So you thought you’d seen the last of Scoot’s Schticks Teen Comedy Club. Well, maybe not quite yet. Milwaukee’s young guns of standup and improv comedy – including Joel Boyd, Kevin Gerrity, and Josiah Williams – is performing a benefit for Solomon Community Temple United Methodist Church. You can see them at 7 p.m. Friday, […]

Way back in 2006, when the Milwaukee Comedy Festival first was getting started, the Pub Theater Company opened a weekly sketch comedy show in Chicago that toasted the quaint local custom of drinking. Of course, that tradition is not peculiar to the Second City. So in February 2010, the show Bye Bye Liver spilled over

One of the home-grown comedy teams performing among the 25 groups and 15 stand-ups at the Milwaukee Comedy Festival is Homegrown Electric Circus. The ensemble of Scott Heaton, Josh Barto, Mike Walker, Jazmin Vollmar, and Evan Koepnick had been together only five months before appearing in the 2010 festival. “We were still figuring out not

One of Milwaukee’s hilarious contributions to sketch comedy – the all-female troupe, broadminded – gave its first performance at the very first Milwaukee Comedy Festival in 2006. Both the event and the performers have come a long way since. Following its appearance at the Austin Sketch Fest in May and its June show, Blood is

Turf Theater has announced a couple of workshops to enhance the performance of comedy actors and wannabes. Eric Price, whose credits include “Mad TV,” “Reno 911,” and “Chelsea Lately,” will be teaching two one-day workshops on long-form improv and various formats, including The Harold. From the web: “He will also teach editing skills such as

‘Tis but a fortnight until the Milwaukee Comedy Festival. The four-day event features funny guys and gals from all over the country. Plus it showcases some of the top comedy talent based in the Milwaukee area. Among those calling Milwaukee home are James Boland and Alex Grindeland, who perform long-form improv under the name Al

The monthly improv experiment known as Worst Case Scenario is taking on Shakespeare in its next show, which is at 11:59 p.m., Friday, July 29, at 420 S. 1st St. From the web: “We’re still going to be doing the silly improv you know and love, but this month, WCS tackles the difficult and hearty

Jamais vu, the opposite of deja vu, means “never been seen,” which is the whole point of a new comedy troupe in Milwaukee, T.I.M. Jacob Bach, veteran ComedySportz improviser and theater major, had been thinking about improvised musicals for a long time. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to be part of a musical so original that

You find it funny, so it makes you feel good. But now researchers are learning that performing improv actually can be good for the brain. Read about it in this recent article from the Chicago Tribune. It quotes Anne Basting, executive director of the Center for Aging and the Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

I don’t want to show off no more, but as someone who has played one on school trips, I can only imagine the hilarity of a musical comedy called “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Check out the Sunset Playhouse’s rendition, which opens Friday, July 15, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 7, at the Furlan Auditorium, 800 Elm