2014

Bye Bye Liver, the drinking play, is celebrating four years in Milwaukee this February. To mark the occasion, the weekly comedy cocktail of sketch, improv and alcohol has new stories to tell and new cast members to showcase. New to the show are: • Amanda Eaton • Nick Firer • and Matt Werner They’ll be […]

The Caste of killers Comedy Collective continues to develop comedy talent in the Milwaukee area. Standup comedians – new and improving – hone their craft at open mics, and you can catch them in the act. One such show is every Saturday at 8 p.m., at Paulie’s Beer Trip, 1430 S. 81st St., West Allis.

View Vino 100 as another venue for stand-up comedy in Milwaukee. Head there, in the Historic Third Ward, Friday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m., and you’ll see Milwaukee’s own Ryan Mason and Sammy Arechar along with Xavier Lamont, from Chicago, and the headliner, Bobby Hill. The Vino 100 Comedy Showcase, at 219 E. Erie St.,

The folks who brought you the Milwaukee Comedy Festival each summer since 2006 now offer a free comedy show with a free recording of the show to keep and listen to again and again. Welcome to the Comedic Release Show, starring seven Milwaukee-area comedy standouts: Sammy Arechar Chao Feng Tom Grimm Erik Koconis Adam Loeding

The windchill warnings tell us not to expose our bare skin to the sub-Arctic extremes outside for more than 30 minutes. Well, beginning Friday, Jan. 31, the Over Our Head Players in Racine are exposing audiences to comedy sketches of no more than 10 minutes in duration. It’s the 10th Snowdance Festival, showcasing nine 10-minute

Keenan Gibson and a handful of other students at Milwaukee’s Rufus King High School are staging a benefit comedy sketch show. Called “4 Guys, 1 Mic,” the show is scheduled for 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 31, at ComedySportz, 420 S. 1st St. Says Keenan, via email: “We are all students of Rufus King High School

An old Woody Allen joke, paraphrasing because we’re too lazy to look it up, but he gets into a fender bender and responds, as God would, by telling the fender bender offender “Be fruitful and multiply. But not in those words.” So why rely on us? Soulstice Theatre is performing Woody Allen’s “God” Jan. 24

Dear Milwaukee, By the time you read this, the tickets for The Goodnight Milwaukee Show might all be spoken for already. But just in case, I want you to know about it because I know you will want to attend, if you can. Goodnight Milwaukee is a late-night comedy talk show hosted by two of

We have given ourselves permission to say “Happy New Year” until Jan. 31. With that, we welcome a new year to The Comedy Arcade Show, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, for its first run of 2014. The Comedy Arcade Show is a monthly collaborative showcase of local – and sometimes imported –

One of the more popular open mic venues in Milwaukee is the Art Bar, 722 E. Burleigh Ave., in the Riverwest neighborhood. That’s where standup comedy performers – both new and veteran – gather on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month to practice their craft before a free audience. So, this Thursday, Jan.