Every year the MCF gets a little bigger and offers more and more laughs, but 2017 is looking to be a big leap in the right direction with Michael Ian Black headlining this years festival, a new show at Shank Hall with an all star cast from television and film, and lot’s more! The Milwaukee […]
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The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Milwaukee Comedy have joined forces to present the Upright Citizens Brigade Tour Co on September 16 at 7:30pm in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall! UCB TourCo brings the best improv comedians from the legendary Upright Citizens Brigade Theatres in New York and Los Angeles to Milwaukee for one
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Now celebrating 11 years of laughs, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival has announced the 2016 line up and it is chock full of comedy you won’t want to miss! With all the talent on stage, it’s easy to see why it’s the largest comedy event in Wisconsin. There are more than a dozen different shows and events
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The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is excited to announce that submissions are now being accepted for this years event, August 4-7, 2016! They are looking for the best live comedy from across the country and beyond! The Milwaukee Comedy Festival will accept submissions for improv, sketch comedy, stand up comedy, one-person shows, alternative comedy acts and musical
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This week is especially full of laughs all over town, so don’t just support us, go out and see a show or two in your part of town! We present this list of comedy events for your convenience. Live local, Laugh Local! First up, we are excited to bring you our last two Milwaukee Comedy
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We usually spend this time of year complaining about snow – but this year it’s the lack of it. Good thing Milwaukee Comedy has enough happening in the month of December to make you forget how much you hate the moderately cold and slushy weather. We have a little something for everyone this holiday season,
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Just to remind everyone, Milwaukee is the birthplace and global headquarters of the ComedySportz franchise. The game-oriented short-form improv institution celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Occasionally it takes the opportunity to showcase ComedySportz comedians from satellite locations who come to the mother ship to perform. As part of its 2014 anniversary, ComedySportz hosted 24
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There is an exciting new improv show that plans to take you on a comic voyage; it’s Voyager: A Comedy Show and it’s happening this Thursday at ComedySportz Milwaukee! The best of Milwaukee’s stand-up and improv scenes collide at the debut of Voyager with some of the cities best stand-up comics will take the stage and provide
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Over the course of three decades, Milwaukee has been Ground Zero for competitive short-form improvisational comedy through the world headquarters of ComedySportz. Those who wanted to practice long-form improv have, well, improvised their own comedy scenes. The weekly Midnite Show, an uncensored Saturday night performance at ComedySportz, has been going since 2001. Groups such as
Fresh from their performance at the 10th Milwaukee Comedy Festival, T.I.M. (The Improvised Musical) resumes its regular third Thursday show at ComedySportz, 420 S. 1st St. Each T.I.M. show is improvised, of course, so the time and place are the only things that are regular in this monthly musical. But this month’s show is extra
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