This Friday Robby McGhee (The Improvised Musical, Greendale Community Theater, Starbucks) and Jacob Bach (The Improvised Musical, ComedySportz, Stack’d Bar) join together in a night of variety and comedy.  From music to monologues to improv in song, this Two Tan Show explores the theater and Improv world, expression, and self through the eyes of two […]

Attention improvisers! A casting call from a major New York City production company is seeking off-beat, quirky characters for a brand new unscripted series! Here is the info direct from the source: Are you and your friends living the real “Big Bang Theory?” Are you the kings of “geek chic?” Are you on the cutting edge of inventing the

The comedians of Your Funniest Friends are a collection of the most likable and friendly idiots in the city of Chicago. And they are heading up to Milwaukee August 23rd to tell some jokes at Sugar Maple!  Your Funniest Friends get away with some of the most abrasive, absurd and off-beat material imaginable. Their goal has been

At the 7th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, Beth Lewinski and Vince Figueroa are performing as part of the group Talking Points, in which Beth and Vince and their colleagues improvise comedy based on audience suggestions and current events. But Beth and Vince are elbow-deep in a show involving with historic and future events as well.

Reveal a video camera at a comedy festival, and it’s like hanging a piñata at a kiddie party. You’re just asking for everybody to take a whack at it. Between performances in the first leg of the 7th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, volunteers stepped up to share chicken jokes. Check the video below to hear

The 7th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival is showcasing 140 performers from near and far who are entertaining themselves as well as their appreciative audiences. Among the comedians at the six-day fest, which ends Aug. 11, are Cynthia Kmak, an aspiring improvistional actress, and Lara Beitz, an up-and-coming standup comic. (See their interviews below.) Cynthia, who

In the year and a half since he first tried standup comedy, Ryan Mason has been performing three or four times a week, thanks in part to the Caste of Killers Comedy Collective and the various open mics it has organized around Milwaukee. Ryan emcees the open mic on the second and fourth Thursdays every

Follow the Milwaukee Comedy Festival on Twitter @MilwaukeeComedy. We’re live-Tweeting the entire fest, the seventh annual, the largest comedy event in Wisconsin (which also is having a State Fair at this time). Better than Twitter, see the fest yourself – Aug. 3-11 at the Next Act Theatre space, 255 S. Water St., in Milwaukee’s Fifth

In the past year, three-fourths of the broadminded sketch comedy troupe became first-time moms. They talked with Milwaukee Comedy about the impact of parenthood on comedy – and vice versa. Broadminded has performed in every one of the previous Milwaukee Comedy Festivals. They’re not missing the seventh. You shouldn’t miss them. They’re in the 7:30

Who doesn’t love a good rubber chicken joke?  And if that’s the case, then what about jokes from a rubber chicken? Lucky for you, we have filled the void with some short promo videos for the 2012 Milwaukee Comedy Festival!  For your viewing pleasure, a collection of shorts staring “Clucky” the Comedy Fest rubber chicken.