The National Football League has tried to make Thursday nights a bigger deal by scheduling games then (much as it has tried to do with Monday nights and Sunday nights, because, you know, football makes everything better, and we can’t get enough on Sunday afternoons alone to satisfy us for the whole week). Of course, […]
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Congratulations to the Underground Collaborative for garnering a runner-up acknowledgement in the Shepherd Express Best of Milwaukee 2014. The annual compilation, based on votes by readers, listed the UC along with Comedy Café as runners-up to ComedySportz as the area’s best comedy club. So way to go for those places, too! The UC is a
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Underscoring the “giving” in Thanksgiving, ComedySportz is extending its non-perishable food drive for the Hunger Task Force. The Milwaukee-based mecca for short-form competitive improvisational comedy is extending a food donation campaign begun last weekend. Donate food, get 1/2 off entry to a show, Fri. Nov. 14 That applies to the donor’s choice of the 7:30 p.m.
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Perhaps you’ve seen Comedy Show Comedy Show open mics at a Riverwest tavern or Comedy Show Comedy Show showcases at a East Side bowling emporium. Now, Jake Kornely is locating his signature standup show to Downtown Milwaukee. 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, Underground Collaborative From Facebook: Comedy Show Comedy Show with Jake Kornely and Friends is a
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Local comedian Jake Kornely is at it again, bringing his local stand up comedy showcase, the Comedy Show Comedy Show with Jake Kornely and Friends to the Underground Collaborative this Friday, November 14th. The show will be intimate – and funny – taking place in one of the Workshop rooms at The UC, instead of the
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Midway through the football season, it’s about time to venture off the couch in your man cave or the bar stool at your local sports pub and do what real men do for entertainment: See a play. Pink Banana Theatre Co. has just the ticket for you: Any Given Monday. It’s a dark comedy that
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Following their sold-out show at the 2014 Milwaukee Comedy Festival, Milwaukee-based Tall Boys improv and Sketch Marks sketch comedy have scheduled back-to-back performances together on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8. The Tall Boys, including Erik Koconis, Robby McGhee, James Boland and Lee Rowley, are a premier long-form improv group, coached by Jared Stepp.
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Many of us live all year long for Halloween. So we’re not going to let it get confined to just one day. That’s why you’ll find plenty of Halloween-flavored entertainment options well before and past Oct. 31. And you can include this: Halloween Comedy Show, Saturday, Nov. 1 As Tyler Maas explains in the Milwaukee
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The SockiTumi Comedy Hour returns to Sake Tumi on Saturday, November 1st in The Buddha Lounge at 8pm! Sake Tumi (714 N Milwaukee St, Downtown Milwaukee) provides at great dinner and show special for $25 (or $10 at door-includes one free drink)! The show will feature local talents of Mario Robinson, Greg Bach, Steve Breese,
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Even as Milwaukee’s sketch comedy scene grows, the local deans of the genre continue to raise the bar. Broadminded comedy performed again in the Milwaukee Comedy Festival (as they have for every one of the nine annual events. And they’re cooking up another course of belly-busting humor just in time for the Macy’s parade and the
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