2011

Stop the Presses

In case you didn’t catch the plugs for it at the Milwaukee Comedy Festival, an ensemble of veteran Milwaukee comedians is debuting a new show called Talking Points. From the web: “News and Improv come together. National and local issues. Fart jokes and intelligent humor. Don’t miss the premiere of Milwaukee’s newest improv comedy show.” […]

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Youth Movement

It’s not necessarily a case of saving the best for last, but Day 4 of the four-day Milwaukee Comedy Festival is Teen Comedy Day. Founder Matt Kemple told the Shepherd Express some of the best laughs of past fests have been for the youngest participants. And as an instructor at First Stage Children’s Theater, Matt’s

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What they’re saying

The MilwaukeeComedy community is supportive. Local comedians frequently turn out and even pitch in at each other’s events. As Jenna Kashou reports at InsideMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee comedy groups have performed fund raisers for this weekend’s Milwaukee Comedy Festival. They also have kind things to say, including: “The comedy festival has been a true blessing for Milwaukee

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Strange Beast at Comedy Fest

One of the local groups making its Milwaukee Comedy Festival debut is Worst Case Scenario. “We premiered last year in July, so we were too new!” That’s why, says Mary Baird, of Worst Case Scenario, or WCS. “WCS wanted to be in the festival because it’s really important to us to be a positive part

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Do the Math

It’s the 6th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival: 2 times bigger than any year before 9 shows 4 days (Thursday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 7) 25 groups (16 improv, 9 sketch) 15 standups 420 S. 1st St. $15 ($18 at the door) 2 producers – fest founder Matt Kemple and Patrick Schmitz – (Click here

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Meanwhile All Over

Meanwhile Improv Troupe is making its third annual appearance in the sixth annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, but you’ll see cast members throughout the four-day event.The long-form, unscripted, ensemble comedy of Vince Figueroa, Tyler Kroll, Alex Grindeland, Beth Lewinski, Cynthia Kmak and Lee Rowley is in the 7:30 p.m. set Saturday, Aug. 6, aka Day 3

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While you can

So you thought you’d seen the last of Scoot’s Schticks Teen Comedy Club. Well, maybe not quite yet. Milwaukee’s young guns of standup and improv comedy – including Joel Boyd, Kevin Gerrity, and Josiah Williams – is performing a benefit for Solomon Community Temple United Methodist Church. You can see them at 7 p.m. Friday,

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Hold your liquor

Way back in 2006, when the Milwaukee Comedy Festival first was getting started, the Pub Theater Company opened a weekly sketch comedy show in Chicago that toasted the quaint local custom of drinking. Of course, that tradition is not peculiar to the Second City. So in February 2010, the show Bye Bye Liver spilled over

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Sharing what we find

One of the home-grown comedy teams performing among the 25 groups and 15 stand-ups at the Milwaukee Comedy Festival is Homegrown Electric Circus. The ensemble of Scott Heaton, Josh Barto, Mike Walker, Jazmin Vollmar, and Evan Koepnick had been together only five months before appearing in the 2010 festival. “We were still figuring out not

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