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 […]
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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
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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
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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 –
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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.
Just as every Monday night there’s a free comedy open mic in the Milwaukee Riverwest neighborhood at Bremen Cafe, every Tuesday night, the Down and Over Pub, in Milwaukee’s Bay View area, has a free comedy open mic. From Facebook: “Come out for Bay View’s only comedy open-mic! Every Tuesday Milwaukee’s best and bravest comics
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It’s such a big deal, it needs repeating. They don’t call it Comedy Show Comedy Show because they stutter. It’s a free open mic in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, every Monday night. From Facebook: “Comedy Show Comedy Show Open Mic is a FREE COMEDY SHOW at Bremen Cafe! You can see veteran comedians, as well as
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ComedySportz Recreational League crowned champions for its fall season Sunday. The team Waiting in Punchline emerged the best of eight amateur comedy improv teams after three months of play and two Sundays of playoff matches. The team includes Bradley Colmerauer, Carly Malison, Laura Bialek, Jon Waldbauer and Jacob Hansen and will, as their prize, play against
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Milwaukee-based improviser James Boland returns with another night of monster-slaying comedy this Thursday, Dec. 19. In his No Dice show, James acts as game master, leading several audience volunteers members through an improv Dungeons & Dragons style story. No experience playing DnD is needed, but if you’re a fan, you’ll appreciate the improv all the more. Admission is free,
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