Just seven months after raising funds for a high school initiative for Milwaukee’s Tamarack Waldorf School, Milwaukee’s vertical virtuosos of comedic improv are staging a celebration. Tall Boys The improv troupe aka James Boland, Erik Koconis, Robby McGhee and Lee Rowley is performing at the Tamarack Grant Celebration Party. And get this: It’s free! The show starts at 7 […]
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Shortly after the 1980s comedy boom, Milwaukee’s Lower East Side brought a wave of laughter that has rippled throughout the city for the last 26 years. Milwaukee’s Comedy Café, fashioned on the intersection of Water and Brady streets, provides live professional standup comedy and a venue for amateur comedians to reach for the stars. Milwaukee
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So I get this email the other day from broadminded Comedy, and it’s offering to have Milwaukee’s premier all-female sketch group perform a true story about myself. Turns out, “the broads” as they call themselves (You can’t call them that.) are part of a fundraiser for Ex Fabula, the Milwaukee-based storytelling community. “The broads” (Note
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He called himself Mort Snotlocker, and that’s how plenty of Milwaukeeans knew him as he joked around on WKLH-FM (96.5). Plenty more recognized him from his antics as an improvisational comedy performer since the early days of ComedySportz. His given name was Angelo Farina, although he also went by Tony and Blaze. Last month, at
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Allen Edge is a Milwaukee treasure. He is a nationally touring comedian, a character actor appearing in such feature films as “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” and “Meet the Browns,” and he calls Milwaukee home. We’ve seen him participate in Milwaukee open mics and Erik Koconis‘s Comedy Conclave, which tells you: Allen Edge is a professional
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