancy out of a dilemma of her eye.”

In exchange, project-backers can suffer a accumulation of perks, a page notes. Those who present $1 will have their names created in a cover underneath a pretension “Friend of a Museum,” while those who present $100 will accept a 30-minute pass to a museum for two, dual 8-ounce Diet Cokes and a guided tour.

Big-spender backers pledging $10,000 or some-more accept a “Olympic bullion award package,” including a weekend during a museum, guided tour, 24-pack of Diet Coke, high tea use for four, “permission to go by all of a things” and “a large celebration during a venue with cupcakes and a DJ following a TED speak about Tonya and Nancy given by a arch curators of a museum (Matt and Viviana).”

If a debate is an even bigger hit, they contend they’ll “quit their jobs for a year and dedicate themselves to a museum including some-more investigate and a probability of a furloughed muster where they’ll go to wherever Tonya lives and buy her a unequivocally good dinner.”

In a past 24 hours, a comedians contend they’ve gotten “more critical about vouchsafing some-more people inside.”

“The initial breeze had a debate starting during $500, afterwards all these people started articulate about it and wanting to indeed come. And we satisfied these aren’t gonna be uncanny psychos; they’re gonna be weirdos only like us! And who are we to make something cold and contend people can’t come?” a twin told HuffPost in a array of messages on Twitter. “But now that there’s so most interest, a idea would be to get as most lifted as probable to we could spend a year vouchsafing anyone who wanted come up! And have a large party!”

All that said, a span pronounced they haven’t alerted their building super to their “museum” skeleton yet, so we’ll have to see it to trust it.

Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/nancy-kerrigan-tonya-harding-museum_n_6615088.html?utm_hp_ref=chicago&ir=Chicago