Don’t Call Them Muppets

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Sandwiched between the Aug. 21 performance by Bill Cosby at the Riverside Theater and the Oct. 6 engagement of Steven Wright at the Pabst Theater, a number of stellar comedy acts are headed to Milwaukee next month, among them:

Paula Poundstone, 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, at the Pabst (Tickets $24.50-$42.50)

Michael Ian Black, 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at Turner Hall Ballroom ($18 admission)

Rodney Carrington, 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Riverside ($39.50)


Henson Alternative, 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23, at the Pabst ($32.50)

From the web: “Whatever you do…don’t call them MUPPETS! It’s Jim Henson’s ‘other’ puppets…behaving badly… Stuffed & Unstrung is 80 Henson Puppets & 6 Comedians, live onstage for a wild & uncensored improv comedy show that adults will love… no kids allowed.”