It has been almost a month since we first told you that Nick Thune is coming to the Underground Collaborative’s Arcade Theatre. This Wednesday, he finally arrives. Here’s what appeared in the Columbia Chronicle about Thune’s Midwest Tour with Doogie Horner, which swerves into Chicago after one night in Milwaukee. The Seattle-based standup explained to […]
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Find a clever, likable guy, dress him in a suit and tie, stand him in front of an audience, then seat him behind a desk beside a couch. That’s your basic formula for late-night talk shows. Here’s the twist. Find two clever, likable guys, dress them, stand them both in front of an audience and
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The Ragtime Variety Hour is an all-new show that showcases standup comedy and sketch comedy and sprinkles it with music in between. It’s presented by Lisan Wood and Liza Marie and “features comedians and musicians from Milwaukee and beyond” as they say. Among the comedians: Sammy Arechar Frankie JM Stacy Pawlowski Allison Dunne Powering the
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You know it’s a special week when in the middle of it you’ve got something fun and free and creative to enjoy. That’s the case this week. Because this Wednesday – Wednesday, Sept. 24 – is the next Free Open Improv. That’s why. Members of Sketch Marks take on all comers – from novice to pro – and gently guide
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We’ve reported before that Milwaukee’s T.I.M. (The Improvised Musical) will be performing in the New York Musical Improv Festival. We also told you that T.I.M. was trying to raise money to help fund the trip. Well, that campaign closed Sept. 13 and appears a little short of the goal. But you know what they say: The
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Our friends to the south, the Over Our Head Players, in Racine, begin a series of original sketch comedies covering the last two weekends in September and the first two weekends in October. Theatre/Schmeatre, as it’s called, is described on the Players’ website as: Short, unrelated original comedies – plus some of the area’s finest
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[su_youtube url=”http://youtu.be/t39ppdvhaT8″ width=”460″ height=”300″] Hotdogs and Hamburgers is a 10-city, six-state, 11-day, four-man comedy tour that hits the road next month from Milwaukee. Tyler Maas recently wrote about it for the Milwaukee Record, in which he did a Q&A with Sammy Arechar, one of the four comedians on the tour. We also posted about it
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Every January and July, year in, year out, some of the brightest original comedy sketches in Milwaukee are the collaborations of Jason Powell and Doug Jarecki at the Sketch 22 shows produced by Patrick Schmitz. Well, now Jason and Doug have collected some of those one-night standouts and put together an evening of one-act comedies called
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Every night has something funny for you this week in Milwaukee. For instance: The Duck and Cover Comedy Hour, 9 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Frank’s Power Plant This one’s hosted by the very talented Chris Schmidt, and it’s an open mic, so you’ll be seeing a range of rookies and veterans perform. It’s free.
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Coinciding with the aforementioned every-other-Wednesday Free Open Improv, an every-other-Wednesday standup comedy showcase has been happening at the Bamboo Lounge Milwaukee. The next one is Wednesday, Sept. 10. There’s live music, no cover charge (but a two-drink minimum), and here’s who’s scheduled to perform: Jonathan Long Loveable MRjj Shawn Shelnutt Matt Werner Steve Breese Patrick
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