Archive for the ‘Comedy in DC’ Category
Comedy in DC: Awesome Thursdays Open Mic
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Comedy is great for your wellbeing and you can get a healthy dose over at R.F.D., 801 Seventh St., in Chinatown where they are throwing Awseome Thursdays starting at 8:00 PM sharp. Ralph Cooper and and Brad Ryan will host the free event and there is no drink minimum, so enjoy the cold water if you [...]
Comedy in DC: Wayne Manigo
Two huge speakers were blasting at me and Wayne Manigo as we chatted at the bar in Ras Restaurant on Tuesday evening while the snow started sticking to the streets. It was Wayne Man’s Comedy open mic night at the restaurant and it did not seem like anyone was going to make it. This DC comic [...]
More »Local comic participates in Guinness Record attempt.
Former area comic Brian Kerns will be stepping into the spotlight at Magooby’s Joke House in Timonium on Jan. 20 from 2:00 PM till 3:00, one of the 81 hours of comedy that the club needs in its attempt to. break the Guinness World Record for the longest comedy show ever. The event kicks off [...]
More »Comedy in DC: You, Me, Them, Everybody with Brandon Wetherbee
Image courtesy Brandon Wetherbee
I spent my sixth day of 2011 at the Looking Glass Lounge in Petworth, sitting in a foldy chair in front of Brandon Wetherbee, 28, the host and creator of the You, Me, Them, Everybody Talk Show, a live-recorded podcast. Brandon is from Chicago, and has lived in DC for two months. [...]
RagnaROCK – Comedy, Music, Theater, Epicness
There’s a special kind of magic that happens when three dudes get drunk one night and decide that what their town really needs is an entertainment apocalypse.
At least, I am assuming that copious alcohol consumption was involved in the conception of RagnaROCK, the latest production from the minds of Tyler Sonnichsen, Evan Valentine, and Christopher [...]
Comedy in DC: Reggie Melbrough
I spent a rainy Sunday afternoon at the Columbia Heights Coffee House chatting with Reggie Melbrough, because he is a DC comic you need to know about. He grew up in Boise, Idaho and moved to the nation’s capital in March of 2007. He teaches U.S. History by day, but at night, or at least [...]
More »Holiday Leftovers
While covering the mayoral inauguration on Sunday, Tom snapped this photo of Ward 8 Council Member and Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry. We think it’s begging for a caption. Some ideas to get you started from our Flickr friends:
“What, you mean I have to pay those taxes AGAIN this year?”
“Obama makes it to the White House, and [...]
Therapeutic Wikipedia Vandalism
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The Post’s Dan Steinberg brings us this screenshot of some kicking-them-when-they’re-down-style vandalism to the Redskins’ Wikipedia entry. The comparison of the Redskins’ on-field performance to certain sex acts has been repeatedly wiped out by automatic Wikipedia processes designed to thwart just such types of editing, and the IP address responsible for the edits, [...]
More art Congressional Republicans should censor while they’re at it
‘The Darwin Sisters, Censored’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
No doubt you’ve heard by now that some Congressional Republicans have been making a fuss over a Portrait Gallery exhibition that deals with gay and lesbian identity in the arts. One installation has been removed already, and no word yet if additional works will be taken down from the [...]
Ask We Love DC: Drama in the workplace
‘11/18/09: Just Breathe’
courtesy of ‘@heylovedc’
Dear We Love DC,
I’ve gotten myself into quite a pickle. It started out well enough. I married a great guy. He’s successful in his career; I’m successful in mine. We’re popular in our community and active on the charitable scene. We even started a really lucrative business together as a second [...]
Comedy in DC: Memorial Edition
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I frequently joke about how dysfunctional and antisocial a lot of standup comedians are. It’s an incredibly isolating medium; Steve Martin says, “Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego’s last stand.” Developing an art form that is almost universally performed solo, where success is determined entirely by whether roomful after roomful of strangers [...]
Extra-Moderate: Proposed Signs for the Rally to Restore Sanity
Comic courtesy of and copyright by xkcd, posted with permission.
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s this rally-for-people-who-hate-rallies coming up. It might be a pretty big deal.
But it occurred to me to ask… if people get fired up about a rally for moderates, doesn’t that then make them, by definition, less moderate? And what [...]
Comedy in DC: “Dog Days” Cliche Edition
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As August drags its hot, sticky self over the area like a dog licking something inappropriate in front of company, we start to think about the return of fall and the comedy scene is perking up a bit too.
This Friday, catch Seaton Smith: A Moment in [...]
Comedy in DC: This F-ing Hipster
This month seems to be the month of late comedy promotion. In theory, there’s a showcase at the Eleventh Street Lounge in Clarendon on the 8th, but all the usual suspects there are quiet. There’s comedy tomorrow night at Mr. Smith’s in Georgetown, but you know, Georgetown after work.
The fun thing coming up on the [...]
Comedy in DC: The Headliners
Now that summer is well and truly upon us, and the college crowds that sustain small, local comedy shows have packed up their dorms and off-campus apartments to head home, I thought it was time to point out some notable national headliners coming through the Improv and the Warner in the next few months. (There [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Unseasonably Humid Edition
‘Summer in the City’
courtesy of ‘photo_secessionist’
The college students have gone home, taking their ready attention to smaller local comedy shows with them. And in their place? Interns, whose ready attention to things local seems to be limited to wearing their badges on the Metro so you can see how important they are and Cap Hill [...]
Comedy in DC: Too Punchy to Blog Edition
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It’s raining! It’s gross! It’s humid! What, don’t you remember what I said about comedy being performed in basements? It’s an all-weather sport, you guys.
This Friday the 21st, as I mentioned last time, is the Don’t Block the Box Comedy Show at the Wonderland Ballroom. Only 2 [...]
Comedy in DC: Abbreviated Spring Edition
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courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’
Why is comedy a perfect fit for this early blast of heat and humidity we’re getting? Because it’s frequently performed in basements. It’s an art form perfectly suited to dark, windowless rooms where you laugh at things you would never admit to finding funny in front of your grandma.
But first, a Public [...]
Comedy in DC: Sun? What sun?
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It’s like spring inspires DC’s local comics to tell more jokes. I don’t know why, because the bitterness brought about by winter is better for comedy. But this weekend is kind of crammed full of comedy events. If properly motivated, you can catch four shows between Thursday and Saturday and still have [...]
Comedy in DC: She-Ha 2
On the heels of the very successful Girls’ Night Out at the Eleventh Street Lounge at the beginning of March, it’s time for She-Ha 2: When Laughter Attacks, the follow up to last year’s sellout She-Ha: Princesses of Power, featuring DC’s funniest women.
She-Ha will rock your socks off on April 9th at 8PM in the [...]
